Tuesday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog
- Today is election day. Get out there and vote for governor, the ballot question and your state Assembly representative. More info, including links to find your polling place, can be found here.
- About 250 people — including firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians — lined the waterfront at Exchange Place yesterday to welcome USS New York as it stopped to carry out a 21-gun salute. The ship’s voyage up the Hudson was a proud homecoming for Lt. Cmdr. Don Wilson.
- NJCU nursing professor Dr. Gloria Boseman is slated to receive a 2009 Nurse Recognition Award from the New Jersey League for Nursing, an affiliate of the National League for Nursing, at the organization’s fall gala this Friday.
- Jersey City raw food consultant Beatrice Johnston is featured in a fashion spread in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. (Check out a thumbnail on Johnston’s website here.)
- Speaking of national media exposure, the NJCU men’s soccer team was featured on ESPN’s Sportscenter over the weekend during the “Top Plays” portion of the show.
Today’s Best Bets:
- There’s an opening for Ken Bastard’s show of new paintings — “The Machine” — at LITM at 7 pm, and at 9 pm you have, as so often happens on Tuesdays, two choices on 2nd Street. Rainbow Fresh is playing at Lucky 7′s, and Melissa Surach’s BabyHole is at the Lamp Post.
In statewide news:
- The New York Times reports that the state’s suburbs will play a large role in the outcome of today’s gubernatorial election, which, by the way, 5.2 million New Jerseyans are registered to vote for. One last fun bit of campaign news before the circus leaves town, and it involves a circus: Members of the Monty Python Flying Circus are considering suing Chris Christie for using scenes from a copyrighted skit in a TV and web ad without obtaining their permission.
- New Jersey has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its plan to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel.
- U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg says he successfully fought to increase federal funding by nearly $1.5 million for research into the mysterious and deadly illness facing the state’s bat population, White Nose Syndrome. The FY 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill now allocates $1.9 million to such research.
- A Rutgers study finds — not surprisingly — that women who participate in the FORGE (Female Offender Re-entry Group) program in Essex County are less likely to commit another crime than those who don’t participate in the program. The program helps ex-offenders re-integrate into society.
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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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