For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Rob Piersanti’s first Pop Art Show of the year takes place at Boca Grande, complete with a complimentary wine tasting and live jazz band (6 [...]
Walter Dean Myers has called Jersey City home since the late ’70s. The celebrated author of books for children and teens — and as of yesterday, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature — moved here for the same reasons many still do: proximity to New York and cheaper housing.
Forbes magazine has released its annual list of the 400 richest people in America, and of the five New Jersey men on the list, one has ties to Jersey City. Donald Newhouse, who oversees the newspaper portion of Jersey Journal parent company Advance Publications, lands at number 55 on the list, with a reported net [...]
- JC Stays #2: New 2010 Census data shows that Newark remained New Jersey’s largest city, with 277,140 residents, a gain of roughly 3,600 people since 2000. Jersey City grew at a faster pace since 2000 and grew to 247,697, up from 240,055 in 2000, but remains the Garden State’s second-largest city for now. But [...]
The Jersey Journal‘s unionized editorial staff members will protest today for a second straight day in front of the paper’s Journal Square offices today as they fight parent company Advance Publication’s plan to cut their benefits and freeze their pay. Workers at the paper have been without a contract since June 2009. As we reported [...]
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 [...]
The latest FAS FAX report released last week by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), covering the six months ending March 31, finds that average paid daily newspaper circulation fell 8.7 percent across the country year-over-year. Here in Jersey City, the Jersey Journal‘s slide was not quite as steep, as its average paid daily circulation [...]
- Budget Narrowly Approved, Property Taxes to Rise: The City Council last night approved the current fiscal year’s budget by a 5 to 3 vote; the result will be a tax increase of $572 a year for the owner of a property assessed at $100,000. Ward B councilman David Donnelly, Ward E councilman Steven Fulop [...]
Jersey Journal editorial page editor (and “Political Insider”) Agustin Torres has made no bones about his distaste for Mayor Jerramiah Healy in recent years. And the feeling seems to be mutual, judging by Healy’s refusal to appear at several candidate forums that involved Torres during last year’s mayoral election. With all that in mind, I [...]
- The City Council is expected to name David Donnelly, a special aide to Mayor Jerramiah Healy, the new Ward B councilman at this week’s meeting. The anointment of Donnelly, who was hand-picked by Healy to fill the seat, troubles Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, who says the appointment should come from “outside of the [...]
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