Share/Save This Wednesday, the Jersey Journal editors are putting on a mayoral forum at New Jersey City University that is to be videotaped and published on NJ.com, but only four of the five candidates will be there. The campaign of Mayor Jerramiah Healy sent a letter earlier this week to the Journal saying it “welcomes [...]
Share/Save- Some residents at Droyers Point have been cited by city fire inspectors for not having working fire sprinklers. A group of homeowners sued the Municipal Utilities Authority and developer K. Hovnanian earlier this year for that very reason, and they say these citations are retalitory. – The Insider says that the biggest loser in [...]
Share/Save- All five mayoral candidates gathered for their first all-in debate last night in the Heights. They discussed crime, tax abatements and local tax burdens, the flailing school system, open space, mass transit and criminal justice issues. Some interesting policy ideas came out over the course of the two-hour debate, and we’ll shine a light [...]
Share/Save On an episode of The Weekly Show that aired on the leased-access Channel 190 back in the first week of March, Jersey Journal columnist Earl Morgan and “Political Insider” Agustin Torres sat down with Pat O’Melia to talk about the possible closure of their newspaper. Much of the show was less than enlightening, but [...]
Share/Save- Jersey City will get $2.32 million in federal stimulus funds earmarked for energy efficiency projects. – GRACO is holding a 3 pm rally at 900 Garfield Ave. today to call for a more comprehensive cleanup of the chromium-contaminated site. – In an omnibus column, the Insider trots out a legitimate criticism of Mayor Healy’s [...]
Share/SaveAdvance Publications, which is threatening to close the Jersey Journal, is shutting down one daily paper and is instituting furloughs and pension freezes at scores of others. The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July after publishing daily since 1835. In announcing the decision to employees, publisher Laurel Champion said the “business model is [...]
Share/SaveTrust me, we didn’t plan on taking issue with the Journal’s editorial two days in a row — it just happened. If they’ll stop getting it wrong, we’ll stop — promise. As we reported on Monday, the pension payment deferral plan passed both the state Senate and Assembly. Under the bill, Jersey City will be [...]
Share/SaveContinuing columnist Earl Morgan’s cynicism from yesterday about the most recent City Council meeting, the Journal today editorializes that “there is a very small window of opportunity to get the city administration to act on your cause,” whatever it may be, since “the May 12 municipal election is fast approaching.” Zing! Forgive us for not [...]
Share/SaveWe reported last week that the ailing paper’s editorial union had been asked by management to come to a meeting this Tuesday with a list of employees ready to take the paper’s buyout offer. Newspaper Guild Local 42 president Ron Leir told us last week that they already had four staffers lined up, ready to [...]
Share/SaveAs we reported on Friday, Local 42 of the Newspaper Guild was preparing a counteroffer to Jersey Journal owner Advance Communications for a meeting this week as the paper confronts a possible closure on April 13. Let’s just say the meeting could have gone better for the ink-stained wretches of Journal Square. As part of [...]
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