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Barack Obama’s Frenemy: Democratic Senator Bob Menendez

menendezJust across the Hudson River from Manhattan lies Union City, New Jersey. With 68,000 citizens it’s gritty, working class and a beautiful piece of Americana. For decades it had the largest concentration of Cuban-Americans outside of Miami. Some came to the town before the Cuban revolution in 1959 that put Fidel Castro and his Marxist government… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 7th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bob Menendez, Cuba, Iran | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Barack Obama’s Frenemy: Democratic Senator Bob Menendez

PA chairman’s United flights add to the twists and turns of a wide-ranging investigation

assetContent (8)TRENTON — In a story that has been told only by the slow-drip disclosure of subpoenas, the ongoing investigation into the George Washington Bridge scandal that has engulfed the Christie administration and some of his closest advisers continues to grow. In the latest revelations, United Airlines confirmed today that it has been asked to turn over… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 7th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Bridgegate, Chris Christie, Christie Administration, Crime, Crime and Punishment, David Samson, New Jersey, Paul Fishman, Port Authority | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on PA chairman’s United flights add to the twists and turns of a wide-ranging investigation

Cheney coming to N.J. for Reagan celebration, which includes jellybeans

assetContent (40)Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be making a rare appearance in New Jersey next month. The two-term vice president will join Garden State conservatives in Woodland Park as part of NJ Reagan Day, a commemoration of the country’s 40 th president, Ronald Reagan. The event will be held March 31 at the Westmount Country Club… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 6th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: NJ GOP | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on Cheney coming to N.J. for Reagan celebration, which includes jellybeans

Oceanic Bridge Maintenance To Start On Monday February 9

Oceanic Bridge1The Oceanic Bridge (S-31), the span that connects Rumson and Middletown over the Navesink River will undergo repairs to the structural steel and concrete deck beginning on Monday morning February 9 at about 9am.  The maintenance project is expected to continue through April 15.

Single lane closures during the mid-day and early evening hours will facilitate the movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic across the busy span.

A full overnight closure will also be in place from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

The Oceanic Bridge schedule from on or about Feb. 9 to April 15 will be:

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Posted: February 6th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Middletown, Monmouth County, Rumson | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Belmar wants its last 2 families displaced by Sandy ‘Home by Summer’

Belamar home by summerBELMAR – For more than two years, after Hurricane Sandy destroyed her family’s 14th Avenue home, Teresa Keefe, her three children and her mother have been living in a Lakewood apartment with relatives. Keefe shares a room with her 14-year-old daughter, Shayla, while her mother, Isabelle, and 9-year-old daughter, Alyssa, sleep in a dining room and… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 6th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Belmar, Hurricane Sandy, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Superstorm Sandy | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Chris Christie’s U.K. trip a ‘failure,’ presidential experts say

assetContent (8)TRENTON — The reviews are in on Gov. Chris Christie’s trip to the United Kingdom, and they are not good. “I think the trip was an utter failure,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University and the author of bestseller, The Reagan Diaries. “It should have been a trip of ‘good behavior’ instead of… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 6th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Monmouth County | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

New Jersey GOP Sours On Their Governor

IMG_2195ATLANTIC CITY – Gov. Chris Christie was across the pond Monday on a foreign trip to London, dealing with a series of public relations problems. First there was report in The Bergen Record about how businesses awarded state tax breaks are paying for his travel. Then The New York Times published a piece detailing how the… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 6th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, NJ GOP | Tags: , , | 8 Comments »

Feds Launch Criminal Probe Of Christie Administration

assetContentFederal law enforcement officials have launched a criminal investigation of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and members of his administration, pursuing allegations the governor and his staff broke the law when they quashed grand jury indictments against Christie supporters, International Business Times has learned. Two criminal investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday interviewed… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 5th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Christie Administration, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Paul Fishman, U.S. Attorney | Tags: , , , , , , | 12 Comments »

Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend, February 6-8, 2015

By Greg Kelly

 

Monmouth County Post CardFriday, February 6

  • With This Ring at First Avenue Playhouse (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO
  • Teen Night: Night of Improv at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
  • Disorderly Conduct Comedy at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
  • Boeing Boeing at Center Playhouse (Freehold) – MORE INFO
  • RaeLynn in Concert (Freehold) – MORE INFO
  • Jason Isbell at Monmouth U (WLB) – MORE INFO
  • Gary Wright Jazz & Blues Concert (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
  • Good Financial Record-Keeping Lessons (Shrewsbury) – MORE INFO
  • Over the River and Through the Woods by South Street Players (Spring Lake) – MORE INFO
  • Library Bi-Annual Book Sale (Eatontown) – MORE INFO
  • Open Ice Skating (Middletown) – MORE INFO
  • Defensive Driving Course (Neptune) – MORE INFO
  • Take Control of Your Health (Freehold) – MORE INFO

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Posted: February 4th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Monmouth County, Things to do in Monmouth County, Things to do on the Jersey Shore | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend, February 6-8, 2015

Opinion: The many appetites of Chris Christie

Rev Alexander SantoraBy REV. ALEXANDER M. SANTORA GUEST COLUMNIST Gov. Chris Christie is a man of many hungers. Early in his administration, pundits made fun of his weight, and he turned the tables on them by laughing along with them even to go so far as to eat a doughnut on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” But… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 4th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Opinion | Tags: , , | 14 Comments »