Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE STANDELLS!

We here at the Jersey City Desk would like to send this one out to all our brave and patient friends in Hoboken and parts of Jersey City who had to go through all they had to endure this past week with Suez Water forgetting where they put their tools. Yes yes we know the song is about Boston but tonight let's use our imaginations and pretend it's about Hoboken and Newport. The Standells with 'Dirty Water'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with NEKO CASE!

Beautiful warm holiday weekend evenings are to be met with joyful music and thus we send you out the door tonight with Neko Case and a song that if you can't dance to you're dead. 'Honky Tonk Hiccups' wrapping up another Music Series.

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We hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. Johnny and the crew are gonna try and sleep in we've all enjoyed so much food and drink. If you need anything overnight just ask the night guy here, Owen.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all and a friendly reminder as we do every year, thew dump in Stockbridge Massachusetts is closed today.

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Watching Gone With the Wind before bed. Maybe the south lost because they were such bad actors.

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The company performing Jersey City's reval speaks in court papers

There were a lot of stories and even more speculation that after becoming mayor-elect and promptly canceling the reval which was 95% done with Realty Appraisal Co., was done to protect Fulop's base downtown from some much bigger tax bills. In court papers Realty Appraisal Co. says that's exactly what happened:

Rubenstein alleges in a sworn statement filed with the court on Aug. 18 that Fulop called off the reval soon after he was elected mayor in 2013 because of pressure from homeowners that formed his political base and not, as Fulop alleges, because Realty Appraisal hired a former top city official to help it win the reval contract.

Owners of Downtown brownstones, townhomes and condos "knew their properties were among the most under-assessed in the city," Rubenstein said. "They had the most to gain from halting the revaluation, and that was what their councilperson promised he would do if elected mayor."

Ouch.

Mayor Fulop trotted out his spokesman Ryan Jacobs, who made quite mistake in his comments and a gift to people like Johnny when he said since Realty Appraisal Company hired a former JC city official to somehow win the reval contract that is why it was canceled right at the end. Jacobs said because of this allegation in Monmouth County it proved shutting down their work and stopping payment was the right thing to do.

Uh, Ryan, if allegations now equal proof you're in a heaping pile of shit. Shall we revisit the Bubba Cowan lawsuit? There were some allegations we should now take as proof, yes? A lot of people are alleging the idea to file paperwork calling city hall dilapidated reeks of patronage. Must mean it's proved patronage, should Johnny be free to just write stories like that?

If allegations now equal proof Johnny's going to have to hire writers.

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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
 -- Phyllis Diller

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The downtown destruction of one of the old Cooke Warehouses has begun

So get those cameras and videotape recorders and head down to Morgan and Warren to watch the fun!

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A Jersey City Desk Editorial: Donald Trump is BANNED from Jersey City

Look Fuckface VonClownstick, if you're going to make shit up about the city where Johnny lives and loves then you and he are gonna have a problem. This is a fine city with GREAT PEOPLE and a lot to offer and one of those things is NOT, nor has it ever been, support of terrorism. People here love America and work hard, so they can help support the money you suck out of our economy (Thanks for swallowing) with your ugly-ass buildings' tax abatements. Why would you build in a city that cheered on 9/11 anyway?

For your crimes of opening your yuuuuuuuge mouth up and simply making shit up, or as Johnny likes to call it 'writing checks with your mouth your body can't cash', you Donald Trump are hereby and forthwith BANNED from Jersey City.

You brought this on yourself. Maybe some self-reflection from something other than a mirror is in order.