The Jersey City Independent"

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 he [...]

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 [...]

Here in Jersey City, we’re used to being overlooked. The rest of the state often pretends like we don’t belong, while our big shadow across the river either dismisses us entirely as suburban or tries to pull us into its sphere as a “sixth borough.”
When it comes to finding out where to get tipsy, [...]

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.

Teams of surveyors recently scanned government websites in every state to look for 20 different kinds of public records, and NJ ranked second behind Texas in how many of those it provides. The state gives 18 of the 20 categories — the only ones it doesn’t provide are fictitious business name registrations and death certificates. [...]