NJ.com’s Brian Donohue is a veteran of Jersey reporting (Jersey Journal, Star Ledger). He’s covered everything from the last great Hudson County scandal (Where have you gone, Bobby J.?) to “I am a gay American.” He’s been at the Ledger for some time now and hosts “Ledger Live” on NJ.com. He finally found a way [...]
When Council President Peter Brennan warned the crowd at last night’s city council meeting (threatened, is more like it) that he would clear the room if they didn’t behave, I knew it was gonna be one of those nights. A crowd eager to explode groaned a collective groan. Democracy at work in Jersey City.
It’s great [...]
You wouldn’t mistake ‘em for a well-oiled major metropolitan press operation – whose idea was it to hold a press conference in the lobby, while residents had to walk around it to pay their tax bills, etc.? – but Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s communications operation went on the offensive this week after their big announcement on [...]
If you’ve been noticing more Census 2010 TV ads over the last week, you’re witnessing the beginning of an all-out media blitz by the Census Bureau to get us all to “mail it back.” How big an all-out media blitz? Try $340 million. (Finally economic stimulus for the media!)
So, when Reverend Miguel Rivera of the [...]
I always tell people that I don’t vote. And, usually, I don’t. A lot of people are highly offended by this and laugh when I tell them that, as a journalist, I think that voting is contrary to my public mission. I don’t want to present myself with a possible conflict (real or imagined) when [...]
Independent Gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett says he’s got his mojo workin’, but after meeting the former DEP commissioner and erstwhile Republican, I’m not entirely sure it’s gonna work on me. Daggett was at the Embankment on 10th Street for a “Meet and Greet” organized by Realtor Phil Rivo and drew a nice crowd, filling the [...]
Yes, that was me holding Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s feet to the fire in “Brick City” on Sundance. Ok, they didn’t show the really good stuff, like the testy exchanges between us, and Booker constantly asking me to fix him up with our interns. (Kidding.) Here’s some outtakes.
This post was going to be about how Republican Gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie was making inroads into urban New Jersey, and how he’s been seen way too much in Hudson County. Bayonne, Jersey City, North Hudson. Christie’s been trying to pick off the disaffected, dissatisfied, and just plain disinterested. For a minute it looked like [...]
I’ll get it out of the way up front: politics makes some strange-ass bedfellow. But even the most seasoned pol watchers have been scratching their heads over the friendship that has developed between Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy. While it may seem hard to believe that the 40-year-old, suburban-raised Rhodes [...]
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