Office of the Mayor announces:

“Thank you to all Hoboken residents who took the time to come to the City Council meeting last night to support giving the City the tools it needs to negotiate a fair price for the long-promised expansion of the Southwest Park,” said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. “Thank you also to the eight City Council members who voted yes on first reading of the ordinance. I hope that Councilman DeFusco, who voted ‘present,’ will after reviewing the materials provided to him, join his colleagues in providing unanimous Council support on the second reading at the Wednesday, February 1^st Council meeting. I encourage residents to come out again to the February 1^st meeting to voice their support for eminent domain as a negotiating tool as well as for the Green Acres grant application for the purchase of Block 10.” Read More...

The big takeaway last night is the Hoboken City Council’s action to allow eminent domain to proceed against the downtown acre owned by Academy Bus.

The lopsided 8-0-1 vote is unlike the previous contentious 5-4 vote in 2011 for the one acre parking lot the City of Hoboken is working to complete as a southwest park.

The action is not the end but the beginning of a process where negotiations may find a reasonable alternative to legal proceedings. The City of Hoboken and Academy Bus have waged public campaigns for support as the two sides are far apart in any potential sale of the property. Read More...

Tonight the Hoboken City Council will hold its second regularly scheduled meeting and on the agenda is an appointment to the North Hudson Sewerage Authority.

The campaign to see over 30 years on the board for one Frank “Pupie” Raia weighs in the balance.
Will we witness the end of an error in Hoboken public institutions?

Last weekend our man Sully, re: Al Sullivan, who is actually more a Bayonne-Jersey City beatnik lauded Pupie indirectly by vociferously complaining again about the 2013 One Hoboken ticket he underwrote with the noxious Beth Mason. According to the political columnist, the ticket was part of some phony campaign and Hudson Sludge he deemed a swerve. Read More...

It’s three days before the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States and the frothing, the foaming and propaganda by the Deep State and much of its machinery, subsidiary lemmings, dupes and assorted cranks continues apace.

One big question unasked by its media militants concerns Hillary Clinton who may be in dire need of a presidential pardon even more than originally thought.

In a release garnering next to no media attention a week ago on a Sunday, during the NY Giants – Green Bay game the FBI released several hundred emails never seen between the former Secretary of State and among others, loyal political operative Sydney Blumenthal. Read More...

Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced a request to the Hoboken City Council for approval of eminent domain authority for a one acre parcel of land owned by Academy Bus in downtown Hoboken.

The council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday.

Discussions for some time between the City of Hoboken and Academy Bus over the downtown  land of approximately one acre has seen acrimony and apparently a negotiation gulf in the millions of dollars.

Academy Bus began a public campaign last August, one of the most quietest times in Hoboken during the year to engage the Hoboken public against any such eminent domain action. Read More...