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Monday, November 26, 2012

Hurricane Sandy

Local Officials Describe Sandy's Widespread Devastation, 'Human Misery' to Senate Panel

State Senate looking to improve infrastructure, hear from local mayors, police chiefs on Hurricane Sandy specifics

Local officials described in dramatic detail the work of rescue and rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy, as state senators listened to how the Jersey Shore is grappling with widespread devastation and how to improve for the future. “This is flooding, devastation, I’d never have imagined in my lifetime,” said Toms River Police Chief Michael Mastronardy, one of the first panelists detailing specific anecdotes and financial spending in response to Hurricane Sandy. The panelists were called by the state Senate Budget Committee, held in Toms River Monday. It was the first of several meetings aiming to equip senators with a better understanding as the state figures out how to fund the rebuilding of a collapsed infrastructure and to improve it in …

WMS826

1:41 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Free everything for anyone who was two hundred miles or closer to Sandy. This is getting Ri-god-dam-diculus...   more ›

Friday, December 10, 2010

Fishing Friday

Jersey Anglers Can Still Have a Free Lunch if They Catch it Themselves

Bill to create free registry of state's anglers passes through a Senate committee

"There's no free lunch," quipped state Sen. Bob Smith about a year ago. Last December, Smith and I chatted one afternoon about the prospect of New Jersey creating a free registry of the state's anglers. Back then, the state was broke. It still is, but the blunt Senator from Middlesex County has changed his tune just a bit. Last year at this time, the state's anglers were in a tizzy over Smith's blocking a bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Van Drew - a fellow Democrat from Cape May County - that would have created a free registry of New Jersey's recreational anglers. Under the 2006 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, a federal law which regulates fisheries, all recreational saltwater anglers in America must register so federal …

tuna stick

8:31 am on Friday, December 10, 2010

It's about time the state elected officials are looking out for us. The national registry fee ($15) will do absolutely nothing for the recreational fisherman. It will not help the fisheries, nor the give better data to help the fisheries. It's just another tax. If this measure fails in the state legislature, then every fisherman, of all ages should march on Trenton. I guarantee that if several …   more ›

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