Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Healy’s the one? Hey, everybody, Jerramiah Healy is running for mayor again. What do you mean, what do I mean? Shouldn’t somebody, somewhere be applauding? Instead, you’re standing there with your mouths agape. It can’t be that much of a shock. It was less a shock for most people than a disappointment. Many thought Merry …
The old 1970s song by Chicago, “Feeling Stronger Every Day,” may well serve as the campaign theme song for Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s reelection effort next year, if her State of the City address is any indication. She was positive, to the point, and even got a laugh or two, except from some of her more …
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and several of her close associates are very concerned about overcrowding at the election polls in the second district of the 4th Ward – as they should be. With as many as 1,400 people coming there to vote, it is clearly necessary that new districts be created. The question is: who …
Language, as author Dwight Bolinger once pointed out, is a loaded weapon. Sometimes – as Assemblyman Charles Mainor found out this week when (according to him) someone allegedly posted questionable material on his Facebook page – language can back fire. Mainor’s unwelcome Facebook graffiti artist left a message disparaging the talents of football teams contending …
“Hello, how are you? Nice to see you this morning.” Brian Stack zooms across 14th Street in Hoboken on this relatively warm Tuesday in January. Wearing his black overcoat and power tie, a newspaper tucked under one arm (a paper that he promptly puts into his car), he rushes across the street to Uptown Bagel …
As quoted before in this column, Will Rogers once observed that Republicans often feed on Democrats, and Democrats also feed on fellow Democrats. Never has this been so clearly evident than in the game of political musical chairs set into motion by a so-called bipartisan New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission that had to select a …
With a U.S. Senate panel voting to subpoena former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine to testify about his role leading the collapsed MF Global, you would expect to hear some chuckling coming from Christopher Christie, the current occupant of the governor’s mansion. Or at least an “I told you so.” The Wall Street Journal reported …
Those most savvy about the political process understand that the next election starts the day after the last election is over. This is particularly true in Jersey City, where two likely candidates for mayor in the 2013 election – incumbent Council President Peter Brennan and newly re-elected Councilwoman Viola Richardson – are slated to face …
Even though Democrats in Hudson County should be basking in their post election victory bliss, there a lot of bad feelings lingering from state and local feuds. The most serious of these appears to be one that has State Sen. and North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco fuming. In working out a number of deals that …
When federal authorities charged a Hoboken official with allegedly obtaining confidential city communications meant for Mayor Dawn Zimmer, federal authorities gave Hoboken bloggers an early gift for Christmas: three unnamed co-conspirators. Despite the heavy hints federal authorities put into the indictment that these three people are different from the people whom the pro-Zimmer Hoboken bloggers …