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.

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Tuesday November 3, 2009 is a big day for the state of New Jersey, but perhaps an even bigger day for the city of New Brunswick.  While the winner of the gubernatorial election will surely result in little change from the status quo (that is unless Dagget comes out victorious) New Brunswick residences have the chance to shake up the governmental structure in this city big time. Now I didn’t write this to explain the issues at hand involving the Ward Campaign, and no Mayor Cahill, I am …

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 …

A great deal of Rutgers students affectionately call New Brunswick “home,” at least for eight months out of the year. While the city certainly isn’t without its quirks (we like it that way), it has been a model for growth and development, dating back long before any of us were students. The city of New Brunswick and Rutgers University have together enjoyed over two decades of vast revitalization and enhancement, and that’s no coincidence.

First of all, I would like to thank the Johnsonville Press for bringing the issue of wards in New Brunswick to the forefront of their publication. Their coverage has been well-researched and thorough. I would also like to thank them for graciously affording me the opportunity to respond to the misleading and divisive comments from City Spokesman Bill Bray that were published in last week’s edition.

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.

By Mike Stuzynski
Editor in Chief
As read at the Demarest Coffeehouse on 2/26/09
With an increase in air, water, and light pollution since the industrial revolution, transparency in many forms is in shrinking supply.  It is only natural for such problems to carry over to the social sphere from the environmental, and so we have come to accept a lack of transparency in our University, our city, our state, right on up to infinity.  Most are willing to concede that this is undesirable, yet few are motivated to do anything serious …