Dear Editor, I’m writing this letter to express my concern about the ordinance to remove Council President Brennan. On Wednesday, the council voted 5 to 4. Council members David Donnelly, Nidia Lopez, Steven Fulop, Rolando Lavarro and Viola Richardson voted in favor while Michael Sottolano, Bill Gaughan, Peter Brennan and Michele Massey voted against. It [...]
After a resident living just east of Lincoln Park awoke to find his car propped up on cinder blocks and missing all four wheels — a brazen crime made worse by the fact the car was parked in the man’s driveway at the time — a neighborhood’s concerns over the level of crime in Jersey [...]
Dear Editor, I have read the fine reporting you have done from the Board of Education and I often use it as a resource with regards to happenings on this part of government. With regards to the most recent back and forth in which accusations and insinuations are thrown around that sometimes include my name, [...]
Board of Education President Sterling Waterman threatened to evict a speaker from the Middle School 11 auditorium on Thursday as she calmly asked him about the altering of an email from acting state education commissioner Christopher Cerf to Waterman that deleted references to Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop in some copies. Thursday’s meeting was not [...]
Two versions of an email sent by the state education commissioner to Board of Education President Sterling Waterman have surfaced, raising questions over whether the email was altered to omit the commissioner’s reference to Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop’s involvement in the superintendent search process before the email’s submission to the full board.
Jersey City Tenth on List of Most Artistic Cities in US: Jersey City for the first time made the Atlantic’s list of top artistic cities in America, placing tenth. Jersey City Rallies Against School Vouchers: Some 50 people rallied yesterday at a Jersey City school against proposed state legislation that would use public money to [...]
The 20-year tax abatement incentivizing Goya Foods’ new facilities in Jersey City was narrowly approved at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting when a divided council voted for the measure, 5-2-2. But the PILOT agreement, which will generate approximately $19 million over the life of the abatement as well as maintain at least 250 jobs at [...]
Healy Condemns Federal Spectra Report: Mayor Healy yesterday blasted a draft impact statement federal regulators issued last month that states the proposed Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline will have little effect on the area’s environment and on residents’ safety. City Crews Cleaning Up After Storm: Five crews of Jersey City workers, aided by a private [...]
Political stargazers had a field day Tuesday night at Ward E councilman Steven Fulop’s mayoral fundraiser in the Zeppelin Hall Restaurant and Biergarten. Showing their faces in the downtown Jersey City beer hall were North Bergen mayor and state Sen. Nicholas Sacco, Hudson County Freeholder Bill O’Dea and Jersey City Board of Education member Marvin [...]
Council Update: At last night’s City Council meeting, a revised food truck regulations bill was introduced, though not without some objection from brick-and-mortar restaurant owners; a 20-year tax break to entice Goya Foods to move its base to County Road in Jersey City got initial approval; and several council members voiced their objections to the [...]
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