Between the Lines
Assembly seat up for grabs
The resignation of Anthony Chiappone from the state Assembly on July 16 has started the clock ticking to name a possible replacement. In June, Chiappone pleaded guilty to misdirecting an aide’s...
Jul 18, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Republican squabble ends
A move to unseat Jersey City Director of Economic Development Jose Arango as longtime chairman of the Hudson County Republican Party failed last month, even after a group of Republicans, partic...
Jul 11, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Is O’Donnell the one?
Since 1998 when he was first elected to the City Council in Bayonne, Anthony Chiappone has been a thorn in the side of the administration, and somehow managed to stay one step ahead of his oppo...
Jul 04, 2010 | 6 6 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spun out on the Hoboken committee vote
This column got spun hard last week by Hoboken political insiders with an interest in the upcoming battle for Hoboken’s 4th Ward council seat. There appears to be a coalition of various groups wh...
Jun 27, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chaos among Hoboken Democrats
Behind-the-scenes politics hasn’t changed as much over the last century as people like to pretend – and the selection of a new chairman of the Hoboken Democratic Organization this past Monday sho...
Jun 20, 2010 | 7 7 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Smith takes the lead in the local Dem party
Not wanting to upset the apple cart before this past Tuesday night’s primary elections, those inside the Hudson County Democratic Organization refused to confirm that Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith w...
Jun 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Not quite Jay Leno
Bayonne Freeholder Doreen DiDomenico hit the airwaves in late May with her new cable access TV show to be aired on Thursdays on Cablevision channel 19, and she is not the first. Freeholder Bil...
Jun 06, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Up hill battle in Bayonne runoff election
Incumbent Bayonne Councilman Gary La Pelusa knows he has a battle ahead in the June 15 run off election if he is to retain his 3rd Ward seat. “I was really surprised at the outcome,” he said th...
May 30, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Christie factor
Republican Gov. Christopher Christie came to Hoboken again on Monday – into the heart of enemy (heavily Democratic) territory – to sell his agenda for reducing the hefty burden on taxpayers thr...
May 23, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Will the new HCDO chairman, please stand up
If there is going to be a new political civil war among Hudson County Democrats, it began with the closing of the election polls in Bayonne and Union City on Tuesday night, May 11, as incumbents ...
May 16, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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No sports; no problem
Mad Magazine said it best when its symbolic character Alfred E. Newman asked rhetorically, “What? Me Worry?” The Hudson County freeholders were prepared last week to dump a truckload of embarra...
May 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ouch!
A divided city council recently voted to approve Jersey City’s $510 million budget, maintaining the already hefty taxes residents will be required to pay – and doing more to invigorate the 2013 m...
May 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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