Stakeholders excited after DEP unveils ecological restoration plans for Liberty State Park interior

Stakeholders are excited about the state Department of Environmental Protection’s plan for the ecological restoration of the Liberty State Park interior. During a virtual public meeting Thursday, the DEP unveiled a proposal to restore the vegetation and bring back multiple species native to the tidal wetlands, non-tidal wetlands, and uplands […]

Vaccinating smokers put too many people on line with seniors; Active rec in Liberty State Park mustn’t harm restoration; Topsy-turvy world in Jersey City politics | Letters

State must rethink vax plan I have read with great interest the opinion piece in The Jersey Journal (“Vaccine rollout a massive failure for seniors”; Jan. 29) and agree with everything written in the article. It was spot on, as were the letters by senior citizens relating the problems in securing […]

Holding Big Oil accountable; Protect Liberty State Park; Jersey City council got housing ordinance right | Letters

Momentum rising against Big Oil Ed Potosnak is right (“More NJ cities should follow Hoboken’s lead, sue Big Oil”). ExxonMobil and other Big Oil companies deserve to be held accountable for misleading the public for decades about the climate change damages they knew their products would cause. However, he understated […]

Sin and Scandal at Liberty University

On May 27th, the second day of mounting national outrage over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the president of America’s largest evangelical university decided it was the perfect time to blast out a tweet featuring the crudest of racial imagery. “I was adamantly opposed to the mandate […]

Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar 2020

Of all the beauty advent calendars available this year, Liberty’s offering is quite possibly the most coveted of them all. Since this long-loved department store released its first calendar in 2014, shoppers have queued the length of Carnaby Street on launch day, hoping to score one before the shelves were […]

Falwell Jr resigns from Liberty after former pool attendant alleges love triangle with wife: reports

Jerry Falwell, Jr. President of Liberty University Jerry Falwell, Jr. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Jerry Falwell Jr. denied reports that he had resigned as the president of Liberty University on Monday after a business associate alleged a seven-year consensual sexual relationship involving the influential evangelical figure and his wife. Falwell Jr. had taken a […]