Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Don’t be fooled into thinking that voters get to choose their members of the Board of Freeholders. Nothing could be further from the truth. In Hudson County, political bosses generally do – and with the exception of Freeholder Bill O’Dea, nobody has defied the Democratic political machine until this year. Freeholder Anthony Romano is in …
For more than a week, local, state and national Democrats had scrambled to find a smoking gun that would expand the George Washington Bridge scandal that is plaguing Gov. Christopher Christie. Democrats along with local and national media turned over every rock in and around Hudson County seeking to broaden the scope of the investigation. …
Let’s have a show of hands: how many of you actually felt retribution for not endorsing Gov. Christopher Christie? Okay, now how many of you who supported Christie in the last election actually got a benefit from being the governor’s friend? The problem for many people in the upcoming months will be to determine if …
Hoboken Councilman Michael Russo was so friendly with those close to Mayor Dawn Zimmer at the swearing-in ceremonies on Jan. 4 you’d almost forget that he supported her opponent, Ruben Ramos. Russo sat upfront with Zimmer supporters, hobnobbing with them, while nearby Ramos and Councilman Tim Occhipinti (who also opposed Zimmer in the November election) …
“The only trouble about suggesting that somebody ought to be investigated is that they are liable to suggest that you ought to be investigated,” political satirist Will Rogers once pointed out. “And from the record of all our previous investigations, it just looks like nobody can emerge with their noses entirely clean.” This may be …
Rumors that FBI agents paid a visit to West New York Town Hall last week appear to be a case of wishful thinking by opponents of Mayor Felix Roque. While the FBI may indeed have gone to the building, they did not conduct a raid, sources said. “Anybody who comes in wearing a suit and …
If there was any doubt about the level of interest in an elected school board in West New York, the 18 candidates who filed to run for two seats in the January election have put that question to rest. The two seats became available after voters approved a November referendum to switch to an elected …
Nobody knows whether Freeholder Bill O’Dea intends to run against Tom DeGise in 2015 for county executive – not even Bill O’Dea. Yet O’Dea is quietly building an alternative network of countywide support for the moment when he finally makes up his mind. O’Dea’s face on public access TV in every corner of Hudson County …
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One of the unresolved questions in the aftermath of the Nov. 5 elections is whether newly elected-state Assemblyman Carmelo Garcia will be allowed to remain in his full-time paid position in the Hoboken Housing Authority once he is sworn in come January. Legal challenges filed prior to last June’s Democratic primary said that he was …
In what might well be a remake of the classic “Who framed Roger Rabbit,” Freeholder Jose Munoz appears to be hunting down the culprits who left a sample ballot at a polling site that was already filled out regarding the referendum about an elected school board for West New York. There was a check mark …