Share/Save – UEZ Spending Restrictions: As of June 30, sanitation joined police and fire as part of a cap that prohibits Urban Enterprise Zones from spending more than 35 percent of their projected balance on municipal services. The move led the city to stop funding the Jersey City Incinerator Authority’s Second Chances Liter Patrol program. [...]
Share/SaveHudson County and Team NJ Triple Threat will host a free basketball clinic for boys and girls in 5th through 8th grades this Saturday, featuring coaches from a number of local high schools. Each participant in the clinic, which is also sponsored by PNC Bank, will receive a free T-shirt and a basketball guide booklet. [...]
Share/Save- Public Outcry Over Street Violence: More than 300 people attended a rally last night at the Montgomery Gardens housing complex, where a 5-year-old girl was shot last Friday. Meanwhile, the bullet surgically removed on Monday from the victim’s neck is now in the hands of the New Jersey State Police for ballistics testing. – [...]
Share/Save- New Charges Against the Manzos: A grand jury has added a count of mail fraud to the corruption charges against former Assemblyman and perennial mayoral candidate Lou Manzo, and his brother Ronald. The mail fraud charge stems from an April 21, 2009 campaign finance report mailed to the state Election Law Enforcement Commission, which [...]
Share/Save- Back to the Drawing Board on Police, Fire Contracts: The administration says it’s ready to resume negotiations with the fire and police unions over their proposed contracts, which were voted down at last week’s council meeting. But Police Officers Benevolent Association president Jerry DeCicco tells the Journal the next phase in the process will [...]
Share/Save- The state Office of Attorney Ethics has recommended that Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s law license be suspended or that he face other disciplinary action because of his disorderly persons convictions after his 2006 dustup in Bradley Beach. – Saying he is “one embarrassment after another,” the Journal once again calls for At-Large councilman Mariano Vega* [...]
Share/Save- The corruption probe took a human and perhaps dark turn yesterday when Jersey City political consultant Jack Shaw was found dead in his Paulus Hook apartment. There is speculation and unconfirmed reports that the death may have been a suicide; we might not know for a few weeks if a toxicology report has to [...]
Share/Save- Florida officials have confirmed that newly sworn in Ward C councilwoman Nidia Rivera Lopez improperly claimed a state homestead rebate check in 2009 and are asking her to pay back the $1,705.20 she saved by doing so — with 15 percent interest. They are investigating whether she’s done so in other years. Folks in [...]
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