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Frank Raia has been spotted meeting around Hoboken with City Council people loyal to Mayor Dawn Zimmer. Speculation is that he is lobbying to get a seat on the North Hudson Sewerage Authority (NHSA), where he was for 25 years. Last year, members of the authority gave him a retirement dinner after the Hoboken City …
Conservatives really have to be shaking in their boots after the speech made by Donald Trump’s wife at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. Why on earth, if Melania Trump was going to allegedly plagiarize a speech, would she take one given by Michele Obama to the Democratic National Convention in 2008, when …
Outgoing County Register Pamela Gardner has flatly denied reports that she is in the running to fill the unexpired Ward F council seat if Ward F Councilwoman Diane Coleman is elected as county register in November. Coleman won the Democratic nomination for county register in the primary on June 7 and will run against Republican …
Thank God Hillary Clinton won California and New Jersey and did not have to depend on superdelegates. The perception that Clinton somehow cheated her way to the top is inaccurate. She simply worked the existing system to her advantage. If supporters of Bernie Sanders need to blame anybody, they need to blame the Democratic Party …
Although the Democratic machine was expected to do some heavy lifting for Hillary Clinton in the New Jersey Democratic Primary on June 7, the real challenge will come in November when voters will likely have to choose between her and Republican candidate, Donald Trump. “New Jersey will be in play,” said one Hudson County Democrat …
Recently my daughter, Jolie, and her husband, Mike, moved to Wayne, New Jersey, and I envied that move. The reason is that they now live in a walking distance from William Paterson University. That might seem strange to you but, as of this year, a most respected jazz program has as its new director one …
The administration of Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer is so humble it didn’t even take credit when the administration-controlled City Council voted to appoint Hovie Foreman to the Hoboken Housing Authority. Although his family resided on Bloomfield Street for years and was sometimes associated with “the Old Guard” or “born-and-raised” old Hoboken political faction, Forman became …
Even before the presidential election season has expired, the race for governor of New Jersey is underway. Phil Murphy has become the first candidate for the Democratic nomination to officially announce. With most local Democrats rumored to be supporting Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, that announcement will have little or no impact in Hudson County, …
The war between northern and southern New Jersey took another ill turn for Hudson County when State Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto failed to put forth his bill on the Atlantic City bailout. Political observers claim Prieto just couldn’t collect enough Assembly votes to make a good show, and rather than get embarrassed by seeing his …
There are several important axioms that are practically biblical when it comes to professional gamblers. “The house always wins.” “Never play with your own money.” “Never throw good money after bad.” In the showdown between northern New Jersey, which would like to expand gambling beyond Atlantic City, and southern New Jersey, which wants to hold …