Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Hoboken voted to move the municipal elections to November and to eliminate run-off elections. Rent control remains in tact in Hoboken, after Public Question 2 failed.
Kids First won Hoboken's Board of Education race in Tuesday night's elections, according to preliminary results from the city clerk's office. Absentee ballots and provisional votes were not yet included in the count as of Tuesday night. While Tom Kluepfel, Jean Marie Mitchell and Ruthy McAllister won the machine votes, it's unclear if absentee ballots and provisional votes are going to make a difference. It will take until Friday for the absentee ballots to be counted. Kluepfel earned a total of 3426 votes, Mitchell received 3223 votes and McAllister took 3498 votes. In the race for the three open school board seats in Hoboken, the Kids First ticket — Kluepfel, Mitchell and incumbent McAllister all three backed by Mayor Dawn Zimmer — …
Most of the polling stations are the same in town, but voting in the wake of Sandy has been difficult for some.
UPDATED 3:30 p.m. — Lines formed at several polling places around town, leaving some polling places open past 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, as Hobokenites cast their votes after a especially long commute. After some of the kinks that occured during the morning voting rush seemed to be smoothed as the day progressed, some worry remained, however, about the evening rush during the day. Those in line before the polls closed were allowed to cast their vote even after 8 p.m. As of 3 p.m. on Tuesday, about 12,000 people had voted in Hoboken. "If people didn't get to vote this morning, they may have to rush," said Tom Kluepfel, one of Tuesday's school board candidates. When he voted on Tuesday morning at 6 a.m., the line was 50 people deep — much more…
Monday, November 5, 2012
What are you being asked on Tuesday?
Beside voting for president, senator, congressman and local school board, Hobokenites will be asked three local public questions on Tuesday. 1. Should Municipal Elections be Moved to November? The first question on the ballot asks the residents of Hoboken if municipal elections — currently held in May — in which the Hoboken City Council members and the mayor are chosen, should be moved to the general election in November. 2. Should Hoboken revert from rent control to vacancy de-control? The second question centers on rent control in Hoboken. The issue was on the ballot last year as well. The proposal on Tuesday's referendum, "will decontrol apartments upon a vacancy and then recontrol them when a landlord and tenant agree to a new rent," …
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1:11 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
I know that's always eventually the response, criticize the mayor, and you must be 'spinning' for somebody. Care to tell me for whom, rather than just making such a vague innuendo? The 'A grade for the mayor' position reminds me a little of Steve Jobs' comment about President Obama (though AFAIK Jobs continued to basically favor Obama over the alternative), that Obama spent a lot of time … more ›