- Not Many Attendees at Spectra Public Meeting: While the proposal to route a natural gas pipeline extension through Jersey City has drawn criticism from a bevy of politicians and some local residents, turnout was light at Tuesday night’s public informational meeting.
- Council Action: An ordinance to make City Council jobs full-time was removed from [...]
The Port Authority and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a plan to replace some of the heaviest truck polluters at area ports and completely phase out older trucks in the coming years.
The $28 million program, partly funded by a $7 million EPA grant, is designed to encourage the owners of up to [...]
- Elections Move Criticized: City clerk Robert Byrne told the City Council this week that moving municipal elections to November could create chaos inside the voting booth and potentially create the need for two separate ballots at the polls. The elections move, allowed by a state law passed early this year, is supported by Ward [...]
- Help for Transit? U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and other elected officials are set to announce this morning plans for a federal recovery act that would help offset the massive cuts that have come recently to NJ Transit, resulting in worker layoffs, fare hikes and service cuts.
- Cuts to UEZ Funds Hurting Cities: More than [...]
- NJ Transit Readies Fare Hikes/Service Cuts: NJ Transit is expected by Friday to unveil proposed fare increases of as much as 30 percent and “across-the-system” service cuts on bus and train lines. Earlier this week, the agency cut hundreds of jobs and froze spending, while acknowledging that fare hikes and service cuts were on [...]
- At Budget Hearing, Council Hears It From Residents: Last night’s public hearing on the city’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget brought a huge crowd to City Hall. The crowd packed council chambers while speaker after speaker got up to protest the proposed budget, which would result in a property tax hike. Douglas Carlucci has a [...]
- The state Division of Pensions and Benefits will reportedly conduct an investigation into the two high-paid city employees who retired, cashed in huge one-time pension payouts, and came back on the city payroll. Meanwhile, the trio of state bills designed to reform the pension system were unanimously approved by the state Senate yesterday; they [...]
- Two high-paid city employees who recently received large pension payouts upon retirement have now been rehired as contract employees for city agencies. Assistant Business Administrator Roger Grego and Chief of Administrative Services Kathy Dealy both retired Feb. 1 to get out before the pension reform bills moving through Trenton cap the amount an individual [...]
- Community groups have delivered a 3,600-name petition to Jersey City’s Omni Health, which operates four area nursing homes, in support of workers at those homes who have been without a contract for almost three years.
- If you’re a careful reader of our calendar listings, you might have noticed that the Loew’s Jersey Theatre [...]
- Former At-Large city council candidate Lori Serrano, who was one of the many Jersey City pols swept up in a July federal corruption bust, pleaded not guilty yesterday. The complaint against Serrano accuses her of conspiring with former Housing Authority commissioner Edward Cheatam and consultant Jack Shaw to accept bribes from federal witness Solomon [...]
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