Christie vetoes unemployment benefits for striking workers

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie on Monday nixed a bill that would have allowed striking workers to collect unemployment benefits. Instead, the governor sent a revised bill back to the Democratic-controlled Legislature that would amend “the language of the current law to make it clear that all striking workers are disqualified from receiving benefits,” according to… Read the rest of this entry »

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Steven Van Zandt to help announce milestone in Count Basie Theatre’s expansion plan

Freeholder Lillian Burry, Steven Van Zandt, Maureen Van Zandt and Mary Eillen Fouratt, Executive Director of Monmouth Arts at Count Basie Theatre, August 22, 2014, for the presentation of the Vanguard Awards

RED BANK — Count Basie Theatre officials, including E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, will gather on Monday morning to announce the historic theater is nearing the halfway point of funding its $20 million expansion plan. The downtown Red Bank theater, named after borough resident and famed jazz musician William James “Count” Basie, announced in… Read the rest of this entry »

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‘N.J.’s best diner’ featured on CBS Sunday Morning

The Broad Street Diner in Keyport, winner of our N.J.’s best diner showdown, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning today. Show chef-in-residence Bobby Flay pays a visit to the classic stainless steel diner and interviews owners Maria and Nick Kallas, who reminisce about how they grew up together as kids – in a family-owned diner. “My… Read the rest of this entry »

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Booker: ‘I have deep concern about the future of our country’

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said Sunday that “people are so fearful” in the wake of Tuesday’s election and expressed “deep concern” about America’s future. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Booker (D-N.J.) decried the tone of the just-concluded campaign run by President-elect Donald Trump, who received enough electoral votes to become U.S. chief executive… Read the rest of this entry »

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Supermoon will be visible Sunday and Monday

Get your cameras ready. The biggest supermoon in more than six decades will be rising in the autumn sky Sunday night and setting early Monday morning. There’s been lots of buzz in the astronomy community, with Sky & Telescope magazine referring to the upcoming celestial event as the “super-duper supermoon” and others stressing how rare this… Read the rest of this entry »

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Trump’s Internal Polls Were Spot On

By Adam Geller

I want to give a gentle pushback against the narrative that “all the polls were wrong” on the Presidential race. Many of them were wrong. Maybe most of them were. But the internal polls for the campaign were spot on.

You may recall that the pundits laughed when Kellyanne mentioned that we spotted a fairly large hidden Trump vote, or as she called them, “undercover Trump voters.” Our polling always showed these folks in fairly large numbers. And they fell off of their chairs on their bright shiny studio sets when we started actively campaigning in states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania. But again, the polling provided evidence that there were cracks in that big blue wall. And we listened to the polls, and trusted them.

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Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend, November 11-13, 2016

By Greg Kelly

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Friday, November 11

• Veterans Day Ceremony at NJ Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial (Holmdel) – MORE INFO
• College Men’s Basketball: Monmouth U. vs. Drexel (WLB) – MORE INFO
• Arlo Guthrie at Monmouth U. (WLB) – MORE INFO
• Jersey Shore Restaurant Week (Monmouth County) – MORE INFO
• Spring Awakening: A New Musical at Monmouth U. (WLB) – MORE INFO
• The Sunshine Boys at Center Playhouse (Freehold) – MORE INFO

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A gracious Donald Trump claims victory but promises to unite the nation as president

Donald Trump did what many pundits doubted he could accomplish on Election Day. The real estate mogul won the presidency of the United States. While it was no landslide and he has no mandate going into his presidency, Trump still managed to pull off a victory that highlights growing divisions in the country. He tapped into… Read the rest of this entry »

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Red Bank Republican Council Candidates Blast Dems on Taxes

Red Bank “Tax Queen” Admits She Will Continue to Raise Taxes 

Hanlon and O’Bosky Colwell Pledge to Step Down If They Don’t Deliver

RED BANK, NJ – The slide into gutter politics and half-truths took a surprising turn from the Red Bank Democrats recently, as they chose to highlight Red Bank’s property taxes in a recent statement.

In an attempt to distance themselves from their party’s failed record on municipal taxes and spending, Democrats Kathy Horgan and Erik Yngstrom stated, “It is very clear that the local Republicans are trying to distract from their failed record of increasing taxes as soon as they took the majority this past January.”

Horgan and Yngstrom’s statement failed to include the fact that Kathy Horgan voted for the recent budget, and that municipal spending has exploded during Kathy Horgan’s tenure on Council – skyrocketing from a $12 million annual budget to a $22 million annual budget. 

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Arnone and DiMaso are Right Choice for Monmouth County

By Freeholder Gary J. Rich, Sr.

Freeholder Gary Rich, Sr.

With all the vitriol surrounding this year’s Presidential election, it would be easy for voters to believe that the disfunction of Washington extends down to all levels of government. Fortunately for the residents of Monmouth County, that assumption couldn’t be further from accurate.

Over the last several years,  the all-Republican Freeholder Board in Monmouth County has delivered year after year of the highest caliber of government services, while maintaining the utmost attention to fiscal responsibility. It is no coincidence that Monmouth County is one of only 33 counties in the country to hold a AAA bond rating from all three rating agencies, a distinction we have now held for 18 years in a row. From 2012 through 2014, the current Freeholder Board held the County tax levy flat while simultaneously cutting millions of dollars in operating costs from the County budget.

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