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Editorial: Fulop’s Broken Promise “I offer this one promise: We will be both honest and competent. This I can assure you.” Mayor Steven M. Fulop, Inauguration July 1, 2013 Get two free articles a month! By sharing your …

Fulop promised a new era of good government but delivered something entirely different, much to the disappointment of his early supporters.
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There are vaccines for all three to prevent or mitigate, get them!

Op-Ed: The E-Bike Bill Goes Too Far I don’t own a car. I get around by walking, transit, and bike. I also supplement my income as a bike tour guide in New York City, leading groups through busy streets every week. Biking isn’t an abs…

"Two things can be true at the same time: we need better accountability for e-bikes, and this bill is government overreach."
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Local Man Has a Theater for Jersey City. It’s Made of Shipping Containers. When the Globe Theater was built in 1599 on the south bank of the Thames, there was no better place in the English-speaking world to see a play. The circular confines, tiers of seating, standing ro…

Angus Vail has done the measurements, put in the work, and demonstrated that a theater with the dimensions and intimacy of the Globe can be built entirely out of shipping containers.
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Liberty State Park Advocates Rally to Oppose Boat Warehouse With the New Jersey State House Commission potentially weeks away from approving a controversial lease extension deal for the operator of the marina in Liberty State Park, residents and activists r…

The rally drew support from the Friends of Liberty State Park, hundreds of local residents, and several elected officials who spoke out against the lease extension.
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I'll second that!

The stores are fine, but deadening the street is not-

The new Target at Journal Square looks like it is near opening. Once again, JC Planning failed to learn from their mistake with Duane Reade at Grove Point & the new Target will be all or mostly at street level with deadening storefronts and streetscape.

In Their Own Words: The Mayoral Candidates on Big Ideas and Pompidou This is the fourth installment in a series entitled “In Their Own Words.” The series is based upon a questionnaire that the Jersey City Times recently sent to each of the candidates for…

The seven mayoral candidates share their thought on Pompidou x and their big ideas for Jersey City.
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NJ teachers union misused dues to fund chief's bid for governor, lawsuit claims • New Jersey Monitor Two teachers allege their union broke its contract by sending dues to an outside group that backed the union chief's campaign.

NJ teachers union misused dues to fund chief’s bid for governor, lawsuit claims newjerseymonitor.com/2025/09/30/n...

Mayoral Candidates Are Bullish on Bus Rapid Transit, Despite Challenges HED Among the thorniest issues the next mayor will have to tackle is transportation in a city that has grown by more than 18 percent since 2010.  One proposal that has already proven to be controve…

With a BRT system, cities use streets and city buses to create a light rail-like experience — without the rails.
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It all comes from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, or JCPD. No media follow-up or investigation.

"Fulop’s political action committee had received millions in donations from HRH and CarePoint."

"Fulop’s political action committee had received millions in donations from HRH and CarePoint."

"This should only come as a surprise to those who believed Secaucus-based HRH and its principal local booster, Mayor Steven Fulop, when they assured the public that an HRH takeover out of bankruptcy would secure Christ Hospital’s survival."

Fulop scammed again to fuel his SuperPAC- "This should only come as a surprise to those who believed Secaucus-based HRH & its principal local booster, Mayor Steven Fulop, when they assured the public that an HRH takeover out of bankruptcy would secure Christ Hospital’s survival."

Grand Street High-Rise with 15% Affordable Units and Tax Abatement Presented at Council Caucus If constructed, one new high-rise project would allow Saint Peter’s Prep to construct a new end zone for its football field on Grand Street. The additional space for the athletic venue, offer…

An attorney told the council that his client could not afford the two-tower development, between Marin Boulevard and Van Vorst Street, without an abatement.
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Six-Tower Development Planned for Historic Baldwin Avenue Site ournal Square residents are bracing for the next mega-complex coming to their neighborhood: a proposed six-tower, mixed-use 2,088-unit development on Baldwin Ave. at the site of a once-historic fac…

According to information supplied to the city’s Planning Board, the proposed development at 180 Baldwin Ave. includes, “six mixed-use ‘tower-on-base’ structures.
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Reoriented and Facing the Future, JCAST Returns for its Thirty-Sixth Year It’s hard to imagine the fall without the Jersey City Art and Studio Tour. JCAST (Oct. 3-5), the citywide blowout of open studios, gallery exhibitions, and art-adjacent activities, has always been …

Atim Annette Oton has organized this year's JCAST, moving it south to be headquartered at 150 Pacific Avenue in the Liberty Arts District.
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"releasing the results of an independent audit of the special education department that was authorized by the board in June 2023"

Preservationists Call for Protection of The Powerhouse at Awards Ceremony The founder was feisty. A fight was coming, John Gomez told the crowd gathered at Barrow Mansion (83 Wayne St.) on Thursday night, and he wanted to ensure that preservationists were properly girded…

Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy Founder John Gomez asked Jersey City to recommit to a newly-minted campaign.
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Plan sounds fine, though dismisses any public input that previous suggestions for that building made like a public market. The JCRA also should have put the property out for bid and sought proposals.

I should have added (and did else where) that there is no reason for threats or profanity. The community had been left to boil since June. It's not on the councilman.

This is why- "the council had not received any formal information from the administration about the proposal." more than a month out. Staff should have expected the response.

Shade, shelter, small concerts/musical performances.

Unfortunately, the news sites rely on the prosecutor's press release and don't have reporters go to the location to cover. It's a lack of resources, whether JC Times, Hudson County View or the late Jersey Journal.

Bingo!

Campaign Contributions Could Tarnish Solomon’s Squeaky-Clean Image Ward E Council Member and mayoral candidate James Solomon received thousands in contributions from a family of insurance brokers whose contract he voted to approve last year, public records show. I…

In accepting donations from in insurance broker and a law firm, Solomon may risk tarnishing the image of ethical rectitude he has built over his eight years in elective office.
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This is the same city that could not come up with 100 grand to save the Jersey City Museum.