The Crust View of Atlantic City

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“Maybe if people see what’s going on to our f*cking beautiful home, they’ll want to do something about it,” says Erik Klemetti, at the start of an Atlantic City documentary he and friends from the @AtlanticCityCrust Instagram feed have put together. It’s a 40-minute mashup of videos Klemetti and the Crust crew filmed in Atlantic City, including interviews with all of your favorite AC characters. And in amid the chaos and confusion there are some wise words spoken about the Queen of Resorts. We’ve written about Klemetti before. Earlier this year, he set up a GoFundMe page to help out Alex, who was sleeping rough behind an Atlantic City gas station for more than a decade.

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Pinelands, NJ Startups, Oxycodone – Wednesday’s Roundup

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A proposal before the New Jersey legislature could weaken conflict-of-interest laws would make it easier for Pinelands Commission members to vote on issues in which they have a direct and indirect financial interest, Joe Hernandez reports for Newsworks. There are currently two major gas pipeline proposals at different stages of play in the 1-million-acre Pinelands and numerous other development plans come before the commission.

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Margate, South Jersey Perceptions – Monday’s Roundup

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Margate public workers’ brand-name prescription costs quadrupled to a whopping $3.5 million in 2015 and the municipality has received a subpoena seeking more information on certain prescriptions, NBC 10’s Ted Greenberg reported on Friday. Margate Mayor Michael Becker said the city receives limited updates on prescription costs but was unaware of the scale of the increase that year.

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Route 40 Roundup Podcast – Test Run

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Route 40 intern Steve Harrison put together this podcast on July 9, based on a roundup of last week’s roundups. We’re testing a podcast out to learn how it works and to see whether some of our readers might be interested in also being listeners. Please get in touch if you have comments, suggestions or any feedback at all.

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COPS Hiring, NJ Welfare, Water – Friday’s Roundup

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A U.S. Department of Justice program that paid for police officers in South Jersey and elsewhere could be cut under a new U.S. House bill, Route Fifty reports. Three new officers in Hamilton Township were hired under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program last year. Other South Jersey police forces including in Asbury Park and Camden would also be affected if the cuts go through.

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Casinos, Underage Drinking, Murphy & South Jersey – Thursday’s Roundup

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There have been rumors swirling for weeks that the casino-formerly-known-as the Revel would be sold. Owner Glenn Straub denied them. Then yesterday the Press of Atlantic City’s Nicholas Huba reported that a New York City-based private equity shop offered Straub $220 million for the property in the last 10 days. Straub said he knew nothing about it.

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Lower AC Taxes, Lenape, Hard Rock – Tuesday’s Roundup

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The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation can move forward with a lawsuit against the New Jersey attorney general, a three-judge panel ruled on Monday. The state’s attorney general in 2012 said New Jersey had no recognized tribes and the Lenape say this lack of state recognition has had social and economic consequences. SNJ Today has the details.

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South Jersey’s Opioid Problem, Atlantic County Tax Issues – Monday’s Roundup

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Disagreement over how to create a county-wide tax assessment system that would lower the overall number of appeals in Atlantic County means the issue will likely stretch into next year, reports John DeRosier for the Press of Atlantic City. “County and state officials both agree a countywide system is needed to reduce the overall number of appeals. But no one can agree on how it should be done,” DeRosier writes.

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South Jersey Politics, AC Firefighters, Longport Parking – Friday’s Roundup

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File under Local Government & Local News Are Both Broken: Longport residents are bothered by all the parking on Atlantic Avenue this summer, as the borough is permitting ocean-side parking while work on the Point revetment continues. The borough changed an ordinance to allow parking there, which meant it had to pay for legal notices in newspapers and discuss and vote on the measure at a public meeting. No one turned up to the June meeting to object to the change, but now it’s in effect residents say the parking is hazardous – and they didn’t know about the meeting in June (details via The Current).

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