A.C. Shutdown and more, in today’s roundup

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Mayor Don Guardian said the Atlantic City will shut down the government on April 8 unless the town receives state aid, just about everyone reports. This crisis has been in the works for months, if not years, and has been a bipartisan effort, but it still comes as a shock to see things reach this point. The mayor said essential services, including police and fire, will continue but local government functions will cease, until at least May 2. In a speech before the state assembly, Guardian said the state seemed, “hell-bent on playing a real-life game of chicken with our city.” Watch this space for more updates. Flock of Seagulls and Howard Jones are among the 80s pop stars performing in Asbury Park this summer, the Asbury Park Press reports.

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March 21, daily roundup

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A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire outside the Veterans Affairs clinic in Northfield on Saturday afternoon. Fifty-one-year-old Charles Ingram was airlifted to Temple University Hospital, where he was reportedly in critical condition. A former Ocean City police officer, Charles Cusack, was given five years’ probation after pleading guilty to charges of criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. Cusack was accused of having sex with a seventeen-year-old employee when he was beach tag supervisor for the city. The A.C. Press has good story on the “gig economy”—the number of workers patching together part-time, freelance and temporary jobs to make ends meet.

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