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Time to Eat the Donuts
What the what? The Ventnor Dunkin’ Donuts is open. Scratch that. I’m being told it’s not a Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s a “new generation” space “known simply as Dunkin’.” Free wi-fi.
In August 2017, we published a long story on the efforts by the Trump Organization to erase Donald Trump’s name from the Atlantic City casinos he once owned, an effort that began in 2014, when Donald was in negotiations with NBC over his reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice.” At the time, Trump was concerned about the “appalling” (Donald’s word) conditions at the Trump Plaza and the impact those might have on his brand as a business guru, or something, so he sued to have his name removed from the property.
Thirty-eight percent of New Jerseyans were either living in poverty of classified “working poor” in 2016, NJ Spotlight reports, citing the latest United Way ALICE report.
The DOJ is investigating the Cumberland County jail after a large number of suicides and attempted suicides, the Press of AC’s Molly Bilinski reports.
Inmates got little cards asking about “large systematic problems.”
Former workers at the Trump Plaza can collect severance checks Thursday and Friday at the Local 54 offices, Lynda Cohen reports. The payouts were negotiated in 2009. The Plaza closed in 2014. I guess that’s what they meant when they said Trump was “slow-pay.”
Sonny Lea, an Atlantic City Legend, died after a car crash Monday. He was 83. Lynda Cohen has the story.
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.”
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.
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.
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.