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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Redevelopment Trial Was Today

Eyewitness account: Dave: I thought Ed and Kenny did a fine job this morning. Basically, they focused on “blight” as allowing a municipality to designate an area,and the most recent definition NJ Supreme Court in that case Galletin vs….. Boro redevelopment atty Bill Northgrave argued that blight still exists since the pavilions have not been […]

Don’t Know About Agenda 21?

Well maybe you should because Belmar is in it! Please Google it and read about it.  It’s not real good. Basically, it’s a plan, in the name of “global sustainability”, to do away with national sovereignty, personal sovereignty, property rights, free markets and even representative democracy and have the U.N. decide everything for all of us. […]

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PolitickerNJ’s Labor Power List 2014 .

It Was A Gala Night

Which is fine with me.  At my age I don’t think I can handle more than a gal-a-night!

You Can Read It In The Thursday Paper

Read All About It! While most news junkies wait with anticipation for the Sunday papers, we inhabitants of Planet Belmar find Thursday to be the big news day.  Thursday, of course, is the day the Coast Star is published. This week’s edition contained a few interesting stories that are probably more important than the smoking […]

Local Mayors For Marge?……Why?

From Wednesday’s Trentonian:   TRENTON — Councilwoman Marge Caldwell-Wilson received an endorsement from 11 New Jersey mayors, including the city’s own George Muschal. The list announced this week includes Matt Doherty of Belmar, Janice Kovach of Clinton, Cathleen M. Lewis of Lawrence, Pasquale Menna of Red Bank, Janice S. Mironov of East Windsor Township, Michael […]

Meet The Author

I will be making a rare public appearance tonight from 6:30 to 8:00 at the Tasty Bean coffee shop in Belmar Plaza.  Doors open at 6:00. I will be available to sign autographs, book contracts, and IOUs. BTW, there will be a couple of other guys there too.  Their names are Jim Beam or Bean […]

Steaming About Smoking

Coast Star is running a story about the dual proposals, one a local ordinance, the other a state initiative, to have an outright ban on smoking at public beaches.  Author Haley Behre was kind enough to call me for my opinion and reported my comments thusly: ……….The (state) fine would be not less than $250 […]

Have Some Coffee With A Bean

And a Seebeck too. The Bean/Seebeck campaign is having a party at the Tracy Tasty Bean and we’re all invited! Here is their invitation:   Jim Bean has announced his candidacy for mayor of Belmar       Mike Seebeck will be his running mate for council member PLEASE JOIN US  FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH – FROM 6PM TO 8PM AT […]

Stop Paying For Primaries

On March 5th a lawsuit was filed in Federal Court challenging New Jersey’s use of public money to finance primary elections for the two major political parties.  The plaintiff organization, called EndPartisanship, has issued a press release about the suit. I quote: The EndPartisanship.org coalition today filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Newark, New […]