Bush administration backing off takeoff auction plan at Kennedy, Newark
A couple of months ago, the Bush administration made promises to ease airport congestion—an issue one would hardly consider worthy of addressing directly through the president, what with all the warring and all.
Now they’ve begun to backtrack from plans to change traffic patterns at JFK and [...]
A thumbnail New Jersey guide to the history of Obamaland, Part I
Part one of a three part series (Part II, Part III) by the inimitable Max Pizarro. Max tracks the evolution of the Barack Obama campaign in New Jersey, giving a perspective on how the Democratic party machine is being dismantled and reconstructed in [...]
Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker at Midpoint
Balanced look at Mayor Booker’s achievements in the two years since he was sworn into office. The editorial points out the major challenges and difficulties facing the city and City Hall’s response.
Expectations were high when he came to office, not only because he was an attractive personality but [...]
Booker attempts to woo new-look Nets
After some initial jousting, it appears that Mayor Booker is getting more aggressive about keeping the New Jersey Nets in the garden state—and bringing some more nightlife to downtown Newark.
“I’m going to work very hard to make it happen,” Booker says. If the deal were to go through, the [...]
Newark superintendent boasts urban experience
Arriving in a city with its own brand of bare-knuckle politics, Janey said he has no illusions. He’s heard rumors Mayor Cory Booker, a close friend of Fenty’s, wasn’t his biggest booster.
“Maybe that’s juicy speculation, but, frankly, we are going to have to do things together for the betterment of [...]
Angelo Ellerbee blasts Newark mayor Cory Booker
Businessman and activist Angelo Ellerbee, no stranger to stirring up controversy, uses his Lifetime Acheivement award reception at Newark-Essex Pride Coalition’s award dinner on June 14th as a platform to hammer City Hall.
I hope this is being recorded, and so I can autograph it and you can send it [...]
But this is Newark
The insightful Carl Sharif provides the insider angle on the nearly successful sabotage of Janey’s relationship with the city administration.
The idea of the story was to feed an ongoing strategy to isolate Booker. By pitting him in a struggle with Governor Corzine over the selection of Janey as superintendent, Booker was to [...]
Joseph Del Grasso, president of the Newark Teachers Union, June 15, 2008.
There is not supposed to be politics involved in public schools.
Maybe a Teachers’ Union staffer wasn’t reading the paper on Sunday before this hatchet job was mailed out to Newark residents on Monday:
The attack by Newark’s political bosses and Booker on Congressman Donald Payne, [...]
Newark principal’s political memo is rebuked
You’ve got to appreciate that last Del Grasso quote, given the Newark Teacher’s Union’s highly politically-charged billboard campaign in the city.
In a Feb. 26 memo addressed to two staff members, East Side High principal Mario Santos forwarded copies of tickets to a March event for Augusto Amador, the [...]
Booker at the midway point
I suspected before, but after reading Max Pizarro’s excellent spin-down of Mayor Booker’s trounced local elections, I’m convinced: Booker has little interest in the tumult over local district seats.
A minority in the districts won’t hold up the mayor’s agenda in the council (I mean, seriously? Who’s going to vote against [...]
