- UEZ Under Review: State officials are scrutinizing New Jersey’s Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) program amid questions over its effectiveness in jump-starting economic growth. The New Jersey Economic Development Authority will spend $160,000 on two consultants to study “the effectiveness of the program in stimulating job growth and economic development.” The authority expects to get [...]
- Comptroller Calls for Changes to Abatements: A new report released yesterday by state comptroller Matthew Boxer calls for “broad-based changes” to the state’s law governing tax abatements, to “ensure more open and fair investment of taxpayer dollars and better decisions and outcomes in the future.” We’ll have a full report on the details of [...]
It’s the Ides of March — the hour of Caesar’s reckoning. The perfect day to believe there are knives under the togas, to allege plots of political assassination. Some eight months after his arrest in a bribery sting, this is the date that former Assemblyman/political journeyman Lou Manzo has chosen to confront his assailants.
- Chris Christie was sworn in as New Jersey’s 55th governor yesterday. In his inauguration speech, he said “we will have to curb spending in municipal governments where there has been too little control.” With Christie having railed against special municipal aid at every turn of the corner in recent months, it doesn’t take a [...]
- A 29-year-old Jersey City man jumped to his death off the New Jersey Turnpike extension yesterday. – Officials at the Jersey City Medical Center are seeking the public’s help to identify an 89-year-old Asian woman suffering from dementia who walked into the hospital early on Wednesday. – NJCU students, faculty and staff react to [...]
- Furloughs Set to Begin: Jersey City workers (with the exception of the police and fire departments) have received official notice that they will be forced to take 12 days off without pay, as the city grapples with a crushing budget deficit. The first furlough day will be Dec. 24. The Insider says that the [...]
File under shocking: a new Rutgers-Eagleton poll has found that New Jersey residents believe their state government is corrupt. According to the poll, close to two-thirds of the sample say there is “a lot” of political corruption in New Jersey. A similar poll in 2007 found the same results, but that was a jump from [...]
- Ward E councilman Steven Fulop and two North Hudson state Senators say they will work as best they can with incoming governor Chris Christie. Meanwhile, the Insider notes that U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez may have had the most to lose from Christie’s election. – In the ‘what went wrong?’ department, the Star-Ledger expands on [...]
Yesterday’s election of Republican Christie as New Jersey’s next governor has put the state’s battle over same-sex marriage on the front-burner of LGBT activists, as they gear up to get a marriage equality bill passed by year’s end. Christie has said that he favors the state’s current law, which allows civil unions, but that he’d [...]
As of midnight, the numbers coming out of the Hudson County Clerk’s office told a striking story of voter apathy: only 111,769 of the county’s 307,442 registered voters had cast ballots in this year’s election. That’s 36.35 percent, the lowest of any county in the state. While there are still ballots to be counted in [...]
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