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Two animal-welfare nonprofits and three individuals are asking a court to remove Liberty Humane Society’s entire Board of Directors and appoint a receiver to look over the troubled shelter’s finances. The lawsuit is the latest development in the bitter fight over the shelter’s euthanasia policy and whether it should pursue a stringent no-kill policy.

Share/Save Jersey City and two nonprofit groups have filed an appeal of U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina’s September decision which said they don’t have legal standing in their joint effort to negate Conrail’s sale of the 6th Street Embankment to developer Steve Hyman. The city, the Embankment Preservation Coalition and the Rails to Trails Conservancy [...]

Share/Save- Bonding for Retiree Payouts: Jersey City wants to borrow $22 million to cover payouts for unused sick, vacation and compensatory time to city workers who are retiring. The city — like others across New Jersey — has seen a spike in retirements this year as the Christie administration and state legislators have pushed a [...]

Share/SaveThe Downtown Jersey City franchise of Atomic Wings took so long to open, it reached near-mythical status amongst a certain set of Jersey City loyalists, who waited about two years from the first rumors of the restaurant’s opening for it to actually begin serving chicken in July of 2009. But a little more than a [...]

Share/SaveThe U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld a District Court’s decision in favor of the city of Jersey City, the Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) and a handful of other defendants in the case of a JCPD employee who claimed she was retaliated against for speaking out about what she felt was an unfair [...]

Share/Save- Judge Says DiNardo Widow Can’t Sue: A state Superior Court judge has ruled that the widow of slain Jersey City Police Detective Marc DiNardo can’t file a $10 million lawsuit, saying that Mary DiNardo waited too long to file a notice of claim against the city, the JCPD, Chief Tom Comey and unnamed police [...]

Share/Save- JCPD Widow to File Suit Against the City: The widow of slain Jersey City Police Detective Marc DiNardo intends to file a $10 million civil suit against the city for lost wages, pain and suffering, claiming DiNardo and his fellow officers weren’t properly trained or equipped when they stormed an apartment building looking for [...]

Share/Save- Judge Denies Motion to Toss Corruption Case: A federal judge has declined to throw out charges against former Jersey City housing inspector John Guarini, who is charged with five extortion-related counts in connection with last summer’s federal corruption probe. – $7.2 M Award in PATH Lawsuit: A Hudson County jury has awarded $7.2 million [...]

Share/Save- UEZ Mayors Plot a Strategy: Representatives from the state’s Urban Enterprise Zones met yesterday at Liberty Science Center to discuss Gov. Christie’s proposed budget, which freezes UEZ funds altogether, and talk about how to push back. – New Charges Against Manzo? Additional charges may be in store for former Assemblyman and mayoral candidate Lou [...]

Share/Save- The Journal has more on the lawsuit filed by former Jersey City Parking Authority head Mark Russ that alleges Mayor Healy wrongfully terminated him after he failed to obey orders not to issue tickets after 6 pm. – Speaking of the Parking Authority, it is not enforcing meter rules or alternate side parking rules [...]