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Harvey: $62,000 less for Christmas

Mile Square View confirmed late today CEO Spiros Hatiras is taking a 15% cut in salary for 2010 in his role at Hoboken University Medical Center.  In addition to the $60,000 in savings for 2010 to the hospital, he indicated some pressure applied at the last hospital board meeting on the former CEO Harvey Holzberg to waive the last month of his consulting fee for December.  MSV is confirming this is accurate and the hospital will save an additional $62,000 as a result.


There are several outstanding requests MSV is following up on.  We’ll keep you posted as it’s our hope the positive cooperation will continue.


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Hoboken411 attacks local citizen

When we reported on Hoboken411’s threat to City Hall and city workers, we noted it may not be long before we would see personal attacks on Hoboken citizens.  Little did we know it would occur so soon, let alone mere minutes after MSV posted its piece.


Richard Pasquarelli, the master of ceremonies at the the protest against Peter Cammarano at City Hall last summer turned out to be the latest target of a Hoboken411 hatchet job.  This one as so many others did not go well when Richard was able to get his reply in, thus silencing the thread there which was quite happily applauding the muddy work of its host.  Perry charged Richard with hypocrisy stating “Pasquarelli has curiously changed his mission statement” from tax cuts and a property reval to a mere complaint about a traffic light.  It’s absurdly delusional and in regards to taxes this is in fact a miraculous improvement from the denial of reality right into election day with the mere acknowledgement taxes are going down, although now he colors it by saying it isn’t “substantial.”  Richard’s rebuttal ended any possible continuance of the inane and inept attacks on him with the thread going dead silent since.  Hypocrisy thy name is Hoboken411!


Full disclosure, we met Richard the day of the City Hall protest and consider him one of our favorite Hoboken neighbors now whenever we pass ways as we did most recently at the City Council meeting.  His inspirational efforts in the City Hall protest last summer led to our becoming active at Hoboken Revolt.   Consider this story our Christmas gift to Hoboken411.  Merry Christmas Perry!


Here’s Richard in his own words utterly destroying Hoboken411’s lame attack:
I wasn’t even really talking about 11th St at the City Council meeting for more than a second, I just mentioned that the light there takes forever to change and when it does, it only lasts long enough to let three or four cars through. What I said was “Maybe somebody could look at the timing of that light”.
BUT, what I WAS talking about at the meeting, if you watch the tape on channel 78, was about putting traffic cameras at the STOP signs that nobody stops at, thus bringing in revenue to help LOWER OUR TAXES, back to the ISSUES. Watch the video, you’ll see what I said.
As far as Zimmer, I’ve been going to meetings and watching the votes by the city council, and as far as I can see, they seem to have OUR interests at heart, not those of the developers or the unethical people in this town who think they DESERVE deals because of who they know. I’m also waiting for the budget hearing to make myself heard about that. For example, as far as the discretionary spending that Trisanti presented, we need to look at that! I don’t know a single person who has had a raise in the last to years and to give our city employees a retroactive raise right now is a disgusting move on the part of the fiscal monitor. I have no qualms about speaking out about that before it happens. There’s just the right time to do it. Read More...

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Hoboken political reflections…

With the snowstorm now underway, we couldn’t help but notice the sentimental reflections already started for the year over at our colleague’s site, the jolly green giant.  It brought a tear to our eye as we thought about all the noble work halted when Peter Camma-Rat-0 was taken down and all the potential for looting the taxpayers with him.


There’s a photo up capturing the spirit of those happier days in Hoboken.  In line with this sentiment, we’re passing on the extended mourning of the legendary City Council advertisement (in its entirety) now buried as a relic in Beth Mason’s fall mayoral campaign.


As a sentimental fond remembrance, we are bringing it back in all its original edited glory for your viewing pleasure.  We’re giving this the silver medal for Greatest Fails of the Year.  When Judy Tripodi announced the tax decrease along with the budget’s arrival, the contrived lies fell upon themselves, except at Hoboken411 who bravely stood in the face of the truth and kept pushing the Big Lie as long as possible, right into election day.  That massive fail gets the gold medal, beating out even Peter Cammarano’s Malibu moment caught on tape by the FBI.  We’re giving that historical moment at the Malibu the bronze in a tie with the massive fail of Perry Klaussen’s email bomb the day before the election.  The lies piled upon lies did nothing in stopping the blowout 20 point victory by Mayor Zimmer on November 3rd.  Okay, maybe he cost her a 20.5% victory margin.  Wot a loser!
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Hoboken411 threatens City of Hoboken!

In yet another sad display of self-destruction, or at least the most public we’ve seen in a long time, Hoboken411 is making public threats to the town of Hoboken and its employees for, well there’s no other way to put it: ignoring him.


He’s more upset than Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”  And he’s not going to be ignored.  Or he’ll huff, and he’ll puff and not follow doctor’s orders and take his mood medication.  In this case, the medicine he can’t take is that the City of Hoboken no longer will tolerate his missing anger management classes.  The word on the street is that his monotonous and sad hatred of all things in the new administration put him over the edge and he can’t conduct himself with even the barest thread of decency.  (A reader also said he called one fine Councilman a terrorist for a disagreement with the Corporation Counsel.)


Yup, he’s a victim.  And he’s going to get you.  Check out the latest rantings of a madman during the last City Council meeting.  Hey, Klepto-Klaussen, Ozzy Osbourne called and he wants his “Diary of a Madman” back.  With this threat to the City and its employees, can attacks on private citizens be far off? Read More...

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Guest of the stable: Phil Cohen

I am a 23-year resident of Hoboken.  I have been active in Hoboken’s civic life and its community affairs.  I served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Cooperative School, and served on Stevens Cooperative School’s Board of Trustees for four years.  I am a Vice Chair of the Hoboken Democratic Party, and am the elected Democratic Committeeman for the Fifth Ward Third District.  I also serve as the Chair of the By-Laws Committee of the Hoboken Democratic Party. On the By-Laws Committee, I worked with my colleagues on the Democratic Committee for two years drafting, and ultimately, unanimously passing, the first set of by-laws in the history of the Hoboken Democratic Party.  Our By-Laws have since been recognized by the Citizens’ Campaign organization as a model for transparency and good government that Citizens’ Campaign now uses as a model for other New Jersey communities, such as Highland Park.  I also serve on the Board of Trustees of the United Synagogue of Hoboken. =&0=&