Friday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog
- One runoff race for the City Council seems to be set after provisional ballots were tallied, but another will likely involve a recount. In Ward A, incumbent Michael Sottolano will face off against Rolando Lavarro, who edged out Andre Richardson by 30 votes. In Ward F, however, only one vote separates second-place finisher Ron-Calvin Clark from third-place finisher LaVern Webb-Washington, which an elections clerk says will likely lead to a recount request. Whoever comes out on top between those two will be in a runoff with incumbent Viola Richardson. The runoff election is June 9.
- Troubled automaker Chrysler filed a plan in bankruptcy court Thursday to eliminate 789 of its dealerships nationwide. One of them is Jersey City’s Walsh Dodge, which is located off of Route 440 by the Hudson Mall.
- Unnamed sources tell Politicker that Jersey City may consider a change to its form of government that would change May non-partisan elections to partisan elections, with a June primary and a November general election.
- A new report from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign calls on the Port Authority to do a better job of enhancing bus service from New Jersey to New York City and accommodating existing and future bus passengers.
- A Jersey City man has been charged with “death by auto” after allegedly running into a man driving a motorcycle on JFK Boulevard yesterday.
- Cops have charged a Union City man in the fatal stabbing of a Jersey City resident outside his Journal Square apartment earlier this month.
- Officials at the Harsimus Cemetery say a tombstone wouldn’t have fallen on a woman this week and broken her leg if funeral attendees hadn’t been sitting on the tombstones.
- The cleanup of PCBs from the Hudson River is finally set to begin today in upstate New York, where General Electric legally discharged more than a million pounds of the chemical for decades.
- Need to dispose of hazardous household materials? Sunday’s the day.
- Mack-Cali’s Harborside Plaza One at Harborside Financial Center recently won an Office Building of the Year award in the renovated building category from the New Jersey Chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association.
In statewide news:
- With fewer than seven weeks until the close of the fiscal year, Gov. Corzine says weaker than expected revenue collections will require $1.2 billion in reductions in the current state budget.
- A new poll finds Republican gubernatorial hopeful Chris Christie leading Gov. Corzine by nine points, (47-38 percent).
- NJ Transit has reached an agreement to operate a new 8.3-mile rail system between Hackensack and Hawthorne.
- The economic meltdown means good deals are available for New Jersey shore rentals.
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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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