Last year the rent control ballot question was one of several on a full voting sheet. This year it will be alone and for those who don’t recall, here is the wording:
Shall the City of Hoboken continue annual rental increase protections for current residents of rent controlled properties but allow property owners to negotiate rents for vacant apartments and exempt buildings with one-to-four units and condominium units from the rent leveling ordinance by adopting the proposed amendment to Chapter 155 of the Code of the City of Hoboken?
Last November’s razor thin outcome on the rent control question, garnering over 16,000 votes is ordered back on the ballot this November by the NJ Appellate Court.
The ruling comes after a contentious appeal surrounding 114 voters out of town who filed they were not given an opportunity to vote on Ballot Question #2 on rent control changes. Hoboken voters had the option of voting out of Hoboken provisionally but only email voters could vote on the ballot questions due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
Hoboken’s temporary 9-11 memorial in Pier A Park fell apart sadly and the permanent one which went through agonizing public input sessions with major contributions from family members who lost loved ones living in Hoboken seemed all but done early this year.
It was on the agenda for final approval in March at the City Council. Eight members were present with one awaiting swearing in who won his council seat case pending an approval. Can you guess how the vote for Hoboken’s final 9-11 Memorial went?
Hoboken resident Greg Bond’s beautiful tribute to the 9-11 Tribute of Light.
In honor of all those murdered that day, honor too those in Hoboken who perished. Please hold all of them and their families in prayer.
Would like to extend personal condolence to the family of Melissa Vincent as she and I worked together in downtown Manhattan before her untimely death.
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In a Hoboken press conference across the street from an event where Rite Aid announced it would allow promotion of the Obamacare plan in its stores, US Senate Candidate Steve Lonegan slammed Obamacare saying the individual mandate’s implementation should be delayed as it has for employers and doing so would save taxpayers $35 billion in a single year.
“The Obamacare plan is a failed plan… and an unfair system,” Lonegan stated adding it was detrimental to the economy.
Lonegan also criticized President Obama and his rival Mayor Cory Booker on Syria, the former for refusing to say he’d accept the outcome of a congressional vote on attacking Syria the later for what he described as flip flopping.
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Community: Hoboken to Host Annual September 11th Interfaith Memorial Service
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. Fifty seven Hoboken residents were lost on September 11, 2001. The service will take place on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 6:30 pm. on the southeast corner of Hoboken’s Pier A Park – the site of a makeshift memorial on September 11, 2001. All are invited to attend. |
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The letter follows a call by Carmelo Garcia to the HHA commissioners at the last HHA meeting to denounce MSV but saw neither a resolution or vote.
The charge from Carmelo Garcia’s letter begins:
MSV replied Friday evening and addressed the basis of Carmelo Garcia’s letter writing:
Thank you for your response to my initial inquiry on outside agencies visiting the Hoboken Housing Authority. Unfortunately, you have misread my story. I would be happy to publish your statement so the truth or falsity of it can be evaluated by the MSV audience. Since my story never mentioned the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there’s nothing to address in the incorrect assessment you allege in your letter.