And let’s all make sure Tim Occhipinti is in a safe, warm comfortable Bachelor Party in Boston during a hurricane, I mean location.  (Like he was for Hurricane Irene.)

Please inform the hired “hands” at the Timmy hurricane party not to be distracted or disturbed by the sounds a storm can make like, “bang!” “boom!” “kaboom!” and/or “dutut tut tut tut!”*

We don’t want to frighten off the entertainment procured for Timmy to have a good time while 4th ward residents are stranded and flooded knee deep in dirty, sewage water. Read More...

Two Hoboken police detectives visited a Hoboken resident’s home early last week questioning her for an hour about a satirical letter to the FBI on her website Grafix Avenger and threatened to arrest her if she wrote about the visit – this according to a source close to the website’s owner Nancy Pincus.

Fueling the toxic political brew in Hoboken’s take no prisoner politics, Jersey Journal editor Augie Torres cited “law enforcement sources” who say a complaint was made against Grafix Avenger by Council members Beth Mason and Tim Occhipinti along with ubermensch Mason political operative Lane Bajardi for her satirical column, “Letter to the FBI #4.” On Saturday, Councilwoman Beth Mason denied doing so stating she “filed no complaint” and noted she couldn’t do so as she had been away on vacation. The FBI “letter,” part of a seven column series discussed GA joining the FBI and assisting in arrests around town but did not name anyone or provide any Hoboken address. The “letter” states a willingness to “shoot a doorknob” if needed in an imagined FBI roundup. Tim Occhipinti at the previous City Council meeting spoke several times about an investigation “they were taking seriously,” in what he claimed was a “credible threat,” in the Grafix Avenger column.  He said the satire needed a “guarantee” someone else would not act on the obvious humor.    Occhipinti is listed as the sole sponsor of a resolution to remove Pincus from the Zoning Board at the next City Council meeting, a seat she was originally voted in a 9-0 City Council appointment. On Labor Day, Pincus commented below a Hudson Reporter story saying the hour long interrogation had traumatized her young daughter who was present adding while she was threatened with arrest if she wrote about the police visit; she added Tim Occhipinti discussed it at a City Council meeting two days later and had not been arrested. The Hoboken Police Department’s public information office declined to comment on the matter over the phone. =&0=&

Later this week, Americans and the world will note the 10 year anniversary of the attack on the United States.  For many, the savagery of the attack on large civilian centers in New York’s World Trade Center marked the end of one century’s barbarity and the beginning of another.

This is my original photo taken in 1999 and it’s iconic and the towers missed to this very day.  That and the place where nearly 3,000 lives were murdered on a clear September day.

God’s mercy on them and their families. Read More...

MILE SQUARE VIEW EXCLUSIVE

In a near unanimous vote on first reading, the Hoboken City Council voted 8-0-1 to begin rescinding the ordinance moving municipal elections from May to November.  The lone abstention came from Councilwoman Terry Castellano who noted she is awaiting additional background information.

The move comes after a petition submitted to the City Clerk’s office exceeded the required numbers to have the question on the ballot this November where there’s little to gain the interest of most voters in a likely low turnout election. Read More...

The HAPP announces:

We are starting a new community for Hoboken parents with children in the public pre-school.

Welcome to the Hoboken Association for Pre-school Parents (HAPP’s). Our mission is to keep the parents of children enrolled in the Hoboken public early childhood program informed on all relevant matters, meetings, and events.

For more information or to sign up, please visit: