Tax Break for Goya: Jersey City is hoping to offer Goya Foods a 20-year tax break in what city officials say is an enticement for the Spanish food giant to move its headquarters from nearby Secaucus. The company has already been awarded an $80 million tax break from the state to relocate to Jersey City. [...]
This Saturday a handful of local organizations will lead a “March for Immigrant Rights” in Jersey City, beginning at McGinley Square at noon. The event is intended to show a unified opposition to controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) programs like 287(g), which grants state and local law enforcement agencies federal immigration enforcement authority, and [...]
LatinoJustice PRLDEF (formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund) named Cartagena as its new president and general counsel this spring. With the appointment, he now leads one of the premier organizations in the U.S. defending the civil and human rights of Latinos living and working nationwide.
- School Funding: The cost for the state to comply with the Supreme Court’s latest Abbott v. Burke ruling may have just come down $50 million or so, as the Office of Legislative Services (OLS) sent a letter yesterday to the Senate and Assembly budget committees that revised its original estimate from just shy of [...]
- Off-Duty Cop Car Crash Goes to Grand Jury: A grand jury will decide if criminal charges are warranted in the case of the off-duty Jersey City police officer involved in a seven-vehicle crash in Bayonne that claimed the life of an 82-year-old woman – County Prep Graduation: Students at County Prep High School in [...]
- NJ Transit Bus $: An added $43 million in proposed state aid to enhance NJ Transit bus service could mean more buses where the most riders are and a ‘tweaking” of other bus routes, some of which haven’t been changed since the 1950s, the agency’s chief said Wednesday. – Immigration March: People of faith [...]
- School Board Election: Ten candidates have filed to run for three seats on the Jersey City school board this April. – Tax Breaks to Bring Citibank to JC: The state dangled $12 million in front of Citibank yesterday as an incentive for the financial giant to relocate 400 jobs to Jersey City, but the [...]
- JCPD Demotions: As it continues negotiating with the Jersey City Police Superior Officers Association to avoid demotions scheduled for next week, Jersey City has asked the state for a three-day extension so the talks may continue. – Illegally Housed Immigrants: Authorities raided two Jersey City homes over the past two days and found more [...]
- Vouchers Meeting: Politicker has a report on Monday night’s public meeting on the proposed school vouchers bill, saying the “comic book version” of the meeting “would have yellow and red bursts of educational bombast and racial rhetoric on every other page.” – Road $: The state Department of Transportation has announced that Jersey City [...]
- NJ to Lose House Seat; Will it Be One of Ours? New Jersey will lose one of its 13 seats in the House of Representatives, based on new Census data released yesterday that will shift Congressional power to the South and West. Experts say that one of Hudson County’s three seats may be lost, [...]
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