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Monthly Archives: March 2013

What Does Belmar Need?

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Did we need $90,000 Tahoe police cars when Impalas or Chargers would have been perfectly suitable at less than half the price? Did we need a boardwalk built to survive another Sandy when another Sandy might not come in our lifetimes and even if one did it could still possibly destroy the new boardwalk anyway? […]

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(No) Smoking Disaster

Monday, March 25, 2013

The $2.4 billion Revels Atlantic City casino is expected to file for bankruptcy today, one year after opening.  It’s estimated by Revels to be currently worth $246 to $331 million.  Total disaster.  So what happened? From Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: Seven years ago, Morgan Stanley MS +0.54% executive Michael Garrity took on an unusual job within a securities firm: […]

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Where Should Law Come From?

Saturday, March 23, 2013

In the American system it should come up from the people not down from the government.  Our society and our culture should determine what sorts of laws we want to live under and we should then elect representative governments that will enact only the laws the people want and have asked for.  The government should […]

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Two Ways To Help People With Their Taxes

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Claire’s way:  Promote at the council meetings a workshop put on by the state to help people fill out the forms and figure out how much they need to pay. My way:  Cut them!

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The Proper “Balance” Between Public And Private Sectors

Saturday, March 23, 2013

We hear this term used a lot by fans of big government and it portrays the lack of even a basic understanding of what is really going on.  They look at the private sector as being some kind of necessary evil that should be tolerated but carefully regulated so it doesn’t get out of control. […]

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Solar Energy Program Gives Lacey Twp Residents A Boost

Monday, March 18, 2013

In Taxes! From today’s Press: LACEY — A solar-energy program that was expected to generate $1 million per year for the township’s school district will instead likely result in higher school taxes. A sharp decline in the solar-energy credit market is expected to bring in only $200,000, down $800,000. That revenue drop has residents facing a […]

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You Can Read It In The Sunday Papers

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Read All About It! Like Mother in the Joe Jackson song, I love the Sunday papers.  There’s almost always something interesting to comment on buried within it’s pages. In today’s Press there are three items that caught my eye. First there is some hand wringing over the fact that New Jersey has fallen into third […]

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Privacy, Machine Politics

Saturday, March 16, 2013

And The Difference Between An Act Of Charity And A Business Transaction   Our mayor took a not-so-subtle swipe at Councilman Bean and I Wednesday evening by mentioning that the identity of the recipients of all the money being distributed from the town’s collaboration with the Robin Hood foundation would be kept strictly private.  The […]

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Council Meeting Of March 13, 2013

Friday, March 15, 2013

Meeting highlight: 51:14 > Former Borough Administrator Bill Young shows off his new haircut.  (There were dozens of empty seats available. He chose the one directly in front of the camera.)      

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Avon Destroys The World!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

So according to the enviro-loonies the entire world ecological and economic system depends on a couple of hundred ipe trees somewhere in South America.  I don’t know why we bother to build mines and factories and ships and farms and everything else that we thought was supporting us when all we really have to do […]

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