Friday, 12 September 2008 – 10:43 pm
If you didn’t pick up this month’s issue of New Jersey Monthly, be sure to grab a copy before they leave newsstands. Two Newark high schools — Science Park and University — made the list of the state’s top 75 public high schools. Science (#50) has appeared on the listing before, and moved up three [...]
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 – 7:45 pm
Newsday carried a little item about Mayor Cory Booker’s plans to head to D.C., should Sen. Barack Obama win the presidential election. Specifically he says that he’s not leaving Newark. Of course, that won’t satisfy any the skeptics who insist that he’s using Newark as a stepping stone to further his political career, and that [...]
Tuesday, 2 September 2008 – 10:04 pm
Here’s an uplifting story about new affordable housing coming to the city. With so much recent attention placed on the development of luxury apartments and condos from big-time developers and celebrities, a lot of people were downright scared that ordinary people, including ones that need a boost to get out of whatever scary situation they [...]
Tuesday, 2 September 2008 – 9:41 pm
Life in Newark can be serious business, owing in no small part to the challenges of child rearing. Finding the right schools, keeping up with parent/teacher meetings, ferreting out just the right extra-curricular activity for your child — you all get the drill. This stuff changes your life forever, and if it weren’t for helpful [...]
Thursday, 10 July 2008 – 6:16 pm
We are a little more than halfway through the first mayoral term of Cory A. Booker, and inevitably, talk has turned to predictions for the outcome of the mayoral race in 2010. One of our favorite political blogs, PolitickerNJ.com, has weighed in on the matter, and says Mayor Booker will win in 2010 by a [...]
Tuesday, 1 July 2008 – 6:03 am
Monday night’s meet-and-greet with Dr. Clifford B. Janey, the newly appointed superintendent of Newark Public Schools was a great way to kick off the week. Those who attended got to hear a part of of Dr. Janey’s vision and his responses during the question-and-answer session were very illuminating. The session was chocked full of information, [...]
Monday, 23 June 2008 – 9:35 pm
One of the advantages of living in a place like Newark is the access to interesting people like Dr. Clifford Janey, the new superintendent of schools. I got this in my ‘inbox’ recently. I think it’s interesting that Janey was chosen as schools superintendent. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure he’s the most qualified for [...]
Friday, 23 May 2008 – 10:08 pm
Like most people, I check my email accounts at least a dozen times a day. For me, email is a fantastic way to deliver important messages to people at my convenience, especially because I am not good, not particularly good, at keeping up correspondences by phone. When it comes to keeping up with city officials [...]
Sunday, 10 February 2008 – 10:09 pm
The building that we know as Deliverance Evangelistic Center Temple on Clinton Avenue is no stranger to inspiring orators and luminaries of American society. This afternoon the church hosted Cornel West, currently a professor of religion at Princeton University, who delivered an inspiring speech that served mainly to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It [...]
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 – 1:42 pm
A structural fire at Penn Station has affected PATH service between Newark and World Trade Center stations. Service in both directions is subject to a 30-minute delay.
In separate news, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unveiled a full-size mockup of the new PATH car, according to the authority’s Web site. Each [...]
Friday, 18 January 2008 – 1:36 pm
Many of us were distressed to learn that the Cathedral Healthcare System planned to close two city hospitals. As we’ve read, Mayor Cory Booker was furious about the plan, and rightfully so. It is obvious that certain city hospitals are straining under their patient loads and heavy financial burdens as it is. To lose two [...]
Tuesday, 23 October 2007 – 7:40 pm
From time to time, Black Americans become entangled in lively discussions about what makes a person ‘black’. The conversation is inevitable, and on Sunday morning I came across the realization that not enough has changed in the way we relate to each other.
I volunteer as a Sunday school teacher at my church in Montclair. It’s [...]
Tuesday, 25 September 2007 – 10:21 pm
For a while now, Newarkers have been tuning in to the eponymous local cable access show “Tyrone Jackson’s Breakthrough” on Thursday evenings. Now, Mr. Jackson is staging an evening of jazz – appropriately called “Jazz It Up!” — on Halsey Street. Or in Halsey Village, if you prefer the new Newark lingo. Singing from [...]
Friday, 14 September 2007 – 8:42 pm
This is an ambiguous-sounding story. Verizon Communications expects to transfer more than 600 jobs outside the city after consolidating its state call center operations somewhere in North Jersey and selling its headquarters building here.
What a setback this could turn out to be for the city, and for the Booker administration. More so, this would be [...]
