Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE VIOLENT FEMMES!

You'll want to turn this song up if you have small children. It's catchy, has easy to remember lyrics and says fuck a lot. 'Add It Up' for your family-listening pleasure.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE BEATLES!

Johnny will readily admit to being a Stones guy in the age-old Rolling Stones vs Beatles wars. That does not mean he doesn't fully appreciate all the greatness from the Liverpool lads. While he doesn't have the full on catalog of Beatles music (The standards thanks) that he does of the Stones he truly enjoys a great Beatles song every now and then. Also, since he didn't burn himself out on them when they inundated the airwaves he really loves hearing them these days. Let's get ready for tomorrow's full on rain and wind show with 'Hello, Goodbye'. This clip looks like it was filmed sometime around Easter, no?

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Time for Jersey City, After Dark

More than a political lesson, a lesson in following through

What's the official nickname of New Jersey? If Michigan is the Wolverine State, Ohio is the Buckeye State and New York is the Empire State what is New Jersey? The Garden State? Well, not officially. Even though that has appeared on state license plates since the 50's nobody ever thought to make it the official state slogan...until now.

Follow along as a girl scout troop, who noticed the lack of an OFFICIAL state slogan, work with the legislature to get that done.

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OK, great, print it. That'll be $39.95 for 4 of the 8x10's and 8 of the 4x8's. Pay the cashier on the way out. Thanks for choosing the Sears Photo Studio
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12 JCPD officers in "stand around construction site jobs" tax scandal now suspended

12 Jersey City police officers have now been suspended (with pay) for their part in not paying taxes on those shameful standing around construction site "jobs". Terrence T. MacDonald not only has this minor update, he has a much bigger one to share as well. First the deck chair shuffling:

The officers have not been charged with a crime, and the city has declined to specify how they are related to the federal investigation into officers who worked private security jobs off duty. They were placed on modified duty and stripped of their guns in January.

Here's where McDonald really moves this story forward:

Law-enforcement sources say federal prosecutors are investigating whether some officers took improper payments directly from private companies for performing off-duty security. The companies are also under investigation, the sources say.

Very interesting. No doubt they're more interested in keeping their names out of the paper than pay penalties because they all have to move money to go to the toilet. If you do find out feel free to pass their names along to Johnny.

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Rangers LOL, weak sisters of the Original Six.

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11 days in Jersey City, 4 homicides

Caitlin Mota with the Jersey Journal in some very good reporting got some troubling quotes from family members of the latest victim. The shooting at Woodlawn Ave between Corcoran and Van Cleef streets happened this afternoon. As helicopter hovered above and the body was covered with a white tent Mota heard some very chilling quotes which make this a much much bigger story.

Any family members and friends would be angry, sad, upset, raging, any number of emotions but those emotions turned out these quotes:

"It's not even summer yet," one resident said while sitting on his porch.

"Where the (expletive) were you when this happened?" one woman yelled to the authorities. "You're always out here busting for the wrong (expletive)."

Boy howdy you hope that doesn't become some kind of premonition about a long hot summer with residents mad at the JCPD for, in their opinion, concentrating on the wrong priorities. We'll all know soon enough but this is an article you put a star next to and refer back to.

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Sally Yates, American patriot.

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Fulop forced to admit the Kushner/Journal Square abatements tainted

On both Twitter and Facebook this past weekend, Mayor Steve Fulop was forced (in part by yours truly who was first out of the box in criticisms over the burgeoning EB-5 scandal in JSQ last week, of course along with other watchdog groups) to openly admit the city would not be backing the Kushner abatement after video and still images came out of China of Jared Kushner relatives dropping his name to get funding for Journal Square properties (and according to CBS News the Trump buildings on Bay St. as well) where a large buy in gets an EB-5 visa to get a green card. Yeah, the Trump Administration is all about keeping people out, unless they can give him money.

So, good for Mayor Fulop for announcing this but it's too bad it took an outcry to get his announcement made public.

Ever vigilant Jersey City, we must always all be ever vigilant with our money.