Category: Jersey City News

They say timing is everything. Given the slow economic recovery, the still sluggish housing market, and the city’s unstable tax rate – which all came on the heels of a booming housing market that saw the construction of thousands of new residential units – is this the best or worst time for the city to …

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Among the arguments made by activists who oppose the natural gas pipeline that Texas-based Spectra Energy wants to build through Hudson County into New York is the point that the project would really only benefit energy customers across the Hudson River. In other words, “There’s nothing in it for us in New Jersey.” To this, …

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Ever wonder what it would be like to experience the 1975 classic horror movie Jaws with the shrieks of the swimmers in Amity Island echoing from a 21st century surround sound system? Hoboken’s Clearview Cinemas, the year-and-a-half-old theater by the border with Weehawken and Union City, is offering a “Spring Classics Series.” Famous films made …

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Board of Education election is Wednesday Voters will have the opportunity to select three school board representatives on Wednesday, April 27. In an effort to get more voter participation there will be extended poll hours for the first time this year. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Incumbents Sue Mack and …

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Does Jersey City have “hidden” revenues that could offset proposed service cuts in the 2011 budget? That’s the question City Council members and members of the community asked Wednesday after Business Administrator Jack Kelly noted, almost in passing, that the city is owed approximately $800,000 in Medicare reimbursements from the federal government. Kelly made the …

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This fall there will be two more choices on the charter school roster for Jersey City kids: The Mathematics, Engineering Technology and Science Charter School (METS) and the Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School. METS is the inspiration of Dr. John Sico, a former Paterson school district superintendent and adjunct professor at William Paterson University. …

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Much of the post-Census political discussion has thus far focused on the state legislative incumbents who suddenly found themselves removed from their traditional voting blocs thanks to redistricting. But just as redistricting produced losers, so, too, did it produce winners: the candidates who now find themselves on viable slates with backing from party bosses. In …

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The New York/New Jersey Harbor, the system of waterways we see off the Hudson County coast every day, has been tapped for a “Great Waters” designation by the Great Waters Coalition. The coalition, made up of more than 50 national, regional, state, and local organizations, works to secure funding to restore and preserve the waterways. …

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