It’s early in Camden’s Democratic Primary. Monday night’s mayoral forum kicked off campaign season here in the city, where both mayoral and city council candidates will be sprinting from today (when candidates are getting calls about their validated signatures) until the June 6th primary. In a sense, the horse race has already started — there’s not … Continue reading Ray Lamboy Wins the Village’s Mayoral Straw Poll, Shows Early Organizational Strength…
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Yesterday, I wrote a quick introduction to the Mayor’s race here in Camden. If you want to know more, the Village — a group of community who bound together to oppose violence in the city and has become involved in everything from education to politics — is hosting a mayoral forum this Monday. Here’s the … Continue reading Meet the Candidates, and Methadone Resistance Continues, and Meeting new LK Blog Author Jared Hunter…
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I had a chance this week to talk to the Courier-Post’s Phaedra Trethan a bit as she wrote her Camden Mayor Dana Redd retrospective. Her piece was fantastic and is reflective of a wider trend where there’s been an uptick in excellent reporting on Camden (by April Saul — more on her run for City Council … Continue reading Camden’s Mayoral Race: First Thoughts…
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Jared Hunter’s latest: Recently, Rutgers Board of Distinguished Governors voted to approve a $1.5 million development project that would relocate the methadone clinic at 424 Market (directly across the street from City Hall) to a currently vacant lot at 6th and Atlantic in the Bergen Square community. The move would take place in order to … Continue reading Comfort Yourselves Together And Edify One Another by Jared Hunter…
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Normally, we focus pretty explicitly on local and urban issues in this space. But I found Jared Hunter’s latest — a post-mortem of sorts on national health care — to directly connect to two debates I find myself having here in the city quite often. 1) what impact does national politics (and the move towards demonizing … Continue reading Let Not Thine Heart Be Glad by Jared Hunter…
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Monday, New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate (and former ambassador) Phil Murphy endorsed NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney. For those whose eyes haven’t turned towards the gubernatorial election yet (and that’s most of NJ voters, with 57% of voters still undecided), this likely was not even a blip on the radar. For those who have watched Sweeney … Continue reading How the Jersey Dems’ Parochialism Hurts the Party…
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