“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge amongst the people” John Adams
…if the clerk can’t find these missing cards? I cast my vote in one of these districts and I am very concerned. - IamLegend
Editors Note: So far we have had no way of substantiating this story. We have spoken with a Jersey journal reporter who we hope investigates further.
Plans for the Bayonne Mayoral Debate to be sponsored by the Bayonne Public Advocate and the Masonic Lodge are moving forward. The date of the debate is October 24th.Tomorrow, Thursday, Sept 25th, at 6:30, will be the first in person volunteers meeting of the Bayonne Citizens Debate Committee. The meeting will be held at the [...]
From today’s Jersey Journal:
A proposal by Interim Bayonne Mayor Terrence Malloy to boost the pay of the mayor and City Council members misfired Wednesday night when the council refused to go along.
At the end of the council caucus, City Clerk Robert Sloan - a candidate for mayor in the November special election - asked the [...]
UPDATE (2:15PM): I just got en email from Stan Marko, as it turns out he emailed all members of the city Council on July 14th with the graffiti issue after the original story by Scott Y was picked up on a blog known as Plancks Constant.
Recently in the Jersey Journal and on the local Bayonne [...]
As many have noticed, the past month has not been a good one for the Bayonne Public Advocate website. I attempted to merge with another website, thejcboard.com, in order to offer more forum-like functionality to facilitate easier conversation for the users. Unfortunately the plan to merge was premature and many wrinkles were just not ironed [...]
Box movers making $37 an hour. Some workers making up to $75 an hour. What are these rates for? Working the city elections. It seems that a “tradition” has been set up over time to give the city workers an extra “bonus” in their salary for working early & late hours on election day.
This issue [...]
Not much on here about this potential Mayoral candidate. If we all were serious about Bayonne going in a new direction and getting away from the same ole’ same ole, we should be looking to vote for Yitzchak. He is new to Bayonne, young, and could bring a different view to this city. [...]
The Bayonne Public Advocate is pleased to present an interview conducted with Mayor Malloy via email. Mayor Malloy was kind enough to answer your reader submitted questions in addition to the topics that the Bayonne Public Advocate will be asking of all potential Mayoral candidates.
Due to it’s length, the interview is attached in word document [...]
After reading about Kaplan I decided to shot off a message to City Hall about my feelings on the matter. Afterwards I emailed the group about it. Neil suggested that I post it here, so here goes. The beginning is my message to my friends and the bottom portion is what was sent to City [...]
Editors Note: The following is Scorpo24’s proposal for reform of city government and tax structure. As always the comments of the writers are their own. The Advocate merely exists to allow citizens to present their ideas in an intelligent and uncensored way for the betterment of the city.
In order to counter the effects of [...]
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