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.
Share/Save 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 [...]
Share/Save- 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 [...]
Share/SaveThe 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 [...]
Share/SaveJersey Journal editorial page editor (and “Political Insider”) Agustin Torres has made no bones about his distaste for Mayor Jerramiah Healy in recent years. And the feeling seems to be mutual, judging by Healy’s refusal to appear at several candidate forums that involved Torres during last year’s mayoral election. With all that in mind, I [...]
Share/SaveLast week, the city issued a press release touting new statistics that “show record declines” in robberies, burglaries and auto theft in 2009 and a decline in almost every crime stat category last year. Overall, the city says violent crimes dropped by 15.6 percent, while nonviolent crimes fell by 19.9 percent. The only category in [...]
On “Talking Politics,” Scanga — as the program name suggests — deals with Jersey City politics, but the show is more than that. It often serves as a sort of citizen’s guide to local government, covering the role of the Hudson County clerk or the ins and outs of the municipal courts or the city’s zoning laws.
Share/SaveDuring this week one year ago, we had just finally finished the design framework and the conceptual notion of the Jersey City Independent, and we started posting News Roundups and blog entries, slowly but surely. Since then, we’ve grown quite a bit and offered you, the readers, a real alternative to the existing local media. [...]
Share/SaveAt a conference sponsored by the Citizens’ Campaign, Monmouth University and the NJ League of Women Voters yesterday, Jersey City Independent co-founder Shane Smith appeared on a “Meet the New Media Innovators” panel with representatives from other news websites in New Jersey. He and folks from AllVoices, New Jersey Newsroom, Cranford Patch and Baristanet talked [...]
Share/Save In this Tipsheet: Facing a Drop in Corporate Money, Jersey City Museum Looks for New Members | Bred in Jersey Survives a Car Crash, Plans to Re-Open by Month’s End | Chilltown Lunch Launches | The Future of the Hamilton Park Ale House Facing a Drop in Corporate Money, Jersey City Museum Looks for [...]
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