Jim Testa, Author at Jersey City Times

About Jim Testa

Jim Testa founded Jersey Beat fanzine in 1982 and, like Peter Pan, refused to grow up. He continues to edit JerseyBeat.com and writes about music and the arts for the Jersey Journal, NJ.com,
NJArts.net, Offshelf.net, and Jersey City Times.

Entries by Jim Testa

Stoned Comedians Take the Stage in Gameshow This Weekend

February 21, 2022 in header, Journal Square, Latest News, Other Fun Stuff /by Jim Testa

A gaggle of comics take the stage. Most of them are stoned; one is sober. Can you find the straight one?

Hudson West Folk Festival To Bring Americana, Blues and Roots Music to Nimbus

October 9, 2021 in Downtown, header, News, Performing Arts /by Jim Testa

Folk music ain’t what it used to be – at least in Jersey City – as evidenced by this year’s Hudson West Folk Festival, which takes place on Saturday, October 16 from noon to 10 p.m.

News Briefs

Mayor Fulop, Public Safety Director James Shea, and Fire Chief Steven McGill swore in 25 Captains to the Jersey City Fire Department at a ceremony inside City Hall on July 1.

Mayor Fulop joined Public Safety Director James Shea and Fire Chief Steven McGill June 30 to announce two brand new fire companies and officially launch a newly created specialized response team, the JCFD High-rise Unit, to respond to all high-rise fires and all working fires as a Rapid Intervention Crew (RIC). The last fire company added to the Jersey City Fire Department was in 1937.

The Hudson County Board of Commissioners has provided $195,000 for services provided to inmates through the Housing and Reintegration Program of the Hudson County Department of Family Services. The program provides services that inmates can use for housing, substance abuse treatment, clinical care, mental health, obtain medications and go to job training and job search services.

This program also provides the County Department of Housing and Community Reintegration access to 40 transitional housing beds. The program runs from June 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023.

Mayor Fulop has announced the creation of a $20 per hour Living Wage Statute for all full-time Jersey City employees. As part of the City’s 2022-2023 fiscal year budget, the Living Wage Statute will boost salaries for hundreds of current and future Jersey City residents and workers from $17 (already one of the highest minimum wage rates in the nation) to $20 per hour – which is $7 more than New Jersey’s current hourly minimum wage.

About Jim Testa

Entries by Jim Testa

Stoned Comedians Take the Stage in Gameshow This Weekend

Hudson West Folk Festival To Bring Americana, Blues and Roots Music to Nimbus

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