Marlboro Police searching for missing autistic man (via NewsWorks)
Marlboro Police are searching for an autistic man who has been missing since late Tuesday night. Michael Karwan, described as a high-functioning autistic 19-year-old, left has house after an argument with his parents, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans…
Christie Administration Reflects on Sandy Recovery Progress and Challenges (via NJSpotlight)
When Sandy made landfall last October, displacing 120,000 from their homes, NJ Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Richard Constable said his department took immediate action to provide shelters and assist towns with their budgetary problems…
William Johnson, right and Oceanport Councilman Joe Irace. Photo credit: Rhoda Chodosh
William Johnson resigned his seat on the Oceanport Borough Council on November 1, due to his recent employment by Monmouth County. Johnson’s resignation was first reported by LittleSilver-Oceanport Patch.
Johnson is the Monmouth County Recycling Coordinator, working out of the County Reclamation Center in Tinton Falls. Prior to his employment by the county, Johnson was a loan officer at Colonial American Bank.
Municipal elected officials from Monmouth County towns are banned from employment with the county due to a Resolution proposed by Assemblywoman Amy Handlin, then a Freeholder, in 2005. The resolution was passed unanimously by the all Republican Freeholder Board in April of 2005 in the wake of the Operation Bid Rig raid that February wherein numerous county employees and municipal elected officials were arrested on corruption charges.
Employees who held elective office at the time the resolution was passed were grandfathered. County Administrator Teri O’Connor said this morning “there might be a few” employees still grandfathered and holding elected office, but she wasn’t aware of any.
Freeholder Director Tom Arnone said that Johnson applied for the job through a posting on the County’s website, and that the appointment was not a matter of political patronage.
Posted: November 20th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County, Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, News, Oceanport | Tags: Amy Handlin, Monmouth Coounty Board of Freeholders, Monmouth County, Oceanport, Tom Arnone, William Johnson | Comments Off on Oceanport Councilman Resigns To Take County Job
Christie’s role as RGA chairman bestows power over GOP’s fate, and his own (via NJ.com)
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LG Smart TV Caught Collecting Data On Files Stored On Connected USB Drives (via Techdirt)
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Schmidt: Chris Christie landslide a template for GOP success (via NJ.com)
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RED BANK: BRIDGE FIX NEARS COMPLETION (via redbankgreen)
The rebuilding of twin Route 520/Newman Springs Road bridges over the Swimming River between Red Bank and Middletown, which began in April, is on schedule to wrap up next month, Monmouth County officials said Tuesday. Milling and paving of the roadway…
On Sandy anniversary, Christie applauds progress, vows to help those without homes (via NJ.com)
Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger By Erin O’Neill and MaryAnn Spoto In churches and firehouses, at a school and a community center, in a rebuilt restaurant and a private home still in need of work, Gov. Chris Christie commemorated the anniversary…
How vulnerable is New Jersey to flooding caused by rising sea levels and climate change? Very vulnerable, according to a new tool developed by Climate Central, a Princeton-based nonprofit that researches the effects of climate change. A year after Sandy…
Feds Strike Down State’s Plan to Use Customer Subsidies For New Power Plants (via NJSpotlight)
A federal court has struck down the state’s efforts to spur development of new power plants, a decision with potentially big implications for what electricity customers will pay on their future energy bills. The ruling, handed down late Friday by…
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