‘IT’S 10PM, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?’ – Monday’s Roundup

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A human-resources worker at the old Revel got her new job back and found not much had changed since she last set foot inside the casino. “I sat down at my same desk, opened the drawer, and there was a ChapStick that I left there four years ago,” she told Wayne Parry of the Associated Press. Think of the vast sums of money that sloshed around from one party to another so this building, and the people who worked there, could get a couple years older, as if we don’t have actual problems facing our society. Horseshoe-Crab Madness 
I love this story about horseshoe crabs. I can’t get enough of them, frankly.

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Primary Turnout, MLB and AC Loses an Advocate

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The valuable NJ Spotlight has once again gifted us an interactive map, this one showing voter turnout for the primary county by county. “An analysis of unofficial election turnouts with nearly all the votes counted shows that about 21 percent of all those registered as Democrat or Republican cast ballots for each party’s nominations for U.S. Senate, the state’s dozen seats in the House of Representatives, unexpired state Assembly terms, and a host of county and local offices,” Colleen O’Dea writes. Twenty-eight kids from New Jersey were picked in the MLB draft this week, including Danny Nunan from Ocean City and Robert Boselli who out of Holy Spirit. Reflecting on the weather this spring, it’s amazing that South Jersey produces any baseball players at all, let alone legit professional prospects. That Mike the actual Trout came from Millville is still totally astonishing.

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You Should Have Run For Senate – Wednesday’s Roundup!

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Primaries
Seth Grossman beat Hirsh Singh in the R primary for Congress last night. You can read sensitive coverage somewhere I’m sure. On the other side, Jeff Van Drew won his primary rather more easily than you might have thought given all the hubbub. But the actual interesting political story is that somebody nobody ever heard of got 38% of the votes so rightfully ordained to go to Bob Menendez in the D senate primary. Lisa McCormick “did not report raising any money” Politico says, yet she managed to win Cape May, Hunterdon, Salem, Sussex and Warren counties and “basically tied” Menendez in Gloucester and Somerset counties, which raises an interesting question, specifically: Why didn’t you run for U.S. Senate this year as a Democrat in New Jersey? You could be Lisa McCormick right now.

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Costs of Governance – Monday’s Roundup

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The Asbury Park Press has a valuable story about how the municipal court system treats residents as potential revenue streams, which ends up costing you, the residents of New Jersey, lots of money. It’s an old problem where, “Towns rely on court revenue from fines and fees from tickets, municipal ordinance violations and disorderly persons arrests to pad their local budgets. But then judges, who are appointed every three years by the governing body of the town they work in, are beholden to the very officials who decide the fate of their appointments.” “It takes someone who is really strong, someone is self-assured and not afraid of losing their job, to do the right thing many times over again,” one prosecutor says. On a related note, it’s great fun to bash “the Media” and it can be hugely lucrative as well, but guess what happens when local newspapers close up?

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Drinking and Beaching – Tuesday’s Roundup

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Sincere question: What does it say about the law if so many people ignore it that it’s not feasible to enforce it? And if you did enforce it, the local economy would maybe collapse? And the local economy’s what pays for the law enforcement and is most of the reason you have the laws in the first place?

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Rolls of the Dice – Thursday’s Roundup

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Steve and Eydie rolled the first roll of the dice when Resorts opened, forty years ago this weekend. Actually, Eydie slept in Amy Rosenberg reports. Either way, you should read her story. The NJ Spotlight’s Tom Johnson dives deeply into the energy bills signed by Phil Murphy yesterday, one of which gave like what, $300 million per year to PSE&G? “Critics, including many business groups, consumer advocates, and environmental groups, countered that PSEG never demonstrated the plants are losing money.

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