Democrats can win this thing on the facts. No need for misleading ads.
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2012
Here's the deal about this election year: Democrats are going to have blow off these attitudes by their Wall Street gang if they are going to have a chance to win this election.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.22.2012
It's sad that a political leader as accomplished as Cory, who has been as successful as he at reviving a city, should be hit by the left for criticizing the Obama campaign, and by the right for later defending the campaign. Does politics mean never speaking your mind or living by your values?
Stuart Muszynski | Posted 05.22.2012
Anyone in the media, in politics or behind closed doors who refuses to respect the dignity of another ought to be called out as a bully, a narcissist, a hate-inciter or all of the above. Let's not repeat the mistake we made with Senator Joe McCarthy by calling people like this "leaders."
Teaneck, NJ Patch | Christopher Costa and Anthony RamosEmail the Authors | Posted 05.16.2012
Newark Mayor Cory Booker delivered a rousing speech at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s 69th Commencement Tuesday, telling the more than 2,000 gradu...
Posted 04.13.2012
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has become a viral sensation after he ran into a burning building to save a neighbor. He's even inspired his very own Twitter...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.14.2012
Honestly, is there anything Cory Booker can't do? In case you haven't heard, the mayor of Newark saved a woman from a burning building (serously, we'r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.04.2012
NEW YORK -- The New York Times harshly criticized the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program in a Sunday editorial, while taking particular aim at Mayor ...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.02.2012
U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), 77, was flown home from Washington on Friday to continue treatment for colon cancer. Payne, New Jersey's first Africa...
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 11.26.2011
We've got our fair share of stylish American politicos, from senators to First Ladies. But city mayors? Not too many come to mind. But Newark's Cor...
West Ward, N.J. Patch | Joshua Wilwohl | Posted 11.12.2011
The mayor of New Jersey's largest city did an about-face Monday after saying he would release documents requested by the American Civil Liberties Unio...
Posted 10.30.2011
Go ahead and complain about how New York City overreacted to Hurricane Irene. But Irene was a serious hurricane that has so far left 40 people dead, w...
AP/The Huffington Post | By Beth DeFalco/Emmeline Zhao | Posted 10.24.2011
TRENTON, N.J. -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state's biggest city for refusing to release ...
AP | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 10.24.2011
TRENTON, N.J. — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state's biggest city for refusing to rel...
Posted 08.22.2011
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million contribution to Newark, N.J. public schools has lately drawn a reaction very different from the standi...
West Ward, NJ Patch | Joshua Wilwohl and Sharon Adarlo | Posted 08.08.2011
Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker refuted rumors that he is running for U.S. Senate and said unequivocally he would remain mayor of Newark....
Posted 05.25.2011
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is known for influencing others to join a movement. And that's exactly what he's done for the Newark school system. Dono...
HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
Since he became mayor of Newark in 2006, Cory Booker has had to make cuts that previously seemed unthinkable. Under his watch, the city closed ...
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
There is such an uproar over the snowy residue that some believe the storm could grow political. So where has Mayor Bloomberg gone wrong?
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011
Cory Booker has become cliche: Newark's Savior-in-Progress. An image that's been marching in place for the better part of a decade.
Posted 05.25.2011
(VICTOR EPSTEIN, AP) NEWARK, N.J. — Goodbye YouTube, hello "Tonight Show." Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who has garnered national attention for hi...
Cory Booker | Posted 05.25.2011
In Newark we realized that we could not address crime's many costs to society with improved policing alone. The most effective way to do this was to help ex-offenders so that they could reenter society with hope and pathways to productivity.
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
In late September, Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien quipped that a program to improve the health of Newark residents would involve a "bus ticket out of...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011
Newark state Senator Ronald L. Rice can't help but dislike Cory Booker. He can't trust a mayor of Newark who is admired outside this concrete campus they call Brick City.
Posted 05.25.2011
Newark Mayor Cory Booker recently released a video chastising Conan O'Brien for a joke he made about the New Jersey city. Conan said last week that Bo...
Lanny Davis | Posted 05.24.2012