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Riders on the Storm: where’s the loot?

Council President Peter Cunningham sent out an email late last night.  Here ya go folks:

Dear neighbors, friends and family, This is an extremely important development in Trenton. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/nj_public_worker_benefits_pens.html Those that attended the first round of budget workshops and have reviewed the materials online will begin to see that the Administration and Council are producing results in transparency and accountability never seen before.  There’s much more work to be done, but its change that’s working.  Members of the current city council agree that substantive cuts need to be made.  And we all agree that these are tough decisions make.  But some of us are missing the elephant in the room. =&0=&=&1=& at city hall, which this mayor supports.  Having no explanation for =&2=& in the payroll account since 2007 is unacceptable, particularly under state supervision. We also need to finish other operational audits and I wrote to Christie’s office today to demand Jacobucci’s release of the Police audit. Follow the pension reforms in Trenton and continue to write your local legislators as the only real substantive property tax reform in Hoboken and New Jersey will be at the collective bargaining tables. As always, please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.  Thanks for listening, and pass this along to your friends.  Peter Cunningham =&3=&  The bold emphasis in the Council President’s is highlighted by MSV, but the message is unmistakably clear: this town’s government wants to move ahead and check under the covers.  In an earlier interview with the fiscal state monitor, Judy Tripodi, the desire for forensic accounting and its potential was not as enthusiastic.

From the linked article:

The proposals would require workers and retirees at all levels of government and local school districts to contribute to their own health care costs, ban part-time workers at the state and local levels from participating in the underfunded state pension system, cap sick leave payouts for all public employees and constitutionally require the state to fully fund its pension obligations each year. They would also eliminate multiple pensions and change how pensions are calculated, including for police and fire personnel. Read More...

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Vile Nazi like actions of Hoboken411

On occasion we’ve noted with laughter when people have been caught writing replies to themselves on the NJ.com Hoboken forum.  But no one there can hold a candle to the king of such missives, the proprietor of Hoboken411 or Hate411 as pictured here.


A reader sent over Hoboken411’s latest “email letter” to himself last week where he once again proclaims his hatred of all things Mayor Zimmer and her administration.  This time he uses the Holocaust for a few chosen personal attacks.  What a guy.


Let’s take a closer look at the rantings of one imaginary resident – “Louise F.” *
Once again, Mayor Zimmer is giving us yet another excuse as to why she can’t give us the HPD Audit. In the past, she has blamed former Mayor Dave Roberts and Fiscal Monitor Judy Tripodi for her own broken promises, but now she’s blaming the state, specifically Susan Jacobucci, Director of Division of Local Governments Services. Mayor Zimmer went too far this time. 


Now I don’t know about you but I’ve yet to hear any resident of Hoboken, neighbor or otherwise come out and defend Susan Jacobucci or the State for that matter for withholding the Public Safety Audit on the Hoboken Police Department.  Nor have we heard anyone remotely sane even attempt to blame Mayor Zimmer for the report being unavailable.  Hoboken411’s lame attack is the dead giveaway this is yet another of Perry Klaussen’s demented creations.  Yes Perry, Mayor Zimmer went too far this time.  The New Jersey Star Ledger also joined in last week, the very next day after the press conference agreeing the report should be immediately released.  (Shouldn’t we let Louise go back to making health insurance commercials now?)


Isn’t there a Hoboken411 minion available to proof read this for the obvious?  Hoboken411 continues:


Yesterday at a press conference, Mayor Zimmer compared her inability to get the HPD audit from Jacobucci to the serious plight of Holocaust survivors waiting for a boat and being told “not yet.” I know that Mayor Zimmer could not possibly think that the delay in the audit is a life and death situation so for her to take these exploitative measures and use the Holocaust as a means to garner sympathy for herself as if she was a victim is truly insensitive, egotistical, and offensive.


Perry Klaussen obviously knows nothing about history so with all his hatred and bile, he couldn’t permit himself to possibly see that Mayor Zimmer’s reference here was an “anecdotal story” about her in-law and his sister exiting Europe via the safety of Spain.  Spain had allowed Jewish exiles access in the middle of 1943 and people were escaping the Nazis through the country.  Mayor Zimmer as seen in the video of the press conference is recounting the Spanish word for tomorrow, “mañana and showing a colloquial application that the literal translation fails in its secondary meaning of “not yet.”  Having videotaped the entire press conference, anyone is free to see for themselves that’s what the Mayor said and meant in its true context.  That Perry Klaussen in all his eager cacophony of lies would sink to the level of using the Holocaust as a means to personally attack Mayor Zimmer speaks to his complete lack of character and depravity.


