Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer has got to be the most generous person in Hudson County politics. This is particularly true when it comes to the sale of Hoboken University Medical Center, which she is practically giving away for free. She is not doing this alone, of course. She has plenty of help from a lot …
Tony Bennett, yes, the singer, is a polite man. I’ll tell you why. In my before-Bayonne life, I lived in River Edge, right around the corner from the Benedettos, the singer’s mother and sister. Every Sunday, I noticed a big, black limo arriving in front of their house and out would step Tony Bennett, coming …
In some ways, Republicans in Hudson County are forced to play the role as loyal opposition, meaning that they are not likely to win many local elections, but their role is to keep the system honest. For Republican County Chairman Jose Arango, the challenge is in finding good candidates who are willing to fight to …
One of the victims of the state budget cuts two weeks ago was that New Jersey’s presidential primary is moving back to June. Four years ago, the state changed from June to February in order to become more relevant in the primary cycle, but the $15 million estimated cost of holding the special primary was …
Despite all of the huffing and puffing that surrounded the buildup to the state budget, in the end, Gov. Christopher Christie was not as powerful as he hoped he would be in influencing state legislators, nor as powerful as Democrats feared. This circumstance has nothing to do with the numbers. The state Democrats passed the …
Whenever I learn that a new Woody Allen film is coming out, I look forward to seeing it. I have rarely been disappointed, although I’ve reached a point where I found myself hoping that the writer/director would not be seen on the screen. Well, in the wonderful “Midnight in Paris,” the hero is played by …
“Yes, you are right,” Mark Twain said in a 1902 letter to a close friend. “I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions.” This has never been truer than in Hoboken these last few weeks. To misquote Twain somewhat: being involved in …
If there was any doubt about Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop’s political clout going into the 2013 municipal elections, those doubts evaporated with the political coup that his group pulled off in getting Freeholder Jeff Dublin elected as the new chairman of the Democratic Party in Jersey City. While Mayor Jerramiah Healy attempted to brush …
Despite his loss in the election to a ticket led by Dr. Felix Roque, former West New York Mayor Sal Vega won’t be going away any time soon. In a political war that strangely resembles the conflict going on in Libya, Vega appears to be hunkering down for a long-term battle. This includes defending his …