No one’s home: Newark and builder at odds over housing project
Quality, in-depth report from Sunday’s Star Ledger about a total train wreck in the construction of a public housing project on Elizabeth Ave. The money and time wasted in the pursuit of these failed housing units would be tragic in and of itself, not accounting [...]
Bush administration backing off takeoff auction plan at Kennedy, Newark
A couple of months ago, the Bush administration made promises to ease airport congestion—an issue one would hardly consider worthy of addressing directly through the president, what with all the warring and all.
Now they’ve begun to backtrack from plans to change traffic patterns at JFK and [...]
Families of drowning victims to share $5.8M settlement
The city still has additional legal exposure to a lawsuit from another fatal accident at the same location.
The families of two women who drowned in 2004 when their car went off Raymond Boulevard in Newark and plunged into the Passaic River will share a $5.8 million settlement [...]
$2.9M added for makeover of Newark riverfront
Like violent crime and poverty, the Passaic River is one of those challenges in Newark that just resists a resolution.
While Mayor Booker and Senator Lautenberg announced an additional $2.9 million for the restoration project along the riverfront, much of the near term work will just be laying [...]
Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker at Midpoint
Balanced look at Mayor Booker’s achievements in the two years since he was sworn into office. The editorial points out the major challenges and difficulties facing the city and City Hall’s response.
Expectations were high when he came to office, not only because he was an attractive personality but [...]
Newark superintendent boasts urban experience
Arriving in a city with its own brand of bare-knuckle politics, Janey said he has no illusions. He’s heard rumors Mayor Cory Booker, a close friend of Fenty’s, wasn’t his biggest booster.
“Maybe that’s juicy speculation, but, frankly, we are going to have to do things together for the betterment of [...]
The New Urbanism and the Communitarian Trap (PDF)
Great piece from the Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997, Number 1. New Urbanism is the model that many US cities are attempting to adopt to make sense of their post-industrial communities.
While dipping a toe into the ocean of material about urban design, I was surprised at [...]
Report finds Newark one of 13 cities hit hard by health care woes
Newark is the canary in the coal mine in the national heath care crisis. The struggles Newarkers experience now will be felt across the nation as rising costs and a growing number of uninsured weigh on the current infrastructure.
Newark, which has [...]
Obama Clinches Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket
Senator Barack Obama has now clinched the number of delegates needed to receive the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Mr. Obama lost New Jersey to Senator Clinton in a primary contest earlier this year, but was overwhelmingly the choice of [...]
Sharpe James’ attorney asks judge to overturn guilty verdicts or grant new trial
Ha! So much for our former mayor saving Newarkers tax dollars. If we know anything about Sharpe, it’s that he’ll drag this out as long as he has to to get a deal.
An attorney for Sharpe James today [...]
