Potential Old Orchard Developer Sues Eatontown Planning Board (via Long Branch-Eatontown Patch)
A complaint filed by the developer states that the board’s decision to reject a Master Plan change is arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. By Christopher Sheldon A developer whose plans for Old Orchard Country Club have been stopped twice by the…
Cory Booker, Rand Paul and a Festivus miracle (via NJ.com)
U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Rand Paul had a Festivus exchange yesterday that could one day lead to drug policy and sentencing reforms. It began with Paul’s “airing of the grievances,” a tradition that is part of Festivus, the fictional Dec. 23 holiday…
By Matt Rooney, SaveJersey.com
We had a very busy year, Save Jerseyans, but if there are 13 stats from 2013 that will stay with me into 2014, these ones are at the top of my list:
13. 1,300,000,000 – how much more money the State of New Jersey decided to spend next year over this year.
12. 30,000 – about how many New Jersey and New York residents are still homeless 14-months after Hurricane Sandy made landfall.
11. 10,000,000,000 – the funds, representing only 1/5 of the total Sandy federal aid package, that have been disbursed to date.
10. 3,300 – the current rough number of New Jerseyans who have created an account at Healthcare.gov.
9. 800,000 – the approximate number of New Jersey residents who started 2013 with a health care plan that, thanks to Obamacare, will be cancelled by 2014.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: New Jersey | Tags: 2013, Matt Rooney, New Jersey, Save Jersey | Comments Off on Thirteen 2013 Takeaway Numbers
Meanest red-light cameras in N.J. pumped out thousands of citations in 2013 (via NJ.com)
We have found the meanest red light in New Jersey. It was two years ago when Alice Henry had her first encounter with it and she still tries to avoid the intersection that made her $85 poorer. “I either try to go a different route, or I go and stop…
Authorities identify 4 men arrested in connection with deadly Short Hills carjacking (via NJ.com)
By Ted Sherman and James Queally/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — Nearly a week after 30-year-old Hoboken lawyer Dustin Friedland was gunned down in a deadly carjacking while returning to his vehicle in an upper level parking deck of the Mall at Short Hills…
By Ernesto Cullari
Over 5,000 people were killed and nearly 2,000 are still missing since Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in early November. We can easily recall the devastation and the loss that occurred on the Jersey Shore following Hurricane Sandy. Many of us are still rebuilding lives, homes and businesses. Haiyan was the most violent storm to ever make landfall and only you can begin to imagine their suffering. On behalf of my mother Lee, my step dad Matt and the 27 orphans living under their care in Bohol, the Philippines, I thank you for recently coming to their aid in such a desperate time of need. Street Kids Philippine Missions will continue to meet the needs of these children because of your generosity.
Even before the storm, the Philippines was a place of both beauty and squalor. The Philippine Islands are home to many of the world’s most alluring beaches. Yet not far from the tourist attractions and the luxurious hotels are some of the filthiest shantytowns on earth.
Imagine a neighborhood constructed of trash and debris; with walls and roofs made of cardboard, tin and sheetrock. Pirated electricity from neighboring gated enclaves lights the dark and dingy nights, for the few foolish enough to reroute the current into their hand patched shack. Fires often ravage and raze shantytowns.
Not everyone who is poor or destitute lives in shantytowns. Entire families live on doorsteps, street benches, inside cardboard boxes erected on sidewalks. Many of these are former sales clerks, teachers or small business owners. In the Philippines, there are only rich and poor. Corruption, addiction, cronyism and the mindset of those who have lived under multi-generational poverty have seen to it that the middle-class does not grow roots and flourish.
Posted: December 20th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ernesto Cullari, Typhoon Haiyan | Tags: Ernesto Cullari, Philippines, StreetKidsPM, StreetKidsPM.org, Typhoon Haiyan | 1 Comment »
N.J. Assembly approves ban on public release of mugshots before conviction (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — The state Assembly today passed a bill to ban the public release of mugshots of people who have been arrested in New Jersey, but have not yet been convicted. The bill (A3906), fast-tracked during the Legislature’s lame-duck session, passed…
Deal in place to pave the way for DREAM Act (via NJ.com)
Democrats in both houses of the legislature are prepared to accept a change to the DREAM Act removing state aid in an effort to shepherd the bill, which would allow children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates, into law. Assembly sponsor…
By Greg Kelly
Friday, December 20
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• Wind in the Willows at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
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Gov. Christie speaks at drug court ceremony, volunteers at soup kitchen (via NJ.com)
PATERSON — Donning an apron and plastic gloves, Gov. Chris Christie helped serve lunch at a community kitchen today, after speaking at a drug court graduation ceremony. “It’s all interconnected,” Christie said, standing in the cafeteria at Eva…
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