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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Under The Boardwalk, Out Of The Sun

Under The Boardwalk, We’ll Be Having Some Fun (On the taxpayer’s credit card, of course!)   So now the story on the cost overrun change order is that we need to strengthen the support under the boardwalk because FEMA is slow to approve our sea wall so we need to make the boardwalk strong enough […]

Another Day,

Another No-Bid, No-Vote Contract!   From the front page of the local section of the right-wing Asbury Park Press: No bidding on boardwalk project To speed up repairs, Belmar skips step of shopping around   ********** There’s a council meeting tonight, 6:00 at borough hall if anyone has any thoughts they would like to express […]

In It To Win It

It’s official.  I, and Tom Burke have been endorsed by the Belmar Republican Club as it’s preferred candidates to fill the two Republican slots in the coming election.  There will of course be a primary in June, and I welcome anyone interested in the job to go for it, but the way it looks right […]

Yes, The Dow Is At A (Nominal) High,

But the Fed is printing $80 billion a month and consumer spending is down. So how can this all be explained? A clue might be found in this secret, hidden-camera photo taken at the last meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee:    

From Yesterday’s AshBritt Hearing

State Dems Must Be Reading This Blog

And Then Doing The Opposite! Hours after I posted yesterday’s criticism of government planning, assembly Democrats issued a release announcing their intention to slather a whole new layer of plans on us, written by them to control the development of our towns and our properties.  Belmar is like the bottom layer of a seven layer cake. […]

Planning Makes Us Poorer

I was browsing through the  Monmouth County Strategic Plan the other day (boy they sure churn out a lot of this stuff) and noticed this little contradiction that demonstrates why we should not allow politicians to do our economic planning for us. Here is what it says:  Support the retention of existing businesses, and identify […]

Tonight’s Council Meeting POSTPONED Due To Storm

Rescheduled For March 13. Maybe the storm will have passed by then.  (I mean the nor’easter.)

Can We Ever Get A Straight Story?

  Taxpayers may pay $1 million more for the borough’s new boardwalk not because of faulty math, as originally claimed, but because the town wants to change the pattern of the boards. The explanation for changing the board pattern and spending the extra money itself changed on Tuesday. First, Birdsall Services Group said it was […]

Belmar/Birdsall Issue A Statement

Read it here