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April Daye Lady of Burlesque/Hope Diamond Jersey Deputy Mayor

As anybody who spends time muckraking can tell you, pursuing stories about political corruption can take you to some passing strange places. Particularly in New Jersey... In July the FBI bagged a passel of Jersey pols on corruption charges. Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona...

Heath Slocum Beats Them All

Heath Slocum outplayed the rest of the PGA Tour field this weekend, shooting a 67 final round to win by one stroke. Slocum, in a battle with some of the best golfers in the world, Tiger, Els, Stricker, sunk a 20...

Jersey City Dreaming: Bullets, Bribes, and Unreal Real Estate

Last night I dreamed I went to Jersey City again... I lived in Jersey City, New Jersey for sizable chunks of time during the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The experience made a deep impression on me. Which is why I still write about JC when events resonate. In June an auction of...

Jersey City Shooting: 5 Police Officers Shot and 2 Suspects Dead

In an early morning Jersey City shooting, five police officers were badly shot and two suspects are dead after the primary suspect had an automatice weapon according to Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy. " The...

Baby's Body Tossed with the Trash at New Jersey Hospital

Jersey City, New Jersey - Police are searching garbage dumps for the body of a baby boy delivered at Christ Hospital and apparently thrown out with the trash, authorities said today."Bashire Moore was born days...

Communities Seek Help for Declining Neighborhoods due to Foreclosures

The number of foreclosures continued to rise in New Jersey towns, counties and cities. Paterson registered the worst in the area with a high 10 percent foreclosure rate, which is considered very high according to national levels. 2,246 foreclosed properties have already been...

World Economy: Investors Remain Jittery

The world's current Bear markets remain jittery this week as the US government bails out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Unemployment in the USA reached a peak of 6.1% and consumers continue to...

Mexican Tonala Artisans to New York

I visited Tonala Jalisco many years ago, shopping to decorate my house, I saw so many beautiful things I couldn't make up my mind on what to buy. I finally bought an exquisitely and delicately  painted...

1st hand experience at Obama Rally in Jersey City

Standing in line for 3 hours to see Obama in Jersey City on wednesday was well worth it.  While I am still not certain who I am going to vote for, I must confess that Obama did leave me with a favorable...

Hudson Securities announces the implementation of FIXEdge

"FIXEdge enables Broker/Dealers and Institutions to route Orders to its Institutional Trading Desk and Hudson's Automated Trading platform, using various FIX Protocols. Recently, Hudson Securities, Inc. has successfully established 22 Fix Connections to well over 3 dozen...

Fire Breaks Out in Jersey City Building

One of the new luxury condos in JC went up in smoke last night. Fortunately, no reports of injuries."ERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A fire broke out Monday night near the top of a high-rise luxury condominium building...

9/11 in NYC

Today NYC will see the standard array of 9/11 commemorative events, but to be honest nobody I know is planning to go to any of them. For one thing, it's raining right now. For another, we're kind of over it --...

Woman Near NJ Airport Finds Rocket Launcher in Front Yard

Details are still sketchy on this, but a Jersey City woman, living near Newark Airport, has reported finding a missile launcher lying on her front lawn. News sources are claiming that it's a shoulder fired...

Katie Rees loses tiara, Donald keeps the swoop, Deryk Schlessinger shows NO h...

UPDATE: The swoop is still rehashing Rosie and selling himself. Miss USA Tara Connor retires her tiara for Tennessee's Rachel Smith, a journalism graduate of Belmont University. All 50 states and the District of...

Wendy McCaw takes on Bank of America over Estonian purchases

DAILY SOUND BY MELANIE CARROLL DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT "Purchases made during a summer trip to Estonia prompted billionaire Wendy McCaw to sue the Bank of America after the credit card giant allegedly failed...

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