- $ for Affordable Housing: A grant from New Jersey Department of Community Affairs will provide Jersey City with $1.7 million to create affordable housing units intended to stabilize neighborhoods hard hit by home foreclosures. – JC Firm Lays Off 6% Off Staff: Jersey City-based Knight Capital Group has eliminated about 6 percent of its [...]
- Outsourcing the Free STD Clinic: Officials with Horizon Health Center, which is set to take over Jersey City’s free STD clinic, told anxious City Council members yesterday they plan to offer “comprehensive” health care at the clinic. As we’ve reported, there are serious concerns that Horizon doesn’t offer the same level of care that [...]
- County Budget: By a vote of 7-1, county freeholders have adopted a $472.4 million budget that covers from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2011. The spending plan includes a $279.6 million tax levy, a 3.8 percent hike over the $269.3 million tax levy for the budget year that ended Dec. 31, 2010. Jersey City’s [...]
The Healy administration’s plan to close Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic and outsource all of its functions to the private nonprofit Horizon Health Center has been held up once again, as new questions have arisen about how many entities can apply for a state grant to fund part of the services. The latest snag in the plan also comes as several clinic workers have filed formal appeals of their layoffs with the state Civil Service Commission.
Rev. Jesse Jackson will kick off the second day of his New Jersey Solidarity Tour in Jersey City Wednesday, with a stop outside Citigroup’s Newport office building. Jackson will be joined in Jersey City by the New Jersey Working Families Alliance as they protest the $12.3 million in state subsidies for Citi that have come [...]
- Christie & Hudson County: Gov. Christie continues to stir the pot in the Democratic stronghold of Hudson County, drawing city mayors into his fold and undermining the powerful Hudson County Democratic Organization. – Murder Suspect Turns Himself In: The 20-year-old man who was charged in the carjacking death of a 23-year-old Jersey City man [...]
- Quiet Retirement Payouts to Top City Employees Who Weren’t Retiring: Two years ago, Jersey City quietly permitted four top officials to accept payments of up to half their accrued sick leave to “help retain senior administrative officials who had not seen a salary increase for some time.” – Homicide: A 69-year-old Jersey City man [...]
The Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), the labor union representing United Water workers in New Jersey and three other states, has launched www.unitedwaterindictment.net, a new website dedicated to detailing the criminal indictment recently issued by a U.S. federal grand jury against United Water Services. “This website is designed as a source of independent news [...]
- Transportation Spending: Gov. Christie has proposed spending $3.5 billion in highway and mass transit improvements in fiscal year 2011-12, an allocation that would represent the first year of a five-year Transportation Capital Plan. As planned, money from the scrapped ARC tunnel will help pay for a improvements to the Pulaski Skyway and the Route [...]
- Off-Duty Cop Car Crash Goes to Grand Jury: A grand jury will decide if criminal charges are warranted in the case of the off-duty Jersey City police officer involved in a seven-vehicle crash in Bayonne that claimed the life of an 82-year-old woman – County Prep Graduation: Students at County Prep High School in [...]
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