Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
While he’s always been something of a political maverick, State Sen. and Union City Mayor Brian Stack seems a bit out of sorts these days. The most recent sign of it came during a parade in North Hudson earlier this month, when Stack allegedly charged up to West New York Freeholder Jose Munoz and wanted …
You have to love the gall of U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, as he ponders whether Hudson County officials learned anything from the 46 arrests in 2009 and some subsequent convictions as a result of the federal investigation that used Solomon Dwek as bait. Perhaps the biggest lesson is that the U.S. Attorney’s office will …
If there’s anyone who thinks Christopher Christie and Andrew Cuomo were unaware of the Port Authority’s plan to massively hike bridge and tunnel tolls, I have a bridge to sell you, and it isn’t the Bayonne Bridge. As governors of their respective states, Christie and Cuomo oversee the Port Authority, and while both have come …
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer has got to be the most generous person in Hudson County politics. This is particularly true when it comes to the sale of Hoboken University Medical Center, which she is practically giving away for free. She is not doing this alone, of course. She has plenty of help from a lot …
In some ways, Republicans in Hudson County are forced to play the role as loyal opposition, meaning that they are not likely to win many local elections, but their role is to keep the system honest. For Republican County Chairman Jose Arango, the challenge is in finding good candidates who are willing to fight to …
One of the victims of the state budget cuts two weeks ago was that New Jersey’s presidential primary is moving back to June. Four years ago, the state changed from June to February in order to become more relevant in the primary cycle, but the $15 million estimated cost of holding the special primary was …
Despite all of the huffing and puffing that surrounded the buildup to the state budget, in the end, Gov. Christopher Christie was not as powerful as he hoped he would be in influencing state legislators, nor as powerful as Democrats feared. This circumstance has nothing to do with the numbers. The state Democrats passed the …
“Yes, you are right,” Mark Twain said in a 1902 letter to a close friend. “I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions.” This has never been truer than in Hoboken these last few weeks. To misquote Twain somewhat: being involved in …
If there was any doubt about Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop’s political clout going into the 2013 municipal elections, those doubts evaporated with the political coup that his group pulled off in getting Freeholder Jeff Dublin elected as the new chairman of the Democratic Party in Jersey City. While Mayor Jerramiah Healy attempted to brush …