- The deficit in the city’s budget is already a cause for concern among city employees and elected officials, with several sources telling the Reporter that they fear measures like job cuts and the ending of city services and programs. (The story seems to have been filed before yesterday’s news of mandatory furloughs was revealed, [...]
All photos: Steve Gold On Thursday, more than 50 people filled the Our Lady of Czestochowa Meeting Hall in the Paulus Hook section of Jersey City for an At-Large City Council candidates forum sponsored by the Historic Paulus Hook Association (HPHA). It was the third in a series of HPHA candidate forums. The eight candidates [...]
We’d been combing through state Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) reports all week when we noticed this morning that Politicker’s Matt Friedman beat us to the punch on the fundraising race. Friedman focused on the mayoral campaigns, though, so we thought we’d cite his story and add some other interesting nuggets from the latest filings. [...]
On Tuesday, 11 of the 13 candidates for three At-Large seats on the City Council headed up to the Heights to take part in a forum presented by the Riverview Neighborhood Association. To go along with our written report on the event, we’ve got video of a number of candidates talking about specific issues, from [...]
Photo by Steve Gold Candidates for the City Council At-Large seat gathered on Tuesday evening to introduce themselves and field questions from voters at a forum held by the Riverview Neighborhood Association (RNA) in the Heights. About 75 people crowded into the dining room of the Harborview Health Center to hear from the candidates. Eleven [...]
Photo by Steve Gold At two recent forums sponsored by community groups, some of the candidates in this month’s school board elections shared their views on policy and their philosophies on how to run the district. On April 2, the Historic Paulus Hook Association (HPHA) hosted a forum that was attended by eight of the [...]
- Since it couldn’t pass a 2009-2010 budget, the Board of Education is now being told by Hudson County’s superintendent of schools to adopt the budget introduced in March. Both the March budget and the revised budget up for adoption last week call for $629.8 million in spending with a $93 million tax levy to [...]
- Abdul Malik says he will run for an At-Large Council seat, and will field a slate of at least four to run as “Voice for a Better Jersey City.” Malik, the founder and executive director of the Association of Pakistani-Americans for Community Organization, calls the pols running the city “foolish and stupid.” Malik served [...]
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