- Cardwell Resigns MUA Post: Political consultant Joe Cardwell, who pleaded guilty last week to accepting a $10,000 bribe, has resigned from his seat on the Municipal Utilities Authority board. – Crime Rate: Violent and non-violent crime saw a modest overall drop in Jersey City in 2010, continuing the downward trend for a second year, [...]
- JCPD Negotiations: The union representing police officers now says the statement it sent out yesterday, saying it had agreed to one of the key demands of the Healy administration, is not correct, and that it does not support the “pay lag” proposal as currently presented. – Homicides: The Journal has its annual rundown of [...]
- Today is the federal holiday honoring the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. City office and the parking authority are closed; here are some celebrations in the area. – Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is urging federal officials not to close immigration detention operations at the Varick Federal Detention Facility [...]
- State legislation that would give local governments the opportunity to defer half of their pension payments for a second straight year stalled in legislative committees Monday, with Democrats unable to muster the support to muscle the bill through. The bills, sponsored by Jersey City’s Joan Quigley in the Assembly and Sandra Cunningham in the [...]
A number of bills await the Assembly Appropriations Committee for when it gets back to work on Monday; among them is a bill sponsored by Jersey City Assemblywoman Joan Quigley that would allow local governments to defer payments into the state pension fund. A similar bill passed last year allowed Jersey City to defer $14.8 [...]
- State Sen. Sandra Cunningham and Assemblywoman Joan Quigley both say the introduction of another pension-payment deferral bill in Trenton came at the behest of Mayor Healy, who is looking to tame the city’s disastrous budget situation. The bill, like similar legislation the city took advantage of last year, would allow the city to wait [...]
- Is short-term budget help on the way? Jersey City state Sen. Sandra Cunningham has introduced a bill that would give local governments the opportunity to defer half of their pension payments that will be due next spring, essentially repeating the stopgap maneuver enacted last winter. Last year’s bill saved the city $14.8 million; this [...]
- Political consultant Jack Shaw had reportedly agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in their corruption probe after he himself was arrested last week. He told the feds he could help develop new information on those already charged in the case and to possibly identify new targets. Shaw was found dead in his apartment on [...]
photo by Steve Gold “We have an agenda we can get through pretty quickly,” city clerk Robert Byrne said as he kicked off Wednesday’s City Council meeting. Despite facing two minor setbacks right off the bat — At-Large Councilman Peter Brennan took a moment to do a little election-year congratulating of Mayor Healy for being [...]
Trust me, we didn’t plan on taking issue with the Journal’s editorial two days in a row — it just happened. If they’ll stop getting it wrong, we’ll stop — promise. As we reported on Monday, the pension payment deferral plan passed both the state Senate and Assembly. Under the bill, Jersey City will be [...]
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