A statue of a naked Donald Trump is going on the auction block. … with others in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland in the weeks before the Republican was elected president. The auction will take place on May 2 at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. The auction …
Category: Hudson County
By Matt Rooney _ The chickens are coming home to roost in Jersey City, folks. It was predictable. After many years of “payment in lieu to taxes” abuse — the policy which allowed the populous North Jersey urban center to revitalize itself, rapidly, at the expense of suburban taxpayers — have resulted in a sudden […]
JERSEY CITY — As Jersey City’s police department reels from the guilty pleas of 11 people who have admitted taking corrupt payments related to off-duty jobs, a former cop says in a new lawsuit …
JERSEY CITY — Mayor Steve Fulop’s pledge to end a program that allows cops to make extra cash working off-duty jobs is leading to howls of protest from the city’s police force. … or how the city plans to replace off-duty officers, who man construction sites and provide security for private companies and at city […]
Hypocrisy alert, Save Jerseyans: When news broke that Jersey City is letting its residents prepay their taxes to take advantage of the current SALT deduction, Mayor Steven Fulop‘s office cited the Republicans’ federal tax reform legislation as reason for the extraordinary gesture, casting all of the blame for New Jerseyans’ tax woes on Washington, D.C. Save Jersey‘s […]
JERSEY CITY — It was the first project of its kind in the country — elevating a massive steel bridge without lengthy closures to auto traffic. … the Bayonne Bridge and gain access to the ports of New York and New Jersey. That aim is showing signs of being met, but it has come with […]
Election season has been relatively unexciting in most of New Jersey this fall, it’s true, but one of the few lively races this cycle is up in creepingly gentrified Hoboken where former Save Jersey contributor and Republican State Committeeman Joshua Einstein is running for City Council. Up for grabs next Tuesday is not just the […]
The 13-minute recording at the center of contract-steering allegations involving two former aides to Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has surfaced, sending Fulop administration officials scrambling …
Jersey City Police Officers were awarded a 2% pay increase by a state appointed arbitrator this week. – Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, not the Democrat nominee for Governor, declared that the best interests of his city’s residents and taxpayers prevailed, according to Hudson County View. The arbitrator’s decision will enable Mayor Fulop and the city council […]
JERSEY CITY — Two Jersey City police officers are sharing an apartment in the city’s Newport section that was set aside as affordable housing for people making less than the cops earn, sources with knowledge of the matter told The Jersey Journal. The two officers — Joseph Connors Jr. and Francesca Zappella — are rookies […]
The breach-of-contract case centered around the aborted Jersey City property revaluation may finally be over, with the New Jersey Supreme Court declining last week to hear the city’s appeal of the $1 million judgment. The city’s request for the court’s intervention was denied by an order filed on Sept. 22. City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill did […]
New York federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Kushner Companies over its use of an investor visa program to fund the One Journal Square project in Jersey City, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Kushner Companies, run by the family of presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, was the focus of criticism in May when Kushner’s sister […]
JERSEY CITY — Jersey City is asking the City Council to give initial approval to a new set of regulations requiring developers seeking city subsidies to hire local union workers who are women and people of color. The move comes one month after a federal judge ruled that similar regulations the city had been working […]
TRENTON — The state’s takeover of Jersey City Public Schools is coming to an end nearly 30 years after the city’s school district was deemed a “total educational failure.” The state Board of Education on Wednesday voted to grant the district local control over its instruction and programming, the final administrative category under supervision from […]
Republican State Committeman and grassroots activist, Joshua Einstein, declared his candidacy for Hoboken City Council on Thursday June 29th in a letter addressed to Hoboken and published at HudsonTv news site. Mr. Einstein is a former contributor to this blog and has been involved in Republican and commonsense conservative circles for over a half dozen […]
JERSEY CITY – The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey is joining the Hudson County Prosecutor’s probe into a fiery crash that critically injured an innocent bystander. The agencies are lending resources to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez as her office continues to investigate the crash, which has led […]