The Port
Interesting opinion piece on how Port Newark might affect Newark’s economic future. Booker has stated in several venues that he sees the port as an underutilized asset in Newark’s development. Sharif points out that it will take careful attention to bring the port out from under the control of an opaque bureaucracy.
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Will Booker and Vanderbeek be successful in bringing the Nets to Newark?Yes! They’ll work out a win-win deal for everyone involved.Maybe, but I think if they do that the Atlantic Yards project will fail.No way! There’s too much money and pride on the line for Ratner to walk away from the Nets.I just hope Booker [...]
Yesterday’s verdict case against former mayor Sharpe James drew mixed reaction around Newark despite clear distaste for James outside the city. Onlookers scratch their heads at the apparent grief experienced by the very citizens that James profited from.
Star Ledger: A day Newarkers will remember
Cornell Williamson, 27, a lifelong Newark resident, said he had followed [...]
New York Times: At Trial of Newark’s Former Mayor, Feelings of Loyalty, and of Being Let Down
After drawing enough people to fill Judge Martini’s courtroom when opening arguments began March 3, the trial has been sparsely attended since. Mr. Price, the Rutgers history professor, attributed the seeming lack of interest to the city’s collective fatigue [...]
I know we’re all still waiting with baited breath to see if we’ve truly turned a page in Newark’s long struggle with homicides. But a brief mention in the aforelinked New York Times article would seem to indicate another quiet, subtle milestone of hope in the city.
Billboards [...]
Joan Whitlow for the Ledger: A poor idea to make people feel left out
Yesterday I got a copy of an e- mail that a 44-year-old Newarker who worked on Booker’s election campaign sent to City Hall. She was complaining loud and clear:
“How dare you have a State of the City Address and not be open [...]
New York Times: This Land Is Newark’s Land
Mr. Booker’s plan may seem conventional, but it qualifies as a revolution in the way Newark City Hall has conducted land sales in the recent past. Sharpe James, Mr. Booker’s predecessor as mayor, is about to go on trial on corruption charges related to a fire sale of [...]
NJ Voices, a new blog project at the Newark Star Ledger, has published a series of opinion/editorial articles from Newarkers and Ledger columnists about Saturday’s shooting of four college students. A number of people including Rutgers-Newark professor and historian Clement Price, columnist Tom Moran and yours truly contributed to this morning’s blog entries:
Clement Price, [...]