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I love Newark. I did not come to this city through the providence of birth. I chose Newark, and Newark, thank God, accepted me, embraced me and allowed me the greatest privilege of my life – to serve as mayor.

Chasing armed robbers, hand-delivering supplies after Hurricane Sandy, talking $100 million out of Mark Zuckerberg—it’s all in a day’s work for Cory Booker. Now will Newark’s star mayor seek the national stage?

Cory Booker has a dream. An impossible dream — “that somewhere between now and 10:30 I will be able to close my eyes,” he says. The time is 9 p.m. on Election Day.

NOW that all those presidential conventioneers have popped their last balloons and actually nominated candidates for the White House, it’s time to take stock of the damage to the home front.

 Mayor Cory Booker on a solution to the debt crisis

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Newark’s Mayor headed for national stage? 

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker discusses hurricane Irene response, education reform

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Last week, I was in Atlanta for a day. I went directly from the airport to meet Congressman John Lewis at the King Center, where he and I were to be filmed for a program that Henry Lewis Gates is putting together about our ancestry. As I juggled cell phones dealing with urgencies back in Newark, I approached the visitor's center and instantly felt that I was upon hallowed ground. Amidst greeting producers, the cameraman, museum staff and others, I gathered the gravity of the moment. I stood on sacred soil, in a hall of historic memory across from the legendary Ebenezer Baptist Church, and feet away from Dr. King's final resting place. And I stood, waiting for Congressman John Lewis, a true American hero -- one of my heroes.

Cory Booker is a genius. I could sense it the first day I met him. His enormous intelligence is surpassed only by his heart. He is compassionate, committed, charismatic and generous of spirit. He defines servant leader.