Civics Lessons – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Should it be harder to get a job as a cop on the ACPD if you stabbed your wife’s ex four times? I don’t know. You tell me, Mr. Wizard.
Profits Rise, Everything Else is Falling Apart – Tuesday’s Roundup!
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Today’s big regional headline is a 22.5% increase in gross operating profit by Atlantic City’s casinos, which the A.P. calls “good news for the seaside gambling resort” and a “jackpot” for someone. Could have fooled me! Who are the six people left in Atlantic County who think casino profits still correlate with local happiness/security/contentment?
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I Have Seen Atlantic City Future in Asbury Park – Monday’s Roundup!
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Happy Monday, Route 40 Readers! We went up to Asbury Park Saturday where we saw Atlantic City future, and it’s Volkswagens, cat lounges and kale ice cream. Fasten your seat-belts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
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3rd District Shenanigans, Doors, Liberty & Jersey Shore – Friday’s Roundup
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The New York Times profiled Andy Kim, the Democrat looking to unseat Tom MacArthur in the 3rd Congressional district. Meanwhile, MacArthur called Kim a cheater for owning a condo in D.C. and a few days ago, somebody suggested Kim was a communist.
Hard to tell what would hurt Kim more among the Pineys of Ocean County: actual evidence of a scandal or an endorsement from the New York Times.
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Party Like It’s 1982! – Thursday’s Roundup
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STATS ALERT: Last year Atlantic City had its lowest visitation rate since 1982, back when Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones were regulars on the casino circuit. Hang on I’m being told Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones are still regulars on the casino circuit.
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Roger’s Rules, Hasty Pudding and What To Do With A Dead Mall – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Politico has an interesting story on the chief impediment to Phil Murphy’s agenda in the New Jersey legislature. Namely, the head of his own party there, Steve Sweeney.
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Gilliam Rising, ‘Involuntary Commitment’ and How to Stop a Predator Online – Tuesday’s Roundup!
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A New Jersey Superior Court Judge dismissed the criminal complaint against Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam over a $10,000 campaign donation he allegedly stole from the city Democratic Committee that, allegedly, had just worked to elect him a few months earlier. The whole thing was kind of weird, if you ask me. But it seems to be over. The mayor was holding a press conference as we typed. Elsewhere at the Press of AC, Nicole Leonard takes a dive into the important question of whether New Jersey should adopt an “involuntary-commitment” law that would allow people with an abuse disorder (to opioids mostly) to be sent into treatment against their will.
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Death Rates, Cleanup Costs and More – Monday’s Roundup!
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South Jerseyans are significantly less healthy than their North-Jersey counterparts and it’s correlated with poverty, Carla Astudillo reports. Cape May, Salem and Ocean Counties have the highest death rates in the state. Phil Murphy has annoyed the environmentalists who want to challenge in court the state’s $225 million settlement with ExxonMobil over its contamination of hundreds of acres of wetlands, AC Press alum Christian Hetrick reports. Originally the state wanted $8.9 billion, but Governor Christie agreed to the “much smaller amount” probably because he wanted to be president. Now the new A.G. is blocking attempts by environmentalists to appeal that settlement. David Danzis, the new reporter at the Press of AC, has a piece about nonprofits in the city that are currently “in limbo” as officials spar over how the MGM/Mirage Corp.
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Al Fresco Cocktails! Hope Creek Hunting Cabins! And What in the Hell is Going on Out There? – Friday’s Roundup!
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Who among us hasn’t peed on himself while driving drunk, then been permitted to retire from his job as fire chief, then been allowed to collect “$671.86 per day for 241.5 unused sick days” he’d accumulated over the years? Also, did Rahway have a fire chief and a fire director, and were they both William Young?
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CRDA Auction, The Talented Mr. Menendez and a Pocket History of Steve Sweeney – Thursday’s Roundup
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Your friendly neighborhood development authority raised just over half a million dollars yesterday selling off some Atlantic City property that, actually, it decided isn’t useful for development after all (after some years of tax-free ownership that prevented anyone else doing anything with it). The Press of Atlantic City’s new reporter David Danzis has the details.