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And they’re off!

Summer season is over and Hoboken will see its first ward races in November since it switched from spring. In 2011, the ward races were conducted in May. Board of Education races will share the November ballot too.

MSV of course chows down come election season. This one will be no different. The Hudson Reporter is embarrasing with the consistently awful bad rumor fare pumped out. It can’t muster even a political treat of accuracy choosing to insult their remaining readers. Perhaps that’s the pravda point. Read More...

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Sign of the Times: Peter Cammarano & a bouncy house, not a federal pen

Former Hoboken mayor and convicted felon Peter Cammarano stands near the kids’
bouncy house at Saturday’s upper Bloomfield St. block party.
He’s been mostly unseen in public since testifying as a witness on behalf of
frivolous lawsuit SLAPPer and Beth Mason minion Lane Bajardi in Hudson Superior
Court last February. Before the case was thrown out of court mid trial, Cammrano testified
he hadn’t shared information on taking $25,0000 in bribes from an FBI informant
with the Hoboken411 ghostwriter. The civil case was flushed shortly after.

Related: Beth Mason’s pals’ efforts at advancing her political career took a drastic turn for the worse last July after Lane Bajardi and Kimberly Cardinal Bajardi saw their frivolous lawsuit slammed with $280,000 in sanctions for its “misrepresentations” to the court and other serious problems and declared “approaching a fraud upon the Court.”

Beth Mason was reportedly so distraught with the July 8th decision she disappeared from public view  with the court’s legal decision issued missing over eight weeks and four consecutive City Council meetings. Read More...

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Hoboken November 2015 Election Ballot

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In City Council Chambers, a group of jovial council candidates and interested parties observed the ballot selection for the Hoboken November Ballot positions.

=&1=& First Ward: 1C: Theresa Castellano 1D: Michael DeFusco Second Ward: 1C: Bonnie Murray 1D: Peter Biancamano 1E: Tiffanie Fisher Third Ward: 1C: Michael Russo 1D: Frank Raia Fourth Ward: 1C: Ruben J Ramos Jr. 1D Dana Wefer 1E: Timothy S Occhipinti Fifth Ward: 1C: Peter Cunningham 1D: Eduardo Gonzalez Sixth Ward: 1C: Jennifer Giattino 1D: Carmelo G. Garcia =&2=& BoE Candidates all listed on Column F: Britney A Montgomery Thomas Kluepfel John Madigan Sheillah Dallara Alanna M. Kauffmann Addys Velez Patricia Waiters

Talking Ed Note: There’s an update on the Melissa Blanco situation. On background, a source in the City Clerk’s office offered she had earlier attempted to drop off additional petitions. Under the NJ statute however, they said, existing petitons can be cured but not new ones submitted within three days.

MSV is unclear if the statute actually allows additional petitions permitted within 10 days with the Appellate decision in Tumpson v. Farina.  The Clerk’s Office believes Blanco submitted some complaint to Hudson Superior Court and awaited further direction if the ballot positions draw would require delay but no notice from the court arrived. Read More...

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9-11 fourteen years out

Hoboken residents murdered on 9-11:
Joao Alberto da Fonseca Aguiar, Jr. (J.J.)
Thomas Patrick Knox
Jean Ann Andrucki
Gregory James Malone
Peter Paul Apollo
George Patrick McLaughlin, Jr.
Donna Bernaerts-Kearns
Michael J. Mullin
Martin “Marty” Boryczewski
Marc Murolo
Nicholas William Brandemarti
John J. Murray
SwarnaChalasani
Martin Stewart Niederer
Christopher Michael Colasanti
Katherine “Katie” McGarryNoack
Michael Shamus Costello
Brian Christopher Novotny
Anne Marie Cramer
Keith Kevin O’Connor
Christopher S. Cramer
Dominique Lisa Pandolfo
Gavin Cushny
Jon Anthony Perconti, Jr.
Michael DeRienzo
Joseph O. Pick
Douglas Frank DiStefano
Raymond J. Rocha
Neil M. Dollard
Scott William Rohner
Margaret Echtermann
Joshua M. Rosenblum
Meredith Emily June Ewart
Nicholas Charles Alexander Rowe
Peter Feidelberg
Ronald J. Ruben
John Roger Fisher
Richard L. Salinardi, Jr.
Jeffrey Brian Gardner
James K. Samuel, Jr
Brian Goldberg
John Schroeder
Michael Edward Gould
Alexander Robbins Steinman
Pedro Grehan
Lesley Anne Thomas
Kevin James Hannaford
Melissa Renee Vincent
Scott Jordan Hazelcorn
Meredith L. Whalen
Robert Wayne Hobson, III
James Patrick White
Matthew D. Horning
Debbie L. Williams
Joseph Anthony Ianelli
Michael Robert Wittenstein


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First ward downtown City Council candidate Michael DeFusco shares his vision for Hoboken

From the desk of First Ward City Council candidate Michael DeFusco:

My Hopes for Hoboken
I write to share my ideas and hopes for a better downtown Hoboken.

As your councilman, I will fight for common sense constituent concerns – items that should be top priority, but have fallen by the wayside. I will ensure that our streets are free of potholes and trash, that proper lighting and crossing signals are installed and demand trash receptacles at every intersection. I will be available to all my neighbors, ensuring you have a responsive and professional connection to City Hall. And I will work constructively with everyone —whether they agree or disagree with me politically—to make sure our neighborhood needs are addressed.

On the larger issues facing downtown, I will use my five years of land use experience on our City’s Zoning Board and advocate for sensible and innovative building projects at the Neumann Leathers factory site and NJT Rail Yards. We can make these locations spaces that encourage arts, entertainment and commerce – like Chelsea Market in NYC or Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Ensuring responsible development that brings more vibrancy, while maintaining our community’s existing scale is critical to improving our quality of life.

I believe we can and must make improvements to Washington Street, which to us in the First Ward is more than a business district; it is our back yard. And we must make sure that Hoboken remains affordable for our working families, our middle class residents and our seniors and that requires holding the line on taxes through fiscal discipline.

I pledge to bring the new energy we need and to fight hard every day for a better downtown Hoboken!

Sincerely,
Mike DeFusco

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Appreciating the Melissa Situation

Whether you think it’s an affront to Democracy or parallels sinister Zimmerists which are hiding in every corner of the City Clerk’s Office, a fifth ward City Council candidacy lies perilously in the balance.

As the ballot positions will be drawn noon at City Hall tomorrow, the unofficial deadline for rendering fixes for ballot deficiencies is likely 4:00 pm today.

Melissa Blanco needs 59 registered voter petitions to confirm a position on the ballot for fifth ward council. She’s submitted in the neighborhood of 40 with the remainder of approximately 80 not registered voters or residents of the fifth ward. Read More...

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Hoboken 9-11 Memorial Service

City of Hoboken announces:

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The Hoboken community will come together to share in its annual September 11th Interfaith Memorial Service for the victims, their families, the City of Hoboken, and the entire nation. 
The service will take place on Friday, September 11, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. on the southeast corner of Hoboken’s Pier A Park. All are invited to attend. 

Fifty-seven Hoboken residents were lost on September 11, 2001. Read More...