Almost from the AP:
Dawn Zimmer’s personal attorney has filed for a restraining order in Hoboken Municipal Court today, against the person known by various internet IDs, such as “RedHaven,” “Professor Pinetap,” “Colonelstevens,” “David Zenn” and “MarkLower.”
This deranged individual was deemed a danger to the mayor of Hoboken by virtue of his obsessive blogging about her, his pathological inability to separate her from natural phenomena like the four seasons, the sun’s rising and setting, and the earth’s daily rotation on its axis… lastly, this maniac’s destructive impulses have led him to ruin the reputation and readership of a popular Hoboken blog with the publishing of his active fantasy life starring Mayor Zimmer.
It is believed that Mayor Zimmer resembles a former flame or his mother, and his refusal to seek psychiatric help has forced Zimmer to seek a restraining order.
The ‘final straw’ for Zimmer was when this lunatic lamented that “Zimmer/HCDO” would be selecting the replacement for Phil DeFalco, a Hoboken Board of Education member who has just resigned. The paranoid Zimmer-centered fantasies of this individual– his belief that Zimmer controls the Hoboken School Board, on full display yet again, made the decision, what a Zimmer aide called “a no-brainer”
Mayor Zimmer’s office declined to comment on this story.
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We have one more bit of thanks to extend to the audience and this one comes courtesy of those who are doing their part leading into the Thanksgiving holiday. Join in! This event comes the day before the big dance:
The Hoboken Housing Authority Commissioner Jake Stuiver in conjunction with Executive Director Carmelo Garcia and Save the Youth Academy coordinator Luis Acevedo present:
The Hoboken Family & Friends Thankgiving Dinner
– A full Thanksgiving meal catered and served for residents of the Hoboken Housing Authority.
When: Wednesday, November 25th
Where: The Multi-Service Center cafeteria 124 Grand Street
Who: Seniors from 3:00 – 5:30 and everyone else from 5:30 – 8:00 pm
Thanks to Mayor Dawn Zimmer for her support for this event.
For more information, call Jake Stuiver at (201) 978-8977 or jstuiver@gmail.com
Happy Thanksgiving!
One of our goals since we began what we deemed “the experiment” is to go out and ask people fair questions and do some real interviewing on the issues with people who are involved in the process of governing or similarly involved in the town we love. When the election season came, candidates thanked us for allowing various voices to be heard, sometimes more than once. (Well if you put yourself on the line, shouldn’t we at least listen?)
It didn’t take long to find out we had hit pay dirt when our earlier work started gaining a lot more attention than we ever anticipated. Questions in the summer quickly followed, will you do more? Well here we are after the election and still at it. Why? Because frankly, you guys keep coming back and seem to dig it. Readership continues to grow even after the election which also has come as quite a pleasant surprise.
Well please tell a few friends about Mile Square View aka the Hoboken Horse and also let us know what’s on your want to see for our to do list. Clearly there’s a need to have a user friendly, intelligent, censor free place for ideas and fair discourse. You know like a good dinner party conversation or a community. And the numbers keep bearing it out. At any given point, half if not more of the readers are returning visitors. That’s a pretty good number with a third spending almost an hour plus in a visit.
Talking Ed Note: Numerous features are now enabled as noted previously and you can even subscribe to a post or the replies and reply via email if you like. In addition there’s numerous ways for sharing a post, a comment, etc. via facebook, twitter and a hundred others. The comment feature for posting some remarks and adding a youtube video to it is working well and it’s already been utilized. The last video feature should go live soon and will allow a commenter to actually post their own video comment. Welcome Aboard!
Da Horsey aka the Hoboken Horse
Hat tip: Hoboken Now, The Hoboken Journal, Hudson Reporter, and photographers Jhnnynewman and Jimmy the K
During the marathon of the last City Council meeting we took an unofficial break to catch up on some questions we had about the parking meters proposed previously near the new Clearview Cinemas movie theater. After rival photographer of Jhnnynewman, Jimmy the K sent over a bunch of pictures showing next to no parking spaces available we were concerned. (Jhnnynewman especially since he doesn’t like competing photographers.)
So we caught up to Transportation and Parking Director Ian Sacs, who like many stood around as lost zombies hugging the walls circling the room for hours to review our findings and compare notes. Da Horsey was about to open the laptop with the hoof friendly latch to show the powerpoint presentation, but Ian quickly explained the actual location for the proposed meters was not in any of the places photographed.
As it turns out, there’s been a lack of clarity around the location of the proposal. Ian explained its not the immediate blocks by the movie theater but north of it up on 15th to 16th street between Adams and Grand Streets (if memory serves right.) He assured Da Horsey if we journeyed up there at that late hour there would be numerous parking spaces available. We circled back with our colleague and he agreed, it’s a ghost town up there. We declined to take Ian up on the late night sojourn. He’s only a fullback as we learned and that’s not enough insurance to go up against any rats.
