- Epps Contract Confusion: With a public hearing on superintendent Charles Epps’ new contract on tap for tomorrow at 6 pm, local school officials say they can’t release the terms publicly until the county superintendent of schools signs off on the new pact. But county Superintendent Timothy Brennan says the public needs to weigh in [...]
- Public Outcry Over Street Violence: More than 300 people attended a rally last night at the Montgomery Gardens housing complex, where a 5-year-old girl was shot last Friday. Meanwhile, the bullet surgically removed on Monday from the victim’s neck is now in the hands of the New Jersey State Police for ballistics testing.
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- Murder Charges Added in Apparent Carjacking Case: Murder charges were filed yesterday against the man and woman already accused of carjacking and kidnapping a Hudson County man who disappeared from an Atlantic City casino and was found stabbed to death in a farm field on Sunday. The man, 47-year-old Martin Caballero, worked as a [...]
- Men Fined for Dumping Waste: Four Jersey City men have been charged with illegally dumping 18 barrels of suspected industrial ink and solvents in a city lot last week, but the business that asked them to do it has not yet been charged — or named — by state investigators.
- Immigration Protest at Jail: [...]
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit will hear testimony Wednesday on Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program as local Congressmen renew a call for federal legislation that would allow container ports to implement stronger environmental standards on trucks.
Environmental and labor advocates say the L.A. program could serve as a national model [...]
- Police & Fire Contracts Voted Down: The City Council voted against ratifying contracts for both police and fire unions last night in a testy meeting. In other council action, a resolution asking the state to draft a law establishing fees on college students for use of city services was also voted down. Look for [...]
NJ Transit violated federal law by retaliating against an employee who reported a work-related illness, according to an investigation by by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The transit agency in 2008 cut the employee’s pay and eventually suspended him after he’d missed work due to a work-related illness from witnessing [...]
- State Questions Police & Fire Contracts: The state is taking issue with contracts the city recently negotiated with its fire and police unions, calling them “simply too expensive.” The Department of Community Affairs requested information on the contracts last month before the council was set to vote on them; the city agreed to the [...]
- NJ Transit Fare Hikes May be ‘Adjusted’: NJ Transit’s executive director says that the amount of the proposed fare hike will likely be lowered. “At this time, a 25-percent increase is an extraordinary, extraordinary burden, so we’ll take that into consideration,” Jim Weinstein says, adding that the adjustment won’t likely be huge. Still, he [...]
As the state deals with its budget problems by cutting aid to school districts, and the current Board of Education wrestles with the teachers union over a new contract, there are plenty of hot topics in education this year.
These and other issues will likely be discussed at tonight’s first public forum for candidates running [...]
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