Budget Issues, AC Job Spots and Top Cops Say ‘No’ to Pot — Tuesday’s Roundup!

Hi Route 40’ers,

I know a lot of you are probably sick of winter, but I personally can’t get enough of it, especially now that we’ve moved out of the beach house and into a place with functioning insulation. In realer news: Governor Murphy’s giving his first budget address, and the valuable NJ Spotlight has a list of things to look out for. The state association of police chiefs came out against marijuana legalization, and a #teen from Galloway is going to Hollywood on American Idol. Also, if you’re looking for a restaurant job, Elinor has an exclusive on why the Hard Rock’s opening might mean more restaurant jobs at Resorts. The guy who runs restaurants at Resorts thinks so anyway.

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Care and Feeding of Your Millennial

Sister Jean’s soup kitchen got broken into the other day and there’s a GoFundMe page to restock. As of press time, they were $5 short of their $1000 goal. (Update: Someone just gave them $100). Here are four stories on marijuana reform, arranged conveniently by Matt Friedman at the NJ PlayBook. In them:

* A health commissioner says alcohol’s more dangerous than marijuana.

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Camden Recording Studio, Wind Power – Thursday’s Truncated Roundup

An abbreviated Roundup today while we’re juggling paid work and some travel, but you will probably want to read this story about a developer looking to bring a recording studio (and offices) back to the Camden building where the Victor Talking Machine Co made musical history. You might also want to cast your eye over this story on how the wind power industry in NJ is trying to pivot (with a spotlight on the planned project not far from Atlantic City), plus read the latest on the AC Democrats’ plan to bring charges against Mayor Frank Gilliam.

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Sportsball Madness, Pine Barrens Stuff, School Testing Reform and More – Wednesday’s Roundup

Another Weather Event is upon us, and it’s the first big snow storm of the Murphy administration, Ryan Hutchins at the redoubtable New Jersey Playbook notes and adds, “You know, nothing can destroy an approval rating like a botched storm response.” That may be true at the state level. Not sure it’s true at the federal.

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Mayors Come And Go, But Power Brokers Are Forever – Tuesday’s Roundup

So, the Atlantic City Democratic Committee voted to file criminal charges against their mayor, Frank Gilliam, alleging he took a $10,000 donation to the ACDC and put it in his campaign account instead. I guess it makes sense you’d spend lots of time and money getting your party in office, then blow up the most high-profile member two months after he takes office.

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Blowback

About 35 Atlantic City residents got together last night at the Masjid Muhammad Mosque on Albany Avenue to talk about the the PILOT bill and the Municipal Stabilization and Recovery Act and IAT money and ACA money and I have to say it’s a little surreal to see so much interest on the part of citizens in the…municipal budget process.

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Internal Affairs – Tuesday’s Roundup

The three Atlantic City police officers who beat Steven Stadler had nearly 70 internal affairs complaints filed against them across 10 years, prompting Stadler’s attorney to say in court yesterday she’s not sure whether the ACPD really has an “Early Warning System” meant to monitor potential problem officers, the Press of AC’s John DeRosier reports. “They failed in their function to monitor the officers and track officer conduct,” the attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said.

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