Once again, Councilman Steve Fulop shows his value to our fair city

The one city councilman Jersey City can trust right now is working to try and improve the quality of life here while the others look to enrich their own bank accounts. Fulop is working to bring Google to Jersey City and encouraging city residents to log into Facebook and vote for our fair city to become one of the new Google test sites for an ultra high-speed broadband network.

Fulop wants enough support to come forward to ensure Google chooses Jersey City so they will put in fiber optics lines throughout the city making internet speeds much much much faster than those of Verizon FIOS or Comcast or AT&T offer. Comcast as some of you may have read throttles speed of users uploads and downloads and have themselves said that unlimited internet is not intended to be unlimited. Fulop said to show support to login to your Facebook account and enter the search term 'Google competition Jersey City.'

Thank you Steve Fulop, once again we get value out of your office.

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Academy Awards tomorrow night. Here's a short clip from the 1973 Best Picture Academy Award winner The Sting.


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Let's talk breakfast, the most important meal of the day

So, Hudson County is blessed with not one but two ultimate pancake/breakfast places. The venerable Brownstone Diner and Pancake Factory here in Jersey City (home to crooked politician payoffs over eggs and snausages) and the new Stacks of Pancake House and Cafe in Hoboken. The newcomer in the Mile Square City promises a more expanded menu soon and will add gluten free pancakes soon. We've gotta say we still like the selection at the Brownstone just a tad better which is to be expected. Johnny's gonna have to hit the Stacks of Pancake House and Cafe ASAP before passing taste verdicts.

So tell us dear reader, where is your favorite place to eat breakfast out? What makes it your favorite? What constitutes the perfect breakfast out?

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Anybody else notice the new blue glow atop the Trump Plaza tonight? The building design itself is a crime against mankind but the blueish/purple color, which will now be referred to as 'blurple', looked pretty cool. Another gem in the Jersey City skyline crown. We'd still love it if Merrill Lynch would leave their tower lit up past 12:05 am each morning. It looks great out Johnny's living room windows.

In fact, we're moved to song. "Wrapped like candy in a blue blue neon glow, fade away and radiate..."


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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with MANFRED MANN!

We kick off 70's AM Gold night with Manfred Mann and the 1975 platter that matters 'Blinded by the Light'. Johnny is well aware of who wrote this.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with AMERICA!

70's AM Gold night rolls on with America and the 1975 chart topper 'Sister Golden Hair'.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with ROCKY BURNETTE!

We wrap up 70's AM Gold night with the 1979 release by Rocky Burnette 'Tied of Toein' the Line'.

The giant Space Cat head with laser eyes attacked a group of Goldman Sachs employees last night

The giant Space Cat head with laser eyes that has menaced the Hudson and Essex County areas (oddly since Johnny moved here from Michigan) struck again late last night, around 11pm, suddenly rising up off the western bank of the Hudson River attacking several employees of Goldman Sachs heading to Exchange Place.

"We were just dumbfounded at first seeing a giant cat head floating around, I mean who wouldn't be? Then it started shooting at us with it's laser eyes and I just ran" said Julie Evans. "I moved here to get away from sudden unannounced attacks and now this" said Parminder Salim.

Jersey City police would only say several areas along the riverwalk were scorched and a couple benches destroyed. They would not say for certain if it was even a giant cat head with laser eyes; police spokeswoman Kelly Myers said "Who knows, maybe it was a runaway Toyota that took out those benches, we just aren't releasing anymore information at this time".

Witnesses said the cat head then darted towards the New York City side of the river.

(File footage)

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If your birthday is today, you share it with famed Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne. He'd be 122 today.

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A fish rots from the head down

Soon to be Education Commissioner (and former Jersey City mayor) Bret Schundler has told Jersey City's CREATE Charter School it's closing. Not because of funding cuts, but because of poor performance on standardized and other testing. In Schundler's letter to the school telling it of it's closing, he noted these sad statistics:

4.8 percent of the school's senior class was proficient in Language Arts last year and only 2.7 percent was proficient in math.

Schundler knows a little something about charter schools as he founded the Golden Door Charter School. In looking deeper at the facts in this case, we see one apparent big problem. The CREATE Charter School is run by former disgraced Jersey City councilman Steve Lipski, yes, he of the drinking problems and he of the urinating on people's heads at a concert in Washington D.C.

Geez, with leadership like Lipski's behind it it's no wonder the CREATE school has failed it's students.