Tuesday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog
- Homicide detectives say the bullet that killed a man in the Booker T. Washington housing complex over the weekend could have been fired from more than 100 feet away and they are still not sure of the motive for the shooting.
- Dozens of workers from three nursing homes in Jersey City and other Hudson County locales held a rally yesterday in Journal Square across the street from the offices of the nursing homes’ owner. They have been working without a contract for two years.
- The two major party candidates for governor — Gov. Corzine and Republican Chris Christie — both stopped by Jersey City to campaign yesterday.
- A 19-year-old Jersey City man who was shot multiple times in the head near Liberty State Park yesterday is in critical condition; meanwhile police have made an arrest in connection with Saturday’s shooting of a 17-year-old Jersey City boy.
- PC Tech Learning Center reopened yesterday after being closed for a week for nonpayment of rent.
In statewide news:
- New Jersey has joined four other states — Connecticut, Delaware, Arizona and California — in urging federal legislators to let them retain the right to impose tougher car and truck emission standards than federal limits. They are specifically opposing a provision in the American Clean Energy and Security Act that would bar states from developing their own standards from 2012 through 2017. The bill was passed by the House and awaits action in the Senate.
- Two new polls on the governor’s race were released this morning: A Quinnipiac University poll finds Corzine trailing Christie by 10 points, while a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll has Christie’s lead at 5 points.
- Meanwhile, state election law enforcement commissioners have postponed a decision on shifting a televised gubernatorial debate from Oct. 1 to Oct. 22 at Corzine’s request.
- Corzine’s office has named a new communications director. Steve Sigmund, chief of public and governmental affairs at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has taken over on an interim basis from Deborah Howlett.
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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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