Tuesday Morning News Roundup
By Jon Whiten • Dec 22nd, 2009 • Category: Blog
- Freeholder Bill O’Dea is putting forward a resolution that would sever the contract for health services at the county jail, but the item might get tabled before it has the chance to be voted on. The contract in question was the subject of a lawsuit alleging that the county had violated state pay to play law when awarding it to a company that had given money to one freeholder’s political fund.
- An autopsy shows that a single gunshot to the back of the head took the life of a 19-year-old Jersey City man who had just left a Greenville house party when gunmen opened fire early Saturday morning.
- The Jersey City location of Five Guys Burgers and Fries has officially opened in the Harborside location formally occupied by Fatburger (286 Washington St.).
- An appellate court panel has tossed out a previously unpublicized defamation claim against the Hudson County Democratic Organization, several of its prominent members and political consultant Rick Shaftan that dates back to the Hudson County Democratic civil war of 2007.
- Rising Tide Capital CEO Alfa Demmellash talks to CNN Money about how her company handles health care costs.
- The three-alarm fire that left several families homeless after ripping through four buildings in the Heights this weekend has been deemed accidental and was likely started by electrical wires.
- Sue, a 42-foot-long, 13-foot high replica of the best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found, is coming to the Liberty Science Center on Jan. 16 as part of the exhibit “A T-Rex Named Sue.”
- The lesson in this crime-blotter item? Try not to carry $9,000 in cash at 5:30 in the morning.
In statewide news:
- Gov.-elect Christie says his transition advisers are looking closely at the state’s myriad boards, commissions and authorities with the likelihood of eliminating some and cutting bloated salaries at others.
- Squeezed by continuing losses at the state’s racetracks, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority may need millions in state funding to keep it afloat.
- Beginning on Jan. 1, used vehicles purchased in or out of New Jersey will no longer require a full inspection until they are at least four years old.
- As the outgoing and incoming governors battle over lame-duck nominations, Senate president Dick Codey is using his power to block a political foe’s nomination to the Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey board of directors.
- A new report says New Jersey could save as much as $27 billion in costs to society by keeping children free of lead poisoning.
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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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