- There are runoff elections for Wards A and F today — polls opened at 6 am and will stay open until 8 pm. Check back here tonight for results.
- The Assembly Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved legislation that would allow cities and towns to implement their own residency restrictions for convicted sex offenders. The [...]
- The former owner of David’s Sporting Goods, a now-closed gun shop in Downtown Jersey City, has been sentenced to two years probation and 100 hours of community service for a 2007 incident in which he fired shots into the air outside his store.
- The Insider calls Tuesday’s Ward A runoff “the best of the [...]
In the May 12 election, the race for Ward A’s City Council seat was one of two in which the leading vote-getter failed to cross the 50 percent-plus-one threshold required for outright victory. Incumbent Michael Sottolano received the most votes — around 40 percent of the total — with Rolando Lavarro finishing second. They will [...]
Remember: City Hall is closed today, and there is no street sweeping. Trash collection proceeds as usual. Enjoy your Memorial Day.
- Ward F City Council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington, who fell just two votes short of second place (and the chance to enter a runoff with incumbent Viola Richardson), will challenge the results in Superior Court. [...]
- One runoff race for the City Council seems to be set after provisional ballots were tallied, but another will likely involve a recount. In Ward A, incumbent Michael Sottolano will face off against Rolando Lavarro, who edged out Andre Richardson by 30 votes. In Ward F, however, only one vote separates second-place finisher Ron-Calvin [...]
Shouts, hugs and handshakes filled Casino in the Park Tuesday night as supporters of Mayor Jerramiah Healy relished their candidate’s victory. With 30,657 votes cast, Healy won — and avoided a runoff — with 52.9 percent of the vote. Absentee and provisional ballots have yet to be tallied.
- 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 [...]
- The Journal kicks off its series of mayoral candidate profiles with a look at Mayor Healy, “a bit of a character.”
- The Insider says incumbent Ward A Councilman Michael Sottolano won’t debate any of his challengers. He also sarcastically “thanks” neighborhood groups around the city for not holding any debates this week to clear [...]
Advocates say that the sprawling foreclosure problem, too big for local governments to fix, will be somewhat abated by new state and federal programs, but they say more could be needed to reverse what data suggests is a deepening regional and national trend.
With last week’s filing deadline for petitions now passed, Andre Richardson formally kicked off his campaign to unseat Ward A Councilman Michael Sottolano this afternoon, saying he intends “to bring real leadership, new ideas and new hope” to the Greenville ward.
“I’ve spent the last two years meeting and talking with friends and neighbors throughout the [...]
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