We’re coming up on our second plane date with Dash — next week I’ll address this more directly — and there are certain things I’ve come to realize. The act of raising a kid is one long series of decisions: some go well and you reap many benefits; some go well and are not thought [...]
Statewide good-government group the Citizens’ Campaign today became the latest organization to come out against a proposal to allow municipalities to post public notices on the web, rather than in local newspapers.
Saying the legislation will bring “less competition and less integrity in the government,” the nonprofit joins the New Jersey Press Association and the [...]
Public notice legal ads have long been a moneymaker for local newspapers, and they’ve helped keep many afloat in recent years as traditional display and classified advertising have dwindled. (One publisher last year told me, grimly, that the housing bubble’s implosion — and the rash of public notice ads for foreclosures that followed in her [...]
- Struck Pedestrian is ID’ed: A senior citizen who was struck by a SUV and dragged 1,000 feet earlier this week has been identified as 82-year-old Rafael Rivera, and his family is now at his bedside at the Jersey City Medical Center. He remains in critical condition at the hospital, and the driver has been [...]
As a mom to two children under the age of five, Jersey City parent Esther Tan says she has often been stymied when it comes to figuring out kid-friendly things to do.
“I found it really hard to search for kiddie events in the area,” she says. “I would go through a myriad of websites [...]
- Epps’ Pay Continues to Be Among Highest in NJ: The number of public school administrators paid $200,000 or more increased nearly eightfold in the last five years, according to new payroll numbers released by the state Department of Education. The data shows that Jersey City Schools Superintendent Charles Epps is the fourth-highest paid public [...]
Jersey City blogs and bloggers often come and go with little fanfare, but every once in a while, a blog emerges that is refreshingly original and, as such, worth noting. Jersey City Stringer is one of those. We recently caught up with site creator Lauren Wilcox to learn more about the project.
One of New Jersey’s most strident boosters now has a seat at the state’s largest paper. Tris McCall, who has graced stages all over Jersey City for the better part of the ’00s, joined the Star-Ledger as a pop music critic earlier this month, working under longtime critic Jay Lustig, who became the paper’s arts [...]
- Adult Education Cuts Will Hit Hudson: Hudson County Technical School, which operates the largest adult high school in the state with more than 2,000 students, will have to cut enrollment by up to 75 percent under Gov. Christie’s proposed state budget, which cuts the $10 million line item that provides nearly all of the [...]
The latest FAS FAX report released last week by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), covering the six months ending March 31, finds that average paid daily newspaper circulation fell 8.7 percent across the country year-over-year.
Here in Jersey City, the Jersey Journal’s slide was not quite as steep, as its average paid daily circulation fell [...]
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