Kim v. MacArthur
The indefatigable Amy Rosenberg has a fun story on the race between Tom MacArthur and Andy Kim for the 3rd Congressional District, which has entered the Twilight Zone, with MacArthur simultaneously calling Kim a “Washington insider” (!) and “Not one of us” (Kim’s a second-generation American).
This race was a toss-up a few weeks back (though that may be changing) even though MacArthur has the endorsement of the police union and the Building & Construction Trades Council, whose president Bill Mullen is on the CRDA board with a few other important union persons.
I love that you can be the fiscal-responsibility party’s candidate for Congress and still get the endorsement of the PBA and CRDA union bosses in South Jersey, which are about as fiscally responsible as a couple of drunken cowboys on Saturday night.
Gosh I wonder what binds these constituencies together, if it’s not their love of interest rates?
Opioids
Opioid prescriptions are down in New Jersey, but OD’s are not down, the valuable Spotlight reports, citing figures from the AG. (At least through 2015, opioid prescription rates were still rising in some South Jersey counties as we wrote here, so that could have something to do with it, along with more fentanyl prescriptions).
Nearly eight people died per day in 2017, and the number’s expected to be higher this year, so if you feel like you’re surrounded by this plague, it’s not just you.
Fireworks Theft
The dude who got his fireworks took from the Ducktown Tavern parking lot and thinks the police, in uniform, may have took them, based on the surveillance video showing police, in uniform, tooking them, appears to be frustrated at the response he’s been getting from the…the police re: the $22,000 worth of merchandise that’s still missing and unaccounted for, Lynda Cohen reports.
“It has been almost three months since your Atlantic City police officers were caught on tape removing $22,000 of fireworks products from a Keystone sales location after the tent was closed for business,” the dude writes in an email to investigators. “I had a brief call about three weeks ago with officer [redacted] who indicated that he would arrange a discussion with me in the next week or two…that never happened.”
There are eight million stories in the naked city, I wish we had time to get to the bottom of just one of them.
For more feats of journalism from across your region…
STATEMENT WIN FOR GREYHOUNDS AS PLEASANTVILLE GETS OFF TO BLAZING START VS. CEDAR CREEK–EGG HARBOR CITY — Ask anyone in South Jersey football circles about the Pleasantville Greyhounds, and the response you get usually is, “they have some athletes over there.” Head coach Chris Sacco, now in his fourth season, wants his players to be known as a good football team, and not just a collection of good athletes. The Greyhounds took a major step toward earning those kinds of compliments with a dominating 38-22 win over perennial playoff contender Cedar Creek on Saturday in Egg Harbor City. glorydaysonline.com
Ventnor man’s death from amoeba leads to CDC probe in Texas–A Texas surfing resort is being tested by the Centers for Disease Control following a Ventnor man’s from a brain-eating amoeba, according to a news report. breakingac.com
Loretta Weinberg’s story inspires others to share sexual assault experiences–New Jersey State Sen. Loretta Weinberg shared her story Friday of being sexually assaulted as a 13-year-old. Others then followed suit. www.northjersey.com
‘MisLeading Lady’ brings a little nostalgia to Ventnor–George Wimberg’s “MisLeading Lady” was on display at Ventnor City Hall Saturday, Sept. 29 for all to see and admire. She had boat lovers reminiscing about the good old days when Ventnor had its own boat works. www.downbeach.com