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After months of speculation, At-Large councilwoman Willie Flood is set to resign her post due to illness, according to several trusted City Hall sources, who tell JCI the councilwoman’s resignation could come as early as next week. UPDATE: Jersey City mayor Jerramiah Healy has confirmed Flood’s resignation and said he is recommending Jersey City attorney Kalimah Ahmad to fill the vacancy.

Dialogue with constituents, revenue generation and difficult cost-cutting were the main themes Wednesday night at Civic JC’s Jersey City Budget Forum, which was held in City Hall to help open the lines of communication between the administration and Jersey City residents.

From double-digit property tax increases to service cuts to proposed police layoffs, most of the big issues facing Jersey City right now revolve around its budget, which has been battered by a drying up of revenues and is now being squeezed on the other end by state-level caps and actions taken by Gov. Chris Christie. [...]

While the final vote on the controversial proposal to merge the Jersey City Incinerator Authority (JCIA) and the Department of Public Works (DPW) is currently on hold, questions persist about whether one council member should be voting on the issue at all.

The Jersey City good-government organization Civic JC has put together a forum next week featuring candidates running for New Jersey’s 9th Congressional District in next month’s elections. The 9th District covers a large part of the Heights neighborhood, some of the Journal Square neighborhood, as well as other parts of Hudson, Bergen and Passaic counties. [...]

Photos: Steve Gold 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

- 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 [...]