Jersey City voters have the opportunity to make history this election by approving a non-binding referendum on adding a small levy to property tax bills for a dedicated Arts and Culture Trust Fund. Similar to dedicated parks funds in Jersey City and other municipalities, the new fund would be the […]
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From North Miami to Kendall to Key Biscayne and down the Florida Keys, Miami-Dade and Monroe county residents on Tuesday will select their voices in Tallahassee by voting for representative in the Florida House. Some races will be decided on Tuesday; others in November. Here are our recommendations for the […]
Nursing home staffers are still falling ill at an alarming rate in New Jersey. There were 4,117 such workers with coronavirus as of Friday, which is actually more than the number of residents currently afflicted in those long-term care facilities. More than 17,500 have recovered, but 143 have died. As […]
If you wanted to, you can watch Deschutes County Commission and Bend City Council meetings from home. That was true even before the pandemic. Spoiler alert! They tend to be low wattage. Exceptions do happen. Debates can get feisty. Public testimony can be passionate and compelling. A Bend City Council […]
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THE ISSUE: It’s Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity represent welcome points of light in a difficult time, and they deserve a brighter spotlight. The number of vaccinated people in Lancaster County […]
Hand-picked by Condé Nast’s chief content officer Anna Wintour, Margaret Zhang is Vogue China’s new editorial director. Vogue Portugal released the news on Wednesday evening. More from WWD “I am so delighted that Margaret is our new editor-in-chief of Vogue China,” said Wintour. “Her international experience, exceptional multi-platform digital expertise […]
After a public hearing and three public breakout sessions – and with surveys seeking community input still being done – the state Department of Environmental Protection has a lot to consider as it continues working on the restoration plan for Liberty State Park’s “interior.’’ A number of positives have come […]
photo by: Journal-World Photo Illustration Lawrence Journal-World Editorial Think whatever you want about the fairness of Twitter banning Donald Trump from its platform, but reasonable people should quash this notion that Twitter’s decision somehow is a violation of the First Amendment. Instead, reasonable people — which hopefully […]
Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ Jan. 3 The Palm Beach Post on problems with Florida’s unemployment system: At the risk of sounding like a record (remember those?) that continuously skips to the point of irritation, we must ask: What’s the progress on updating CONNECT, Florida’s infamous unemployment compensation system […]
Editor’s note: The Jersey Journal editorial board stands by its previous editorial and rebuts this letter in a new post. By George Solter A recent editorial in The Jersey Journal makes several blatantly false claims regarding our district’s pre-K program that I feel need to be addressed publicly. It would […]
If you have yet to vote in this election, we urge you one last time: Vote for the “Fair Tax Amendment,” which would allow Illinois to ask a little more of the very wealthiest among us so that the middle class and working poor can catch a break. It is […]
Jersey City Council President Joyce Watterman hit the nail on the head during last week’s virtual public hearing on plans to restore and open 234 acres of Liberty State Park’s interior section. “You have a task before you,” she sympathetically told officials with the state Department of Environmental Protection, which […]