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The City Council, citing a lack of transparency and conflicting reports, last night formally voiced their opposition to Christ Hospital’s request for an expedited review of their proposed sale to the California-based Prime Healthcare Services. The for-profit corporation owns 14 hospitals on the west coast, but as JCI has previously reported, it has accrued its [...]

The city’s plans to regulate food truck vending took a step towards law when the first reading of the ordinance passed unanimously at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting, 9-0. Despite voting in favor, however, both City Council President Peter Brennan and Ward D Councilman Bill Gaughan said they would like to see some of the [...]

Council Update: At last night’s City Council meeting, a revised food truck regulations bill was introduced, though not without some objection from brick-and-mortar restaurant owners; a 20-year tax break to entice Goya Foods to move its base to County Road in Jersey City got initial approval; and several council members voiced their objections to the [...]

City Council Reconsiders Tow Pound Bill: Faced with a less than enthusiastic reception from tow-truck operators, Jersey City officials have decided to revise the ordinance that would privatize the city car pound. Beldini Seeks Prison Term Delay: Former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini should have her prison sentence delayed because the federal prison system [...]

Tax Break for Goya: Jersey City is hoping to offer Goya Foods a 20-year tax break in what city officials say is an enticement for the Spanish food giant to move its headquarters from nearby Secaucus. The company has already been awarded an $80 million tax break from the state to relocate to Jersey City. [...]

Five months after the City Council tabled an ordinance expanding city oversight of food truck vendors because it was deemed to be an “unfair burden” on businesses, a revised version of the ordinance will be presented at tonight’s City Council caucus meeting.

Dear Editor: It is a time of change, indeed! Seton Hall and Stevens Institute of Technology recently inaugurated immigrant presidents. Two immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as students decades ago became presidents of two of New Jersey’s largest private universities in separate ceremonies last week. Jersey City Public Schools needs a new superintendent to [...]

Likening her exclusion from Thursday’s At-Large council candidates forum to the “actions of a Communist dictatorship,” Adela Rohena insisted to JCI that she had valid reasons for not responding in time to qualify. “This is outrageous, this is not Cuba,” Rohena fumed in the lobby of PS 28, flanked by two supporters after the event. [...]

Last Thursday’s PS 28 forum among 10 candidates seeking to serve the remaining 18 months of two At-Large City Council seats was conducted in a friendly atmosphere among participants with the fireworks being reserved before its start; police ejected one candidate from the dais for allegedly not responding to an invite by a deadline.

Photos: Steve Gold City Hall’s council chambers were packed last night with supporters of the McGinley Square East Redevelopment Plan, including throngs of construction workers lining the back wall and a handful of representatives from St. Peter’s College, who all greeted the unanimously passed plan with loud applause. The months-long plan went through numerous revisions, [...]