The African-American Leadership Council hosts the first candidate forum this week for the 19 candidates running for two At-Large City Council seats in this November’s special election. The forum is open to the public and will be moderated by longtime newspaper columnist Earl Morgan. Questions for the event were prepared by the membership of the [...]
- The City Council met last night, and as we reported yesterday, they tabled the ordinance creating the Animal Control Commission and will likely revisit it in two weeks. The council also approved a memorandum of understanding between the city and the Friends of the Loew’s, solidifying the lease for the Loew’s Jersey Theatre. In [...]
Yesterday Jersey Journal publisher Kendrick Ross announced that Jersey City’s only daily paper and its affiliated community weeklies had met first quarter revenue projections and will continue publishing for now, avoiding an April 13 closure that was threatened earlier this year. But the paper will be forced to press on with a smaller staff. “The [...]
On an episode of The Weekly Show that aired on the leased-access Channel 190 back in the first week of March, Jersey Journal columnist Earl Morgan and “Political Insider” Agustin Torres sat down with Pat O’Melia to talk about the possible closure of their newspaper. Much of the show was less than enlightening, but there [...]
Continuing columnist Earl Morgan’s cynicism from yesterday about the most recent City Council meeting, the Journal today editorializes that “there is a very small window of opportunity to get the city administration to act on your cause,” whatever it may be, since “the May 12 municipal election is fast approaching.” Zing! Forgive us for not [...]
Photo: Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo, U.S. Air Force This week in Washington, when Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States, it signified to many leaders in Jersey City that change was on the way in America. “It’s a turning point for the United States,” state Sen. Sandra Cunningham says. “It [the [...]
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