Tuesday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Blog
- U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo approved continuances for most of the 44 defendants arrested in last month’s corruption probe; the orders effectively extend the time under which federal prosecutors must bring a defendant to trial.
- At the corruption hearing held yesterday by a Republican Assembly committee, Morris County political consultant George Dredden offered up a dumb idea: Require lie-detector tests — which have long been shown to be unreliable and also might violate the state constitution — for all candidates for office and all government officials.
- A 29-year-old Jersey City man already facing murder charges related to the death of Elisha Benjamin in January is now also being accused of trying to intimidate a co-defendant to get him to change his story.
- A 26-year-old Jersey City woman is off to Poland to teach English on a Fulbright Scholarship.
- We were wondering: When the Jersey Journal receives a letter about a story they have yet to cover that explicitly mentions another news outlet in the city (yours truly), how to they handle it? Apparently, they just strip out the words “The Jersey City Independent” and run it as-is.
In statewide news:
- The NJ chapter of the Sierra Club has endorsed independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett.
- Republican candidate Chris Christie, meanwhile, continues to defend his discussions with George W. Bush political strategist Karl Rove while Christie was U.S. Attorney. He is also coming under fire for a $46,000 loan he made to a fellow prosecutor who is now the No. 2 at the U.S. Attorney’s Office; again, Christie says he did nothing wrong there.
- Gov. Corzine has named former deputy attorney general Barry H. Evenchick the state’s new representative on the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.
- A growing number of New Jersey psychiatric patients are spending days and in some cases more than a week in emergency departments without specialized care because there is no room for them at psychiatric hospitals.
- The state’s boat building industry is struggling.
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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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