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New Jersey American Water announced a 12% rate increase, effective next month. I’m sure their water’s delicious.
Isn’t it fun that you can be a senator in New Jersey for twelve years and a “large number” of residents will “continue to be almost as ambivalent” about you as “when you first took office in 2006.” America! What a country!
Poll: Bob Menendez Support Remains ‘Lackluster’
Meanwhile NPR has a story about the big pharmaceutical company Celgene,where Menendez’s challenger Bob Hugin was the executive chairman until this year. They hiked the price of a multiple myeloma drug from $6,195 for a month’s supply to $16,691 for a month’s supply, while making sure to keep “generic competition at bay by constructing an almost impenetrable fortress of patents and grants of market exclusivity around Revlimid, and its sister drug Thalomid, while also taking steps to ensure that generic competitors can’t get their hands on enough of the drugs to develop viable alternatives.”
Route 40 is currently working on a browser extension that would convert the bullshit you see from public officials into a more usable truth. For example, when these guys say “innovation” and “small businesses” what you’ll hear is “government monopoly on a product that’s been around for 60 years.”
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Tall Mel Taylor at ACPrimetime has an amazing cut of the CRDA board, including Mayor Gilliam, responding to complaints by Chelsea residents that the Chelsea Beach Bar has mysteriously expanded its footprint without seemingly anyone’s knowledge or assent.
Check out our Real Estate Report for some changes in Atlantic City, including a Stockton donor who’s bought up two beach-block lots not far from the new campus, a $3 million mortgage for the Best Western and more. We’re looking for people or companies to sponsor us to write more real estate reports like this one – get in touch if you want to help.
For more news from across your region, see below:
Big cannabis is here: N.J. medical marijuana dispensary partners with John Boehner’s firm–Acreage Holdings, one of the nation's largest cannabis cultivation, retail and real estate companies, is collaborating with a south Jersey medicinal marijuana dispensary to open and manage a 100,000-square-foot growing site in Gloucester County, NJ Advance Media has learned. www.nj.com
NEW JERSEY HIT WITH MAJOR LAWSUIT ARGUING IT MUST END SCHOOL SEGREGATION–The New Jersey law that requires most children to attend public school within their communities has led to some of the worst school segregation in the nation, prompting a coalition to sue the state to overturn that law and potentially reshape the state’s system into one that is very different, and integrated. www.njspotlight.com
NEW REGULATIONS AND PAYMENT PROTECTIONS FOR NEW JERSEY’S FREELANCE WORKERS–As technology continues to reshape the state economy, more and more New Jersey residents are choosing to work for companies on a freelance basis. www.njspotlight.com
NEXT UP EHT school district budget has been approved EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – The Board of Education adopted its … POPULAR Egg Harbor Township native serves with U.S. Navy in Japan–An Egg Harbor Township native and 2017 Oakcrest High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy with U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka. www.shorenewstoday.com
Cop ran driver off road, angrily threatened him with gun to the head, suit claims–Early one morning in February 2017, William Fulbrook says he was driving to work when another motorist ran a red light and cut into his lane of travel in Monroe Township, Gloucester County. www.nj.com
Here are N.J.’s 10 most endangered historic sites for 2018–Each year, historic sites across the Garden State are lost, gone forever. www.nj.com
Atlantic City mayor says he will release MGM funds ‘any day’–ATLANTIC CITY — After months of attending City Council meetings seeking answers about when her nonprofit organization could expect to receive funds promised by the city almost six months ago, Shalanda Austin finally got the response she was looking for Wednesday night. www.pressofatlanticcity.com