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The Hotel Trades Council is throwing their unabashed support behind Jersey City Mayor Fulop and his council slate for the fall elections.

Fulop receives endorsement from hotel and restaurant workers Updated Feb 08, 2021; Posted Feb 08, 2021 Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop gives an interview at Zeppelin Hall on election night, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal) Facebook Share Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop had the backs of the hotel and restaurant employees in fighting for restrictions on Airbnb in the city, and now they are repaying that support. The Hotel Trades Council (HTC), which represents 40,000...

Loved ones and parishioners are mourning the COVID-19 death of a beloved pastor at a College Area church.

Lawrence Acting Mayor Kendrys Vasquez. (Courtesy photograph.) For those looking to hear from, and learn more about, Lawrence Acting Mayor Kendrys Vasquez have an opportunity when the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce presents, what it calls, a “virtual conversation” in February. Vasquez, who had been serving as Lawrence’s City Council president, became the city’s acting mayor when Mayor Daniel Rivera was named president and chief executive officer of MassDevelopment. Vasquez details ...

Democratic Black Caucus endorses Team Fulop, but Black community leaders have their doubts Updated Jan 25, 2021; Posted Jan 25, 2021 Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop talks about his four years in office, Thursday, June 29, 2017.(Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal) EJAEJA Facebook Share The news that the Hudson County Democratic Black Caucus has endorsed Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and his city council slate in the 2021 election comes as no surprise, two community activists say. After all,...

Support for zero-fare WRTA continues to grow as Mass. Audubon Society urges city to extend fare suspension Updated Jan 26, 2021; More support continues to roll in for an extension of the Worcester Regional Transit Authority’s suspension of fares. The Mass. Audubon Society is the latest organization to vocalize its support for an extension of the WRTA’s fare free policy, which was enacted last March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, the WRTA Advisory Board debated continuing the f...

Hudson County View The Hudson County Democratic Black Caucus, which includes state Senator Sandra Cunningham, Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (both D-31), County Commissioner Jerry Walker (D-3), and Board of Education Vice President Lekendrick Shaw, is endorsing Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and his council slate. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and Hudson County Commissioner Jerry Walker. By John Heinis/Hudson County View “The investments that Jersey City is making in the Black com...

Team Fulop re-election efforts have $1.4M in the bank, no new potential challenger filings By John Heinis/Hudson County View According to a January 19th ELEC filing, the mayor’s account has a balance of around $993,591. Fulop is seeking a third term in November and announced he’d be running again at a fundraiser back in February. Additionally, Team Fulop, which includes Council members Denise Ridley, Mira Prinz-Arey, Rich Boggiano, Yousef Saleh, Jermaine Robinson, Daniel Rivera, Joyce Watte...

Sedition, treason, abomination ... disheartening, discouraging — and just plain sad.

Jersey City Council approves $1M contract for COVID-19 vaccination site By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View The resolution before the governing body faced scrutiny since Bespoke was only formed in October, according to New York state filings, and only has two employees – despite claiming to have tested over 400,000 individuals during the pandemic. “I have full faith in [Health and Human Services] Director [Stacey] Flanagan and everything she has done so far in the course of this pandemic,”...