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About 200 Jersey City residents packed into City Council chambers last night to learn how to apply for an appointment to the city’s boards, agencies and commissions. Local good-government group Civic JC partnered with the statewide Citizens’ Campaign and city officials to provide a two-hour training workshop on the subject.
“This is the people’s [...]

Editor’s note: It’s not every day an editor gets a message from his music writer saying he’s working on a writeup of a City Council caucus meeting. But, alas, these are indeed strange days in Jersey City, and I found myself in just that situation today. So, without further ado, here’s Zac Clark’s take on [...]

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 [...]

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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 that participated [...]

- 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 [...]

Mayoral candidates Dan Levin and Harvey Smith are finishing out the last week of this campaign behind new TV spots.
Levin’s ad features three of his council candidate running mates, and has the same look and feel (modern, digital, clean) of his web-only campaign issue videos. Levin and Ward C candidate Norrice Raymaker, as well as [...]

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 [...]

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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 of the [...]

“We’re at a point in Jersey City where the public is almost completely excluded from the public process of government,” mayoral candidate Dan Levin says, explaining what prompted him to put together a growing roster of reform-minded people to gun for City Hall this year. Levin and One Jersey City at-large candidates Emilio De Lia and Andrew Hubsch all recently spoke with the Independent about the state of the city and their campaign.