New Jersey lawmakers on Wednesday passed a controversial bill that would open Liberty State Park up to commercialization, to the chagrin of critics who unsuccessfully called for a ban on large-scale development and special protections for an environmentally fragile peninsula there.
June 2022
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Open Letter to Clarence Thomas from One African-American to Another
You were a product of affirmative action yet want to dismantle it. You now want to relitigate and take away LGBTQIA+ and women’s rights to be treated equally in this society and to birth control and contraception. Why?
Posted inEducation
NJCU Facing Fiscal Crisis; Campus Awaits Answers in Wake of President’s Departure
The NJCU board of trustees announced that the school was facing a “financial emergency” resulting from carrying a “recently intensified structural deficit” of $20 million.
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Pesin: Fireman’s Plan for Liberty State Park Remains a “Clear and Present Danger”
Sam Pesin is taking little solace in changes made to a controversial bill that threatens to open Liberty State Park to commercial development.
Posted inEducation
School Crossing Guards Ratify New Contract
Jersey City school crossing guards have ratified a tentative contract ending a five year impasse with the city.
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Stolen Car with Bullet Hole Rams City Building
For the second time in less than a year, city employees located at the Jackson Square Municipal Complex on Martin Luther King Drive have been reminded of the crime problem in Bergen-Lafayette.
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Report: Pompidou was the Brainchild of Developer Charles Kushner
The Jersey City Times has learned that Charles Kushner, the developer of the massive 1 Journal Square apartment complex next door, gave Fulop the initial idea of partnering with the French museum and locating Pompidou x in the Pathside building.
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Letter: Republican Poll Workers are Needed
The Hispanic Republicans of North Jersey and grassroots GOP leaders in Hudson County invite all registered Republicans to apply to be poll workers for the upcoming November 2022 Congressional elections.
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Crossing Guards to Vote on New Contract: City Could Owe 30 Million in Back-Pay
Jersey City school crossing guards will vote on a tentative agreement tomorrow settling their long-standing pay dispute with the city.
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Residents Start Local LGBTQ+ Running Club
During the heart of Pride Month, Jersey City runners launched The Queer Collective, a running club dreamed up by residents Kristina Nungaray and Jules Bursee, two best friends whose goal is to increase the profile of the LGBTQ+ community in endurance racing.