Superintendent Selection: The Board of Education met last night to select a new superintendent. Look for more from JCI later today. Healy Fundraising for Third Term: Toward a third term, the Healy for Mayor contingent has scheduled a $300 and $150-a-head fundraiser at Puccini’s Restaurant on December 6. Healy’s allies have also formed a political [...]
Healy Condemns Federal Spectra Report: Mayor Healy yesterday blasted a draft impact statement federal regulators issued last month that states the proposed Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline will have little effect on the area’s environment and on residents’ safety. City Crews Cleaning Up After Storm: Five crews of Jersey City workers, aided by a private [...]
Political stargazers had a field day Tuesday night at Ward E councilman Steven Fulop’s mayoral fundraiser in the Zeppelin Hall Restaurant and Biergarten. Showing their faces in the downtown Jersey City beer hall were North Bergen mayor and state Sen. Nicholas Sacco, Hudson County Freeholder Bill O’Dea and Jersey City Board of Education member Marvin [...]
In a profound decision expected to bring major change to Jersey City’s public education landscape, a bitterly divided school board last night agreed to part ways with superintendent Charles Epps on December 31 of this year. It will end his 11-year run leading the school system and roughly 45 years as district employee.
- Fulop, Stack & the HCDO: Sources tell Politicker that the Hudson County Democratic Organization wants to gently offload Mayor Jerramiah Healy in 2013, but worries that state Sen. Brian Stack might be wooing Ward E councilman Fulop, who could possibly get the backing of the organization in his run for mayor in 2013. – [...]
Jersey City councilman Steven Fulop’s decision to back the slate of candidates that ended up sweeping April’s Board of Education (BOE) election was, at least in part, done in preparation for his 2013 mayoral bid. The strategy goes beyond getting in good with parents or building a citywide political profile, though. It could be the digital foundation for his mayoral campaign’s volunteer organizing and fundraising army.
- Gun Buyback Program: Jersey City initiated its first weapons-buyback program since 2005 Sunday, with city ministers reaching out to their congregations on Father’s Day for donations to help fund the program. – JCDO: The Insider delves into the Jersey City Democratic Organization “takeover” and discusses what it may mean for the 2013 mayoral election. [...]
As part of this Tuesday’s primary elections, there were 366 Democratic committee seats all over Jersey City up for grabs. The most local of local political seats, committee members — who represent each party in either the Jersey City Democratic or Republican Committee — are seen as the first political contact for a specific neighborhood [...]
As Jersey City continues to search for ways to tackle its ongoing budget crisis, two City Council members have unveiled a new plan for consolidating several city agencies into parallel county ones. But the administration says that the proposal won’t work, and maintains that it is already streamlining city government in situations where it makes more sense.
- School Board Elections: Mayor Healy tells Politicker that observers shouldn’t read so much into this year’s school board elections regarding his possible 2013 mayoral race showdown with Ward E councilman Steven Fulop. The Insider has more on the school board elections, the 2013 race and — more immediately — this fall’s special election for [...]
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