- The former owner of David’s Sporting Goods, a now-closed gun shop in Downtown Jersey City, has been sentenced to two years probation and 100 hours of community service for a 2007 incident in which he fired shots into the air outside his store.
- The Insider calls Tuesday’s Ward A runoff “the best of the [...]
At-Large candidate Emilio DeLia and mayoral candidate Dan Levin check a cell phone for the latest election results
The One Jersey City team gathered at the Golden Cicada last night to celebrate both the end of a campaign and what they say is the beginning of a citywide movement. After the polls closed the candidates and [...]
Shouts, hugs and handshakes filled Casino in the Park Tuesday night as supporters of Mayor Jerramiah Healy relished their candidate’s victory. With 30,657 votes cast, Healy won — and avoided a runoff — with 52.9 percent of the vote. Absentee and provisional ballots have yet to be tallied.
- The Journal rolled out its endorsements in Jersey City’s municipal elections today. While the candidate the daily endorsed for mayor is no surprise, some of its council picks did catch us off guard. The Journal is endorsing: Lou Manzo for mayor, Andre Richardson in Ward A, Phil Kenny in Ward B, Jimmy King in [...]
- The New Jersey Uniform Crime Report for the first six months of 2008 shows a 5 percent decrease in violent crimes but a 3 percent rise in overall crime in Hudson County over the first six months of 2007.
- Mayoral candidate Lou Manzo is profiled in today’s Journal. He says he’s running for mayor [...]
- The woman who gave birth to a stillborn boy whose body was discarded with the trash at Christ Hospital last December has filed a lawsuit against the hospital and several of its employees. The suit alleges the delivery room doctor “deviated from the standard practices of medicine” and that the hospital fraudulently concealed evidence [...]
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 [...]
- The Jersey City school district will receive $23.3 million in federal stimulus money, and several charters in the city are also receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- The future of the proposed 9/11 memorial at Liberty State Park remains uncertain due to a pending legal dispute, a larger-than-expected price tag and a daunting fund-raising [...]
With last week’s filing deadline for petitions now passed, Andre Richardson formally kicked off his campaign to unseat Ward A Councilman Michael Sottolano this afternoon, saying he intends “to bring real leadership, new ideas and new hope” to the Greenville ward.
“I’ve spent the last two years meeting and talking with friends and neighbors throughout the [...]
Photo: Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force
This week in Washington, when Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States, it signified to many leaders in Jersey City that change was on the way in America.
“It’s a turning point for the United States,” state Sen. Sandra Cunningham says. “It [the inauguration] happening [...]
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