Wednesday, 31 December 2008 – 3:12 pm
Booker told CBS News Radio in an interview today that the planned Obama Stimulus Plan will empower cities to face challenges unique to them: Newark Mayor: Cities Stand To Gain From Obama Stimulus Plan (via @rosepena).
In an interview with CBS News’ Nick Young, Mayor Booker identified some of the priorities the mayors brought to the [...]
Tuesday, 23 December 2008 – 9:39 pm
Cory lights the tree, rallies the troops, and delivers some cringe-worthy jokes.
Tuesday, 23 December 2008 – 6:06 pm
This in from a Newark tipster: Club Sport-Portugues will be hosting a discussion about Healthcare reform next week on Dec 29.
President-elect Obama is asking Americans to host health care
community discussions. The goal is to solicit impressions, thoughts, and suggestions from the public that will help inform the Obama Administration approach health care reform.
Sport Clube [...]
Tuesday, 23 December 2008 – 5:32 pm
City Hall has issued a press release about the city’s efforts to take Newark back, one piece at a time.
Taking advantage of state legislation that gives cities expanded authority to reclaim properties that have been “vacant for more than six months and have unpaid taxes, or have been deemed blighted and hazardous to public safety.”
Think [...]
Wednesday, 10 December 2008 – 3:58 pm
But this is political story that goes beyond just Blagojevich. Along with the position of Newark, New Jersey mayor the seat of Illinois Governor may be the most corrupt office in America.
PolitickerNJ.com Editor, James W. Pindell: The most corrupt political office in America: Illinois Governor
Tuesday, 9 December 2008 – 8:56 pm
The City of Newark will be hosting two open forums on Wednesday, Dec 10 and Tuesday, Dec 16 to present the current Master Plan:
Master Plan Presentation. If you’ve got some thoughts on the city’s direction for its urban design, this is definitely a event you’ll want to check out!
In cooperation with the Newark Community [...]
Tuesday, 25 November 2008 – 8:25 am
This week’s NJ corruption scandal follows the money to City Council President Mildred Crump’s former chief of staff, Keith O. Reid.
He was accused of accepting $10,000 in bribes from a fake insurance agency set up by federal authorities to insure municipal contracts. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Gramiccioni, one of the attorneys who handled the [...]
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 – 6:55 am
Rutgers History Professor Appointed to Prominent Transition Post by President-Elect Barack Obama
Clement Price has been appointed by the Office of President-Elect Obama to chair the transtion team for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In addition to Price’s outstanding public service record inside and out of Rutgers University, is also the unofficial Newark historian, frequently [...]
Wednesday, 12 November 2008 – 10:08 am
Booker meets with 20 mayors throughout NJ to discuss pressing policy issues and sending recommendations to President-Elect Obama’s Office of Urban Policy.
The transition and the new administration was a major discussion subject, as President-Elect Obama’s long-term vision for the nation will have direct impact on New Jersey’s cities. The mayors discussed the Obama plans to [...]
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 – 5:50 pm
Bill Maher Interviews Cory Booker
Much as I can’t stand Bill Maher, he was particularly flattering to the Mayor in his appearance on Real Time last Friday. Maher even suggested Booker could be in the running for President himself in coming elections.
Update: ugh, the video was pulled from YouTube. Here’s an interview Maher conducted [...]
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 – 5:47 pm
Obama, Newark, and the expectations
Max Pizarro covers the Central Ward election, the effect of an Obama presidency on cities like Newark, and whether Mayor Booker will stick around for another four years after his first term (short answer: he will).
Booker says he’s stuck “like a Texas tick in Newark,” and to a person, his Newark [...]
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 – 5:44 pm
The Urban (Policy) President?
Matthew Hersh at Rooflines (the National Housing Institute blog) points out a Washington Post blog entry that suggest President-Elect Obama will establish a Department of Urban Policy.
Despite the many national problems confronting the new administration, she continued, Obama remains committed to earlier pledges to establish such an office. “Because he began as [...]
Thursday, 6 November 2008 – 10:19 am
Cory Booker on the Rachel Maddow Show
If the Twittersphere is any meaningful representation, Booker’s appearances in national media have the world falling in love with him. But, they might have to get used to the occasional Booker verbosity were getting used to here in Newark.
Newark mayor Corey Booker on MSNBC: “I want to luxuriate in [...]
Thursday, 6 November 2008 – 10:16 am
Booker says his future remains in city, not D.C.
Booker said Wednesday his work with the city is not complete. “I am not leaving here at all,” the 39-year-old mayor said. “I’ve been hearing rumors all over the place. I will remain in the city of Newark for this first term. I made a commitment to [...]
Wednesday, 5 November 2008 – 2:13 pm
From the Star Ledger: Booker, Newark celebrate Obama’s win.
The outcome of the race had special meaning for many residents of the predominantly black city, which has never fully recovered from the racially charged riots that shook it in the late 1960s. Mayor Cory Booker said the election of Obama — the first African-American to be [...]
