Payouts, CRDA – Wednesday’s Roundup!
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The state paid out $119 million last year in lawsuits and judgement, up 68% from the year prior, S.P. Sullivan reports. You can read some of the big payouts here.
Housing – Tuesday’s Roundup!
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The Press has a nice story on the Seeds of Hope Development Corp., which got planning approval to build five tiny homes on two vacant lots behind the PAL building on New York Avenue, which could provide an innovative solution to the problem of affordable housing.
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Shooting, Longport, EDA – Monday’s Roundup
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Everybody reports on the death of Demond Tally, who was shot early Sunday morning after leaving Council President Marty Small’s house, per Lynda Cohen’s story.
Tally played football at EHT High School in the 90s and coached the Atlantic City Dolphins. His son was murdered outside the Hamilton Mall on Black Friday in 2016.
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The President’s Workforce, Foreclosures and More – Thursday’s Roundup
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Brian Donohue from News 12 went to Bound Brook to interview undocumented immigrants who worked at Trump National, because every undocumented immigrant, working in the U.S. illegally, works for some business-owner who illegally hired them, in this case the president, who has taken a more one-sided view of this crime in public.
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Croda! JVD! Whitesboro and More – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Croda, the company behind the chemical leak that closed the Delaware Memorial Bridge Thanksgiving week, apologized and said it would pay cleanup costs, Chris Franklin at NJ.com reports.
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Heath from Duke, Sister Jean’s Kitchen and More – Tuesday’s Roundup
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The board of directors of Gannett, which owns a bunch of New Jersey newspapers including the Courier-Post and Asbury Park Press, rejected a takeover bid from that company backed by that hedge fund guy, Heath or something, who went to Duke, which is big news and all but let’s face it, ladies, who among us hasn’t received an unsolicited offer from some guy named Heath who went to Duke and runs a hedge fund?
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Atlantic Club, LIVE NATION, Drug Tests – Monday’s Roundup
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Elsewhere in Casinos, Hard Rock President Joe Lupo opined the other day on the radio about CRDA and the giving of the $1.4 millions to Live Nation (sorry LIVE NATION) to bring Blink-182 to the beach this summer.
I don’t know much about Blink-182 except they were in that Fyre Festival documentary everyone’s talking about. Along with that Diplo fella, who was also in Atlantic City last month. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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PSE&G, the ‘Better Business Climate’ and More – Friday’s Roundup
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The New Jersey Rate Counsel said PSE&G and Exelon overstated their costs and understated revenues and should not get $300 million in subsidies, which you might remember was a big fight last year.
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Cold, Homicides, PFAS, Labor – Thursday’s Roundup
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Good morning Route 40 Roundupers! Hope you’re enjoying the balmy weather. I wore my 900-octane down midlayer what I purchased at the Columbia outlet at The Walk at a steep, steep discount to drop the kids off this a.m. and it kept me toasty. I realize the cold is no joke, particularly with so many people sleeping rough–or semi-rough–but hey we try to keep morale up around here. In realer news, homicides were down 12% last year statewide!
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Townhall, Marijuana Dispensaries, Outmigration – Wednesday’s Roundup
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Good morning Route 40! Sorry no roundup yesterday. I know you missed us. I got up and watched Chris Christie on Morning Joe or whatever it’s called and wrote 3,000 words with smoke coming out of my ears about our sick, sick political culture. Then I walked down to the beach and screamed at the waves like King Canute or something.