Assignment Judge Peter Bariso in a scathing conclusion to MORTe’s attempted power grab for the swing seat held by reform in the City Council rejected the staged avoidance of voting in the City Council precipitating their legal strategy to take or eliminate the seat.  

In the court issued opinion, the judge bluntly made clear his legal objections in the conclusion writing, 

There’s been some technical glitches in the comment system.  While it’s mostly fixed some comments and formatting in earlier stories may have been lost.

The upside is IOS devices with other handhelds should show the comments.  There’s an issue with the comment count not showing under the stories but hopefully that will be cleared up soon too.  Trying to work with the software developer on that.

So if you see “0 comments” under a story, there could be dozens when you load that story. Read More...

City of Hoboken announces:

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Last Friday, Hudson County Assignment Judge Peter Bariso ruled that the vote held on January 16th appointing Jim Doyle to the Hoboken City Council was valid, despite the abstentions cast by Councilwoman Beth Mason and Councilman Michael Russo.  Read More...

The event was a big success and hundreds attended the gala.  Congratulation to everyone who worked so hard to make the event a success and add to the Rebuild Hoboken Relief Fund.

A clip of ELEW at the W last night.

                                                 

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Likely to make the song list tonight at the W, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”  If you can’t make the show here’s a taste of ELEW’s unique interpretation in his newly minted genre, Rockjazz.

From the desk of Hoboken Housing Authority Chairman Jake Stuiver:

=&0=& =&1=& Hoboken Housing Authority Chairman Jake Stuiver is calling on HHA Executive Director Carmelo Garcia to release all received submissions to the RFQ for the Board of Commissioners’ general-counsel contract to all members of the board by the end of business today. The bid deadline was 11 a.m. today. Chairman Stuiver has requested numerous times over the past month that each member of the Board of Commissioners receive copies of all RFQ responses by 5 p.m. today, giving Director Garcia and his staff ample time after the 11 a.m. deadline to get all submissions copied and distributed. Compliance with this request would allow each Commissioner one full weekend and most of next week to review the responses thoroughly and responsibly in time for the special meeting of Thursday, February 7, when a selection is expected to be nominated and voted on. The Chairman e-mailed a reminder of this request to the Director on Thursday, January 31, and received no response until 10:39 a.m. today, in which Director Garcia stated he was not feeling well and intended to take the rest of the day as sick time, making it impossible for the responses to be opened and distributed until Monday. Chairman Stuiver responded that this position is unacceptable. “While I’m always sympathetic to any of our employees’ health and wellness, this is a very important process whose steps I outlined repeatedly in multiple formats,” Stuiver said. “Director Garcia’s job is to do everything in his power to comply with the requests, instructions and policies of the Board of Commissioners. His inability to complete this very clear and long-established request because of an unexpected illness further highlights the need to hire a Deputy Executive Director as soon as possible.”

From Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s twitter feed:

Talking Ed Note: The announcement by Mayor Dawn Zimmer via twitter confirms Judge Peter Bariso has approved the vote of the full City Council appointing Jim Doyle to the legislative body.  The appointment contested by Beth Mason and her MORTe allies Michael Russo, Terry Castellano and Tim Occhipinti in a series of staged absences last October as a pretext to prevent a full vote of the council and use abstentions to avoid a tie breaking vote by Mayor Zimmer has failed. Read More...

Today at about 1:00 pm at Hudson County Superior Court in Jersey City, a hearing is scheduled on the matter of one Hoboken council seat, elected by the people on behalf of reform in 2009 and appointment late 2012 due to Carol Marsh’s unfortunate family circumstances resulting from an accident severely impacting her family.

Judge Peter Bariso will rule how abstentions are weighed in appointments by the Hoboken City Council.

The replacement appointment, typically a normal clear process within NJ law became a political football where MORTe staged absences to pursue what former Corporation Counsel Steve Kleinman said off camera at the last council appointment in late 2009 to back fill Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s fourth ward council seat.   “It could be litigated,” he said off mic as the council went into break after a grueling hours long appointment process. No one did.  That was then and this is Beth Mason now.

Arriving late at the last City Council meeting, Beth Mason extends greetings to Da Horsey.  It’s unclear if her intention was to pet or scratch Da Horsey’s eyes out.  The litigious loving councilwoman gets a verdict in one of her vested interested lawsuits this afternoon in Hudson County Superior Court on the “Doyle Seat” saga.

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The story was about to die.  The phony Timmy Occhipinti letter originally appearing in the Jersey Journal and likely yanked the last minute before going to print in last weekend’s Hudson Reporter by its editors has hit the bottom of the cesspool showing up yesterday on Beth Mason’s favorite website for controlled messaging: Hoboken411.

Someone had to pay the bill for Whitehorse Strategies to create the artful letter and its flourishes with a reference to old time New York City Mayor Fiorello Laguardia.  You can rest assured it wasn’t Tim Occhipinti and his 75K help desk salary doing application support sounding that historical note. Read More...

This song captures the spirit, the virtuousity and the technical skill with unmatched improvisation.

Saturday at the W, ELEW will perform two sets at the Rebuild Hoboken Fund Gala.

Available on iTunes:
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