{"id":258729,"date":"2026-06-08T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:06:00","slug":"editorial-jersey-citys-250m-question-where-is-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258729\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Jersey City&#8217;s $250M Question: Where is the Budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780884360_367_player-standard.jpg\" alt=\"Everlit Audio Player\" style=\"width: 100%;display: block\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Subscribe today to listen to this content<br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/subscribe\/\" class=\"everlit-paywall-btn\" style=\"display: inline-block;padding: 6px 14px;border-radius: 50px;text-decoration: none;font-size: 11px;font-weight: 500;white-space: nowrap;flex-shrink: 0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        Get Access<br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three weeks after taking office, Mayor James Solomon announced that Jersey City was facing a staggering $250 million budget deficit and a fiscal emergency. Difficult decisions would have to be made. However, four months later, no proposed budget or strategic plan has been presented to the public, both of which are necessary\u00a0if the city is to successfully emerge from the financial mess left by the prior administration.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"newspack-registration__description\">Get the the news you won\u2019t find anywhere else! Enter your email below for two free articles a month.<\/p>\n<p>For unlimited access to our unmatched content, <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To receive our email newsletters, <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/jersey-city-times-newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SIGN UP here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any issues, please email info@jcitytimes.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe today to listen to this content Get Access Three weeks after taking office, Mayor James Solomon announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,59904,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-258729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-jersey-city-opinion","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}