"This could set the city back 10 or 20 years. The idea that Newark has become a destination city is going to come [to] an end."

-John Sandela, president of the Newark Fire Officers Union, on a plan submitted by the City of Newark to cut its workforce by one-fourth in the next two years. These cuts would amount to roughly 1000 firefighters, police and sanitation workers, according to Star-Ledger (Newark Star-Ledger, 8-30)