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…
Courtesy of Teddy Bears by-the Shore
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
It seems that Monmouth GOP Chairman John Bennett will not be both the Borough Administrator and Borough Attorney in Oceanport after all.
The borough is advertising the borough administrator position on its website and on the League of Municipalities site. Applications were due last week, but the ads are still running.
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The Borough Attorney, Bennett became the Acting Administrator in early November after the previous Acting Administrator, Phil Huhn, stepped down. Kimberly Jungfer resigned as Borough Administrator and Clerk to take the same job in neighboring Little Silver in June.
Bennett pitched the idea of being both the Borough Attorney and Administrator to Mayor Michael J. Mahon and the Council as a cost saving measure.
“It would be a win-win for everybody,” Bennett said, noting that the borough would save money in legal fees if he held both posts. He said he is not seeking pension credits or health benefits in the proposed position.
But questions about the inherent conflicts put the kibosh on the arrangement, even on a temporary basis. Scott Arnette was hired as Acting Borough Attorney for the month of December and Bennett continues as Acting Administrator for the remainder of 2013.
Posted: December 23rd, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: John Bennett, Monmouth GOP, News, Oceanport | Tags: John Bennett, John O. Bennett III, Oceanport | Comments Off on Oceanport Is Advertising For A Borough Administrator
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…
Short Hills mall shooting: Essex sheriff says mall stopped using his officers for outside security 3 years ago (via NJ.com)
In the wake of last week’s carjacking that left a Hoboken attorney dead outside The Mall at Short Hills, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said today that it’s time for New Jersey’s shopping complexes to beef up security in parking lots and other…
Short Hills mall carjacking suspects had criminal records ranging from bank robbery to burglary (via NJ.com)
NEWARK — When Basim Henry robbed a Union Township bank in November 2003, it was not hard to connect him to the crime. He had driven his white Pontiac to the bank on Morris Avenue, authorities said, and left it parked illegally on an adjacent side…
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…
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