Month: December 2013

News

PUBLIC INVITED TO COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR SOUTHWEST PARK & WASHINGTON STREET

City of Hoboken announces:


PUBLIC INVITED TO COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR SOUTHWEST PARK & WASHINGTON STREET

All members of the Hoboken community are invited to public meetings to gather input on the planning of the first phase of a Southwest Park and on the complete streets redesign of Washington Street. Community workshops for the Southwest Park and Washington Street will be held at the Multi Service Center on December 10 and December 16, respectively. Read More...

News

Grist for the Mill: Old Guard on the brink in Vision 20/20

The rubble from the November sweep by Reform is not far in the rear view mirror and the impact is coming although a weekend column in what some call the Hudson Distorter sounded odd discordant notes on the impending downfall of the Hoboken Housing Authority’s contractor problem in the form of Carmelo Garcia and his massive attempted scam on the city: Vision 20/20.

Spending way too many pixel inches on the proposed Vision 20/20 scam not to be confused with the Ruben Ramos Vision for Hoboken campaign, in the words of Dr. Mccoy, “It’s dead Jim.” That name similarity was no accident, a little inside joke among those expecting to rake in millions in profits to double the size of the HHA’s downtown campus.  Apparently, the little secret running down the hill from Union City by State Senator Brian Stack wasn’t just for handing out turkeys to the corner of the Mile Square where one hand holds a turkey and the other a blank signed absentee ballot ready for pickup from a familiar, neighborly Beth Mason political operative. Read More...