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Needing a crucial sixth vote at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to override Mayor Healy’s veto, Ward E councilman Steve Fulop mustered only three in support of his ordinance requiring city seals on most city-owned vehicles. Still, some city-owned vehicles displaying the identifying seal will likely be spotted on the streets of Jersey City in [...]

- City Looks to Hire Outside Legal Help for Excessive-Force Suit: Jersey City hopes to hire an outside attorney to fight an excessive-force suit brought by the family of a 58-year-old city woman who was shot and killed by cops in 2009 after she allegedly slashed two officers with a knife. – Guilty Plea in [...]

Jersey City’s top attorney says the City Council doesn’t have the legal authority to pass a bill that would place decals on all city-owned vehicles used by city directors and council members. In a letter sent to the City Council Friday, Jersey City corporation counsel Bill Matsikoudis says “the authority to decide how city property [...]

As Jersey City continues to revise the McGinley Square East Redevelopment Plan, activists across the city continue to blast the administration for even considering the use of eminent domain for the project. While the latest revision — which was pulled at the August 10 City Council meeting — expressly stated that “no property located within [...]

LatinoJustice PRLDEF (formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund) named Cartagena as its new president and general counsel this spring. With the appointment, he now leads one of the premier organizations in the U.S. defending the civil and human rights of Latinos living and working nationwide.

UPDATE: This resolution passed on Wednesday night. “The smell” in Ward F is still strong and with the warming weather, some members of the City Council suspect it will only get stronger. With that as a backdrop, Jersey City is set to award a contract this week to the environmental engineering firm Camp, Dresser & [...]

The City Council on Wednesday easily approved the transfer of two tax abatements for Exchange Place-area office buildings, despite calls by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop for the city to fight the deal in court.

UPDATE, January 14 at 12:00 PM: The settlement was approved this week by the City Council. Jersey City is hoping to approve a settlement agreement related to the 2006 shooting of Hillside resident Altorie Wheeler by an undercover Jersey City police officer, with the City Council set to vote on a resolution giving the thumbs-up [...]

Every county in New Jersey has set aside a room just like this one; a court guided by the idea that it is more cost-effective, efficient, and humane to treat drug users for their addiction than it is to incarcerate them.

While the final vote on the controversial proposal to merge the Jersey City Incinerator Authority (JCIA) and the Department of Public Works (DPW) is currently on hold, questions persist about whether one council member should be voting on the issue at all.