Taj Sale, Microgrids – Thursday’s Roundup
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There’s a sale at the Taj today (it started at 10 am, but it’s a 60-day liquidation). The new owners are selling everything from the white elephants to the chandeliers and card tables.
Margate Scene, There’s a Budget, Utility Trench Warfare – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Margate Scene
We all know that Margate is a scene and certain politicos have long-been drawn to the fancier parts of Absecon Island. But Amy Rosenberg has some neat gossipy details about where exactly they like to eat these days and the reveal that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was at Johnny’s this past weekend. There’s a Budget
Overnight on July 3, lawmakers rolled into Trenton to vote on the budget and lo! There was an end to the government shutdown and it was a beautiful thing. Now we’ve been through this twice in 11 years, there are some new suggestions on how to make it less of a bummer next time it happens.
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Zero Fs – Monday’s Roundup
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Zero Fs
You already knew your governor gave zero Fs about you, but just in case you hadn’t seen it already, here’s a gallery of pictures of Chris Christie enjoying a public beach with his family, empty because he shut it to everyone else on Saturday morning when the state shutdown went into effect. You can also listen to his sorrynotsorry apology for using the shuttered beach, via Fox 29 here: “I’m sorry they’re not the governor.” Today some 30-35,000 state employees were furloughed and if the Trenton impasse continues, the casinos will close on Saturday, the Press of Atlantic City reports. There is also a shutdown in Maine right now, but government officials there kept their state parks open (my story for Reuters yesterday). We’re all being trolled by a master. For those that want more background on what exactly is going on in Trenton, it’s not entirely about the budget.
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Dunes, A Casual $6.3 Mln, Remembering Albie – Friday’s Roundup
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Dunes
Just in time for July 4, the Army Corps of Engineers has changed its plans for the Absecon Island dunes project, again (we’ve lost count). As Amy Rosenberg reports for The Inquirer, “In a move attributed to weather and equipment problems but which people in Margate immediately interpreted as payback from the highest levels of Trenton for their ferocious objections to Gov. Christie’s dune project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said late Thursday it would spend the summer building dunes and closing beaches in Margate, not Ventnor.” A Casual $6.3 Mln
Yesterday we wrote about how much the state has spent on ‘overseeing’ Atlantic City. We’d just been given a dump of documents from the New Jersey Law Office and we hadn’t had a chance to go through them. Well, after some long hours, we now have a database.
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Pinelands Pipeline Update, The $2.5 Mln Bill, Film Festival – Thursday’s Roundup
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It can be confusing, trying to keep on top of environmental issues in the Pine Barrens. There are now two different proposals to build a pipeline through the pinelands: the first one, green-lighted by the Pinelands Commission amid much public controversy, has now been dealt another delay by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
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For Locals in AC, Greenwich Log Cabin, Wednesday’s Roundup
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One of the nation’s oldest log cabins is right here in South Jersey, and it’s up for sale, so you can guess how much it’s worth and then read the answer and some more about the house here via Patch. It was built in 1638 and is in Greenwich, one of South Jersey’s best-kept secrets.
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Boatyard Biz, Narcan Use, Horizon – Tuesday’s Roundup
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Atlantic County and Camden County are among the top four counties that saw the most doses of Narcan administered in the January-March period this year, according to figures from the state’s Attorney General’s office reported by SNJ Today. The anti-overdose drug, also known as Naloxone, was used 242 times in Atlantic County, 346 times in Camden County. Meanwhile Salem County reported just 27 uses, Cape May County reported 33, and Cumberland County reported 51. That makes us wonder about how population density affects the use of Narcan…
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Batsto, Immigration, Sports Betting – Monday’s Roundup
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Batsto
The historic iron-works village of Batsto – in a remote part of the pinelands – is trying to draw more visitors. Visitor numbers have been stagnant in the last few years, but a group of volunteers knows that there is wider interest in the site. Wes Hughes, who heads the
state-appointed volunteer Batsto Citizens Committee, wants to get state approval to stream real-time videos from Batsto’s mansion tower. A previous video from the tower, one of just a handful of high points in the flat pine barrens, went viral in a couple of hours and volunteers hope this could draw more visitors. Read more via Jacqueline Urgo for Philly.com.
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Powwow, Opioids, Dunes, PierAC Update – Friday’s Roundup
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Since we wrote about how there was nothing going on at Bart Blatstein’s pier at the far end of the boardwalk, closer to Showboat, a website for the pier has been launched. It says it’s “Atlantic City’s newest destination for social gatherings, special events and water activities.”
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48 Blocks, Early Retirement Bill – Thursday’s Roundup
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Atlantic City is 48 blocks long and on Saturday its streets will be covered with art, as the AC Arts Foundation joins forces with Stockton University to bring a new festival to town. There will be live music, ballet, free yoga, performance art, poetry on a jitney and an AC memory-sharing project (among other things).