- No Teacher Contract: The school board failed last night to ratify a teachers union contract that had been negotiated over a 15-month period and agreed to by the administration. Meawhile, the New Jersey School Boards Association is pushing to skip the customary public votes on local school budgets this year, as one way of [...]
- School Aid Down $23 Million: The Jersey City school district will lose $23 million, or 4.9 percent, of state school aid, according to figures released by the state Department of Education yesterday. The district will still receive nearly $449 million in state aid. “It could have been worse,” Board of Education member Gerald McCann [...]
- As we noted yesterday, the big news was the seventh guilty plea in the federal corruption probe. Housing activist and former Ward F City Council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington pleaded guilty to accepting $15,000 in bribes from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. As a result, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency is [...]
LaVern Webb-Washington, a housing activist who often made her presence felt at City Council meetings, pleaded guilty today in federal court to taking $15,000 from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. Webb-Washington ran unsuccessfully for the Ward F council seat this spring. ELEC reports show the cash she obtained from the “developer” [...]
- A new study by the Garden State Alliance for a New Economy (GANE) finds that most working people in Jersey City are either very poor or very well-off, with most of the wealth concentrated in a relatively small percentage of folks at the top. We’ll bring you more on the report’s findings later this [...]
Editor’s note: There are many moments in the unsealed federal criminal complaints against Jersey City politicians and officials that are stunning, many that are — quite frankly — hilarious and many that illustrate the personalities of the officials involved. With that in mind, we’d like to spotlight one quote or passage each day in a [...]
Here’s the full list of people charged in the public corruption portion of the federal investigation that culminated in the arrest of many political heavies today. Those charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right and/or attempted extortion under color of official right could, if convicted, face a maximum statutory penalty of [...]
FBI and IRS agents are reportedly making roundups all across the state in what is being described as one of the biggest investigations of its kind in New Jersey’s scandal-plagued history. According to news reports from NBC and the Bergen Record, City Council president Mariano Vega and deputy mayor Leona Baldini are among those arrested, [...]
- In the course of outlining his agenda for his next term (see next item), Mayor Healy told the Journal he’d like to make legal the thousands of illegal apartments in the city to increase the tax base. But city planning director Bob Cotter says the move might put huge strains on his department — [...]
- A 27-year-old man was shot in the back on Monday night in Greenville at later died at the Jersey City Medical Center.
- Two Jersey City cops were arrested in separate incidents at the Jersey shore over Memorial Day weekend. Brian McGovern was charged with simple assault, while Kevin Cieslak was charged with a DWI [...]
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