NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The city's police unions have agreed to four more years of raises on March 25, six days before City Mayor Jim Cahill announced that he was running for a seventh four-year term.
The new four-year agreements, if approved by City Council and ratified by members of both unions, would last through December 31, 2017.
The agreements call for all police to receive 1.5% raises for 2014, a 2.0% raise in 2015, 1.5% in 2016, and 2.0% in 2017.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—In addition to deciding who will represent students in the Rutgers University Student Assembly next year, underclassmen are also being asked to vote whether to add small fees for organizations that support student issue to university tuition bills.
If the student body approves one or both of the fees in this today's online election, and at least 10% of the 25,000 eligible student voters cast ballots one way or the other, the fees will survive to the next stage of implementation.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Faced with an inconsistency in the public record, city officials admitted on Friday that a police officer who shot and killed Barry Deloatch, an unarmed 47-year-old city resident in September 2011 stayed on the payroll for 15 months before his resignation took effect.
On Friday, new city spokesperson Jennifer Bradshaw responded to longstanding questions about the resignation date of former city cop Brad Berdel.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Sandray Lemay-Callahan was killed crossing Route 1, one of the tri-state area's most dangerous highways for pedestrians on a Wednesday night last fall.
Sadly, her death was one of many on the route that traverses Middlesex County and has historically connected New Brunswick to cities like Trenton, Elizabeth, Newark, and Jersey City.
More than 16% of pedestrian deaths in Middlesex County occurred on the fabled highway.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—In the digital age, there’s at least one shady industry that’s growing rapidly: internet scams.
Scam artists have found easy targets in the massive numbers of unemployed individuals and college students who are searching, sometimes desperately, for employment.
Chantal Supardi, a new transfer student at Rutgers University, became a victim of a job scam in December after she applied to a job posting through Rutgers online career management system, CareerKnight.
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ—Loretta Ross, feminist organizer and co-founder of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, kicks off a series of free panel discussions and lectures centering on
issues of race at 7pm on Monday April 7.
The first discussion on Monday will be focussed on "Intersectionalism and Diversity." Ross will present a talk based on her work in the 1990's doing anti-Klan and anti-white supremacy organizing.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Another product of the basement scene here in Hub City is the budding rock trio known as Atlas Bloom, one of the many bands making a name for themselves in New Brunswick.
With catchy, guitar rythyms reminiscent of surf rock, combined with upbeat timing and melodies, Atlas Bloom delivers a full sound with just three members.
Atlas Bloom's first full-length LP entitled "First Light" includes that full sound and some great melodic hooks.
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