- Cops Kill 28-Year-Old in Shooting: A 28-year-old Jersey City man was shot and killed by police during a foot-chase early Saturday morning after officers responded to a call of shots fired on Martin Luther King Drive. Prosecutors say the autopsy reports reveal multiple gunshot wounds that are consistent with a face-to-face shooting. – Christ [...]
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, plenty of ink will be spilled on the wide array of ramifications the attacks have had on populations inside and outside of America. One group, the nationwide nonprofit South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), is getting a head start on the look back with a discussion panel [...]
When you see the cover of Thomas Chatterton Williams’ 2010 memoir Losing My Cool, you’ll find it difficult to believe that he has, in fact, lost it. And even more so if you have the chance to meet him in a hip SoHo café, as I did a few weeks ago. With a knit hat on his head and a scraggly beard wrapped around his chin, Williams has still got it. And yet it’s not the kind of cool he grew up admiring.
The Jersey City school district is set to unveil its latest campaign to stop bullying in schools with a two-hour rally on Tuesday. The campaign – “Be Bold Ban Bullying” — is part of the district’s long-term push to end bullying.
- JCPD: At a news conference Friday, Mayor Healy and police union officials revealed more details about the settlement that has been reached that will avert layoffs in the department (if passed by the City Council). – ARC Tunnel & Port Authority Spending: A week before Gov. Christie froze construction on the ARC Tunnel, the [...]
- Manzo Trial: Comments and questions by federal appeals judges yesterday seemed to suggest that the panel will uphold a lower judge’s ruling that resulted in dismissal of four of six counts against former Jersey City mayoral candidate Louis Manzo and his brother Ronald Manzo. – Keeping Panasonic in NJ: Panasonic Corp. of North America [...]
- Smith to Claim Entrapment: In a court filing Friday, an attorney for L. Harvey Smith notified a federal judge he will argue that a government informant’s dealings with Smith warrant an entrapment instruction to the jury in Smith’s upcoming trial. He will be the first to use that tactic at trial. – JCFD: Jersey [...]
The Distillery Gallery & Artspace is putting together an exhibition that “seeks to understand the ways artists explore race,” and they are looking for submissions. The show, Mapping Race, will be unveiled during next month’s Artists Studio Tour and be on display for the remainder of October. The curators are looking for “artists that look [...]
Photos: Steve Gold Turnout was relatively light at Wednesday’s meeting of the City Council, the first regular meeting since late April. About 25 people were in the audience for the meeting, which lasted a little less than two hours. Among them was newly elected Ward C councilwoman Nidia Rivera Lopez. Council president Mariano Vega kicked [...]
Developer Steve Hyman, whose family currently owns the 6th Street Embankment, is weighing in on this year’s mayoral election with an anti-Healy flyer. Hyman’s attempts to develop the embankment have been stifled and he is currently in negotiations with the city and the Embankment Preservation Coalition over the future of the vacant rail line. The [...]
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