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Monthly Archives: December 2014

Council Meeting Of December 16, 2014

SID Update – Vote Was 3-2

Brian ended up voting against it.  (It was his his vote that I was least sure of when I made my prediction yesterday morning.)  I was correct that the mayor would promise to make the assessments more equitable and based more on the “benefit” that certain businesses get from the SID.  He really had no […]

SID Passes!

6:22 am Despite vocal opposition from several members of the business community, the 2015 Special Improvement District budget was passed tonight by a 4 to 1 margin. Before casting their votes, Councilwoman Blackburn and Councilwoman Nicolay both commented on how nice the Christmas decorations look this year.  Councilman Magovern stated that he still thought the […]

Last Week

In My Dreams

Most of you don’t know this but early last spring, when it looked like nobody wanted to put themselves through running for mayor in this town, I told Jim Bean that if nobody was going to run that I would get myself on the ballot as an independent or maybe as a Libertarian.  I thought […]

Doherty: Raise Our Gas Tax!

I guess Maggie made him do this.

What To Do About The NSA

illegally spying on the communications of every American? Make it all legal, of course! .

SID Budget Hearing To Be Held December 16th

Read the $119,000 budget HERE. (Starts on page 4)  

Tobacco Kills

Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter, writing in Bloomberg: Click here to read the rest of the story.

Complete (I Think) List Of Hand-Delivered Ballots

Doesn’t include people who delivered their own ballots. “Not on Excel sheets” means they couldn’t be found on the Excel sheets provided by Freehold with the names and ballot types of the people who voted last month.   Click on them to view larger.