Businesses and homeowners around Downtown Jersey City taped up windows, lined up sandbags and closed up shop this afternoon as the worst impacts of Hurricane Irene loomed just hours away.
Despite the threat of thunderstorms, the rain held off all day and hundreds of people flocked to the newly renovated and reopened Hamilton Park in Downtown Jersey City on Saturday for the annual Hamilton Park Festival. Festival-goers were greeted by representatives from many local nonprofit and community groups, live music from a number of bands and plenty of area residents trying to find new homes for their unwanted stuff.
Residency restrictions for sex offenders like the one recently enacted in Jersey City may mean well, but are they really ‘protecting the most vulnerable’? Using only one of the criteria that now dictates where sex offenders are allowed to live in Jersey City (proximity to a school), we created this rough map that shows an [...]
Prisoners, parolees and probationers cannot vote in New Jersey — but for one former prisoner who was wrongfully convicted and can, it’s the last thing on his mind. Nothing ties Larry Peterson to the rape and murder of Jacqueline Harrison but the stubborn say-so of the Burlington County prosecutor’s office. Their obstinance makes sense when [...]
The New Jersey Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage was good. It could have been better but it’s good. Hopefully the legislature will not simply create civil unions for gay couples, like in Vermont, but create one category for all New Jerseyans: either marriage for all or civil unions for all. That’s the only way [...]
A 14-year-old documentary being screened this weekend hits home for residents being displaced by luxury development. Cliches are a writer’s worst enemy but sometimes they’re apt: The more things change the more they stay the same. This weekend, as part of the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour, BrightMoment Meetup, the community group founded by Jersey [...]
By now we should all know the death penalty doesn’t work. It’s not a deterrent, it’s obscenely costly and the 25 cases of people wrongfully convicted in New Jersey should be enough to ban the barbaric punishment forever. But all the statistics in the world often can’t shake the myth that the death penalty is [...]
Public higher education has been the cut de jour for New Jersey’s governors — Republicans and Democrats alike. But rather than outcry, they receive accolades. Corzine has emerged as a modern-day Marlboro man for his take-no-shit approach to the budget battle. After McGreevey slashed higher education’s budget in 2002 by five percent, he was invited [...]
Layoffs, monopoly power, and a recipe for price gouging: What’s not to love about the PSE&G/Exelon merger? Corporate PR materials from Exelon claim they are “creating the utility company of tomorrow.” It’s got a nice ring to it — after all, who could possibly be against tomorrow? But after spending a couple weeks trying to [...]
New Homeland Security searches at PATH train station raise questions about life in modern America Like a twisted elementary school class of show-and-tell, yesterday the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demonstrated its latest effort to search commuters and, they say, thwart an attack on New Jersey and New York City’s transit lines. From July 13 [...]
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