Lockdowns, Walkouts and the Process Matters – Thursday’s Roundup!

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School children took to the streets yesterday to press for legislation that might make it marginally harder for deranged persons to murder them by the dozen with high-powered military equipment, a situation the school children have been forced into because the adults have all lost their goddamned minds. You can read about the walkouts in New Jersey here and here if you like. At Atlantic City High, the school day was interrupted by reports of a weapon outside the school. Turned out it was unfounded. Elsewhere in system-checks, new Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said he would “not stand in the way of rapidly advancing legislation that would strip his office of authority over the state’s troubled medical examiner system and move it to the health department,” S.P. Sullivan reports.

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Budget Issues, AC Job Spots and Top Cops Say ‘No’ to Pot — Tuesday’s Roundup!

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Hi Route 40’ers,

I know a lot of you are probably sick of winter, but I personally can’t get enough of it, especially now that we’ve moved out of the beach house and into a place with functioning insulation. In realer news: Governor Murphy’s giving his first budget address, and the valuable NJ Spotlight has a list of things to look out for. The state association of police chiefs came out against marijuana legalization, and a #teen from Galloway is going to Hollywood on American Idol. Also, if you’re looking for a restaurant job, Elinor has an exclusive on why the Hard Rock’s opening might mean more restaurant jobs at Resorts. The guy who runs restaurants at Resorts thinks so anyway.

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Care and Feeding of Your Millennial

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Sister Jean’s soup kitchen got broken into the other day and there’s a GoFundMe page to restock. As of press time, they were $5 short of their $1000 goal. (Update: Someone just gave them $100). Here are four stories on marijuana reform, arranged conveniently by Matt Friedman at the NJ PlayBook. In them:

* A health commissioner says alcohol’s more dangerous than marijuana.

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Camden Recording Studio, Wind Power – Thursday’s Truncated Roundup

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An abbreviated Roundup today while we’re juggling paid work and some travel, but you will probably want to read this story about a developer looking to bring a recording studio (and offices) back to the Camden building where the Victor Talking Machine Co made musical history. You might also want to cast your eye over this story on how the wind power industry in NJ is trying to pivot (with a spotlight on the planned project not far from Atlantic City), plus read the latest on the AC Democrats’ plan to bring charges against Mayor Frank Gilliam.

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Sportsball Madness, Pine Barrens Stuff, School Testing Reform and More – Wednesday’s Roundup

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Another Weather Event is upon us, and it’s the first big snow storm of the Murphy administration, Ryan Hutchins at the redoubtable New Jersey Playbook notes and adds, “You know, nothing can destroy an approval rating like a botched storm response.” That may be true at the state level. Not sure it’s true at the federal.

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Mayors Come And Go, But Power Brokers Are Forever – Tuesday’s Roundup

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So, the Atlantic City Democratic Committee voted to file criminal charges against their mayor, Frank Gilliam, alleging he took a $10,000 donation to the ACDC and put it in his campaign account instead. I guess it makes sense you’d spend lots of time and money getting your party in office, then blow up the most high-profile member two months after he takes office.

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F*!$ The Process – Friday’s Roundup

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Happy Friday people. Stay dry. If you don’t know it’s raining, DM us and we’ll send us someone to let you out of the basement. In realer news:

Ryan Hutchins devotes the first graphs of today’s NJ PlayBook to the war between Phil Murphy and Steve Sweeney, who are fighting over something. Something important.

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