Tuesday, 14 August 2007 – 1:35 pm
Led by Mayor Cory Booker, city officials and community philanthropists and activists introduced a $3.2 million gunshot detection and public safety camera technology program. Fitted out with 50 additional surveillance cameras and acoustic sensors to pinpoint the sources of gunfire, the system is designed to “assist police in their efforts to curb gun violence, improve [...]
Wednesday, 8 August 2007 – 9:29 am
Newark cannot get a break this summer. While the city is still grieving over the deaths of three college students last weekend, along comes another shooting death. A corrections officer was wounded after a confrontation with an unidentified man. The officer fatally shot the attacker, and sustained an injury in his foot. The situation is [...]
Monday, 6 August 2007 – 11:28 pm
Newark’s high school freshmen have their summer reading assignments and, not to be left out of then action, so do the grownups. For yet another week, Mayor Cory Booker appeared in a major regional newspaper, this time The Wall Street Journal. Last week, he wrote a piece for The Star-Ledger about the need to reform [...]
Thursday, 2 August 2007 – 11:08 pm
Reading about how NewarkWorks failed to pay hundreds of its teen summer workers on time is like footage of a bad car crash on a continuous loop. It is bad enough that scores of city workers are facing the prospect of layoffs, but this unfortunate incident will only worsen public anger and intensify suspicions against [...]
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 – 3:35 pm
What is the cost of crime and law enforcement? Right now, it’s too dear, argues Mayor Cory Booker, in an essay published in the Perspective section of The Star-Ledger last Sunday. With academic specificity and a reformer’s zeal, the mayor attacks what he calls the absurdity of the war on drugs and urban crime. [...]
Saturday, 28 July 2007 – 10:34 pm
The men who work to maintain law & order in Newark and the surrounding area really are taking a few hits during the month of July. First, an armored car driver and guard was killed during a robbery a week and a half ago, and now Newark police officer Cesar Estrella was dragged for several [...]
Tuesday, 24 July 2007 – 8:06 pm
Non-profits must be one of the biggest sectors of enterprise in Newark. Well, the sector is about to get even bigger, now that the Newark Community Foundation has joined the army of alliances, conservancies and coalitions that are dedicated to raising the quality of life here.
The Newark Community Foundation is different because apparently it is [...]
Monday, 18 June 2007 – 11:17 pm
When my editor told me that our company would send a group of us to Barcelona, Spain to cover an investment banking conference, I couldn’t help wondering what sights, aromas and conversations would come home with me. On the whole, I think Spaniards are a robust and audacious people. They must be, to have basically [...]
Friday, 8 June 2007 – 9:54 am
About a month ago, during the Hearing of Citizens’ portion of a Newark City Council meeting, one of the residents began her remarks with a fiery reading of the Declaration of Independence. She said she wanted people to know about “the real Cory Booker, the one behind the press releases.” She rebuked the mayor, who [...]
Wednesday, 30 May 2007 – 5:29 pm
If you hear waves of cheering coming from Mulberry Street later today, it’s not a pre-party for Portugal Day 2007 festivities in the Ironbound. More than likely, it is the Mulberry Street Coalition reacting to the Public Advocate’s report that NJ towns have abused eminent domain for development purposes. Every paper in the state is [...]
Monday, 21 May 2007 – 2:41 pm
Controlling crime will probably be the measure of Booker’s administration. When people start second-guessing their decisions to move here, the problem has gone beyond the point of unacceptable. Hopefully, a couple of recent developments will improve the lives of Newarkers and stem the development of criminal activity here. My thoughts on a [...]
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 – 11:07 pm
Mayor Cory Booker appeared on WBGO this Wednesday evening for his monthly radio show “Newark Today”, and Police Director Garry McCarthy appeared with him to help answer people’s questions. Topics ranged from overdevelopment in the Ironbound, economic development, affordable housing and an ongoing issue for the city – job opportunities for ex-convicts and the underemployed. [...]
Monday, 14 May 2007 – 8:06 pm
Newark City Hall officials just announced plans to attend the International Council of Shopping Centers’ (ICSC) spring 2007 conference in Las Vegas, which runs from Monday, May 21 through Wednesday May 23. This will be the city’s first trip to the spring convention, and to generate excitement for this, a delegation of business, corporate [...]
