- As we noted yesterday, the big news was the seventh guilty plea in the federal corruption probe. Housing activist and former Ward F City Council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington pleaded guilty to accepting $15,000 in bribes from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. As a result, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency is [...]
- A new study by the Garden State Alliance for a New Economy (GANE) finds that most working people in Jersey City are either very poor or very well-off, with most of the wealth concentrated in a relatively small percentage of folks at the top. We’ll bring you more on the report’s findings later this [...]
- Public Service Enterprise Group’s Hudson generating station on the Hackensack River is being outfitted with filters that promise to dramatically cut down on the barrage of toxic substances that leave its 500-foot smokestack every day. However, the $700 million project will not prevent the release of the biggest contributor to global warming: carbon.
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- Robert Antonicello of the Jersey City Redevelopment Authority and several local residents say that politicians being approached by federal informant Solomon Dwek about a purported development on Garfield Avenue should have smelled BS from the beginning. They say a project of that density, and with units going for as much as Dwek claimed, could [...]
This year marks the second installment of the Jersey City Green Awards; nominations for developers, businesses and individuals are due this Friday, July 17. The awards, put on by the city and the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency(JCRA), recognize noteworthy environmental efforts in the areas of new development, business practices and residential homeowners’ initiatives.
“After last [...]
As various factions have battled over who should pay to relocate the electrical transformers inside Jersey City’s Powerhouse, the health of the historic structure has become ever more precarious. With this in mind, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) and the Port Authority today are kicking off a stabilization project for the 100-plus-year-old structure. This [...]
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) a total of $600,000 in grant money to clean up three contaminated sites, as part of an estimated $4.2 million the EPA is giving to five communities across the state.
“Cleaning and reusing contaminated properties provides the catalyst to improving the lives [...]
- Mayor Healy reportedly spent nearly $180 for each vote he received, while on the other end of the spectrum, Dan Levin reportedly spent about $6 per vote. Explaining the popularity of donating to incumbents, the chair of Common Cause New Jersey says it’s “kind of like rooting for the Yankees.”
- Meanwhile, a ward-by-ward breakdown [...]
- Today is election day for three seats on the Jersey City Board of Education. Polls are open from 2-9 pm. To find your polling place, click here. To see the JCI questionnaires of eight of the 12 candidates, click here, here and here.
- The two animal control oversight ordinances introduced by Ward E Councilman [...]
Downtown Jersey City got a splash of color on Tuesday when artists Jason Maloney, Bigfoot and Ron English kicked off work on a new mural at Hudson County Art Supply. This project, the first in a proposed series of murals to be painted by well-known local and national artists throughout the city, is part of [...]
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