Category: Jersey City News

A plan to spend taxpayers’ money so the state of New Jersey doesn’t take the funds back had some members of the Hudson County Board of Freeholders disturbed at their April 8 caucus. Ben Lopez, director of Human Services, proposed spending down the $140,000 balance of a state grant to provide driving instructions to poor …

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Ramchal says he won’t resign council seat Although he was suspended from his job on the Hudson County Improvement Authority (HCIA) after his arrest for allegedly driving drunk, Councilman Khemraj “Chico” Ramchal has told the Hudson Reporter he has no plans to step down as a City Council member. Ramchal was arrested after an accident …

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U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez vowed this week to vigorously defend himself against public corruption charges made in an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury on Wednesday. Federal investigators allege the New Jersey Democrat improperly helped a Florida-based eye surgeon, Salomon Melgen, a campaign contributor to Menendez, in a number of ways. Menendez has …

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Banker Thomas J. Stanton refused to give up on Jersey City, even during the times when the city seemed to be falling apart. Those who knew him best said he had a vision of Hudson County as a thriving business and residential community. And largely because of this vision, the Gold Coast, as people know …

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Saying that special interests and profit-making corporations that provide services to jails are getting in the way of prison reform, former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges, keynote speaker for the Second Annual Prisoner Conference held at St. Peter’s University on April 2, said it may be time for protest – perhaps even civil disobedience. …

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After living up to the adage that writers should write what they know, former Hoboken resident and Secaucus native Amanda Palasciano has published and is promoting the first book in a series of planned novels dealing with teenage issues. The first novel, called “Mascara,” is about an elite high school sorority whose members choose freshman …

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A plan to build a temporary clubhouse on Duncan Avenue in Jersey City for the new county golf course in Lincoln Park will cause some Hudson County offices to relocate. The county has just completed the golf course, and is in negotiations with Jersey City to take control of Duncan Avenue from Route 440 west …

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