Mercer County Sheriff Kevin Larkin made a “mistake” when he stopped a class at Mercer County College because he didn’t like the content of the class: [Associate Professor Michael] Glass, teaching a State and Local Polices course, said to his class that Larkin collects an $85,000 pension and a $129,000 salary as sheriff, cited published [...]
If Governor Christie really wants to save New Jersey some money, I’d suggest he start with some housecleaning. The New Jersey Constitution limits the organization of the executive branch to no more than twenty departments (with the ability to have temporary departments from time to time). However, sort of alongside the normal departmental organization, there [...]
A writer over at Blue Jersey thinks the newly formed New Jersey Conservative Party is going to be a force to be reckoned with. I’m sure he will find an ethusiastic following…but whether or not they will be in sufficient number to truly change things in NJ politics is doubtful. I’m not knocking Illions, whose [...]
My friends over at Blue Jersey are raising the issue of what I’ll call “de facto tax hikes.” It’s a tactic that conservatives have long used to unfairly portray Democrats as “tax and spend liberals” who are just too sneaky to tax you outright. For example, when Jon Corzine tried to cut municipal aid to [...]
Pension reform is afoot: The proposals would require workers and retirees at all levels of government and local school districts to contribute to their own health care costs, ban part-time workers at the state and local levels from participating in the underfunded state pension system, cap sick leave payouts for all public employees and constitutionally [...]
Senator Bob Menendez is caught again. Not that he did anything illegal, but writing a federal regulator to take favorable action on a business owned by a contributor is still a shady bit of pool: Sen. Robert Menendez, (D-N.J.) pressed federal regulators to approve the acquisition of a doomed Elizabeth bank whose officers included contributers [...]
Sorry, this is going to be a long one. So I’m breaking it into sections. Section 1: The News The Star-Ledger offers us competing opinions on taxes and the Great Exodus from New Jersey. First up, conservative commentator, Paul Mulshine: The reaction to McGreevey’s class warfare [note: income tax increase on high wage earners] was [...]
You could almost see it coming: Mayor Dana Redd has added at least five former aides to former Gov. Jon Corzine to her staff. Redd, who was sworn in last month, has faced criticism from Republicans for pushing to increase the maximum salaries for some top staff positions. Redd said she needed the higher guidelines [...]
Trenton lawmakers are falling all over themselves to make it look like they are outraged by the excesses of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) and unwilling to let it continue – so Scott Rumana wants the state to take over the patronage mill. But it isn’t as if the PVSC is alone in its [...]
I think Wally has it wrong. Shirley Turner doesn’t fear a primary challenge at all. She simply believes that gay people should have the right to be sacrificed to protect a country that denies them the right to consensual marriage. See? Nothing cynical here. Move along. Share on Facebook Sphere: Related Content
