City of Hoboken announces:
Dear Horsey & MSV readers:Please stay indoors or be extremely careful if you go outside this morning. Salt trucks are out, but the freezing rain has caused treacherous sidewalk and street conditions. There have been many people slipping and falling on sidewalks this morning. Sinatra Drive and the 14th Street Viaduct are temporarily closed to traffic.
NJ Transit bus service in north Jersey is not operating at this time due to icy road conditions. Systemwide cross-honoring of NJ Transit rail, light rail & bus passes/tickets is in effect today due to the extreme weather conditions. The speed for the entire length of the NJ Turnpike has been restricted to 35 mph.
The Hoboken Republican Party announced:
This appears to be the first Hoboken group to publicly voice Councilwoman Beth Mason should make an apology and be held accountable due to her approximately 40K in fines for massive campaign violations.
Another Hoboken group, the People for Open Government who once counted Mason as a member publicly criticized her but the group thought defunct, is anonymously quoted in the paper last weekend and did not request Beth Mason make an apology.
The second ward has a strong voting base of registered Republicans and could be influential in the upcoming ward races this November.
BETH MASON’S ILLICIT “CAMPAIGN” EXPENDITURES REVEAL SHE HAS A LOT MORE EXPLAINING TO DO
The official position of the Beth Mason universe as she would like it perceived is she is a good citizen who advocates for good government and her campaign reporting issues are resolved as just recently she discovered this 21st century occupation called an accountant.
The truth however is entirely different, twisted and the Beth Mason campaign “expenditures” during post election cycles, long after her 2011 council campaign shows a different; actually it’s a purely illicit, nefarious picture.
The Port Authority’s proposed plan to cut overnight service on the PATH is tabled. The news was announced earlier today by the PA itself which cut a hasty retreat after the initial plan was originally presented the weekend after Christmas.
Understandably, residents and local officials are jubilant with the announcement. Mayor Dawn Zimmer released a statement saying,
“I thank Chairman Degnan for listening to our voices and for taking the idea of PATH overnight service cuts off the table,” said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. “With 56% of Hoboken residents using public transportation to commute each day – the highest rate not just in the state, but in the nation – the success of our community and region is intrinsically linked to a robust mass transit system. Going forward, we should be focused on ideas to expand, not cut public transportation options within our region.”
The mayor was quickly joined by new Hoboken City Council President Ravi Bhalla who added:
“Like many Hoboken residents, I am very pleased with the Port Authority’s decision to table a proposal that would have cut much-needed overnight PATH service. I want to thank Mayor Zimmer for her leadership and my council colleagues for standing together as one city in opposition to this proposal by unanimously passing a resolution last week opposing cuts in service. Thank you to Port Authority Board Chairman John Degnan for hearing and truly comprehending the serious concerns expressed by Hoboken residents regarding this proposal.
With freedom of speech being given rapt global attention in the City of Lights, that spotlight comes full circle here in Hoboken.
Most aren’t aware there’s a well financed operation engaging in a years long war against a basic American freedom many take for granted worthy of a Sopranos episode.
For the Hoboken Sopranos, guns, bats, knives and arson are so 20th century. Those tools are ineffective against independent voices rising anonymously in the Hoboken blogosphere of their own volition against what’s been described by one Old Guard denizen as “the internets.”
The federal investigation in the Hoboken Housing Authority continues apace and with it more stories emerge of an agency out of control breaking federal laws, left and right.
Another example came to light when someone cavalierly entered its offices asking for a “28 day pass” to live in the HHA.
No federal law allows any such option to live in its housing authorities with a “28 day pass.” It’s but one among a string of issues being uncovered one after another breaking federal law like… well as if the place was being run like a Banana Republic.
Beth and Richard G. Mason debut together on popular legal publication “Above the Law”
Richard G. Mason of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz along with his notorious ethically challenged litigious wife, Hoboken Councilwoman Beth Mason scored duo detrimental plaudits in their billing on the legal beagle website “Above the Law.”
In contrast, the Hudson Reporter kept the breaking story off the front page even as tens of thousands of dollars in campaign fines assessed by NJ ELEC paid last month by Beth and Richard Mason is being covered by media extensively elsewhere.
The Hoboken Zoning Board, the agency charged with deciding development projects in the City of Hoboken is a focus again. After former mayor and convicted felon Peter Cammarano sold variances for $25,000 to an FBI informant back in 2009, the powers to appoint were offered by Mayor Zimmer to the City Council.
The City Council under a reform majority quickly took up Mayor Zimmer’s offer taking back its former appointing powers.
It’s been a wild ride every time those appointments are up in the council ever since.
