Atlantic Club Deal Off, Zoning Changes – Friday’s Roundup
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Stockton’s deal to buy the old Golden Nugget, or the old Hilton or Atlantic Club or whatever they called it at the end, is off now, the parties announced yesterday.
More Microbrew News, A Marijuana Voter and the Foodstore – Thursday’s Roundup
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Good morning Roundup Readers! We’re filing today from the world-famous Atlantic City Inlet, since the waves looked good and we thought there’d be surfers. Also we wanted to get out of range of the Kavanaugh hearings. Has anyone seen Don hometime boy McGahan? He was behind the nominee the whole time last time.
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Norcs, Marijuana Justice, A Liquor-License App – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Donald Norcross spent $24,570 from his office budget on Facebook ads during the first half of 2018, making him the top supporter of Mark Zuckerberg’s surveillance machine in Congress, at least according to this metric, ProPublica reports. Other Congresspersons may have spent more on FB through marketing agencies, but those stats are more opaque.
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Expungement, Voter Registration etc. – Tuesday’s Roundup
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With marijuana reform looking more and more imminent, the Asbury Park Press looks at how marijuana-related crimes can/should/will be expunged from peoples’ records in the aftermath.
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Suburbs! Diversity! Fall Has Fallen – Monday’s Roundup
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Happy Monday, Route 40 Roundup Readers! Hope you had a good weekend! And what a busy weekend it was on the world-famous Atlantic City Boardwalk. On Saturday, they had a longboard competition in front of Showboat and the old Revel casino, and the waves seemed super. The BW also hosted Vagabike VI, a scenic beachfront fund-raising ride organized by Vagabond restaurant.
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Stockton and an ‘Affordable’ AirBnB? – Friday’s Roundup
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The ninth-most-popular AirBnB in the state of New Jersey is in Atlantic City in the Inlet, according to a listicle prepared by NJ.com and based on data supplied by the company.
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Seen And Heard At The Stockton Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
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Big day in Atlantic City yesterday, as it felt like half the political class of the state was in Lower Chelsea for a few hours.
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Boxer’s Funeral, Takeover Announcements and More – Thursday’s Roundup
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The Press of AC has coverage of the funeral of boxer Qa’id Muhammad, who was murdered in Las Vegas.
“The city has produced two world boxing champions in Bruce Seldon and the late Leavander Johnson,” Dave Weinberg writes.
“Qa’id Muhammad was supposed to be next.”
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Rent Too D*amn High – Wednesday’s Roundup
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A bill that would let the state buy up foreclosed homes and turn them into affordable housing was passed 4-0 by the Senate Economic Growth Committee Monday, meaning it moves on now to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. Versions of this bill have been passed in the…*searches thesaurus* past but were always vetoed by Chris Christie, who was a famous softball player.
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Gerrymandering, Gigawatts and a Garden State Growth Zone – Tuesday’s Roundup
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New Jersey had 39% turnout in the 2017 gubernatorial election, an historic low, according to this person, who is a program associate with the League of Women Voters, and who wants to end gerrymandering, the process by which politicians pick their own voters by cunningly drawing their own voting districts.