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Can you be arrested in Hoboken for an old out of town parking ticket?

There’s quite a buzz going this morning and no doubt phones are ringing.
Hoboken people have started asking questions along these lines:

How much resources does the Hoboken Police Department dedicate to pursue a 10 year out of town parking ticket?

Who in the Hoboken Police Department would pursue a resident and run down a 10 year old parking violation and find the Hoboken resident on the city’s streets?

Lots of questions revolving on an odd arrest and
Perry Klaussen’s name is in the middle of it
after a revealingly timed tweet last night.

A law enforcement source in Hoboken tells MSV an outstanding list of warrants on people is very possible and if a name appears on it that person can be picked up and processed, even on a decade old out of town parking ticket. Read More...

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In Hoboken, Sen. Lautenberg, Sen. Menendez, Congressman Sires and Secretary Lahood back Surface Transportation Bill for NJ

The Office of Senator Frank Lautenberg announces:

=&0=& Call on House to Join Senate in Passing a Bipartisan Transportation Bill HOBOKEN, NJ—Today, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood stood with U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and U.S. Rep Albio Sires (D-NJ-13), urging the House of Representatives to follow the Senate’s lead and move quickly to pass a bipartisan transportation jobs bill.  Last week, an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the Senate passed the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” a surface transportation bill which will create or maintain 2.8 million jobs nationwide.  Speaking at the Hoboken Train Station, the federal officials were joined by New Jersey transportation advocates to stress the importance of the legislation, which would provide New Jersey with $500 million for transit projects and $1 billion per year in highways funds. The Senate transportation bill, which was approved last Wednesday by an overwhelming 74-22 margin, would relieve road congestion, expand transit and rail systems, and direct billions to American workers rebuilding the nation’s aging infrastructure.  The legislation is particularly important for New Jersey, where it would support 54,200 jobs in a state economy powered by regional transportation systems.  New Jersey commuters would get immediate relief through restoration of the commuter tax benefit, which allows mass transit riders to set aside an untaxed $240 monthly to pay for commuting costs. =&1=&said Secretary LaHood.  =&2=&
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Tim Occhipinti schooled on legal work, questioned on his “compromises”

The budget hearing Saturday lacked a full quartet of MORTe but don’t think grandstanding and political attacks were missing with half their team out.  Tim Occhinpinti filled in although the results were not exactly what MORTe would have in mind.

Tim Occhipinti looked to point the finger at the Administration for an increase in legal costs of about $1.1 million in recent years to $1.9 million currently anticipated.  He cites employee terminations and the mayor’s failure “to compromise” as part of the problem.  After all, MORTe may talk a good game about taxes but their top constituents are city employees.  Although Occhipinti didn’t go as far as Councilwoman Terry Castellano mentioning names at  recent council meeting on active legal lawsuits against the City, he carried on the position by politicizing the cases collectively to attack the mayor. Read More...

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Puppet Heap – free exhibition 2:00 – 5:00 at the Hoboken Historical Museum

Puppet Heap Takes Over Upper Gallery
Last weekend, the Museum flipped the switch on our new website design. Same URL: www.hobokenmuseum.org, but with a new look and organization. Coming soon is a new online Museum shop! We’re also building up our social media pages, including Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr and YouTube — we hope to make it easier to share information and inspire more curiosity about Hoboken. Check it all out and let us know what you think!
Opening this Sunday in the Upper Gallery…
Puppet Heap, nationally famous puppet design studio. click on the image to visit the group’s website.
Strange Neighbors: The Art & Imagination of Puppet Heap The public is invited to a free opening reception from 2 – 5 pm Sunday, Mar. 18 for a new Upper Gallery exhibition featuring Hoboken’s own Puppet Heap, an innovative design and fabrication studio that creates and brings to life some of the world’s most beloved characters using both traditional and cutting-edge techniques to share stories with modern audiences.An artist’s talk and short film screening start at 4 p.m.

