Wednesday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • May 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog
- You might have heard — there was an election yesterday. Read our coverage here, here and here, and look for more coverage and photos later in the day. You can check out the Journal‘s coverage of the results here and here. Meanwhile, the Insider says the low turnout in yesterday’s election is “shocking” (is it really?), and outgoing Journal columnist Earl Morgan files an on-the-scene dispatch from Ward F. And “Wally Edge” reminds us that Healy is now the first Jersey City mayor to win three elections without a runoff since Frank Hague.
- Did someone from the renown Gagosian Gallery in NYC illegally dump garbage in WFMU’s parking lot? Looks like it.
- NJCU held its commencement yesterday. The Journal has photos.
Today’s Best Bets:
- Lots of free live music today for what looks to be a nice one. Nicole Hart & the NRG Band are at the Journal Square fountain from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, while the Brian Beninghove Organ Trio will be at the Grove Street PATH station plaza for Groove on Grove at 6 pm.
In statewide news:
- Nearly 1.5 million New Jersey residents spend more than 10 percent of their pretax incomes on health care — and 80 percent of them are insured.
- Foreclosures filings statewide were up 10.2 percent in April compared to March, but still down 3.5 percent from April 2008, according to new RealtyTrac data.
- State officials have penciled in cuts to financial aid for students at several of New Jersey’s for-profit colleges — a group that said it feels like the black sheep of higher education.
- The state’s largest nurses union says New Jersey hospital CEOs are paid more than the national average.
- The National Association of Realtors says the average price of houses and condos sold in New Jersey is down as much as 21 percent over last year in the first quarter of 2009.
- Republican gubernatorial candidates Chris Christie and Steve Lonegan faced off in their first televised debate last night. You can watch the full debate on NJN’s website.
- The New Jersey Lottery Commission will stop airing live drawings at 1 pm on the state’s public television network, in order to save an estimated $100,000 each year.
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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