A new report from the Regional Plan Association (RPA) says that New Jersey lawmakers need to confront head-on the problem with the Transportation Trust Fund, which is expected to be insolvent by mid-2011. At that point, it is projected that 100 percent of the $883 million collected each year in tolls, taxes and other fees [...]
Advocates of the Urban Enterprise Zone program are warning of dire consequences to urban business areas already struggling with the nation’s severe recession if Jersey City loses the $10.6 million that Gov. Christie has frozen.
This afternoon, NJ Transit officials finally confirmed what everyone has known was coming: a proposal for a huge fare hike and widespread service cuts.
The agency’s plan entails raising fares by 25 percent systemwide. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail fare, for example, would rise from $1.90 to $2.40 per trip.
“We recognize that any increase is [...]
Mayor Healy has recently been joined by other local elected officials in opposing a natural gas pipleline extension being proposed by Spectra Energy. The path of the pipeline, which would add about 16 miles of new pipeline to two of Spectra’s existing lines in the region, would bring up to 800 million cubic feet of [...]
Last week the state Democratic Committee launched a new website, NJTaxWatch.com, which it says is aimed at “keeping taxpayers throughout the state informed of the hidden consequences (taxes) of government actions that are supposedly cutting costs.”
The site allows you to pull up your municipality and see how some of Gov. Christie’s proposed cuts will affect [...]
According to the National Journal’s annual tally of select House votes, in 2009, Donald Payne was the most liberal Rep. that represents Jersey City. Parts of Jersey City are covered by three different Congressional districts: Payne represents the 10th, which covers a sliver of the city’s south and west sides. Steve Rothman represents the 9th, [...]
Monday was the deadline for prospective candidates to file their paperwork for the April 20 Board of Education election, which will fill three seats on the nine-seat board for a three-year term. A total of 16 candidates, including all three incumbents whose terms are up — Terry Dehere, Gerry McCann and Angel Valentin — are [...]
Steve Gold takes a lot of great pictures at City Council meetings that often don’t make our Council Report stories because there just isn’t the space. So we will sometimes bring them to you in a slide show of outtakes. Enjoy.
The proposed municipal budget was once again the star of the show at Wednesday’s council meeting, drawing a rowdy crowd of 500 or so to the council chambers — dozens of whom spoke out in protest of what is likely to turn out to be a hefty tax hike. But there was plenty more going on as well.
A consumer-protection bill sponsored by Hudson County Assemblyman Ruben J. Ramos Jr. and several other legislators was passed by a 75 to zero vote today in the Assembly. The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, would make it illegal for companies to send an unsolicited check to an individual which, upon being cashed or [...]
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