- AAA Sues Over Toll Hikes: The AAA has filed suit against the Port Authority over the agency’s recent toll hikes. – Manzo Looks to Have Corruption Charges Tossed: The attorney for former Jersey City Assemblyman and failed mayoral candidate Lou Manzo argues in a motion filed in federal court yesterday that all corruption charges [...]
Dear Editor: After years of frustration with a disastrous parking meter system that relies completely on often malfunctioning pay station machines, the Central Avenue business community, along with many shoppers and residents, are voicing their anger with the Jersey City Parking Authority (JCPA), particularly CEO Mary F. Paretti’s inaction on the matter. This past April [...]
Central Avenue Special Improvement District (CASID) president Michael Yun, who has held the position for 19 years, says that it hasn’t been by accident that the group has kept him in charge. “There hasn’t been an increase to the tax in the [Special Interest District] in the time since I’ve been president,” he says, referring [...]
Although Jersey City is now in possession of new license plate readers designed to assist in enforcing parking violations of “egregious offenders,” the Healy administration is pulling a proposal that would permit the police to use them, just one day after making its case at the City Council’s caucus meeting.
At nearly every City Council meeting, residents come to the podium to say they are on the verge of being pushed out of Jersey City by sky-high taxes. Often they are lifelong residents, and it is heartbreaking to hear them speak of being forced to leave the city they know and love. These people understand [...]
- Parking Authority Lawsuits: Yolanda Miranda, a former Jersey City Parking Authority employee, and Rosalie Laureano, a current employee, filed sexual harassment lawsuits against the city agency last month in Hudson County Superior Court. – Sex Offenders Law: The state Senate will vote this week on legislation to allow towns to restrict where sex offenders [...]
Jersey City last night stepped away from a plan to lease 95 parking spots on Columbus Drive from the Jersey City Parking Authority amid questions about just who owns the rights to the coveted spaces.
The City Council is set to vote tonight on whether or not to approve a $10,000 legal settlement with former Parking Authority CEO Mark Russ, who sued the city and several other entities in 2009 over his termination. In his lawsuit, Russ alleged that Mayor Jerramiah Healy ordered him not to issue tickets after 6 [...]
- CCTV Cameras to Move: Jersey City is relocating its CCTV operations from the Parking Authority building on Central Avenue to the year-old Public Safety Communications Center on Bishop Street, about a year after a city official said such a move would come at “extraordinary costs” to the city. The CCTV relocation, scheduled to happen [...]
UPDATE, Friday January 7 at 10:25 AM: An earlier version of this News Roundup stated that the Jersey City Medical Center was a for-profit hospital. It is not, and the story has been updated to reflect this fact. We apologize for the error. – Transportation Plan: Gov. Christie has proposed a five-year renewal of the [...]
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