Share/Save – Epps’ Pay Continues to Be Among Highest in NJ: The number of public school administrators paid $200,000 or more increased nearly eightfold in the last five years, according to new payroll numbers released by the state Department of Education. The data shows that Jersey City Schools Superintendent Charles Epps is the fourth-highest paid [...]
Share/SaveThe House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit will hear testimony Wednesday on Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program as local Congressmen renew a call for federal legislation that would allow container ports to implement stronger environmental standards on trucks. Environmental and labor advocates say the L.A. program could serve as a national [...]
Share/SaveJersey City’s mail participation rate in the 2010 Census as of Monday was 16 percentage points lower than both the state and national average as the once-in-a-decade count prepares to enter its next phase on May 1. Jersey City’s rate of forms mailed back by households that received them was at 56 percent, while the [...]
Share/SaveEnvironment New Jersey, along with its national umbrella organization Environment America, last week released its biannual Congressional Scorecard on major environmental issues, and all three House of Representatives members who represent Jersey City, along with the state’s two senators, received 100 percent scores for their votes over the past two years. Steve Rothman (9th District), [...]
Share/SaveAccording to the National Journal‘s annual tally of select House votes, in 2009, Donald Payne was the most liberal Rep. that represents Jersey City. Parts of Jersey City are covered by three different Congressional districts: Payne represents the 10th, which covers a sliver of the city’s south and west sides. Steve Rothman represents the 9th, [...]
Share/SaveA new bill modeled in part on successful solar energy programs in New Jersey and California was introduced in Congress last week with support from both of the Garden State’s Senators and U.S. Rep. Albio Sires. The bill — which has the somewhat clunky title of the 10 Million Solar Roofs and 10 Million Gallons [...]
Share/SaveOver the weekend, the House of Representatives passed a health care bill containing a public option by a narrow margin. Rep. Albio Sires, who represents much of Jersey City in the 13th Congressional district, was at the “forefront of the fight for a public option,” according to MoveOn.org, so they are organizing a rally to [...]
Share/Save- The job market for Hudson County’s day laborers has dried up as construction has slowed to a near halt. – A man was arrested yesterday for attempting to warn the JCPD about nuclear weapons at NJ and NY ports. Cops say it doesn’t matter if the man, who has been linked to false threats [...]
Share/SaveI sat there, taking in an uncanny amount of math on a rainy Saturday morning. Was this some sort of twisted flashback to my days as a student at Highland Park High School? No, I was at the Democracy For America (DFA) grassroots training at Raritan Valley Community College, along with many other folks learning [...]
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