Share/Save The Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership St. Peter’s College is hosting a panel discussion Thursday on crucial economic policy decisions facing New Jersey, dubbed Facing Our Future. “New Jersey is in a fiscal crisis. The way government at all levels spends money cannot be sustained,” the teaser for the program reads. “The core [...]
Share/SaveWomenRising and Bergen Communities United (BCU) will celebrate the grand opening of the new BCU Job Bank & Resource Center tomorrow. The job bank is located on the ground floor of a new affordable-condo development at 169 Monticello Avenue, which was touted last year as “the first new construction on Monticello Avenue in decades.” The [...]
Share/Save- Empty Sky Memorial Dedicated: More than 1,000 people flocked to Liberty State Park on Saturday to witness the dedication of the Empty Sky Memorial, the state’s memorial to the 746 New Jersey residents killed in the 9/11 attacks. – More 9/11: The Ledger has a look at how 9/11 brought more financial firms to [...]
Share/SaveAs part of its series The GOOD Guide to Hustlin’, which illustrates how young people are coping with the collapse of the economy, the magazine GOOD has put Jersey City on the short list of the 19 “Best Cities for the Young and Broke.” “Everyone knows the economy is sputtering, but weathering out the recession [...]
Share/SaveJust weeks before a controversial PATH fare and toll hike is set to take effect, Politicker is out with a report this morning that details the millions of dollars each month that the Port Authority is paying out because of a losing financial gamble: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is shelling [...]
Share/Save- PATH Fare & Toll Hikes: Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that they would support a $1.50 toll hike next month on Port Authority bridges and tunnels, followed by smaller annual increases that would push tolls up to $14 by 2015. The plan will still raise the PATH fare [...]
Emotions ran high during last night’s two-hour hearing in the Holland Tunnel Administration Building on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s controversial plan seeking substantial bridge and tunnel toll hikes and a $1 boost in the PATH fare.
Share/SaveOne recent morning my sleepy-eyed husband rolled out of bed at the crack of dawn half-awake, half-asleep to walk our impatient dog. The poor guy was completely unaware that he was in for a rather rude awakening. Our neighbor cheerfully greeted my husband and our pooch at our gate with a copy of a local [...]
Share/SaveWith Friday’s Port Authority board vote on the agency’s package of toll and PATH fare hikes looming, local activists are hitting the streets again Monday evening, with another protest scheduled for this afternoon at the Journal Square PATH station. Tonight’s protest, organized by the same coalition that put together last week’s, is scheduled from 4 [...]
Share/Save- PATH Fare & Toll Hike: Why haven’t most state Democrats come out swinging against the Port Authority’s proposed PATH fare and toll hikes? Politicker says it is due to labor pressure and a little political hedging. – McGinley Square: The Jersey City Planning Board has approved a recommendation that the City Council adopt the [...]
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