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Weekhawen official dies of coronavirus

April 4, 2020 6:19 pmApril 4, 2020 10:33 pm

Richard Barsa, the Weehawken school board president, died this morning of an illness related to COVID-19. He was 65. Barsa was also the Weehawken finance director. He was elected to the Board of Education in 1991 and has served as...

Fulop reenters the fold

March 11, 2019 9:47 pmMarch 11, 2019 9:55 pm

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop appears to have mended fences with other Hudson County Democrats. Fulop, who fell out of favor with Democrats on both sides of last year’s warette in Hudson County following the end of the same, appeared...

With election days away, Murphy stumps in Hudson

November 2, 2018 6:41 pmNovember 3, 2018 1:37 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was in Hudson County on Friday to shore up the Democratic stronghold ahead of Tuesday’s election. Murphy, after making a governmental stop at a school opening in Secaucus, spent much of the late afternoon walking the streets...

West New York mayoral race underway

September 15, 2018 11:59 pmSeptember 18, 2018 2:02 pm

The race for Mayor of West New York began in earnest last March, when incumbent Felix Roque backed a coalition to dump Tom DeGise as the Hudson County Executive and his rival, Rep. Albio Sires, began to assemble a full...

Stack vs. DeGise: By the numbers

June 4, 2018 1:44 amJune 5, 2018 6:35 pm

The race for Hudson County Democratic Chairman on June 12 between Brian Stack and Amy DeGise remains too close to call. The race really comes down to three key factors: the results of Tuesday’s county committee election in West New...

Turner re-elected in Weehawken without opposition

May 9, 2018 2:49 am

Weehawken Mayor Richard F. Turner, one of New Jersey’s longest-serving mayors, was re-elected on Tuesday without opposition. Turner received 1,337 votes in his bid for a ninth term. His At-Large council running mate, David Curtis, received 1,112 votes. Ward councilmembers...

Once allies, Stack and Sires at opposite sides of warette

March 31, 2018 10:40 pmApril 2, 2018 8:56 am

When Brian Stack was a 25-year-old political operative in 1991, he managed Albio Sires’ campaign for Mayor of West New York against five-term incumbent Anthony DeFino. Sires was a political outsider in those days – he lost races for Congress...