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Lynda Cohen has more intel on the prescription-fraud scheme that’s been the talk of the town(s) for almost a year now – it involved a shell company called Boardwalk Medical and you can read details here. You’re going to have to pay more for a state portrait of Chris Christie than for any other governor, The Record reports.
Atlantic City Council on Wednesday night voted in favor of allowing open containers in certain parts of the city’s Tourism District. The city by itself has no power to permit local bars and restaurants sell take-out drinks. But the council’s move was an important step to show the state that the city wants the law changed, officials in favor of the legislation said.
Your friendly neighborhood development authority raised just over half a million dollars yesterday selling off some Atlantic City property that, actually, it decided isn’t useful for development after all (after some years of tax-free ownership that prevented anyone else doing anything with it). The Press of Atlantic City’s new reporter David Danzis has the details.
The biggest syringe-exchange program in New Jersey is facing pressure from Atlantic City Council, where some members are looking to revoke the local rules permitting its operation.
Come and get your five free trees! There’s no catch. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Forest Service has teamed up with Arbor Day Foundation to offer five trees to each New Jersey resident this spring. Each year they give out more than 100,000 seedlings. Each New Jersey resident can receive five one- to two-foot tall bare root tree seedlings in a bundle, according to the Forest Service’s Facebook page.
The editorial duo at Route 40 sat down with Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam and his Millennial Understander Beard to talk Bader Field, marijuana reform and the future of the city.
This time last year, everyone was abuzz with the next hot thing to save Atlantic City: a massive, vertical, Boardwalk-fronting amusement-park ride known as the PolerCoaster.
“Even above opening five places in two years, the fact that there’s even one successful vegan restaurant in South Jersey – that’s huge.” Read more from Greens & Grains founder and LAN Restaurant Group co-owner Nicole Jacoby Psounos.
Caesars Entertainment, which operates the Caesars, Bally’s and Harrah’s casinos in Atlantic City, is already expecting to lose customers when the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opens next year.
Steak house Gallagher’s and its neighboring burger bar in Resorts could see a boost when Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opens because that property does not have enough restaurant space, according to the owner of Gallagher’s.