Tuesday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Blog
- A representative from New Jersey Policy Perspective came to last night’s council caucus meeting to present the group’s report on Jersey City’s abatement policy. She was met with a full-on rebuttal from the city and indifference from most of the City Council.
- An attorney for Ward C councilwoman Nidia Rivera Lopez is seeking dismissal of the lawsuit challenging her residency on the grounds that Lopez has been a Jersey City resident since “at least” 2000 and that it was filed well past the 30 days statute of limitations for challenging election results. The brief submitted Friday also says that Lopez will pay the thousands of dollars she owes the State of Florida for continuing to claim a homestead exemption on her home there. She says that was an accident, not an intentional thwarting of tax law.
- The pedestrian bridge linking the Newport area and Hoboken will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week after all.
Today’s Best Bets:
- Melissa Surach’s Babyhole moves back to the Lamp Post tonight, while a few blocks away on 2nd Street, David Rynhart and Gabrielle Louise will perform at Lucky 7′s.
In statewide news:
- New Jersey’s unemployment tuition waiver program, which allows unemployed adults to fill otherwise empty seats in college classes and earn credit tuition-free, is helping out more people around the state as the recession drags on.
- A federal appeals appeals court has restored a lawsuit brought by eight states, including New Jersey, that want to hold power companies responsible for some of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions.
- A state Superior Court judge has declined to immediately hear a lawsuit filed by independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett that claims the way New Jersey election law allows the names of the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates to be placed on the ballot is unconstitutional.
- Meanwhile, Gov. Corzine’s re-election campaign has sent out its first mailing, a four-page pamphlet entitled, “Better days are coming,” which declares the governor has “the economic know-how to lead us through to better days.”
- A judge has ended federal monitoring of the New Jersey State Police, more than 10 years after the shooting of three unarmed black men during a highway traffic stop prompted intervention over racial profiling.
- U.S. Rep. Rush Holt predicts that a a public option will likely emerge and be passed as part of President Obama’s health care reform effort.
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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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