Council Update: At last night’s City Council meeting, a revised food truck regulations bill was introduced, though not without some objection from brick-and-mortar restaurant owners; a 20-year tax break to entice Goya Foods to move its base to County Road in Jersey City got initial approval; and several council members voiced their objections to the [...]
The 17 candidates for two At-Large City Council seats will have a few opportunities to discuss their ideas in front of the public over the next few weeks, as two candidate forums are scheduled and a virtual forum is currently chugging along on Facebook. First up is next Thursday’s candidate forum in the Heights. The [...]
As we know from past experience, there’s nothing the folks over at Men’s Health love more than a good list. This month, the magazine has a new one out that measures the most socially networked cities in America, and Jersey City comes in at number 43 on the list, sandwiched between Des Moines and Indianapolis. [...]
My girlfriend and I have lived together for almost two years and I’m not thrilled with the fact that she’s friends with just about every one of her ex-boyfriends on Facebook. I don’t feel the need to befriend my exes — so how do I get her to stop going down memory lane? Facebook brings [...]
Two animal-welfare nonprofits and three individuals are asking a court to remove Liberty Humane Society’s entire Board of Directors and appoint a receiver to look over the troubled shelter’s finances. The lawsuit is the latest development in the bitter fight over the shelter’s euthanasia policy and whether it should pursue a stringent no-kill policy.
From left to right: Mayor Healy, press secretary Jennifer Morrill and Rutgers University Center for Government Services director Alan Zalkind. Jersey City has received the “Best Overall” award in this year’s Rutgers University Center for Government Services’ Municipal Public Information Contest. The award, which was presented to Mayor Healy and press secretary Jennifer Morrill on [...]
How did Jersey City’s mayoral and City Council candidates use emerging web campaign technologies to bolster their bids for office this spring? With the hangover from the elections receding into the background and the runoff passed, we take a look at how well the campaigns integrated new technologies into their own strategies, and what impact that had on the outcome.
- The Boeing 747 and F-16 jets that buzzed over Jersey City yesterday morning were no cause for alarm. Unfortunately, no one knew that in advance, since the federal government forced local agencies to keep the information a secret. “This was not well-thought out, and it was compounded by not advising the area, considering 9/11 [...]
Early in February, while checking the streams of Facebook status updates of my acquaintances, I came across an interesting tidbit: Someone had joined the group “Save the Jersey Journal.” Since then, the group has grown quickly as the fate of the 142-year-old newspaper remains uncertain.
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