Category: Jersey City

>Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno hails role of small businesses in being jobs generators at Jersey City kickoff of Global Entrepreneurship Week

>Jersey City and Ridgewood Adopt Complete Streets Policies, Bringing Statewide Total to 13
June 15th, 2011 by Jay Corbalis

When the state Department of Transportation adopted its Complete Streets policy in late 2009, it represented a significant step in the department’s ongoing effort to improve pedestrian safety, as well as a formal recognition that roads in New Jersey are meant for all users, not only drivers. The policy applies only to state roads, however, which represent only around 12 percent of all roads in the state. The rest are controlled by counties and municipalities, which are encouraged, but not required, to adopt their own Complete Streets policies.

https://www.njfuture.org/2011/06/15/jersey-city-and-ridgewood-adopt-complete-streets-policies-bringing-statewide-total-to-13/

>U.S. prosecutors seek names of firefighters, officers who used steroids from Jersey City doctor

Published: Sunday, May 08, 2011, 8:00 AM Updated: Sunday, May 08, 2011, 1:51 PM
By Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger

Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena seeking the names of hundreds of law enforcement officers and firefighters who obtained anabolic steroids through an unscrupulous Jersey City doctor, part of a wider criminal probe targeting physicians who improperly prescribe the drugs.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark served the subpoena on the New York State Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, which collects data from pharmacies on every prescription they fill for steroids and other controlled dangerous substances, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation.

The drugs were shipped to the officers and firefighters in New Jersey from a pharmacy in Brooklyn.

The officials, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said prosecutors do not intend to bring charges against the steroid users unless it’s determined they sold the substances.

Rather, one of the officials said, the aim is to find out if the officers and firefighters obtained the drugs from other doctors after the death of Joseph Colao, a Jersey City physician who prescribed steroids and human growth hormone when they weren’t medically necessary.

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/us_prosecutors_seek_names_of_o.html

>Jersey City and Newark — among the 10 most expensive places in the nation to run a company

Jersey City and Newark among most expensive cities to run a business

New Jersey has never been a bargain for businesses, but a new study ranks two of the state’s cities — Jersey City and Newark — among the 10 most expensive places in the nation to run a company.

https://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/jersey_city_and_newark_among_m.html

The pair joins other such pricey towns as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco, according to the 16th annual Cost of Doing Business Survey by Claremont McKenna College in California.

In nearly all of the top 10 cities, a mid-size retailer must pay more than $10,000 a year just for business license fees, the report said.

The study looked at 413 cities across the nation and examined their licensing fees and property, utilities and sales taxes.

Being expensive isn’t a good distinction, especially during a time when struggling businesses might be thinking about relocating, said Brad Jensen, a researcher at the Rose Institute, which conducted the study.

“States that have low taxes usually have a competitive advantage over other states,” Jensen said. “Obviously, there are a lot of factors to consider when moving your business to another state, but in this economy, it could be the thing that tips you over.”

https://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/jersey_city_and_newark_among_m.html