Share/Save – Port Authority: The Port Authority has approved a budget that will cut 200 jobs next year but that calls for no PATH fare hikes or toll increases. The budget includes $247 million for the continued improvements to PATH, in the form of new trains and signal systems. – Cops Being Investigated for Hiding [...]
Share/SaveSt. Peter’s Prep will wrap up a weeklong summit on immigration Friday with a lecture by Father Sean Carroll of the Arizona-based Kino Border Initiative. Carroll, a Jesuit priest, works with people along the border in southern Arizona and northern Mexico, running a meal program where migrants at the border can receive a warm meal [...]
Share/Save- Smith to Claim Entrapment: In a court filing Friday, an attorney for L. Harvey Smith notified a federal judge he will argue that a government informant’s dealings with Smith warrant an entrapment instruction to the jury in Smith’s upcoming trial. He will be the first to use that tactic at trial. – JCFD: Jersey [...]
Share/Save- JCPD Inspectors Being Eliminated: Jersey City police officers found general layoff notices posted in the precincts yesterday, but city officials said no department-wide layoffs are planned at this time. Instead, it says, the notices relate only to the elimination of the rank of “inspector.” – Youth & Violence: Lucille Porter has attended about a [...]
Share/Save- Liberty Humane: Hoboken officials say they will be keeping a closer watch on the Liberty Humane Society after inhumane conditions were discovered at the shelter; the Mile Square City began paying the shelter $96,000 a year this year for animal control services. The Reporter has more on the fight over Liberty Humane. – ‘Empty [...]
Share/SaveJust before the July 4 holiday, we noted that the notorious disseminator of lists known as Men’s Health magazine had a new one out, purporting to measure patriotism. And, sure enough, Jersey City landed dead last in the list of 100 most patriotic cities, just behind El Paso, Texas. Ledger Live video producer Brian Dohonue [...]
Share/Save- 5-Year-Old Shot: A 5-year-old girl was shot in the neck Friday night at the Montgomery Gardens housing complex in Jersey City. She will undergo surgery today to remove the bullet, which pierced her neck and hit her spine. An 18-year-old Jersey City man has been charged in connection with the shooting. – Murder Conviction [...]
The story told by immigration advocates is one of a flexible jail administration, forced to contend with a situation that is ideal for no one and dispiriting for the people held in its custody.
Share/Save- Struck Pedestrian is ID’ed: A senior citizen who was struck by a SUV and dragged 1,000 feet earlier this week has been identified as 82-year-old Rafael Rivera, and his family is now at his bedside at the Jersey City Medical Center. He remains in critical condition at the hospital, and the driver has been [...]
Share/SaveOver the past few decades, the United States has increasingly relied on detention as an immigration enforcement strategy, and the policy has led to the jailing of tens of thousands of immigrants — 355 of whom are housed in the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny. As part of a nationwide demonstration against the detention [...]
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