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Ramos seeks to expand health literacy education in schools
HUDSON COUNTY -- Assemblyman Ruben J. Ramos (D-33rd Dist.) introduced a bill last Thursday, May 10, that seeks to expand health literacy education in public schools. “Healthcare is something...
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Former Jersey City Councilman Velazquez to be sworn in as deputy mayor
JERSEY CITY - Former Jersey City Councilman At-large Radames "Ray" Velazquez Jr. will be sworn in as a deputy mayor to Jerramiah T. Healy on May 17 at 4 p.m. On May 15, Healy announced that Vel...
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Jersey City to hold job fair for construction trade apprenticeships
JERSEY CITY - On Thursday, May 17 the City of Jersey City and Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy will host a job fair for apprenticeships in the construction trades. The fair will be held from 10 a.m. to ...
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NJ Transit may discontinue or alter bus routes
SECAUCUS AND BEYOND – NJ Transit plans to cut costs by discontinuing or altering bus service on 11 routes, some of which serve various parts of Hudson County, according to a release issued on Mo...
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The Hudson Reporter newspapers: all the news you need
HUDSON COUNTY – There’s plenty to read in this week’s editions of the Hudson Reporter. You can pick up your print edition around town this weekend, or come back to this website starting Sunday ...
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THIS IS NOT SCULPTURE – A pile of bricks is all that’s left on the site that was once home to the 111 First St. artists’ studios.
Council rejects developer’s request
Says affordable housing too important to cut from First St. development

City officials want to jumpstart long-delayed development plans at two sites downtown, but they claim construction can only begin at the expense of 25 affordable housing units, and the City Counci...
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DENIED – A divided City Council last week voted not to confirm Police Chief Tom Comey as the new police director.
Healy, residents say Comey vote was political
Divided council denies director post to police chief

Is Jersey City Police Chief Thomas Comey the first casualty of the 2013 mayoral election? That’s one of the questions being debated by some residents after the City Council voted 5-4 not to make C...
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YOUTH ACTIVITIES – The martial arts program, led by Dennis Torres, who holds a Black Belt in Karate, is among several offered at the Guardian Angels’ Community Service Center. The demonstration shown here was given for the organization’s guests from Jersey City.
The return of the Angels?
Guardian Angels’ youth program could debut in Jersey City

Can Jersey City youth learn a thing or two from a 33-year-old New Yorker? Local residents and activists think they can and they are taking preliminary steps to bring a model youth program started...
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BAYONNE REMEMBERS 9/11 – A single yellow rose left in remembrance of one of the local victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks won a first place award for Al Sullivan.
Portraits of anguish and joy
Photos and profile win state-wide awards

The life of a gay artist, photographs from 9/11 ceremonies, images of a painful Holocaust loss, as well as reflections of hope and depictions of ordinary life brought The Hudson Reporter ’s staff...
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JERSEY CITY BRIEFS
McNair Academic High School ranked in U.S. News top 50 list U.S. News recently revealed its Best High Schools list for each state, and four Hudson County schools placed among New Jersey’s top 5...
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ON A ROLL – Jersey City opened its very first bike route last week, much to the delight of residents who cycle.
Roll with it!
Can ‘bike lane to nowhere’ jumpstart long-stalled visions for a greener JC?

It’s only a few blocks long. But cycling enthusiasts say the city’s inaugural bike lane on Grove Street is a start. They now hope this temporary lane will be the start of a much larger network of...
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New Jersey City University grad and 2010 Young Film and Videomakers Festival Jury’s Choice Winner Jovanni Ibarra. Photo credit: Adrienne Pamintuan
Capturing character
Young filmmakers’ festival gives emerging talent recognition

Since there are more indie filmmakers these days than blades of grass in Liberty State Park, getting a movie seen by an audience is a struggle, particularly for emerging filmmakers with no name re...
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MONEY NEEDED – Police Chief Tom Comey said he is working with the city to look for new sources of funding to maintain the CCVT network of security cameras.
Keep the cameras rolling
With loss of UEZ money, police department needs $800K for security cams

Beginning July 1, the Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) will have to pick up the tab for the maintenance of its Closed Circuit Television Neighborhood Watch camera system, an $800,000 bill that...
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PAY RAISE – If the City Council approves a measure that is to be introduced this week by Steven Fulop and Rolando Lavarro Jr., low-wage workers at City Hall and other city buildings could see an increase in their pay.
On the money?
Council to consider wage increase for workers at city buildings

Two members of the City Council plan to introduce an ordinance this week that would require contractors in city office buildings to pay their employees a living wage. The proposal, which would als...
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JOINING FORCES – North Bergen’s Tyler Griffin and Union City’s Jay Manuel collaborated with several other artists to produce a remix of the song “Bruin Country” used during Mayor Nicholas Sacco’s campaign last year. The new song, “Rep Your City,” debuted on March 8.
Where you be from?
Teen emcee featured on campaign video joins forces with local artists

When 18-year-old Tyler Griffin – known to the music world as Ty Alaxandar – wrote the rap “Bruin Country” in 2010, he could not predict the many roads it would lead him down. The song earned the...
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A MORAL ISSUE – Freeholder Jose Munoz tried to get the freeholder board to pull advertising from a Spanish speaking newspaper.
Moral issue or political vendetta?
Munoz clashes with Rivera over pulling ad from newspaper

In a rare exchange of heated words with West New York Freeholder Jose Munoz, Freeholder Chairman Eliu Rivera said he would not allow a personal vendetta to influence which newspapers the Board of ...
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‘IN THAT MOMENT’ – Hoboken police officer Jonathan Butler (pictured above) stars in the one-act play, “In That Moment,” which is about a young African-American police officer involved in a homicide case. Butler co-authored the play with Ross London.
Soul searching ‘In That Moment’
Play tackles racial relations between officers and the communities they serve

Hoboken police officer Jonathan Butler and former Hoboken judge Ross London take on racial profiling and police abuse as co-authors of the one act play “In That Moment,” which has been performed i...
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