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Maser, the City’s planner, has prepared the Redevelopment Plan for the Western Edge Redevelopment Area with input from Mayor Zimmer and the Hoboken City Council North Subcommittee and is seeking additional input from the community. The Western Edge was designated as an Area in Need of Redevelopment by the City of Hoboken in 2007. The area consists of approximately 11.15 acres on four separate properties located in the western portion of the City of Hoboken at the foot of the Palisades.
The weekend announcement from the Hoboken Police Department of 18 drug related arrests mostly connected to the downtown Hoboken Housing Authority features some intriguing political overlap.
One question arose over the weekend in the comments section about any connection to the Vote by Mail machine, a staple within the Hoboken Housing Authority at election time.
From the 2013 mayoral race, one name stands out in the Hudson County VBM report:
In 2011, Julian Braxton is listed as the recipient of $250 for his “campaign work” on behalf of the Beth Mason campaign for her council re-election in the second ward.
The Hudson Reporter’s “Between the Lines” column planted its latest political treatise last weekend. It’s not that the rumor itself is wrong, this is standard fare in the Hoboken Reporter and being wrong is a distant concern to propping up and advancing re: announcing the latest Hoboken Old Guard political conspiracies.
After all the Hudson Reporter is on a deathwatch praying with its Old Guard allies Mayor Dawn Zimmer will resign. (An arrest rumor accompanied the months long prediction being spun in Old Guard circles by the same “sources” last year who cooked up the resignation myth.) “Between the Lines” issued itself a reprieve saying the resignation may take by September and ignored Mayor Zimmer’s blunt denial after she found the “rumor” after months no longer entertaining.
City of Hoboken announces:
HPD-Release-May-8-2015-Two Month Investigation Leads to 15 Arrests =&0=&=&1=& =&2=&The arrests now total 18. The headline is updated to reflect the most recent update.Last night the City Council began proceedings with a long presentation “made” by a number of Hoboken children urging government action imposing on the Mile Square City a ban on plastic bags.
The kids were so cute and read their lines so well.
The Nanny state informed the children to speak and so they did. They even got a standing ovation for their efforts.
Other nanny state cities mostly on the West Coast have already imposed the ban forcing citizens to rely on e-coli ridden bags, often sold at heavily taxed prices when people show up in stores without on their trips leading to real human fatalities. Some contend those deaths may have origins other than due to banning plastic bags.
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The Hoboken City Council holds its first of two May meetings and there’s a mix on the agenda.
A recent effort to politicize and make hay about comp time for Directors (and the mayor) didn’t get off the ground for council members Terry Castellano, Beth Mason and Michael Russo but some alterations are on the table in an ordinance up for a final vote. No more “issue” it appears before November’s ward elections.
Yes, it is election season, an almost constant affair in the Mile Square – sometimes when there’s not even an election in sight.
From the first interview with the late fiscal state monitor Judy Tripodi, “Taxes are going DOWN!” what senior City officials called decisive to the outcome of the November 2009 mayoral election, this website’s impacted Hoboken in a major way.
That story stalled a final operation in progress by the Beth Mason for Mayor campaign claiming Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer had a plan to raise taxes.
Since 2009, there’s been scores of exclusives, political operations uncovered with growth beyond tens of thousands of visitors a month. MSV is a unique online reform David taking on Goliath – and winning.
We salute you.
What went over some heads and went without comment here (by some of the sharpest eagle eyes in town) is that the HHA received multiple federal subpoenas.
| The Vision Money/Money dream has died a quiet death so there isn’t going to be any massive buildings more than doubling the number of units downtown in the Hoboken Housing Authority. Is a vaunted run in the Sixth Ward council race a comeback in the making? |
Da Horsey didn’t put it in a blazing headline and the nefarious actions of repugnant, vindictive narcissists typically steal the thunder of the Feds who have not shown much love for Hoboken since a stunted 2011 visit although the criminality here is anything but the garden style corruption variety.
What other town’s public official could come up with a plan to truck out millions of quarters to a south Jersey mob connected arcade firm uncounted before departure?