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Matt Friedman of Politico leads the Playbook with the Menendez-Hugin race, where Democrats are nervous and Hugin people say they have internal polling that shows their guy up 2 points.
“Democrats not on the Menendez campaign are convinced Hugin has a significant chance at winning,” Matt says, while noting that people talking, “about internal polls but not providing them should be treated the same as anecdotal evidence.”
The cybesecurity incident at the Galloway Township School District involved two fraudulent wire transfers of $200,000, Lynda Cohen reports.
One of them was recovered.
Third-grade teachers at Slaybaugh School in EHT dressed as a roller-coaster for Halloween and it was amazing.
Though maybe not as amazing as this one.
Happy Halloween Route 40 Roundup-ers! Hope you’re as excited about this holiday as we are, which is to say very. On this date in history in 2008, Bruce Springsteen released a song about the Jersey Devil. In realer news:
$2.13 per hour
There’s a push to raise base pay for New Jersey workers who work for tips and “generally make a baseline of as little as $2.13 per hour.” A new bill would raise that to $8.60.
Chris Franklin at NJ.com has a story on a plan to allow bonfires on the Atlantic City beaches, which for the record sounds awesome to me.
The flooding over the weekend was the worst “since Hurricane Sandy and Winter Storm Jonas,” Ventnor Emergency Management Coordinator Donna Peterson told Nanette LoBiondo.
Ok so the nor’easter is coming. We hate to pile on with these stories, but you should probs be prepared for flooding, not that that’s an unusual occurrence down here.
After a lot of public comment, council voted unanimously in favor of the needle exchange becoming mobile-only, with restrictions on where and how frequently it can operate. The ordinance has not become law yet, and CRDA will be part of the implementation effort of the mobile unit, Councilman Jesse Kurtz (who presented the ordinance) said.
The City of Atlantic City is looking to shut down 1401 Memorial, a rooming house between Tennessee and New York Avenues, just around the corner from the Oasis needle exchange.
Charlie Birnbaum, the world’s most famous piano tuner, whose house in the Inlet CRDA wants to tear down, is back in the news as arguments are set to be made in front of appellate judges in Jersey City, per this story in NJ.com.