The 27th annual National Night Out is coming up next week, and the Jersey City Police Department and the city have scheduled events at two parks “in an effort to fight for safer streets and communities.”
The annual national event encourages neighbors to come together, get acquainted, and have a safe night to foster neighborhood spirit [...]
- Funding Cuts Reduce Adult Ed Opportunities: When the adult education program at the Hudson County Schools of Technology reopens in the fall, students will find themselves competing for spots and paying tuition. State funding was cut by more than three-quarters and the program will accept only one-fifth as many students as it has in [...]
- Support for Epps: Embattled Board of Education superintendent Charles Epps got some support from some community members at last night’s board meeting.
- Alleged Ticket Fixer Pleads Guilty: Former municipal court employee Virginia Pagan, who was accused of dismissing more than 200 of her own parking tickets, pleaded guilty in a Bergen County court yesterday. [...]
- ‘I am So Scared Right Now’: “I stand before you facing the most terrifying moment of my life,” former deputy mayor and Healy campaign treasurer said before a federal judge sentenced her to three years in prison yesterday. The Ledger has more. “It is a sad image: a 75-year-old woman expressing terror and begging [...]
- Judge Dismisses Extortion Charges Against Manzos: A federal judge yesterday dropped extortion charges against former Jersey City assemblyman and 2009 mayoral candidate Lou Manzo and his brother and consultant Ron Manzo, who were arrested as part of a federal corruption sting last July. The Manzos still face bribery and mail fraud charges. In his [...]
- Bomb Scare Tied to Landlord: After a gas leak at a Heights apartment building evacuated residents and led to discovery of a homemade bomb yesterday, officials have arrested the building’s owner and alleged he planted the bomb in an attempt to frame a tenant he was battling in court.
- Christie Calls for Garbage (Truck) [...]
- Budget Narrowly Approved, Property Taxes to Rise: The City Council last night approved the current fiscal year’s budget by a 5 to 3 vote; the result will be a tax increase of $572 a year for the owner of a property assessed at $100,000. Ward B councilman David Donnelly, Ward E councilman Steven Fulop [...]
- Two high-paid city employees who recently received large pension payouts upon retirement have now been rehired as contract employees for city agencies. Assistant Business Administrator Roger Grego and Chief of Administrative Services Kathy Dealy both retired Feb. 1 to get out before the pension reform bills moving through Trenton cap the amount an individual [...]
- Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, in a letter to the Journal, says that the furloughs of city workers put in motion last week by the administration aren’t the best step to begin facing the budget problem. He suggests a number of other cost-cutting measures — like eliminating outside consultants and car perks for city [...]
Although locals overwhelmingly voted for Jon Corzine to remain New Jersey’s governor, the incumbent didn’t fare so well in the rest of the state, and Republican challenger Chris Christie will take over as the state’s executive next year. So what can Jersey City expect from the first Republican to be elected the Garden State’s governor in 12 years? A plan Christie unveiled on the campaign trail back in July offers some hints.
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