FREEHOLD — Attorneys for a Long Branch man who was convicted 24 years ago of sexual assault based partially on faulty evidence from a New Jersey State Police analyst are calling for the state Attorney General’s Office to investigate whether other people may have been wrongly imprisoned by his testimony. The state’s top law enforcement officer… Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — Three New Jersey men convicted of drug-related crimes will be released from prison on Dec. 1 after President Barack Obama on Wednesday commuted their sentences. In total, Obama commuted the sentences of 214 prisoners across the nation. White House counsel Neil Eggleston said the prisoners had been put behind bars “under outdated and duly… Read the rest of this entry »
PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court on Friday refused to dismiss corruption charges against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled against arguments from the indicted Democrat’s attorneys that charges he accepted gifts in exchange for political influence should be tossed because of a constitutional clause… Read the rest of this entry »
JERSEY CITY — A dead whale that surfaced in the Hudson River earlier this week just off Caven Point in Jersey City will be towed out to sea for disposal, the Army Corps of Engineers said. The carcass, which the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said is a “30-foot long fin whale,” was too big for a… Read the rest of this entry »
A Bloody Mary in the morning, champagne flutes in the afternoon and paté at night. Funded by special interests, enjoyed by politicians and hidden from public view. At hotel lobbies and dive bars and shiny museums far from the floor of the Democratic National Convention in South Philadelphia, democracy is getting fat – and wasted -… Read the rest of this entry »
Jersey Central Power & Light is still trying to win regulatory approval to spin off its transmission assets into a separate company. In an amended petition, the state’s second-largest electric utility is slightly modifying a previous proposal rejected earlier this year by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. In denying the spin-off, the board balked… Read the rest of this entry »By Greg Kelly
Like this?
Friday, July 29
By Muriel J. Smith
(photos Tricia Curtin and Nancy Zockoll)
Indeed, they really are all there, those classic American-made cars of the 1950s. They’re all over the well paved and not so well paved roads of Cuba, and most of them are taxis.
There are thousands of them, all brightly painted, the sun bouncing off shiny chrome; all with their windows down…pre-air conditioning days, remember…their interiors either plush or vinyl cleverly patched or taped to look good, and who knows what under the hoods to keep them purring, or growling gently as they navigate the streets. The cars presumably date back to the 1950s when they were new, Cuba and the USA were friends, and Cubans enjoyed a middle class status that enabled them to purchase foreign cars. For good reason, most chose American rather than Russian vehicles, though some of them were also available during ‘the special period,’ the time in the 1960s when Russia was the alleged friend of Cuba. The vehicles have been handed down from father to son, and with an embargo prohibiting the import of car parts, have been kept in running condition through ingenuity and a strange conglomeration of makeshift and re-made parts. Cuba is on good terms with Venezuela, so fuel for the vehicles is no problem. Nor do they spend a lot of time or effort on repairing windows that no longer rise or close, given those 90 degree sun-filled days.
But there’s so much more to Havana than cars.
Posted: July 26th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cuba, Monmouth County News | Tags: Cuba, Five Days in Cuba, Monmouth County News, Muriel J. Smith, Muriel Smith, Nancy Zockoll, New Jersey, Red Bank Catholic High School, Tricia Curtin, U.S.-Cuba relations | Comments Off on Cuba: It’s more than cars!Maggie Moran, the Managing Director of the Asbury Park based Democratic consulting firm Kivvit and the wife of Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty, announced on facebook yesterday that she has donated to the reelection campaign of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wasserman Schultz is the Chair of the Democratic National Committee until Friday. She announced her resignation after DNC emails that proved she rigged Hillary Clinton’s Democrat nomination for president were released. She was then named Honorary Chair of Clinton’s campaign.
That’s perfectly consistent with the Monmouth County Democrats’ ethos that it is OK to cheat and the ends justifies the means.
Posted: July 26th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Mike Doherty, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats | Tags: #MonmouthStrong, 2016 Presidential politics, Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Dirty Doherty, Hillary Clinton, Lawless Matt Doherty, Maggie Moran, Monmouth County News, New Jersey | 1 Comment »
MMM file photo
Brian T. Murray, Governor Chris Christie’s spokesman, told MMM in an email that Christie has not seen the Transportation Trust Fund legislation that Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto announced today.
New Jersey’s infrastructure construction projects have been shut down since July 8 when the TFF was down to a $10 million balance which being held for emergency projects.
Posted: July 22nd, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie, Gas Tax, Jennifer Beck, Monmouth County News, New Jersey, NJ State Legislature, Stephen Sweeney | Tags: Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, Chris Christie, Gas Tax, Monmouth County News, New Jersey, NJ Gas Tax, NJ Transportation Trust Fund, Senate President Steve Sweeney, Transportation Trust Fund | Comments Off on Christie says Sweeney and Prieto have not shared their gas tax plan with him© Copyright 2026 | MoreMonmouthMusings | All Rights Reserved