- Liberty Humane Axes Director: Just one week after Liberty Humane Society’s board resigned, the new three-member interim board fired shelter director Joanna Hopkinson last night. Interim board member Diana Jeffrey says they fired Hopkinson mainly to dispel the notion that the shelter is too beholden to its largest donor, John Neu. She says Hopkinson’s [...]
To break up the long drives he would regularly make between New Jersey and Michigan, North Carolina and Maine for his job as a skate shoe sales rep for Converse, Chase Whitaker took up thrift shopping. Over time, he amassed such a collection of vintage menswear, military tchotchkes, and taxidermied ornamental animals, that he decided it was time to shift gears, as it were, and create a shop of his own.
Illustration: Amanda Assadi-Rullow, based on a concept by Local First West Michigan and data from Civic Economics. For a larger version of the chart, click here.
Owning a small business anywhere is hard enough, but our big-sister city to the east can make it even harder to do it in Jersey City. After all, how many [...]
Photos: Steve Gold
Editor’s note: This story appears in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW. You can download the entire issue here, or find a print copy at one of our many distribution locations.
One weekend in January, in a quaint general store in upstate New York, Sawyer Smith stumbled upon a pair of taxidermied quails [...]
The Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on Thursday approved a consumer protection bill that would tighten regulations on rebate marketing in New Jersey.
The legislation, sponsored by Hudson County Assemblyman Vincent Prieto and co-sponsored by local Assembly members Joan Quigley and Ruben Ramos, would forbid retailers from advertising a product’s price after a manufacturer’s rebate unless the [...]
Gillian Allen is intent on taking one of the challenges she’s found in her Greenville neighborhood — an inadequate supply of quality food available in her predominantly minority, economically challenged community — and turning it into an opportunity. We talk to her about the newly born Jersey City Food Coop Initiative to find out what she and the others behind the co-op push have planned.
This morning in Trenton, the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee will consider a consumer protection bill sponsored by Hudson County Assemblyman Vincent Prieto, and co-sponsored by local Assembly members Joan Quigley and Ruben Ramos.
The legislation, essentially a truth-in-advertising measure, would forbid retailers from advertising a product’s price after a manufacturer’s rebate unless the amount of the [...]
- The state Division of Pensions and Benefits will reportedly conduct an investigation into the two high-paid city employees who retired, cashed in huge one-time pension payouts, and came back on the city payroll. Meanwhile, the trio of state bills designed to reform the pension system were unanimously approved by the state Senate yesterday; they [...]
- At-Large councilman Mariano Vega* pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges yesterday, as did suspended building department employee John Guarini and political operative/Municipal Utilities Authority commissioner Joe Cardwell. Vega*’s trial is set for Feb. 24. Meanwhile, former city planning aide and Ward E City Council candidate Guy Catrillo is due to be the first [...]
In early November, a car crashed into the Downtown urban style and design boutique Bred in Jersey, forcing the owners to close up shop for a while. At the time they told our Tipsheet that they hoped to re-open by the end of the month after redesigning the store.
Weeks turned into months, and the [...]
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