2008 Woodie Awards
Newark Beat
Issue date: 10/7/08 Section: Newark/World Beat
PETA, the animal rights group, is creating quite a stir in Newark with a controversial billboard. Placed near the Prudential Center, the billboard alludes to two European studies that show a link between autism and cow's milk.
Mimicking the Got Milk campaign, the billboard poses the question "Got Autism?" while showing a bowl of cereal. The decision to place the billboard in Newark came from a Center for Disease Control and Prevention study stating that the city has one of the highest rates of autism in the country..
Meanwhile, the CDC stated that none of their studies have researched a link between milk and autism.
Newark's latest streetscaping project is targeting Ferry Street in the Ironbound. Mayor Cory Booker made the announcement along with East Ward Council Member Augusto Amador.
The total cost of the project is expected to be about $1.9 million and will be paid by the City of Newark and the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
The Ironbound Business Improvement District is also a partner in the project. Seth A. Grossman, the District's executive director, said, "This streetscape project is an example of how government and business working together can successfully move a community forward."
Newark City Council President Mildred Crump recently helped to organize a voter registration drive in Newark. The target of the drive? Not the city's youth, but ex-convicts who have completed their sentences.
Typically ex-convicts are not allowed to vote, but New Jersey is one of 20 states that allow ex-convicts to re-register.
Speaking about the need for the registration drive, Crump said, "Too often when we think of disenfranchised voters, we forget about the ex-offender population. Today we're encouraging ex-offenders to beat the rap once and for all and register and then go to the polls and vote on Nov.4."
The Newark Renaissance Trees Program was launched by the Newark and the Tree Foundation to plant trees, flowers and other types of greenery at seven locations around the city. The program aims to plant more than 160 trees in Newark this fall and encourages the city's residents to take part by volunteering with the program.
Mimicking the Got Milk campaign, the billboard poses the question "Got Autism?" while showing a bowl of cereal. The decision to place the billboard in Newark came from a Center for Disease Control and Prevention study stating that the city has one of the highest rates of autism in the country..
Meanwhile, the CDC stated that none of their studies have researched a link between milk and autism.
Newark's latest streetscaping project is targeting Ferry Street in the Ironbound. Mayor Cory Booker made the announcement along with East Ward Council Member Augusto Amador.
The total cost of the project is expected to be about $1.9 million and will be paid by the City of Newark and the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
The Ironbound Business Improvement District is also a partner in the project. Seth A. Grossman, the District's executive director, said, "This streetscape project is an example of how government and business working together can successfully move a community forward."
Newark City Council President Mildred Crump recently helped to organize a voter registration drive in Newark. The target of the drive? Not the city's youth, but ex-convicts who have completed their sentences.
Typically ex-convicts are not allowed to vote, but New Jersey is one of 20 states that allow ex-convicts to re-register.
Speaking about the need for the registration drive, Crump said, "Too often when we think of disenfranchised voters, we forget about the ex-offender population. Today we're encouraging ex-offenders to beat the rap once and for all and register and then go to the polls and vote on Nov.4."
The Newark Renaissance Trees Program was launched by the Newark and the Tree Foundation to plant trees, flowers and other types of greenery at seven locations around the city. The program aims to plant more than 160 trees in Newark this fall and encourages the city's residents to take part by volunteering with the program.
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