Based in the former Levolor factory at 720 Monroe St., “The Heap” is led by artist and entrepreneur Paul Andrejco and boasts a team of the industry’s most talented designers, performers and craftspeople. The studio began in 1992 and has grown into an ever-expanding creative company that develops and designs characters for film, television, theater and the Web for such entertainment companies as Sesame Workshop, The Walt Disney Company, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
Andrejco and the Heap also produce award-winning short films such as “Omar’s Mother,” “Ye Ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar,” “I Knew an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” or most recently, “Mother Hubbard Among Others.” And they’ve created a line of retail puppets designed to inspire storytelling through play. The puppets are incredibly detailed and beautifully built from a variety of materials: paper tape, fabric, fur, papiermaché, silicone, latex rubber, among many other materials. Read More...

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Budget Hearing and noon Special Meeting to approve appropriation today




City of Hoboken Budget Hearing Live at City Hall 10:00 – 5:00 pm

Hoboken’s budget hearings will cover most of today at City Hall in council chambers and the mayor’s special meeting on a 750K appropriation will also be featured. In the last two years, the budget hearings held by the Administration have produced significant savings well into six figures. It’s not clear if those feats will be duplicated so tune in to get insight into the budget process.

At noon, a special council meeting will act on the 750K blocked earlier as a designated emergency appropriation. The change based on NJ State law means five votes not six can pass the measure making MORTe’s (Mason-Occhipinti-Russo-Castellano) no votes meaningless. Read More...

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Celebrating Peter Cammarano’s return to Hoboken, a blast from the recent past on zoning corruption that led to federal prison

The war zone between the coalition of the Reform movement and the Old Guard over at the Hoboken Patch comments section is amped up more than usual with the constant chirping from one political operative family not paid for friendship and with it, a look in the rear view mirror of Hoboken’s most obvious recent symbol of corruption.

Peter Cammarano celebrates his one week anniversary back in Hoboken from doing a shortened stint in federal prison at Lewisburg and a halfway house in Brooklyn, so let’s join in his one week anniversary looking at those who served him so ably in his brief role as mayor. An attack yesterday on our colleague Grafix Avenger on Hoboken Patch led to her dispelling the fabrication about her appointment to the Hoboken Zoning Board.  With her background as an architect, she was elected in a 9-0 vote on the City Council and has served ably in that capacity.  Months later she began work on a local website called Grafix Avenger. Nothing in Hoboken has been the same since.  Not only does Grafix Avenger rule the town as the best (and only) regular political satirist, she’s a dominant voice using imagery to cement humor and sometimes well deserved ridicule of the Old Guard, their never ending corruption and of course driving them up the wall in pointing out their phoniness and outright hypocrisy.  It even led to Tim Occhipinti calling the police on her “credible threat” of deploying the Vulcan death grip on her Star Trek adversaries.   Which brings us to this celebratory eve of arrest clip from a Hoboken City Council meeting, courtesy of our noble fellow citizen animal, the Wiley Coyote, Eric Kurta. =&0=&may wish to circle back and revisit for a new line of Hoboken questioning.  Da Horsey decided to dig into the Wiley Coyote’s vault and lend a hand.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  It’s never been more true here with the FBI’s ongoing investigation in Hoboken.  Here is political operative Lane Bajardi performing his stock in trade service on behalf of Peter Cammarano. Read More...

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Hoboken Irish Cultural Event in Sinatra Park a huge success

What a tremendous Hoboken event.  As one person who did not know Da Horsey said, “This is great, the vibe is great, the food is great and the music is perfect.”

That kind of sums it up.  The weather and the crowd, just tremendous:

The Freedom Tower at sunset was a spectacular backdrop to the Irish cultural event at Sinatra Park.
Three bands played through the course of the evening and made for a great time.

Hundreds of people in attendance, and the Jersey Journal put the event into four figures.  The event ran to 10:00 pm.

Organizers estimated the event will raise about $4,000 for Hoboken charities but that’s not an official tally.

Congratulations to Hoboken residents who worked and contributed to making this a very successful event for the Mile Square.  Thank you to the readers who stopped Da Horsey to tell us they are avid readers and are now following the Hoboken Sopranos, re: the City Council meetings and keeping abreast of what’s going on in our local government. Read More...

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Irish flag raising at City Hall

Minutes ago at City Hall:

Mayor Dawn Zimmer (l) watches as the Irish flag is raised at City Hall by former Senator Bernard Kenny.
Watching right are Freeholder Anthony Romano and Council members Carol Marsh and Jen Giattino.