We thank the Director for the time and the explanation. Unfortunately as he explained to us, even the chart showing the location at the City Council meeting didn’t help a lot of folks understand the potential locations for where meters may be installed. It’s the public’s turn now to decide what will be the outcome but we’re more assured of the revamped process and the person leading it.
We wish we could say the same about recession soccer. Who’s in charge of tending to the beautiful game now? With unemployment in double digits, we need it more than ever.
Photo courtesy: Amy Sara Clark / Hoboken Now – Ian Sacs and Dawn Zimmer at the relaunch of the Crosstown Bus
The mayor’s office announced a program in support of our soldiers coinciding with the public inauguration this Saturday. We applaud the effort and the people behind it.
MAYOR ZIMMER CALLS FOR INAUGURAL DONATIONS TO BE GIVEN TO “ADOPT A HOBOKEN SOLDIER” FOUNDATION =&2=&Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced today that at her Inauguration this Saturday, November 21st, in lieu of accepting Inaugural donations, all in attendance are asked to give what they can to “Adopt a Hoboken Soldier,” a foundation that provides necessities and comforts to Hoboken soldiers overseas.
Last Friday’s announcement by the Obama Administration to try the 9-11 mastermind and his cohorts in New York City is now registering in the latest Rasmussen Poll. As we thought it less than polite to not at least mention their arrival as neighbors with newly minted rights as American citizens, we even had Eddie Murphy extend a welcome from his SNL days in Mister Robinson’s neighborhood.
With no precedent of extending American citizenship rights to enemy combatants, the reaction in this poll comes as little surprise. The only precedent Da Horsey knows was the Barbary Pirates under President Thomas Jefferson. The US eventually responded by sending the marines to protect American shipping intercepted much like the Somali pirates today. The only difference was those captured on the ships were often brought ashore in northern Africa and ransomed or sold into slavery. The US did not have the marines bring any pirates back to the US for trial.
Okay, so when do we start training all our armed forces in giving miranda rights? That’s what they’ll need to do should they come across Osama bin Laden. Perhaps the ACLU has that program all ready to go.
President Obama’s strongly approve rating has now fallen to 27%. Overall, 46% somewhat approve. You can figure out the rest. We predicted the response and offered a wager with our favorite bartender’s at Moran’s handling the credits. No one took us up on the offer. And now Da Horsey’s thirsty.
Okay back to matters of real importance, we just saw a review of the BOE audit and no it’s not good. Numerous and documented examples of waste and what’s that word I’m look for… fraud. Donna Antonucci spells it out rather nicely, original docs available too. A succinct and impressive piece of work.
Nice job!
Nov. 20th – Amy Sara Clark at Hoboken Now also posted a detailed story on the audit results identifying two dozen problematic issues!
what were they thinking? A professor said to be a valued statewide observer offered some sharp criticism for the newly minted, fully voter sanctioned Zimmer administration. After reading it late last night, it was appalling enough to merit a stream of consciousness rebuke even with a typo or two. For those interested in the corruption of the very obvious, it’s a fine perspective into the absolute woeful state of affairs New Jersey finds itself in. The more you look at these things the more you land up shaking your head. See for yourself:
Comments and story via the Hudson Reporter.
Comments and original via NJ.com.
Oh and get this. In preparing the links, we saw the “professor” has not only had the original comment deleted but he’s replaced it under our own SmartyJones moniker with, “My comment has been edited because I behave like a child.”
So in addition to being utterly exposed for poor basic scholarship, (you get an F doc) he has to go and remove the comment revealing such with a childish censoring prank. The Hudson Reporter to its credit has not censored on behalf of “the professor.”
Now why is it when you turn even the smallest light on these critics, they turn into the biggest crybabies? Take a read and decide for yourself if this was an offense worthy of censorship.
Update: 11:40 – The Hudson Reporter is getting a tidy bunch of responses now to our initial criticism of “the professor” and it further illustrates our point. He has again edited our follow up post at NJ.com, this time inserting the user agreement as cover. (We knew he’d come up with something.) As to the substance of the criticism by Da Horsey and others, nothing but goose eggs. Here’s a hanky to wipe the egg off your face professor.
Our reply there which no doubt will also be censored in short order:
Too late professor. We’ve already linked the story and your getting lots of attention. You can stop censoring and editing under our moniker any time now. Yes you have been personally attacked: for incompetence. And that’s well within the user agreement.
Update: 12:05 – censored again as we predicted, we left one more note for Mr. Hart:
Too bad you don’t have censorship rights across the internet to help bury your “scholarship” professor. That’s too bad. We’re getting lots of traffic between us and the Hudson Reporter. Sorry.
Here’s the original comment posted and recovered from NJ.com “managed” by Thurman Hart. (Sorry doc, we managed to liberate your “editing.” This is the full unedited and uncensored post replaced by the open minded and no doubt free speech advocating polysci “professor.” Way to go Thurm! Keep up the good work.