Speaking to parties’ bases, Booker and Lonegan propose unlikely ideas (via NJ.com)
Democrat Cory Booker wants to reinstate a federal ban on assault rifles, give $400 a year to poor kids for college funds and pass comprehensive climate-change legislation. Republican Steve Lonegan wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, end the Federal…
Hurricane Sandy insurance complaints lead to N.J. enforcement actions against adjusters (via NJ.com)
Nearly a year after Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey, the state’s insurance regulator has quietly fined a handful of industry professionals over their work following the Oct. 29 superstorm. So far, the Department of Banking and Insurance hasn…
Seaside boardwalk fire: Christie pledges grants, loans and aid to businesses and towns (via NJ.com)
SEASIDE PARK — Business and community leaders emerged from a private meeting with Gov. Chris Christie this afternoon relieved and impressed as the state announced it would offer $50,000 grants and $5 million in no-interest loans to each business owner…
EDA Approves First NJ Angel Tax Credit for Investment in Biopharma Firm (via NJ Tech Weekly)
Jonathan Perelman, CPA | Friedman LLP A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm is the first beneficiary of an investment from an angel using the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit program. Approved at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (…
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Posted: August 13th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2013 Election, NJNewsCommons, NJTV, Senate Special Election | Tags: #NJSen, NJTV, Special Senate Primaries | 2 Comments »by Debbie Galant, NJNewsCommons.org
News outlets ranging from the AP to the Lakewood Scoop have covered the ongoing saga of Lakewood’s Tent City, an encampment of about 80 homeless people, which the town has been trying to shut down for years. This spring a deal was struck: Tent City residents will leave within a year if a homeless shelter is opened in Ocean County. But the story of the tent community has proved more indelible than a series of fleeting headlines. The makeshift village in the woods, complete with its own upright piano, is now the subject of a book-length poem, a documentary and a series of black-and-white photo portraits.
Copyright 2013 Sherry Rubel
Hank Kalet, an economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, was a regional editor for Patch in early 2012 when photographer Sherry Rubel sent over a press release about her Kickstarter campaign to fund a photo project on Tent City. Although the campaign didn’t reach its funding goal, it set an idea in motion for Kalet, who was also working on his MFA in poetry at Fairleigh Dickinson, and in search of a project.
“I was looking for something to sink my teeth into,” Kalet recalls. “Looking for a project to use both parts of my writing self.”
Posted: July 11th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Homelessness, NJNewsCommons, Tent City | Tags: Debbie Galant, Lakewood New Jersey, NJNewsCommons, Tent City, Tent City Lakewood | Comments Off on Tent City, Three Ways
When the NJ Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling upholding the award of $375,000 to a Harvey Cedars couple for the loss of their view to a beach replenishment project, homeowner Phyllis Karan was captured on video by NJ.com likening the taking of her land to “Nazi Germany.”
Meanwhile, Lauren Wanko of NJTV has video capturing the happy reactions of Harvey Cedar’s mayor and Karan’s neighbors who credit the dunes, built in 2010, with saving the town from damage by Superstorm Sandy. Tony Auth pokes fun at the Karans with a cartoon showing cash raining down on a beachfront house and copy reading, “Had the court sided with the couple, the entire project to protect the Jersey Shore would have been in jeopardy.” Auth’s headline: “Harvey Cedars decision shows Jersey Shore is stronger than greed.”
Posted: July 9th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: NJNewsCommons | Comments Off on NJ News -Stronger Than The Greed?© Copyright 2024 | MoreMonmouthMusings | All Rights Reserved