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Monthly Archives: July 2013

Mid-Summer Beach Revenue Report

$400,000 behind where we were last year at this time.

8 Reasons To Oppose

A two-story Taylor Pavilion (with a banquet hall upstairs.) . 1) Nobody can say for sure what our debt will look like next year until after all our FEMA claims have cleared.  Now doesn’t seem like a good time to take on even more debt, especially for something we don’t need.  Maybe after a year […]

What A Killjoy!

Jim Bean ruins the party by asking what the price is. From an on-line APP story about the grand pavilions being proposed for the boardwalk: But despite the plans, the borough has yet to receive a price estimate for the construction, which councilman Jim Bean considers a problem.  “I asked the engineer; I asked the […]

And Now For Something Completely Different……

The actual facts

Help!

You know I hate to ask people for money.  This is why, if elected, I am going to be a good friend of the taxpayer. But if Tom and I are going to be able to help Jim Bean move Belmar forward from the darkness and despair of opaque, exclusionary and fiscally reckless leadership to […]

Pro-Business May Be Good Politics, But It’s Bad Governance

When I hear a politician describe him or herself as “pro-business”  it sets off my alarm bells.  It indicates that he or she doesn’t understand, or doesn’t care to understand, the proper relationship between the government and the business sector in a free society (we still do want a free society, don’t we?) The term […]

I Hope The Voters Of Belmar

Are Smarter Than The Voters Of NYC!   Megalomaniac Elliot Spitzer, otherwise known as Client #9, has taken a lead in his race for for New York City comptroller. This is the same Elliot Spitzer who put people in jail for prostitution before he was busted for it himself. The same Spitzer who as governor […]

Miniature Golf Capital Of The World

Probably the one economic statistic the government doesn’t calculate (and then lie about) is miniature golf courses per capita.  But if they did, and Matt gets his way about his plan for roof-top golf on the 8th Ave pavilion (complete with an elevator for the handicapped), then I’m quite certain Belmar  would have the highest […]

Hey Dude, Where’s My 4th Amendment?

Must read: Secret Court Repeals Constitution.   They can do that?  

Double Bubble Trouble

Father and daughter, encouraged by gov’t incentives, face financial ruin from education and housing bubbles. Really tragic story on the front page of the Asbury Park Press this morning.  Young woman takes out a student loan for an overpriced college education because the government says the only way to get ahead is to have a […]