HUDSON COUNTY – There’s plenty to read in the various editions of the Hudson Reporter newspapers this weekend. So, with the weatherman forecasting rain, open up an umbrella and dash out for your copy.
If high school seniors in your town graduated last week, we’ve got the story.
Does Jersey City, with a gaping municipal budget deficit, charge a high enough hotel tax? Would a higher tax make the city’s hotels a less attractive alternative to high NYC rates?
Also, anger is mounting among PATH riders who use Journal Square and residents who live in the vicinity of the transit hub on Kennedy Blvd. about foul odors emanating from a Conrail trash train that’s allowed to park at the Journal Square PATH station overnight. Our story will tell you who to call and how to protest.
The controversial sale of Hoboken University Medical Center is scheduled to be complete by July 31, and Mayor Zimmer and the buyers are pushing back against a phone campaign raising fears about the sale. Also, the Planning Board has been asked to decide whether the Neumann Leathers building is a candidate for rehabilitation, while the artists and crafts people working in the building hold their breath to see what happens.
Secaucus’s former Mayor Denis Elwell is on trial for allegedly accepting a bribe to help a government witness disguised as a developer, and our story pulls together all the threads of a complicated proceeding. Closer to home, the town has decided it can’t afford the local day care center beyond July 15, which is its announced closing date.
A former teacher from North Bergen has written a book claiming Gov. Christie’s attack on teachers is a personal vendetta that threatens public education.
Did you know a lifelong resident of Union City is one of the world’s most famous taxidermists?
All this, plus Jim Hague’s sports reports and the return of political commentary by Al Sullivan in this weekend’s Hudson Reporter newspapers.