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CLEAN SWEEP FOR TEAM BARAKA WITH McIVER, McCALLUM AND AMADOR RUNOFF...
By Karen Yi
Two incumbent Newark City Council members and a newcomer -- who all ran with the support of Mayor Ras Baraka -- won their respective...
Newark Paves The Way For 30 Miles Of Road Repairs (See...
See a list of local Newark streets scheduled for repaving work in 2018.
By Eric Kiefer, Patch Staff | Mar 5, 2018 1:53 pm...
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Newark Mayor: ‘We need a local strategy that has a global view’
NEWARK, NJ - Mayor Ras Baraka’s second inaugural address took on both local and national issues...
Three Newark council races head to runoff
By David Wildstein
Voters in three wards will go to the polls on Tuesday when a runoff...
It’s a wrap: Wawa is not coming to Newark
By Barry Carter
The developer of a proposed Wawa in Newark has thrown in the towel on...
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RPA Report Calls For Newark Airport Overhaul
By Ang Santos
The Regional Plan Association (RPA) proposes a thirty to forty year long, $50 billion...
Rick Thigpen Promoted To Senior Vice President – Corporate Citizenship, PSEG; Karen Reif Named Vice President – Renewables And Energy Solutions, PSE&G
NEWARK, N.J., PRNewswire/ Rick Thigpen, vice president - state governmental affairs for PSEG, has been promoted to...
Pride of Newark
By W. Raymond Ollwerther Princeton Alumni Weekly
Jordan Thomas ’18 and Sen. Cory Booker
David Kelly Crow
When...
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Former principal Roger Leon chosen as Newark’s new superintendent
By Patrick Wall
Former principal and veteran administrator Roger Leon has been chosen as Newark’s new schools chief — its first since the city regained control...
Meet Audrey, she works in Mayor @rasjbaraka’s pilot program that hires homeless people to...
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Queen Latifah Delivers Keynote to Rutgers Newark Graduates
By Heather Kays
NEWARK, NJ - Queen Latifah returned to her hometown of Newark Monday to deliver the keynote address at Rutgers University—Newark, where she stressed...
Pride of Newark
By W. Raymond Ollwerther Princeton Alumni Weekly
Jordan Thomas ’18 and Sen. Cory Booker
David Kelly Crow
When Jordan Thomas ’18 met with Sen. Cory Booker after...
Cory Booker on His Side, Newark’s Mayor Charts a Pragmatic Second Term
By Nick Corasaniti
NEWARK — Mayor Ras J. Baraka strode through the room with confidence as he took the stage in a hotel in downtown Newark,...
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Baraka Said To Be Picking Pennington For BA
Newark mayor Ras Baraka is preparing to name Eric Pennington as the new city business administrator, according to two sources connected to the mayor.
Pennington,...
Ras Baraka claims ‘touchdown’ in Newark mayoral election
By Karen Yi
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka claimed resounding victory Tuesday night to a second four-year term -- a win that will let him lead the state's largest city at a...
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CLEAN SWEEP FOR TEAM BARAKA WITH McIVER, McCALLUM AND AMADOR RUNOFF WIN
By Karen Yi
Two incumbent Newark City Council members and a newcomer -- who all ran with the support of Mayor Ras Baraka -- won their respective races in Tuesday's runoff elections, and will serve four-year terms...
Pride of Newark
By W. Raymond Ollwerther Princeton Alumni Weekly
Jordan Thomas ’18 and Sen. Cory Booker
David Kelly Crow
When Jordan Thomas ’18 met with Sen. Cory Booker after Booker’s Class Day address, the two had plenty in common...
Nurse Practitioner from South Orange Honored for HIV/AIDS Work in Newark
By Rebecca Panico
NEWARK, NJ - Peter Oates was working as a private nurse for Princess Diana’s father in England, but left when he was offered a job in the 1980s at San Francisco General...
Rafael Holdings to Ring the NYSE Opening Bell
NEWARK, N.J., July 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chairman and CEO of Rafael Holdings, Inc., (NYSE American: RFL), Howard Jonas, will ring the NYSE Opening Bell® on behalf of the Company at 9:30 this morning, Friday, July 6th.
Rafael Holdings was spun-off...
Newark curfew for unaccompanied minors takes effect Friday
Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose announce that beginning today, Friday, July 6th 2018 through Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd, 2018, the City of Newark will enforce its Summer...
Homeless shelter that closed in sweltering heat reopens (for now)
By Karen Yi
The Newark homeless shelter that shut its doors on Monday has reopened thanks to funding from private donors that will allow the facility to operate through the end of the month, city officials said.
The announcement comes...
NJ Devils Partner with City Hall to Renovate Newark Ice Rink
By Jared Kofsky
When most Newarkers think of an ice rink in their city, the Prudential Center comes to mind. Built in 2007, the arena in Downtown Newark is home to the New Jersey Devils hockey...
HOMEGROWN EDUCATOR CHARTING NEW COURSE FOR NEWARK SCHOOLS
Roger León, the ultimate Brick City insider, gets chance to chart course for school district as era of state control has ended
Credit: Chalkbeat/Patrick Wall
Newark's new superintendent, Roger León, at a graduation ceremony in...
Essex County College Taken Off Probation
By Rebecca Panico
NEWARK, NJ - Essex County College was taken off probation by the region’s higher education accrediting agency.
The community college was put on probation last year by Middle States Commission of Higher Education...
Newark, ‘The Brick City,’ Is The Hub Of The Internet
BY Steve Lubetkin
The Newark data infrastructure now is the envy of many locations around the country, featuring 10 gigabit-per-second speed, one of the fastest urban data networks.
NEWARK, NJ—If someone asked you to identify the hub...