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Donald Norcross spent $24,570 from his office budget on Facebook ads during the first half of 2018, making him the top supporter of Mark Zuckerberg’s surveillance machine in Congress, at least according to this metric, ProPublica reports. Other Congresspersons may have spent more on FB through marketing agencies, but those stats are more opaque.
With marijuana reform looking more and more imminent, the Asbury Park Press looks at how marijuana-related crimes can/should/will be expunged from peoples’ records in the aftermath.
Happy Monday, Route 40 Roundup Readers! Hope you had a good weekend! And what a busy weekend it was on the world-famous Atlantic City Boardwalk. On Saturday, they had a longboard competition in front of Showboat and the old Revel casino, and the waves seemed super. The BW also hosted Vagabike VI, a scenic beachfront fund-raising ride organized by Vagabond restaurant.
The ninth-most-popular AirBnB in the state of New Jersey is in Atlantic City in the Inlet, according to a listicle prepared by NJ.com and based on data supplied by the company.
The Press of AC has coverage of the funeral of boxer Qa’id Muhammad, who was murdered in Las Vegas.
“The city has produced two world boxing champions in Bruce Seldon and the late Leavander Johnson,” Dave Weinberg writes.
“Qa’id Muhammad was supposed to be next.”
A bill that would let the state buy up foreclosed homes and turn them into affordable housing was passed 4-0 by the Senate Economic Growth Committee Monday, meaning it moves on now to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. Versions of this bill have been passed in the…*searches thesaurus* past but were always vetoed by Chris Christie, who was a famous softball player.
New Jersey had 39% turnout in the 2017 gubernatorial election, an historic low, according to this person, who is a program associate with the League of Women Voters, and who wants to end gerrymandering, the process by which politicians pick their own voters by cunningly drawing their own voting districts.
There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor that a needle-exchange is coming to the old Dorset Avenue Wawa in Ventnor. File that along with the thing about Lucy the Elephant migrating to AC under: Rumors I First Heard When They Were Being Debunked. I’m badly informed!
Do you want to know what local officials said about the CRDA audit? David Danzis of the Press of AC will tell you. Not to spoil things, but I get the impression they’re comfortable going forward, business as usual. Another young entrepreneur from Margate has pled guilty in the prescription-drug scheme, after admitting to receiving $179,370 in “gross proceeds” and being ordered to pay $2,092,791 in restitution. Atlantic City and Atlantic County were both winners of $100,000 (each) Innovation Challenge Grants from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
The CEO of Holtec told reporter Anjalee Khemlani it’s hard to find the help these days, since there isn’t a culture of work in Camden.
“They can’t stand getting up in the morning and coming to work every single day.” Am I crazy or is the guy whose company got $260 million in tax incentives suggesting African-Americans inner-city persons poor persons get too much stuff from the government? It’s enough to make your head explode.