The Jersey Journal‘s unionized editorial staff members will protest today for a second straight day in front of the paper’s Journal Square offices today as they fight parent company Advance Publication’s plan to cut their benefits and freeze their pay. Workers at the paper have been without a contract since June 2009. As we reported [...]
- Some Fire Investigation Duties Turned Over to JCPD: The Jersey City Police Department has taken over the duties of investigating suspicious fires — and the city’s new fire chief is not happy about it. – Ward B Forum: Don’t forget, there is a candidates forum for those running for the Ward B City Council [...]
- Shelter Has Placed Most of the Dogs it Took from Liberty Humane: A Morris County animal rescue that took 11 dogs from Liberty Humane Society earlier this month has found homes for eight of the animals. – Kendall Messick’s Latest: The Jersey City artist we profiled in January has a new book coming out, [...]
More bad news for New Jersey’s largest newspaper is coming from Newark today, as the Star-Ledger‘s publisher says it must continue to shed staff as advertising revenue keeps waning. In a memo sent to employees today (see below), Ledger publisher Richard Vezza says the paper sits “at a very precarious point” and will once again [...]
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 [...]
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