Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
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The Jersey City Ward Commission will hold a public hearing this week and vote on a redrawn map of the city’s six municipal districts, a map that will significantly reduce the current size of downtown’s Ward E and increase Wards B, C, D, and F. Ward A will remain as is. Redistricting is required due …
Continue reading “Mapping the future
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Like many small business owners, Josephine Hernandez needed a little bit of money – a few thousand bucks – to help her business grow. But Hernandez, who co-owns the 367 Grove Street Laundromat with her husband, discovered first-hand just how difficult it is to be a small businessperson in today’s economy. Since the 2007 recession, …
Continue reading “Taking stock
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Aetna health insurance members in Hudson County recently received letters from the company informing them that Jersey City Medical Center has cut ties with the company. This limits the local hospitals that Aetna members can use, as the company sent a similar letter to its members regarding Hoboken University Medical Center last November, and Bayonne …
Continue reading “Jersey City Medical Center cuts ties with Aetna
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Charles E. Donaldson became homeless seven years ago. “They put their hands on me, beat me up, and threw me out,” he said recently, giving his version of the day he was evicted from an apartment at the Booker T. Washington Public Housing Complex on Colden Street. A widower and father of eight children – …
Continue reading “‘I used to have it all: A wife, a job, a home’
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Despite an effort to remove him from his current position, City Council President Peter Brennan will be able to keep his post, thanks to a swing vote from newly-appointed Ward F Councilwoman Michele Massey. An ordinance that would allow the council to change its president every two years, rather than every four years, passed Wednesday …
Continue reading “Brennan still prez
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Christine Cornell is no bird-hater. In fact, she keeps 11 fine feathered friends as pets. But she isn’t so happy about the fake bird noises that have been heard repeatedly by her and her neighbors over the last seven months, coming from a supermarket on Park Avenue near the Weehawken/Union City border. It was over …
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Hundreds of revelers – decked in everything from purple velvet to silver and gold laméwith Afro wigs – turned out for the annual Snow Ball celebration on Jan. 21. The annual fundraiser benefits Art House Productions, one of Jersey City’s leading arts organizations. Even Mother Nature did her part by sprinkling three inches of fresh …
Continue reading “A (Snow) Ball was had by all!
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Jersey City Medical Center and health care company make $100.4M offer to buy Christ Hosp Christ Hospital has received yet another purchase offer, this time from Jersey City Medical Center and Community Healthcare Assoc. At present, the hospital is seeking state approval to sell to Prime Healthcare Services, a for-profit company in California that owns …
WEST NEW YORK AND BEYOND —The town of West New York wants to purchase a private school to use to house some of its students, as its high school is hundreds of kids over capacity. But they must wait for approval from one of the highest authorities: the Pope. The state’s School Development Authority has …
Continue reading “BREAKING: West New York can’t buy school unless it gets approval from the Vatican”