Please Contribute

one jersey city on facebook

A Plan to Add Supermarkets to Poor Areas, With Healthy Results

By DIANE CARDWELL
Published: NY Times, September 23, 2009

The Bloomberg administration, in its ever-expanding campaign to make New Yorkers eat better, has already clamped down on trans fats, deployed fruit vendors to produce-poor neighborhoods and prodded corner bodegas to sell leafy green vegetables and low-fat milk.

Now, in a city known more for hot dogs and egg [...]

Mayor Healy Puts on Rose-Colored Glasses for State of the City Address

By Jon Whiten • Feb 19th, 2009 • Category: Featured, News, Politics, Secton Lead

“There is good news out there, folks, in spite of what you might read in the local paper,” Mayor Healy said as he gave his State of the City address to a packed City Council chambers at City Hall Wednesday night.

In fact, [...]