Aaron Morrill

2 days ago | jcitytimes.com | Aaron Morrill

When Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop won an upset election for City Council in June 2005 against the establishment-backed incumbent, Junior Maldonado, many believed the election of the 28-year-old Goldman Sachs trader and Iraq veteran represented a break from the city’s bad old days of political corruption. Official documents obtained by the Jersey City Times through public records requests could now rewrite that narrative.

1 week ago | jcitytimes.com | Aaron Morrill |Ron Leir

The tragic crash yesterday in which a sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River, killing all six of its occupants, came after repeated calls by residents and local officials to end or limit such flights in and around Jersey City. According to reports by The New York Times, ABC-TV, New York Post and CNN World News, a family of two adults and three children, ages 4, 5 and 11, fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, Wednesday afternoon, killing everyone aboard.

2 weeks ago | jcitytimes.com | Aaron Morrill

As the bankruptcy of CarePoint Health, the non-profit that operates Christ Hospital, wends its way through a federal court in Delaware, concern about the hospital’s future is growing for some. A confluence of factors, ranging from the valuable land underneath it to the changing economics of health care, is making an outcome that serves the community’s needs less likely, say those familiar with the 153-year-old institution on Palisade Avenue.

3 weeks ago | jcitytimes.com | Alexis McDonell |Aaron Morrill

A crowd of students, teachers, administrators, and, of course, politicians, gathered under a crisp blue sky yesterday morning to see the ground broken on the Canal Crossing Charter School Campus Project. Located on a vacant Caven Point Avenue lot next to Cinelease Studios, the project will establish a campus for two charter public schools — BelovED and Empowerment Academy— and accommodate 2,040 students across several state-of-the-art educational facilities.

4 weeks ago | jcitytimes.com | Aaron Morrill

Brian Platt, a former protege of Mayor Steven Fulop who rose to become Jersey City’s business administrator, was fired today from his job as city manager in Kansas City. According to NPR, the City Council made the decision during a two-hour closed-door meeting. The unanimous vote to let Platt go followed a nearly $1 million verdict in a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a Kansas City employee who said he was demoted for resisting Platt’s directive to lie to the media.