At the campaign party for Lou Manzo’s slate, held at Puccini’s on West Side Avenue, the mood was somber for some and hopeful for others. At one point last night, it was looking like At-Large candidates Joseph Cassidy, Betty Outlaw and Lori Serrano might make a runoff for their seats, although it later became clear [...]
All photos: Steve Gold
On Thursday, more than 50 people filled the Our Lady of Czestochowa Meeting Hall in the Paulus Hook section of Jersey City for an At-Large City Council candidates forum sponsored by the Historic Paulus Hook Association (HPHA). It was the third in a series of HPHA candidate forums.
The eight candidates that participated [...]
On Tuesday, 11 of the 13 candidates for three At-Large seats on the City Council headed up to the Heights to take part in a forum presented by the Riverview Neighborhood Association. To go along with our written report on the event, we’ve got video of a number of candidates talking about specific issues, from [...]
Photo by Steve Gold
Candidates for the City Council At-Large seat gathered on Tuesday evening to introduce themselves and field questions from voters at a forum held by the Riverview Neighborhood Association (RNA) in the Heights. About 75 people crowded into the dining room of the Harborview Health Center to hear from the candidates.
Eleven of the [...]
- As the Board of Education prepares to meet tomorrow night to adopt a budget, some board members are calling for givebacks from the teachers union. Board member and former mayor Gerald McCann wants the 3,500 members of the union to go without raises to avoid layoffs. McCann says the district is also considering laying [...]
- Close to 150 people attended last night’s public hearing on the proposed settlement between the city (and the state) and PPG over chromium contamination in and around 900 Garfield Ave. Thirty-three people took the opportunity to speak about the settlement — the majority of them called for more details and a stricter cleanup process. [...]
- At-Large council candidate Joseph Cassidy, who is running on Lou Manzo’s ticket, has filed an objection to Mayor Healy’s candidacy because of Healy’s 2007 conviction for disorderly conduct down at Bradley Beach. The Insider says that City Clerk Robert Byrne turned the request over to the Law Department, which doesn’t seem to think much [...]
- A lawsuit filed by two former officials at the CREATE Charter School accuses Ward C Councilman Steve Lipski — who is the school’s founder and director — of ordering cover-ups of school violence. The suit further alleges that when former principal Najla Solomon and former dean Gloria Bennett did not comply with Lipski’s orders, [...]
- Mayor Healy announced his City Council slate last night. As expected, he replaced Ward B Councilwoman Mary Spinello with Phil Kenny, an employee of the County Freeholders’ office and a friend of District 2 Freeholder Bill O’Dea. In Ward C, businesswoman and community activist Nidia Rivera Lopez, wife of former Councilman Benjamin Lopez, will [...]
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