Local Group Urges Senate to Vote Down S-3157
Today, the State Senators of New Jersey are being asked to vote on S-3157. If signed into law, it would extend the time citizens must wait between submitting petitions for charter changes from 4 years to 10 years.  This is unreasonable, undemocratic, and harmful overall to civic engagement, and we are asking our State Senators to vote against this measure.

New Brunswick, NJ—Commissioners for the Middlesex County Board of Elections announced the unofficial count of provisional ballots Saturday morning in New Brunswick’s hotly contested municipal referendum.

For more than two years, Charlie Kratovil has been embroiled in a political battle with the City of New Brunswick. That battle comes to a head in this Tuesday’s election, when the question of New Brunswick’s system of government will be put to a vote. The last time this question was put to City residents was in 1986. Whichever way the vote goes, the question will not be eligible again for another four years. We sat down with Charlie, and Martha Guarnieri, President and Campaign Manager of grassroots pro-wards organization …

By the Johnsonville Press Editorial Staff

Several weeks ago, the Johnsonville Press published an article exploring the “wards question” in New Brunswick, as it has been represented in the mainstream media. Later that week, we were contacted by New Brunswick City Spokesman Bill Bray, who took issue with the way the wards question had been represented in our article (which can be found here in full). He offered to meet with our staff to clarify the City’s position.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ— Launching a bold grassroots electoral campaign of a magnitude not seen in decades, a diverse coalition of 50 New Brunswick residents hailing from all corners of the city filed petitions yesterday afternoon (Monday 4/6) to run for seats on the Middlesex County Democratic Committee in the upcoming June 2 election.

The following is a content-copy of an Empower Our Neighborhoods brochure, designed for the propagation of EON’s position on the wards question. We have included it here, in the same issue as our conversation with New Brunswick City Spokesman Bill Bray, in order to juxtapose the two viewpoints. Hopefully, access to both sides will provide the reader with a clearer understanding of the issue as it is presented to the public.