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About a 15-minute drive from downtown, 100 acres of vacant land on Jersey City’s West Side may someday host a new waterfront community just like Newport and Exchange Place, only along the Hackensack River instead of the Hudson. In anticipation of this, NJ Transit is holding hearings about plans to build a light rail stop …

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Second place doesn’t sit well with mayor Hot-off-the-press census data revealed on Thursday that Jersey City placed where it always does – second to Newark in size. “We believe that we have been severely undercounted and will begin the process of challenging these results,” Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said in the media, citing a …

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A deal to prevent 82 Jersey City police officers from being laid off next month rests with the City Council after the police union approved the agreement Wednesday. After 16 hours of voting, members of the Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association (POBA) approved an amendment to the union’s current labor contract with the city. …

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When an organization releases statistics, it’s usually a snooze. Not so with the Liberty Humane Society animal shelter in Jersey City, which serves both Jersey City and Hoboken. Last week the LHS released its 2010 Animal Dog/Cat Statistics. The organization sees the stats as a solid defense against charges by activists who have been complaining …

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Vernell Ransom, 48, is a study in contrasts. She has the resigned look of a woman who has lived a grim life, sometimes on the Jersey City streets. But on Wednesday, she was heartily eating a hot meal and also seemed to be ingesting the spirit of hope that permeated the room. Ransom has been …

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In a bizarre turn of events Wednesday, the Jersey City Council approved a municipal retirement measure, only to pass another one minutes later that overrode the first. Under the second ordinance passed, newly hired city employees will have to work for the municipality for 25 years in order to be eligible for lifetime benefits from …

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Living up to the concept that “everything old is new again,” trains are expected to start operating out of the newest Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station at Eighth Street in Bayonne on the afternoon of Jan. 31. The schedule calls for trains to run every 10 minutes during rush hour, starting at about 6:45 a.m. to …

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Spectra Energy fights back regarding pipeline Spectra Energy, the Houston-based company that wants to build a natural gas pipeline through Bayonne, downtown Jersey City, and near the Hoboken border, is pushing back against opposition to the project. The company last week is sending out a two-sided flier that states, among other things, “Spectra Energy Puts …

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