Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Up to their usual dirty tricks? Hoboken bloggers have been posting misinformation in the weeks going into the school board elections. This has a lot to do with character assassination rather than actual policies. It appears to serve multiple purposes, both to affect the election this year and to damage Freeholder Anthony Romano ahead of …
Up to their usual dirty tricks? Hoboken bloggers have been posting misinformation in the weeks going into the school board elections. This has a lot to do with character assassination rather than actual policies. It appears to serve multiple purposes, both to affect the election this year and to damage Freeholder Anthony Romano ahead of …
There is an old political adage that says, “Signs don’t vote.” By this, people mean that someone who posts a window or lawn sign for a particular candidate may not vote that way once in the privacy of the voting booth. This has always been frustrating for political parties, who need to keep their voters …
As many as 20 Jersey City police officers will be indicted shortly, according to sources close to Mayor Steven Fulop. But the indictments, despite the rumors, did not figure into Fulop’s decision to drop out of the governor’s race earlier this month. The pending indictments, which were confirmed also by people inside and outside the …
You would think someone was giving out free popcorn, considering the number of political bigwigs standing in line to throw their support to Phil Murphy, particularly now that Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has dropped out of the 2017 gubernatorial race. Of course, for those politicians who will seek to collect favors from Murphy, those …
Because they would need to rely heavily on a suddenly shaky political machine, the reports that Assemblyman Raj Mukherji and Jersey City Council President Rolando Lavarro will not run for mayor against Mayor Steven Fulop are not a great surprise. Mayor Fulop announced last week he will seek reelection rather than run for governor. But …
Steven Fulop may have ended his political career on the front steps of City Hall this week, announcing that he would seek reelection as mayor of Jersey City instead of running in the primary next June to seek the Democratic nod for governor, but alienating many of the very people he may need to continue …
Some local Republicans running in non-partisan races such as Board of Education may have been offered funding allegedly coming from the coffers of the Donald Trump presidential campaign. At least one candidate said he’s been offered money supposedly from Trump’s coffers if, in the course of his board run, he mentioned Trump. The candidate said …
Freeholder Bill O’Dea is absolutely convinced he has the heads up in the upcoming election for mayor of Jersey City. This is a long-held dream, a kind of jigsaw puzzle he’s been working on for years. And now he’s on the verge of getting the last of the pieces in place. O’Dea’s is an old-style …
Some people claim that the power brokers behind Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor have taken the gloves off to bring local political bigwigs into line. Apparently they are particularly concerned about two African-American leaders, State Sen. Sandra Cunningham of Jersey City and Rep. Donald Payne of Newark. Fulop’s …