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Monthly Archives: August 2013

The Sequester Obviously Didn’t Cut Enough

Belmar Businesses Eligible for Facade Improvement Money .

You Mean It’s Not Global Warming?

Virus similar to measles may be killing large number of dolphins .

Pen Pal

Got a second letter from the mayor about Taylor Pavilion yesterday.  Apparently this one went out to everybody, not just to certain neighborhoods like the last one and like other recent communiques from town hall.  I reckon that between these two letters, the postage has cost the taxpayers over $1000 and maybe over $2000. These […]

Vote No On The Referendum!

No, not that referendum.  This one. Among the (hopefully) multiple ballot questions Belmar’s voters will face in November is perhaps one of the stupidest economic policy proposals ever put forward in this state.  And that’s saying a lot.  The public will decide whether to enshrine in the state constitution a minimum wage with cost of […]

Return To The Gay Nineties?

In A Heartbeat! There’s a story in today’s Star pointing out that two story pavilions would not be new to Belmar.  Aside from a rather large structure at 10th Ave, there was a two story pavilion at 5th Ave which was opened in 1894 and was known as Gordon’s Pavilion. I’m sure that proponents of […]

An Idea That’s All Wet

There’s a story in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal about the attempt by several towns around the country to take over their currently privately run water supply.  Over and over the proponents of these types of actions, whether taken against oil companies in some foreign countries or water companies here, blame profits for rising prices. Of […]

For Ideas To Matter

You Have To Believe In Them. Chris Christie, as quoted in NorthJersey.com: “I’m in this business to win,” Christie told Republican National Committee members in Boston, who were meeting Thursday……………..“For ideas to matter, we have to win, because if we don’t win, we don’t govern,” Christie said according to a Time magazine account cobbled together […]

Paul Mulshine On The Battle Of Belmar

Endless bummer: Belmar battles over beaches and bars .

Doesn’t Care How Much Money He’s Got To Spend,

Has To Have Pavilions Back Again. Sandy Took Them All, Plus He Wants A Banquet Hall. So Our Mayor, He Wrote Us A Letter.   I guess the mayor wants his letter to be as widely read as possible, evidenced by the fact that it versions of it appeared in the Coast Star, the Patch, […]

Belmar’s Problem Citizenry

I don’t understand how the mayor and his allies think that they can pin responsibility for all his difficulties on the “element” (whatever that is) or on the group of Belmar Concerned Citizens, or on the Republican party, or on Jim Bean or former mayor Ken Pringle or on anyone but the mayor himself. We […]