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Nearly 86,000 people went to the polls this week in Hudson County to vote in municipal, county and federal elections, the results of which will become tea leaves to read for future elections. Next year, several key elections take place around Hudson County. While Democrats did well in retaining their seats locally, the election proved …
Just in time for the Jersey City school board election on Tuesday, the school district has come up with a positive report on the progress of the schools. In the last meeting before voters get to select from pro and anti-schools-superintendent candidates, Superintendent Dr. Marcia V. Lyles told the board that statistics justified the district’s …
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Speculation has raged over who leaked the damaging information that led to the resignation of Muhammed Akil as chief of staff to Mayor Steven Fulop. Most agree it was an inside job, someone who had access to information not readily available to the public. Twenty-year-old newspapers from Akil’s college days at Northwestern University were mailed …
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop has backed off a controversial plan that would have allowed New York City garbage to pass through the Greenville Yards at the south end of the city. At the height of his efforts to get City Council approval for the move, he compared the trash plan to the Spectra gas …
Some people can never escape their past. What you say in the past, no matter how distant or how much you’ve changed since, comes back to haunt you. This is a lesson that Muhammed Akil learned this week when a speech he gave in college two decades ago resurfaced to haunt him. Twenty-five at the …
Looking ahead, the mid-term 2015 municipal elections in Hoboken may seem a bit like déjà vu all over again if reports are to be believed that former Assemblyman Ruben Ramos will seek to unseat incumbent 4th Ward Councilman Tim Occhipinti. Bad feelings between the two political figures apparently still linger after both men ran unsuccessfully …
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey picked a fine time to raise PATH fares. Problems on the Hoboken and Jersey City lines to 33rd Street left people scrambling for two days last week to get to and from work. Even when the problem was fixed, a fire from the adhesive that the …
Not long ago, while driving south on Route 440, I saw the window open on the driver’s side of the car in front of me. The hand that emerged held the kind of cardboard food tray that often comes with takeout food. Plop! The tray fell onto the center divider, spraying the weeds with half-consumed …
The resignation of Steve Gallo from the Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority appears to the last chapter in what was the administration of Mayor Mark Smith. Although supporters of Mayor James Davis – who defeated Smith in a June runoff election – still have their eye on Jason O’Donnell’s Assembly seat in next June’s Democratic primary, …
Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto will face a serious choice if and when Gov. Christopher Christie steps down to run for president at some point prior to 2016. Prieto will have to choose between feuding political factions for the Democratic nomination for governor – most likely between Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and State Senate Pres. …