- City Car Policy Questioned: Mayor Healy is looking to reduce the city’s municipal auto fleet by 20 percent to help cut costs; Ward E councilman Steven Fulop takes it a step further and says all take-home city vehicles need to be axed.
- Budget Hearing Tonight: Remember, the public hearing on Jersey City’s Fiscal [...]
- The defense rested its case Friday in the federal corruption trial of suspended deputy mayor Leona Beldini, as the judge warned Beldini’s attorney not to argue in his closing argument on Monday for jury nullification. The jury is expected to get the case today. MORE: Here are two reports from the Journal; Bob Braun [...]
- As the federal corruption trial of Leona Beldini continued yesterday, her defense team got religion on FBI informant Solomon Dwek, who fingered former state Department of Community Affairs commissioner Joe Doria as someone he planned on giving a cash bribe to. Bob Braun has more on Dwek, and the Journal has more on who [...]
Do you live within 400 feet of one of PPG’s chromium-contaminated sites in Jersey City? (Not sure? Check the sites here.) Are you worries about chromium contamination in your home?
If so, you should head to Thursday’s workshop being put together by the city, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and PPG (known collectively [...]
- As we reported last night, the city council introduced a draft budget at yesterday evening’s meeting, to the tune of a bit more than $500 million. The budget was a last-minute addition to the agenda, as the council was pressed to include $14 million in special municipal aid from the state Local Finance Board [...]
Officials have confirmed a meeting next Thursday, Dec. 17, to discuss potential health studies in the chromium-polluted areas being cleaned up under a settlement between the city, the state and PPG Industries.
Site administrator Mike McCabe says he is currently reviewing chromium-related health studies and consulting with experts to determine whether or not to [...]
Residents will get a chance tonight to come out and hear what court-appointed site administrator Mike McCabe has planned for the cleanup of a handful of chromium-contaminated sites in Jersey City — most notably the large property at 880-900 Garfield Avenue, where PPG Industries processed chromite ore until 1963.
The meeting is the first of [...]
The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that it is providing Jersey City with $231,402 in grants to help boost our local recycling efforts as part of $14.5 million it is doling out to municipalities across the state.
Despite the statewide grant amount being nearly double last year’s figure, Jersey City will receive [...]
In early August, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request to find out more information about the process the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been guided by in choosing representatives for its new Science Advisory Board.
The DEP denied PEER’s request, claiming that almost all the requested [...]
- Jersey City health department official Joseph Castagna has put in a request to retire. He was among those arrested in July’s federal corruption probe, and he is also under investigation by city police for potentially issuing more food vendor licenses than the city allows. If his request is approved, his pension would be more [...]
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