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Jersey City councilman Steven Fulop’s decision to back the slate of candidates that ended up sweeping April’s Board of Education (BOE) election was, at least in part, done in preparation for his 2013 mayoral bid. The strategy goes beyond getting in good with parents or building a citywide political profile, though. It could be the digital foundation for his mayoral campaign’s volunteer organizing and fundraising army.

The curious backstory of how North Carolina mom Alaina Giordano went from obscurity to international headlines starts right here in Jersey City.

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. [...]


 Like so many others who were born in the ’60s, my parents married young. It’s meant a couple of things over the years — by the time my parents were my age they were divorced and remarried, and I was out of college. Because my parents were so young it also meant that I [...]

Three days after a massive winter storm dropped 26 inches of snow on Jersey City, crews are still working to get the city back to normal, as some residents are growing increasingly frustrated with the pace of the cleanup. Last night, Jersey City Incinerator Authority (JCIA) crews cleared a number of emergency snow routes from [...]

Back in February, as news of Spectra Energy’s proposal to run a natural gas pipeline extension through Jersey City was first becoming known, longtime Downtown Jersey City resident and activist Dale Hardman, along with several other concerned citizens, set up a Google Group website designed to provide information raising concerns about the plan. In the [...]

The online “encyclopedia and reference resource” Juggle.com has named Jersey City’s municipal website as one of New Jersey’s top local government websites, along with six others. Juggle.com evaluated city government websites on a wide range of criteria, including information accessibility, technological innovation, ease of use, and exceptional service to the public. Mayor Jerramiah Healy says [...]

Public notice legal ads have long been a moneymaker for local newspapers, and they’ve helped keep many afloat in recent years as traditional display and classified advertising have dwindled. (One publisher last year told me, grimly, that the housing bubble’s implosion — and the rash of public notice ads for foreclosures that followed in her [...]

- Pay-to-Play Issues Cloud Contract’s Future: The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency could void a multimillion-dollar contract for a City Hall annex because the developer violated the city’s pay-to-play law when it donated $1,500 to Ward E councilman Steven Fulop. Fulop and a company representative both maintain that the donation did not come from the company [...]

As a mom to two children under the age of five, Jersey City parent Esther Tan says she has often been stymied when it comes to figuring out kid-friendly things to do. “I found it really hard to search for kiddie events in the area,” she says. “I would go through a myriad of websites [...]