Official New Jersey News Thread

1%er may be joining the 99%. Or, the rich tradition of politicians with legal problems:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/10/former_gov_corzines_wall_stree.html
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/corzines_high-stakes_gamble_at.html
http://www.nj.com/starledger/pdf/wednesday.pdf

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/six_motor_vehicle_commission_c.html#incart_hbx
There always seems to be someone on the inside, willing to sell their job.

Looks like it could be a map for homogenous legislative districts!
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/nj_man_puts_rednecks_hippies_a.html#incart_mce

Just in time for Christmas, 2 sick yoots beating up a bum down the Shore...

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/video_homeless_man_beaten_in_w.html

There's a lot of money in parking meters!
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/ex-hoboken_parking_official_pl.html#incart_mrt
"stealing more than $1.1 million in coins from Hoboken's parking meters between June 2005 and April 2008."

The Wacky Weather of 2011

http://www.app.com/article/20111228...posted-online-by-traffic-light-camera-company

I'm happy about that. One less day of drunken idiots falling about the parking lot of the train station next to my house in Clifton.

Damn yuppies & dinks ruin everything!
This only leaves 27 other local SPD parades for New Jerseyans to attend.
http://www.st-patricks-day.com/st_patricks_day_parades_united_states_new_jersey.html

Want to be a concert promoter?
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/01/nj_sports_and_exposition_autho_1.html
Includes link to 3,000 pages of contracts

New allegation of shady HS athletics:
http://www.nj.com/hssports/blog/foo...layers_then_cast_them_aside_families_say.html
For those who think that being a HS foootball coach isn't remumerative:
"Ascolese was a board assistant superintendent. State records show his total salary was $229,930 for the 2010-11 school year."
I'm always a bit sceptical, whenever I see a successful HS football coach supplementing his $10K or so salary for that gig, with a $200K admin job.

A group from Philly support the cancellation:
http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2012/01/irish_anti-defamation_federati.html
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sh...supports-end-of-Hoboken-parade-138113483.html
Some locals insist the party will go on:
http://www.hobokenlepre-con.com/

NJ's highest-paid public employee retires to Florida:
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2012/01/greg_schiano_leaves_rutgers_to.html

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2012/01/john_scher_four_decades_of_bri.html

"He won't veto the bill because he's anti-gay," Goldstein said in a statement issued before the veto was issued Friday. "He'll veto the bill because the 2016 South Carolina presidential primary electorate is anti-gay."

For the useless information file.

Notable people buried in NJ

http://www.trentonian.com/article/2...late-court-overturns-convictions-in-gun-case-
"Aitken ... now lives in Atlanta"
Presumably, the guns laws are more lenient there.
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/a0467-10.pdf

This is just kick-ass ..Kudos Mayor Booker.....

Newark Mayor Cory Booker helps save neighbor from fire
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...ory-booker-helps-save-neighbor-from-fire?lite

Seems like a genuinely good dude. Which is strange in Jersey politics

That may conflict with Andrew Cuomo's plans.