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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Right? Yes…..Right Wing? Not Really.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Since all the questionable activity here in Belmar has been the topic of a lot of discussion and reportage, the mayor has taken the tack of referring to these pages as a “right wing blog”.  I guess he feels it will work for him politically to dismiss his critics as just a bunch of disgruntled […]

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What Where They Looking For?

Thursday, February 21, 2013

From my hit counter, recent searches that brought people here. 20 Feb 20:44:25 www.google.com  common sense for belmar 20 Feb 17:15:20 www.google.com (Encrypted Search) 20 Feb 13:57:29 www.google.com  ashbritt ferriera 20 Feb 12:10:21 www.google.com  common sense for belmar 20 Feb 10:58:54 www.google.com  dave schnecks blog belmar sense 20 Feb 09:21:31 search.yahoo.com  common sense for belmar.com […]

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The Legislature’s In Session….Hide The Children!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Parents of schoolchildren please read this!   Among the 6895 (!) pieces of legislation leaking out of Trenton this session, one, titled  A2421/S454 stands out as being particularly evil and must be defeated. A2421/S454 will remove the condition that a school must receive written parental consent before surveying children on some very deeply personal subjects such as […]

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Did Young And Connolly Go Out Shilling For AshBritt?

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Today’s Coast Star print edition has a front page story titled: Many towns said no to Ashbritt Exorbitant prices just one of the reasons 7 out of 10 local towns said no to state-approved contractor It points out how most local towns decided against using AshBritt and saved their constituents millions of dollars. Deep into […]

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$andy Relief $$$$$……….Whoopee!!!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

It’s Party Time! First came the clean up.  And boy did they ever clean up!  As has been documented here and elsewhere, politically-connected companies cleaned up to the tune of 300% to 400% more than other companies made for the same work. Now starts the rebuilding with even more opportunities for New Jersey-style hanky-panky. Wasting […]

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The Coming Minimum Wage Increase

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Minimum Dollars?…Or Minimum Sense!   Some answers to some of the bogus arguments put forward by proponents of increasing the minimum wage: 1) You can’t support a family on the current minimum wage. You shouldn’t expect to.  You have to acquire skills first before you can expect to be paid enough to live on your […]

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“Discharge Of His Duties”? More Like “Discard” Of His Duties!

Saturday, February 9, 2013

There’s a story over at More Monmouth Musings about a proposal by Assemblywoman Amy Handlin to increase the maximum penalty for officials that violate the Local Government Ethics Law from $500 to $10,000.  I’ve never been a big fan of “ethics” laws.  Putting more and more power and money into the hands of politicians and […]

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Snow (job) Coming!

Friday, February 8, 2013

I’m predicting it’ll be about knee-deep. No, not the snow.  I mean the praise lavished on Mike Campbell and the guys at DPW at the next council meeting. Now look.  These guys are men.  And they get the job done.  They don’t have these fragile little egos that need to be massaged every time they […]

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Belmar Council Meeting Of Feb 6, 2013

Thursday, February 7, 2013
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She Didn’t Have To Take The Job*

Thursday, February 7, 2013

I’m sure Matt is very relieved to have gotten last night’s meeting out of the way.  There was the expected, and in my opinion very well-justified, criticism regarding the cAshBritt and Ferreira dealings, but in the end he held up and didn’t make any damaging blunders. The worst of it is probably over for Matt […]

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