Last, Hoboken411 begins the piece with a complete non-sequitir.  Another dead giveaway of a very troubled mind:


Mayor Zimmer is lazy and offensive.

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iPad in the wild and Beth Mason

Spotted in the wild, this is a picture of a real NYC hipster doofus in a Starbucks sporting a real Apple iPad.  He’s playing a game on it which Da Horsey is very unlikely to do.  (All about productivity don’t ya know.)

At the last City Council meeting, we wearied of dragging notebook and camera gear and told a friend of the stable the idea of grabbing some suds later was unappealing dragging around .

So, just the other day my best friend from high school (who happened to marry a girl in Hoboken and moved here no less) asked me about the iPad.  I told him what I always tell him when people ask me about this stuff (for some reason people think any experience in technology means you know everything about all the available personal computers), what do you want to do with it?  He mentioned the usual email, web stuff, some excel type spreadsheet stuff.  I told him Apple had a spreadsheet program, but it isn’t excel for the iPad.  He’s interested and considering his lack of knowledge about computing, it certainly says good things about this product’s March release. Read More...

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Three Alarm Fire Downtown on Park

While everyone was looking forward to Super Bowl Sunday and having a pleasant evening, a fire on lower Park changed the day for residents.  Claire Moses of Hoboken.patch.com reported on the story.

Hoboken Mayor Zimmer and Public Safety Director Angel Alicea were both on the scene.

Photo: courtesy Brianna Musso / Hoboken.patch.com

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Lookout Taco Truck, there’s a new sheriff in town

The BankRobber gave us the heads up on a new culinary cuisine taking to Hoboken.  But it’s not your usual restaurant opening and it’s threatening one of the Jolly Green Giant’s more favored food fare, the Taco Truck.  (We don’t know many vegetables that are carnivores but then again, if a big green vegetable ate other vegetables, does that make him a cannibal?)

Well just around the corner on Valentine’s Day, a new truck takes to the streets of Hoboken.  Here’s the missive sent to us last night by its culinary developer: Read More...

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Ode to the Wile E. Coyote

Sometimes in life, if you live long enough and have a little fortune you get to see justice in the world, giving a boost to the heart, a lift in your feet, and a tad more spiritual zest to keep pressing ahead.  Over the last year, Da Horsey felt mauled by the corruption in the Soprano State and it hit pay dirt with the arrest of you know who up on Bloomfield St.  In the course of those events we kicked off Mile Square View never knowing it would pull us deeper into a place where others have been fighting valiantly not for months, not for years but in the ballpark of decades.  This ode is dedicated to all of them. Read More...

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“Hoboken UMC will not close”

The Hoboken University Medical Center CEO, Spiros Hatiras just submitted a statement:

Smarty –  We agree with you that the recently released numbers speak for
themselves.  The hospital has cut 2008 losses by 50% and has a better
than break-even budget for 2010.  The concessions union members,
physicians, and other employees voluntarily gave us were shown in detail
to the Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority’s Finance Committee and
outlined at the Authority’s most recent public meeting.  The loyalty,
commitment and generosity of our employees have impressed people in the
health care industry.  We can’t speculate on Councilman Lenz’s agenda
but we are certainly disappointed by his comments. Fortunately, he is
wrong.  Hoboken UMC will not close.  We are here for a long time to save
lives, improve lives, deliver new lives and continue to serve his
constituents. 


Spiros Hatiras



Minutes ago, Councilman Mike Lenz also emailed an additional comment for publication:




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“The hospital is about to close”

Claire Moses at Hoboken.patch.com sat down with Councilman Mike Lenz and discussed the current fiscal challenges Hoboken faces.  Along with it this standout comment, “The hospital is about to close.”

This is at least the third time we’ve heard this statement, once in a direct conversation just a week or so back with the same Councilman.  When asked how he can make that conclusion based on the current changes at the hospital, Mike Lenz offered no evidence.

Although MSV aired earlier pessimism for the hospital, there’s now EVIDENCE to at least side with cautious optimism.  Even if the Hoboken University Medical Center does not achieve all its objectives, its unions are on board with reductions along with the non-union staff for the duration of its contract and there’s a plan in place to get them well into the black by year’s end.  Nothing is static of course in an economy as troubling as this one, at the same time one of the keys to their success, emergency room admissions are up significantly and its continuance forebodes good things, not closure. Read More...