In a case remarkably similar to the tragic story of Perth Amboy’s Dixon Rodriguez, Philadelphia police officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr. on Oct. 26. Police claim Wallace had a knife but, according to his family, he was suffering a…
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View The West Wing Special for free
With only one week left until Election Day, HBO Max is reminding everyone of the power of their vote by making A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote available for free viewing for non-subscribers at hbomax.com/votebecause. The special…
Mayor’s low-rent tactics challenged
Mayor Wilda Diaz is using low rent tactics to cheat in the ongoing election, according to one challenger who is asking for intervention from Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who recently issued guidance that prohibits Diaz from using city police officers…
Keith Raniere gets life in prison
Keith Raniere, founder of the group Nxivm and the subject of The Vow, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison. US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis read the sentence in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday, after more than a dozen people…
US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
On Monday, the majority of the Senate, led by Republicans, voted 52-48 to confirm the federal judge in a vote to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Six of the nine judges on the…
Trump inches toward dictatorship
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would let him more easily hire and fire tens of thousands of federal workers based on political reasons. Federal employee union leaders condemned Trump’s executive order, calling it “the most profound undermining…
Trump team pushes nuke dumping
Many Americans alarmed over the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, an economic disaster on par with the Great Depression, or the White House’s surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban would sleep better if they had assurances the radioactive…
Term limit lies pollute Perth Amboy politics
The most senior member of the Perth Amboy City Council says he supports term limits even though he ignored the opportunity for establishing them during his ten years on the governing body. In response to a question posed by the…
Make an appointment at MVC
Starting November 2, some New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Centers will no longer allow walk-ins, shifting to an appointment-only system. At other centers, certain transactions will be available by appointment. At all MVC Licensing Centers, out-of-state transfers will now be…
Gretchen Hickey defends Trump, attacks Armstead
After boxes of food distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were delivered to Linden residents this week, President Donald Trump found an advocate in Councilwoman Gretchen Hickey. Hickey was irate because a letter from Trump- who is a candidate…