Share/Save – County Budget Hearings: Hudson County departmental hearings to discuss this year’s county budget will be held in the evening for the first time. – Light Rail Collision: A 72-year-old Hoboken man was seriously injured when the sport utility vehicle he was driving collided with a Light Rail train on Sixth Street yesterday morning. [...]
Share/Save- More Charges for Murder Suspect: The Jersey City man charged with murdering a 69-year-old neighbor on Sunday has also been charged with groping a female police detective while at the police station. – Shooting: A man riding on the back of a scooter shot and injured two men in a ride-by shooting in Jersey [...]
Share/Save- Homeless Man Stabbed to Death: A 50-year-old homeless man was stabbed to death in a vicious assault in front of a Pacific Avenue liquor store Monday night. – Man Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud: A former loan officer for a Jersey City mortgage company has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for his [...]
Share/SaveThe sounds of live music will return to Journal Square this summer, with six free outdoor concerts scheduled for May and June. The live music series, which was launched in 2005 and had expanded through 2009, was completely canceled last year due to the state budget’s impact on Urban Enterprise Zones (UEZs). While the lineup [...]
Share/SaveBusiness incentives provided by New Jersey to lure companies to Jersey City and other locales are not providing the jobs they are supposed to, a statewide public-policy group argues in a new report. “A Surge in Subsidies,” released today by the progressive group New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), says that despite the state’s “unprecedented spending [...]
Share/Save- Epps: The fallout from school superintendent Charles Epps’ comments about girls being the city’s “worst enemy” and about students being “dirty, nasty, bad kids” continues, with several Board of Education members criticizing the remarks, and the Journal calling for his resignation. The Ledger’s editorial board also takes on the subject, asking if Epps has [...]
Share/Save- JC Cops Faces Child Abuse Charges: A 44-year-old off-duty Jersey City police officer was arrested on child abuse charges yesterday after he allegedly offered to pay for a room for a 16-year-old girl in exchange for oral sex. – JC Women Honored: Twenty-seven Jersey City women were honored during last week’s 12th annual Women [...]
Share/Save- Transportation Spending: Gov. Christie has proposed spending $3.5 billion in highway and mass transit improvements in fiscal year 2011-12, an allocation that would represent the first year of a five-year Transportation Capital Plan. As planned, money from the scrapped ARC tunnel will help pay for a improvements to the Pulaski Skyway and the Route [...]
Share/Save- School Funding: The latest report on the ongoing Abbott v. Burke school-funding fight says that Gov. Christie’s budget cuts have violated the constitutional rights of students from low-income families. MORE from the Wall Street Journal, the Record and the Asbury Park Press. – School Budgets: The Jersey City Board of Education has approved a [...]
Share/Save- Christie Puts JC Murder at Legislator’s Feet: Gov. Christie took aim at Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman Wednesday over a bill the assemblywoman sponsored two years ago that allowed for the early prison release of certain convicted criminals. On March 5, Rondell Jones allegedly murdered a 21-year-old Newark man in Jersey City, just six weeks [...]
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