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.
Longport: City of Tomorrow
A grad student at Stockton is doing a study on the Longport Volunteer Fire Department, where the average age of the top ten volunteer responders is “61.5,” Mayor Nick Russo says.
“Where are we going to be in 3, 5 and 10 years?”
This calls to mind a story from two weeks ago about an 11,000-square-foot beach house “tucked away” in Longport and currently on the market for $5.25 million.
In the future, we’ll all have 11,000 square-foot beach houses on the market for $5.25 million, with crews of 70-year-old volunteers to firefight them if they burst into flames.
Elsewhere in Economic Realism, Matt Friedman at Politico reported last week that the EDA had retained white-collar defense attorneys as it braced for a fight with the Murphy people, I guess, over the lavish incentive programs for corporations that definitely, definitely need them.
Now, fancy white-collar defense attorneys are expensive, but fret not, fellow citizen, the EDA is “a self-supporting state entity and therefore all expenses would be covered by the EDA and not the State,” the chief of staff of the EDA said in a statement.
They’re “self-sustaining.” Like Skynet or something.
CRDA thinks of itself the same way, incidentally. Rich people, when they can be coaxed into paying their taxes, pay them in some weird liminal zone where they can be reclaimed if the rich people promise to invest them in vague, innovate-y, jobs-create-y sounding projects nobody keeps track of.
The actual danger it seems is that you might start to think of your taxes as an investment, rather than as part of the “negative business climate” or whatever that’s driving outmigration to the Carolinas.
All hell would break loose.
For more feats of journalism…
‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years–The Washington Post spoke with 16 men and women from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries, including six in Santa Teresa de Cajon, who said they were employed at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. All of them said that they worked for Trump without legal status — and that their managers knew. www.washingtonpost.com
200–Bald eagles had all but vanished from New Jersey not so long ago. In fact, David Wheeler, executive director of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, said, “…we only had one nest in all of New Jersey as recently as the 1980s, and it wasn’t even a successful nest.” Now, 200 pairs and more nest in the Garden State. www.njspotlight.com
N.J. state worker quits after harassment charge revealed. She worked at same place as ex-Murphy staffer accused of rape.–An employee at the New Jersey Schools Development Authority — a state agency that has already faced scrutiny for the hiring of an ex-Gov. Phil Murphy aide accused of rape — resigned Friday after it came to light she faced sexual harassment allegations at her past job. www.nj.com
Atlantic County Workforce Development Board seeks employers–Most help wanted ads seek employees, but the Atlantic County Workforce Development Board is in need of employers to host paid summer interns. www.downbeach.com
These are the 21 children who were victims of homicide in New Jersey last year–Nine-year-old Jennifer Trejo was asleep in her bed just after midnight on July 17, 2018 when a bullet tore through a wall of her room. www.nj.com
ANOTHER EXPERT CASTS DOUBT ON NEED FOR NJ TO SUBSIDIZE NUCLEAR PLANTS–New Jersey should hold off awarding ratepayers’ subsidies to nuclear power plants until a federal agency decides whether to boost energy prices under a pending proposal from the regional grid operator, according to an independent economist. www.njspotlight.com