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JERSEY CITY, NJ - Reacting to gun violence nationally and locally, the Jersey City Council approved several resolutions last month, acknowledging National Gun Violence Awareness Day and supporting Governor Phil Murphy’s comprehensive gun safety reform.

At the June 15 meeting, the council also honored Pamela Johnson, the Executive Director of the Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - For the fourth time in a little over a month, bands of protestors made their way through the streets of Jersey City on Friday just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark case Roe vs. Wade, putting women’s reproductive health rights in the hands of lawmakers in state capitols across the nation. 

A series of rallies took place on the steps of City ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - The Jersey City Municipal Council voted to renew the contract of Donohue, Girona, Doria and Tomkins, LLC to perform auditing services for the city. The 7-1 approval of the $322220 contract came over the objection of Councilman James Solomon.

“First, the contractors have routinely been delinquent in turning around their audit of the city budget,” Soliman said in a ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Full time Jersey City employees will be paid a minimum wage of $20 under a new measure announced Thursday by Mayor Steven Fulop. The decision, according to a statement, comes as an effort to allow employees to have an adequate standard of living and help offset nationwide historic inflation and increased cost of living.

Included in the City’s 2022-2023 fiscal year ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ — As part of an ongoing effort to improve access to affordable transportation options in Jersey City, officials may consider acquiring Port Liberte Ferry Terminal.

In a press release Thursday, Mayor Steven Fulop and Councilwoman Denise Ridley announced plans to introduce an ordinance at the June 15 city council meeting that would allow the city to enter talks to buy the ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - A lawsuit first filed by several prominent Jersey City businesses in 2019 in an attempt to block the implementation of Jersey City’s payroll tax is headed back to the appellate court.

The move comes after the New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s decision that the tax was constitutional and that the matter should be further held at the level of the ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Barkha Patel, Jersey City’s Assistant Business Administrator, has been appointed as the director of the city’s new Department of Infrastructure.

The new department was created as part of a restructuring earlier this year. 

Patel, whom Ward A Councilwoman Denise Ridley called “a great asset to the city,” started with Jersey City in 2016 as a ...