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Perhaps the biggest loser in the Jersey City special election to fill two at-large City Council seats is Mayor Jerramiah Healy, from whom control of the City Council has been wrenched – although it is still unclear as to whether or not this election will help Healy’s arch rival, Councilman Steve Fulop, since Fulop did …
Rather than get stuck with a hospital the city of Hoboken can’t afford, members of the City Council agreed to a deal for parking that will last into the next century. In fact, hospital parking spaces may be available long after the hospital has been converted to luxury housing units and automotive transport has ceased …
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If recent hearings in the U.S. Senate are any indication, New Jersey’s junior senator, Frank Lautenberg, is not likely to run for reelection. He kept talking behind the scenes about how the atmosphere in Washington, D.C. has changed and the spirit of cooperation that once made public service a privilege has vanished. At age 87, …
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Even before voters get to choose two new council-at-large candidates in this November’s special election in Jersey City, infighting is apparently underway behind the scenes in anticipation of the 2013 election for mayor. Apparently there is a serious push to get state Sen. Sandra Cunningham to commit to a mayoral run, and a power struggle …
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With 17 candidates vying for two at-large City Council seats in the Jersey City special election, you would think voters might have a clear choice. But that’s not true if you look at the ballot, which has candidates spread out onto three rows with some linked and others left out on their own like unwanted …
Former Union City Deputy Police Chief Joe Blaettler has the right idea in going after legislative aide Mark Albiez in an effort to bring down U.S. Senator and Union City Mayor Brian Stack. Albiez in some ways is more the mayor of Union City than Stack is, at least when it comes to responding to …
Depending on whom you believe, Mayor Dawn Zimmer may have to wait until after her next election to change Hoboken’s Election Day from May to November. Now that the City Council has rescinded the ordinance that would have given them seven extra months in office, and would have allowed Zimmer to run for reelection on …
Rep. Albio Sires has absolutely refuted speculation that he will not be running for reelection to the House of Representatives, pointing out he is holding a fundraiser in Jersey City later this month. This hasn’t stopped speculation about it, or new variations of who will run in Sires’ place if the political bosses have their …
Two months before a critical special election to fill two Jersey City council seats, a new rumor has been generated out of the camp of Councilman Steve Fulop, suggesting that it might be possible for Fulop to support Jersey City Mayor Jerremiah Healy in 2013 for a run at the 33rd District state Senate seat …