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Monthly Archives: May 2014

Fat Is Good

From the Wall Street Journal: The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you? The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade   “Saturated fat does not cause heart disease”—or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could […]

Why Are They Meeting Privately?

From the public notices of the Coast Star: BOROUGH OF BELMAR REDEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING NOTICE The Redevelopment Advisory Committee will be holding meetings on the third Tuesday of each month from May through December 2014. The Committee will meet privately at 7 pm and then open the meeting to the public at 8 pm. […]

This Came In The Mail Today

Unmarked envelope, no return address.    

Spike

Eyewitness Account Of Today’s Hearing

Courtesy of Joy DeSanctis.   Today Belmar residents Jim Bean and Mike Seebeck appeared at a hearing before the Local Finance Board of the Department of Community Affairs in Trenton. They provided testimony attempting to prevent the mayor from obtaining an emergency waiver on the $350,000 down payment required for the 7 million dollar bond […]

Breaking!!!!

LOCAL FINANCE BOARD APPROVES RECKLESS BORROWING!!! ALLOWS BELMAR TO BORROW $7 MILLION WITH $50,000 DOWN PAYMENT! .

My Letter To The Local Finance Board

As a Belmar resident and property tax payer I strongly urge you to reject Belmar’s application for a waiver on the down payment on the $7 million bond it is about to pass. . This debt is being created over the objection of a significant portion of the public here in Belmar.  The administration even […]

Belmar Council Meeting Of May 1, 2014

All 1 minute and 14 seconds of it. . Here is the reason the postponed meeting was postponed a second time:

FEMA AUDIT RELEASED!

(Those auditors, we now know, have been against our recovery since day one.) READ IT HERE Press coverage: . ASBURY PARK PRESS: Audit recommends nixing $523,000 in FEMA aid to Belmar . NJ.COM: Belmar’s Sandy debris removal costs questioned by federal auditors . I guess this is the reason for the announcement below.