Nets Arena May Not Be Finished Until 2011, Ratner Says
This in from a tipster: the New Jersey Nets arena planned for Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards will not be completed now until 2011—three long years from now.
Seriously, Nets? Newark can get this done for you by next season. The arena is here and ready for [...]
Cold Coffee
The New York Times editorializes the closing of the Starbucks at Market and Broad, citing its opening eight years ago as “a herald of the city’s resurgence.”
...Joe Hallinan, regional vice president, says the branch has actually been losing money. Now that the company has hit tough times, he says, there is no alternative but [...]
Sharpe James will serve 27 months in federal prison for directing real estate deals to his mistress, Tamika Riley—conduct considered unbecoming a public servant by a jury of his peers.
Reactions around the web to yesterday’s sentencing have ranged from anger to mild indifference. Ultimately, no one was satisfied by the outcome of [...]
The Undoing of Sharpe James
My piece from April, written the day after the Sharpe James conviction.
Sharpe James saw Newark through some tough times, and was a tireless cheerleader for the city, but government was never meant to be run this way. Newark is undergoing a transformative change, seeing a drastic drop in crime and renewed [...]
Analysis with Joan Whitlow
Joanie provides an analysis of the sentencing for the Ledger Live video podcast.
27 months?: Bloggers react to former Newark mayor Sharpe James’ sentencing
Excellent round-up by Kelly Heyboer of the blogger reaction to Sharpe James’ 27-month sentence for violation of public trust.
Smearing a city isn’t entertaining
Brief editorial on Esquire’s July feature of Newark. The most heinous crimes of Scott Raab’s piece are the assumption that Booker is the only person in Newark trying to make a difference, and the dehumanization of the entire citizenry as “zombies”.
And let’s be clear that Raab’s piece leaves [...]
This in from City Hall. Mayor Booker has written an enraged, five-page response to an article that has gone to press in Esquire Magazine entitled, “The Battle of Newark.” (To see the full article in PDF format, click here)
ENOUGH! Esquire Magazine’s July article “The Battle of Newark” by Scott Raab offers another narrow, [...]
Hello,Newarkers
I’m back first and foremost I apologize for my absence and got married and had a baby.
Now to the nitty-gritty.
Since my last post I have notice no changes in my beloved city. I know Sharpe James is going to prison Marion Bolden is leaving but nothing positive. Our education system is still lacking. Crime is [...]
It’s always tough fighting discouragement about a city that, despite all the good news, perpetually seems to have an awful story brewing just under the surface. I want to believe in a rejuvenated Newark where I and others can raise families in confidence of the future.
With summer here, the crime rate has begun [...]