It was 2017, and Jersey City Forester Ryan Metz had had enough. After only nine months on the job he tendered his resignation, frustrated by the city’s underfunded and dysfunctional forestry program. In an explosive four page resignation memo obtained by the Jersey City Times, Metz catalogued myriad problems and detailed his ideas for addressing them.

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Aaron is the Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the Jersey City Times. He attended Berklee College of Music and the State University of New York at Purchase. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer...