Tuesday, 11 November 2008 – 5:47 pm
Obama, Newark, and the expectations
Max Pizarro covers the Central Ward election, the effect of an Obama presidency on cities like Newark, and whether Mayor Booker will stick around for another four years after his first term (short answer: he will).
Booker says he’s stuck “like a Texas tick in Newark,” and to a person, his Newark [...]
Monday, 15 September 2008 – 11:54 pm
Theraputic Value
Nina Pilar was blogging from the Newark Green Summit and offers some insight on how the city is looking to the Green movement to generate jobs for Newarkers.
Carl Heafner of the Trust for Public Land spoke about the new industry - the “Green Collar” sector. (He wasn’t the only one who used the term; [...]
Sunday, 14 September 2008 – 3:44 pm
As a guy who has lovingly been called a “tree hugger” and a “granola” by his friends, and was told to become a “florist” and a “landscape designer” instead of an architect by his professors, one would think that I approached this weekend’s Green Future Summit with anticipation. Unfortunately, after being at odds with [...]
Friday, 12 September 2008 – 4:57 am
Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James reports to prison on Monday
James’ sentence begins while he continues his efforts to appeal the judge’s guilty ruling for fraud and conspiracy charges during his last term in office.
During decades spent in public service, Sharpe James collected an array of impressive titles, such as mayor, state senator and college professor.
For [...]
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 – 4:07 pm
“Coming Tomorrow: 4311 Call Center for Newark Non-Emergencies”:http://ci.newark.nj.us/press/press_releases/
Similar to New York City’s “311 service”:http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/eservices/eservices_311.shtml, Newark will be unveiling a one-stop-shopping call center for non-emergencies in the city.
Full press alert after the jump.
Newark 4311, the Non-Emergency Call Center, is designed to provide the citizens of Newark with an efficient and effective resolution of non-emergency concerns within [...]
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 – 10:22 am
Voters are wrongly told: You’re not registered
Working with data and computers, it’s fairly easy to see how something like this might have occurred — knuckleheaded though it was. Not that NJ would swing one way or another in the presidential race by just 300,000 voters, but those kinds of numbers could play into more [...]
Wednesday, 13 August 2008 – 11:41 pm
“Newark gets $45M in aid in exchange for state oversight”:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/newark_gets_45m_in_aid_in_exch.html
“Creative accounting,” when it brings legitimate dollars to the bottom line, can be a beautiful thing.
Newark accepted a $45 million bailout from New Jersey taxpayers today, in return for accepting the state designation of “distressed city,” and allowing state oversight of hiring and finances.
The special infusion [...]
Tuesday, 29 July 2008 – 10:15 pm
“Analysis with Joan Whitlow”:http://videos.nj.com/star-ledger/2008/07/analysis_with_joan_whitlow.html
Joanie provides an analysis of the sentencing for the Ledger Live video podcast.
Monday, 7 July 2008 – 5:18 pm
“No one’s home: Newark and builder at odds over housing project”:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/no_ones_home_newark_and_builde.html
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 [...]
Sunday, 6 July 2008 – 11:55 pm
“Bush administration backing off takeoff auction plan at Kennedy, Newark”:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/07/06/2008-07-06_bush_administration_backing_off_takeoff_.html
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 [...]
Thursday, 3 July 2008 – 6:44 am
“Families of drowning victims to share $5.8M settlement”:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/newark_council_oks_58m_settlem.html
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 [...]
Thursday, 3 July 2008 – 6:33 am
“$2.9M added for makeover of Newark riverfront”:http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-5/121505977010810.xml&coll=1
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 [...]
Tuesday, 1 July 2008 – 5:32 am
“Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker at Midpoint”:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/opinion/01tue4.xml
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 [...]
