A final post

I woke up exhausted this morning. Maybe it was the cumulative effect of yesterday’s 10-mile JC Bike Tour (or the 100 bike miles over the course of the previous week) piled on top of Fridays’ Machete y Ron performance and Saturday’s Everything JC festival in the Heights, but I’m not complaining. It’s a happy exhaustion.
The [...]

Sorry Charlie

The last time I saw Charlie Markey was (randomly enough) at the C-Town on Jersey Avenue. I had my ear buds in and was unaware that he had been following me around the supermarket for a good five minutes while I considered the difference between the Gala and the Red Delicious. I was startled to [...]

The gas face

The blue shirts scattered like cockroaches in the kitchen when I aimed my point and shoot camera in their direction. “Nobody wants to see my ugly mug,” says one of the Spectra Energy reps at yesterday’s Open House in the gym at PS #9 on Mercer Street.
Texas-based Spectra, which wants to build a natural gas [...]

Last call for recall

An appeals court is weighing arguments from a group of Tea Party activists in New Jersey who want to recall Sen. Bob Menendez. The groups were in court this week, asking an appeals panel to let them continue to collect names on a recall petition while the court determines if they can even recall Menendez. [...]

Where’s Jerry?

The public hearing on the municipal budget began around 7 p.m., with the first of what would be 30-some-odd speakers. Slightly after 7 p.m. I was on my way out the door. I know this rankles a few of you. How can he report on a meeting he didn’t even stay to watch. I could [...]

Spin vs. spun

Thursday’s indictment of former Newark Deputy Mayor Ron Salahudddin may yet prove to be a blow (or not) to the Cory Booker reelection campaign, but the mayor’s response to the announcement is something Booker’s buddy, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, might’ve been wise to study. If only the U.S. Attorney’s office had announced the Sullahadin [...]

What do you have to say for yourself, pt. 2

We asked last week if Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy felt that he should apologize to JC residents for the actions of close friend and former Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini and other Healy Team members during the spring of 2009.  Here’s the mayor’s response:

Rattle and hum

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is throwing his weight around in the first days of his administration. I wanted to get that out of the way early because I have not come to mock Chris Christie, I have come to praise him. Sure, he’s bypassing the Democratically-controlled state legislature with his budget-slashing executive orders, but [...]

What do you have to say for yourself?

It’s safe to say the heat is now on high. Today’s quasi-conviction of former Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, while not a home run by any standard, confirms that stink is in the mayor’s inner circle. (In case the dozen or so guilty pleas in this case hadn’t already done that.) Whether you believe that an [...]

Revolting

Public Protests Tax Increases in Jersey City from Speak NJ on Vimeo.
Not satisfied with a meager 300 (estimated) people who showed up for the last city council meeting, the forces of reform are gathering for another round of rallies aimed at stopping this pending municipal tax hike. (They’re calling it a tax revolt.) Once again, [...]