With regards to your coverage of the recent announcement by Bill O’Dea of his candidacy for mayor of Jersey City, I submit the following in response. Bill O’Dea? O’Dea is just what Jersey City doesn’t need, another older white ‘machine politician’ (meaning he comes from within the established political system in Hudson County, the county […]
Jim Fischer
Posted inVisual Arts
Letter: Jersey City Doesn’t Need Pompidou x
Note: The writer submitted this longer version of his letter subsequent to the letter’s original publication. To the Editor: Pompidou x is a waste of money. Jersey City does not need some ‘out-of-town’ entity (The Pompidou Center) to makeit’s case as a center of the arts in the New York metro area (time and again, […]
Posted inOpinion
Letter: Combination of JCAST and 14c Will Concentrate Art Downtown
Well, Tris, it appears you and Robinson will get your wish, a ‘more concentrated’ JCAST. Tying it to 14c will concentrate attendees downtown leaving the rest of the city’s art communities (with the possible exception of Bergen-Lafayette) out in the cold (and the change to mid-October almost guarantees this). When will those managing this city and […]