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In a basement auditorium decorated with the pictures of top Democrats, including Mayor Jerramiah Healy — whom Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman report was the most-prominent target of the complex and lengthy FBI investigation — the authors explained their own investigation into the case, including the many loose ends that have caused feverish speculation in Jersey City since the FBI made dozens of arrests in July 2009.

The supposed star of the show wasn’t at a neighborhood meeting this week on the proposed natural gas pipeline through Jersey City, but that didn’t stop neighborhood groups, local officials and anti-pipeline activists from coming together to discuss the plan and the latest developments on Wednesday night at the Cordero School in Downtown Jersey City.

UPDATE: These resolutions were introduced at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, and will be up for a public hearing and final vote at the next meeting: Tuesday, November 23. Jersey City’s City Council is set to introduce ten ordinances this week amending the city code to specifically prohibit natural gas pipelines in certain redevelopment zones. “Natural [...]

As the spectre of big natural gas looms over Jersey City in the form of Spectra Energy’s proposed high-pressure pipeline, city officials and about 75 citizens joined the civic group No Gas Pipeline on Saturday for a screening of Josh Fox’s film Gasland at the Loew’s Theater in Journal Square.

Just feet from where Spectra Energy wants to run a natural gas pipeline through the heart of Jersey City, around 300 residents and public officials gathered in Ferris High School’s auditorium last night to tell the Houston-based energy conglomerate and its federal regulator to find another path.