NEWARK, N.J. – Cory Booker formally launched his 2020 campaign tour on Saturday with a rally in Newark, the city he once led as mayor. The tour’s theme is ‘Justice for All’, but Booker’s rant wasn’t limited to the typical array Read More
By Matt Rooney _ Newark’s Ken Gibson died on Friday, Save Jerseyans, and the eulogies poured in fast and furiously for the Northeastern United States’s first black mayor for a major city. The canonization crush is on. Governor Murphy even Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark wants to implement a “universal basic income” experiment in the Brick City, one which would be de facto paid for by the suburbs due to his city’s extremely high percentage of state Read More
By Matt Rooney _ It failed spectacularly in Finland and Canada. It fails everywhere it’s tried. Newark, New Jersey is ready to give ‘universal basic income’ a go all the same, Save Jerseyans, and you’ll be footing the bill. _ Mayor Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump didn’t mince words this week when asked about one of his potential 2020 challengers. “He ran Newark into the ground,” Trump said of Gropacus (a/k/a Cory Booker) during a Wednesday interview with The New York Read More
NEWARK, N.J. — Bob Hugin’s campaign isn’t expecting to win Essex County. Not even Chris Christie pulled that off in 2013 (he lost Essex and Hudson despite winning the other 19 counties). But New Jersey doesn’t elected statewide candidates in Read More
NEWARK, N.J. — The free ride is over at least for awhile, Save Jerseyans. On Tuesday, Essex County Superior Court Judge Dennis Carey ordered a one-year prohibition on the City of Newark affording police escorts for private uses. The city and Mayor Read More
By Matt Rooney _ It wasn’t that long ago, Save Jerseyans, that then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker accepted $100 million from Facebook’s founder on Oprah Winfey’s old television show on behalf of the Newark, New Jersey school district. Those monies were Read More
NEWARK, NJ — Better? Maybe, but still pretty bad. The real estate analytics company NeighborhoodScout has released a list of the 30 U.S. cities with a dubious distinction: the most murders per 1,000 residents. Camden ranks #3; Newark is #15. The notoriously crime-ridden Read More
