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The Hoboken body politic enters summer in a period of renaissance with the winds of its newest council members in the first and second wards.
Six months after their arrival on to the City Council, first time council members Michael DeFusco and Tiffanie Fisher are breathing new life into what was considered a terminally toxic political environment.
Gone are the days of KKK attacks on other members to overcome objections to redevelopment scams hidden behind official government housing platitudes.
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The following report comes courtesy of Jeannette Josue of the Hudson County View:
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Freeholder Anthony Romano (D-5), Council President Jen Giattino, other officials and local business owners unveiled the Newark Street Plaza at a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning.
For the complete story, please see the Hudson County View:
http://hudsoncountyview.com/zimmer-romano-unveil-new-358k-newark-street-plaza-in-hoboken/
Summer weather is here but there’s things afoot in the Mile Square City. While not quite the city that never sleeps, Hoboken almost always generates items of interest.
The Hoboken City Council on Wednesday approved a plan to install new parking meters citywide in a 7-2 vote.
Council members Peter Cunningham and Ruben Ramos dissented with the latter voicing a vocal no of some length. Councilman Cunningham recently issued a release preferring another option less visibly intrusive in Hoboken’s historic neighborhoods.
Related: During the early am hours of the Orlando terrorist attack, Omar Mateen made more than a dozen phone calls and posted to his Facebook account. New reports obtaining those comments the terrorist offered are just published.
Among them, Mateen wrote during the lull of hours in the attack, “You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance.”
In his final written pronouncement, the Orlando terrorist predicted, “In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa.”
City of Hoboken announces:
Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced today that her Administration has hired Brian J. Aloia to serve as Corporation Counsel for the City of Hoboken. Mr. Aloia is the principal of Aloia Law Firm and served as Township Attorney and Director of the Law Department at Bloomfield Township from 2007 through 2016. He previously also served as attorney at the Essex County Department of Public Safety and as a partner with Weiner Lesniak.“With the addition of Brian as our new Corporation Counsel along with Alysia Proko as First Assistant, I think we have a terrific legal team to represent the interests of Hoboken,” said Mayor Zimmer.
While details aren’t going to be delved into for the moment, there was more legal activity surrounding the SLAPP-suit than the related extracuricular criminal charges dismissed last week.
The Thursday criminal charges tossed out of court were followed with a major hearing in Hudson Superior Court Friday afternoon.
Subpoenas were front and center but not of the trial testimony variety. The substantial ruling orders the onion peeled and the clock for its unpeeling started. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in an unpaid judgment is the impetus to that effort.
City of Hoboken announces:
All members of the public are invited to attend a vigil in memory of the victims of the Orlando shooting which will take place on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 7:15pm on the steps of Hoboken City Hall. Mayor Dawn Zimmer and City Council members will join the vigil which will include Father Gregory Morgan of All Saints Episcopal Parish, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg of United Synagogue of Hoboken, members of the LGBT community, and other community leaders.The regularly scheduled City Council meeting will be called to order at 7:00pm, as previously scheduled, but will be immediately adjourned prior to commencement of any business, until 7:45pm, so Council Members can participate in the vigil. All agenda items will be considered at the close of the adjournment at 7:45pm.
| Councilman Dave Mello generates a rousing laugh at the Pilsener Haus last week |
| Mayor Steve Fulop wasn’t the only Jersey City elected official in attendance as Assemblyman Raj Mukerji (r) joined in this quick pic with Councilman Ravi Bhalla (l). |
| Hoboken communications manager Juan Melli (r) was spotted in this rare public zebra sighting. |
| Mayor Dawn Zimmer speaks to one reveler and stayed for the duration. |
| First Amendment legal defender Kerry Flowers who slapped down the vicious SLAPP-suit chats with blog aficionados Grafix Avenger and Das Giant, Kurt Gardiner. |
The deadliest terrorist attack on US soil since 9-11 apparently follows a clarion call by ISIS to begin Ramadan by seeing supporters hit America on its home soil.
MSV had come across this “kill list” with thousands of Americans last week and noted it had been largely kept under wraps from the American public. On the list of thousands, 600 were in Florida.
Most targeted are apparently average Americans who would not be among those gilded with abundant armed security and towering fences with security cameras pointed in every direction.