Sonny Lea RIP And More – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Sonny Lea, an Atlantic City Legend, died after a car crash Monday. He was 83. Lynda Cohen has the story.
Talking To Trees
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“We’re gonna talk to them!” says Robert Preston, Atlantic City’s interim planning director, when I ask him how the city is going to make sure 45 young trees survive planting in Uptown Park. One of the side effects of being a city that is constantly in the cross hairs of some or other developer is that the city is a sort of mausoleum to dying and dead landscaping. The buildings go up, the trees go in, the ribbon is cut, and then everyone forgets about watering the plants. There’s probably a metaphor there somewhere.
More about: Atlantic City, Exploring South Jersey, Voices
Supermarkets, Sandy and #MeToo – Tuesday’s Roundup
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The sexual assault scandal in the Phil Murphy administration is spiraling quickly, seemingly. “Furious, disgusted,” said Sen. Teresa Ruiz, “and then empowered to have read the story of a survivor that lends her name and her face to how the system appears to have let her down in a very dramatic way.”
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CRDA To Fund Search For An Atlantic City Grocery Store
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A not-for-profit consulting company will get a $157,500 contract to find Atlantic City a grocery store, if all goes to plan at Tuesday’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority board meeting.
More about: Government, 600 nobe, Atlantic City, boraie, CRDA, food desert, grocery store, supermarket
Worker Safety In Hotels
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Assemblymen Mazzeo (Vince) and Armato (John) are sponsoring a bill requiring hotels with at least 25 rooms to provide portable emergency contact devices or “panic buttons” to employees (i.e. housekeeping) to protect against inappropriate conduct by guests that make work conditions unsafe.
More about: Atlantic City, Business
Golf Tourney Remembers EHT’s Tommy Mac
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Friends of Tommy McLaughlin, an Egg Harbor Township native, who died in June after a long battle with addiction, held a golf tournament Sunday at McCullough’s Emerald Golf Links.
More about: Opium Wars, Voices, addiction, Atlantic City, egg harbor township, eht, fundraiser, golf
Assault Allegation, Wind Project and Send us your Goats! – Monday’s Roundup
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A volunteer for the Phil Murphy campaign has accused a member of the governor’s administration of sexual assault, alleging, the chief of staff for the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, Al Alvarez, raped her in April 2017.
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Did A Congressional Candidate Say ICE Should Stake Out Emergency Rooms?
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Seth Grossman, the Republican candidate for Congress in the second district, seemed to suggest that immigration enforcement agents should stake out hospital emergency rooms to detain undocumented immigrants, during his debate with Jeff Van Drew at Stockton Wednesday night.
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Excessive Force, Opioids, Dead Malls – Friday’s Roundup
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An Atlantic City police officer, Sterling Wheaten, was indicted for civil rights violations and filing a false report over the 2013 incident in which Wheaten put his K9 dog on David Castellani after Castellani had four other police on him and one hand in a handcuff, per the indictment.
The city has already paid $3 million over this incident.
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CRDA, Noah, Norcs and the Atlantic Club – Thursday’s Roundup
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Cory Booker’s former chief of staff, Modia Butler, is joining the CRDA board.
Butler’s also a partner at Mercury, the terrifying public relations firm. Super.