Dear NBC, Universal Media Studios, Blond Nurse, President Obama, et al,
You have been filming Mercy on my block for nearly a year now, but despite my dog’s constant begging, you have not hired him to star on it. Dirt Pie the Empathy Dog Surach is very upset about this and it would behoove you to rectify the situation immediately.
- Christie’s Proposed Budget Unveiled: Gov. Christie unveiled a Fiscal Year 2011 budget that relies almost entirely on spending cuts to close a deficit he asserts is approaching $11 billion. Among other things, Christie is calling for the layoffs of 1,300 state workers, closings of state psychiatric institutions, an $820 million cut in aid to [...]
- City Floats More Bonds: The City Council has approved the issuance of $7.9 million in bonds to pay for residents’ successful property tax appeals. While the council was nearly unanimous in approving the bill (Ward E councilman Steven Fulop voted no), many residents criticized the practice of taking on extra debt. (For more on [...]
- A NJ Transit union leader says that Gov. Christie’s decision to cut state funding for the transit agency will lead to fare hikes of up to 30 percent, service cuts and potential worker furloughs. Transit leaders are set to discuss the ramifications of the cuts today. For more, check out today’s Guest Opinion piece [...]
As part of what critics are saying was one of the best SNLs in a while (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm was hosting), the show did a State of the Union sketch that featured Fred Armisen’s Obama juxtaposed with actual reaction shots from the real State of the Union (and a surprise guest reaction shot from [...]
On “Talking Politics,” Scanga — as the program name suggests — deals with Jersey City politics, but the show is more than that. It often serves as a sort of citizen’s guide to local government, covering the role of the Hudson County clerk or the ins and outs of the municipal courts or the city’s zoning laws.
If you haven’t heard by now, two weeks ago, Conan O’Brien dissed Newark in a joke in his monologue, and Newark mayor responded with a YouTube video banning O’Brien from Newark Airport. After a few back-and-forths over the next handful of days, Booker claimed he had banned the comedian from New Jersey altogether.
But last [...]
“It’s cool to be able to see a film or television show and say, ‘Hey, that’s Jersey City!’ … We’d like to keep it that way.”
If you were browsing your TV listings and came across something called Lost Cities, you’d most likely think it was a History Channel show about Atlantis or something along those lines. But the pilot for a show of that name screening next week at the New York Television Festival is nothing of the sort. It’s [...]
- The woman who gave birth to a stillborn boy whose body was discarded with the trash at Christ Hospital last December has filed a lawsuit against the hospital and several of its employees. The suit alleges the delivery room doctor “deviated from the standard practices of medicine” and that the hospital fraudulently concealed evidence [...]
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