Shop carefully: Whole Foods & their historically-inaccurate Obamacare whine
Star-Ledger: When execs threaten to cut hours to recoup their health care costs, public backlash often says one of three things: Most customers like the law; they resent employers who retaliate against workers over a law that's intended to help the country's poorest workers; or they're simply tired of the rhetoric. Our guess is all three.
Annette Quijano visits NJ National Guardsmen returning from Af...
Have a pint of F.U. Sandy beer.
Young, gay and homeless
Conference shed light on the struggles of some of NJ's young people.
Obama inauguration will feature signs of N.J.'s recovery from Hurricane Sandy.
Well, it was going to be a double-header. Sen. Weinberg was on Power & Politics to talk about Christie's State of the State (with Christie pal, and former CEC halfway house chief Bill Palatucci pleading the governor's case). I planned to post the video of that, but after talking with host Luke Margolis, I learned News12 doesn't generally produce embeddable video of those shows. I hope they reconsider that policy. It's a great show, and often an important one, and Ne...
First its online content went behind a paywall - the first NJ newspaper to implement a digital paywall - in late 2011. And now the parent company of Press of Atlantic City,
Chris Christie, befleeced and whining that we're harshing on his victory lap:
Artist is our friend, cartoonist and commentator Rob Tornoe who manages to call out Gov. Christie in both sketch and text. You can read Rob's full commentary
When she was Flemington Borough Council member, I think Mary Melfi would agree that she and I disagreed on many issues in running the town. She's a Republican. And I'm not. I'm the vice-chair of Flemington Democrats (and live with the Chair). We ran people against her on Council, she's powered campaigns against somebody in my household, Joey Novick (just sworn in again, with running mate Dorothy Fine, to Flemington Council).
But this is the way things are in local politics in som...
UPDATE: I'm getting a solid denial from Sen. Lautenberg's Communications Director . Actually, more specifically I am told that this is not confirmed.
We're hearing, from a Blue Jersey community member glued to NBC News that they are reporting Sen. Frank Lautenberg will not run for re-election in 2014.
Here is what News4NewYork is reporting. ...
A 19-year-old pharmacy clerk named Pat Noble defeated an incumbent to win a seat on the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education, and was seated this month. He is the founder of the Socialist Party of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, ran as a socialist for his seat and plans to bring a progressive, socialist set of ideals to the schools board.
And he sounds like a breath of fresh air:
"You reach more people, more quickl...
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Flu epidemic in Jersey.
Whoa. What the HELL is
This is what the NJ Senate Dems had to say about Christie's one-on-one interview with Steve Adubato, aired tonight on NJTV and taped before a live audience at NJPAC:
Christie Contradicts Christie, says Sandy 'erased the blackboard' for himself, but not for the President
In a bold stroke of hypocrisy, Governor Christie stated in an interview on Conversations at NJPAC with Steve Adubato that aired tonight that President Obama "executed very well on leadership during the storm. That doesn't in any way change my view of his failure to lead in the first three years of...
Jon Stewart to the House GOP: 'What Would Jesus Or Any Other Human Being That Isn't An Asshole Do'
Brief ad before Stewart. Sorry, couldn't scrub.
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Christie approval rating stands at 73%, after long hovering around 50%; decent-to-great in this blue state. The event which launched him there was a hurricane he simply did his best with, as any governor should, as anybody anywhere should expect from a state executive.
This state executive knows how to posit...
Today's Morning News Roundup is brought to you by colonoscopies and cockroaches, thanks to Republicans determined to gridlock government.
Gov. Christie 2013 State of the State
Christie speech focuses on Sandy - and almost nothing else.
We just got word live streaming video of this discussion in the House was available to post (via NBC News). Got it up for you as soon as we could. This is about the flood insurance bill only; the bulk of Sandy aid was put off for discussion by Speaker Boehner until January 15.
Before we were able to post, Rep. Jon Runyan spoke (appearing to read from a script). Rep. Rob Andrews spoke and Rep. Bill Pascrel...
In 2012, there were a lot of things we might never have known if good journalists, good editors and their news outlets had not devoted resources to uncovering them. Sometimes this was simply a matter of going through mountains of paper or on line communication that is public record as a matter of law. But somebody had to do it, which usually means somebody else would rather it stay hidden.
Here for 2012, are some that really impressed us here at Blue Jersey, with thanks to the news organizations, and their editors & reporters for what we now know because of their work:
Ass...
The state Dems put out a comprehensive, linked, year in review for political news both statewide and national, sent a few hours ago via email. It's pretty good, so I thought I'd post it here. Thanks to the NJDSC communications team of Alicia D'Alessandro and Matt Bonasia for it.
Take a look at 2012, from January to December, from the state Dems' viewpoint - all after the jump. January
President Obama gave his State of the Union Address, calling income inequality one of...
2013
As Democrats seek a candidate, Christie seeks their constituencies.
2012
The year in Bergen County politics:Time of internal warfare.
Passaic County's game-changing moments of 2012.
Congressman Rush Holt on this morning's school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut:
"We can't just keep saying, 'Our hearts ache for the victims and their families.' We have to bring gun violence under control.
"Of course we are all horrified by today's violence in Connecticut. Such tragedies are always senseless, but it is especially sickening to see gunfire turned against children in a place of learning.
"Yet it is not enough to feel sickened. In the aftermat...
I just want to say to Gov. Chris Christie, before he has a chance to open his mouth, that No - it won't be "grandstanding" when politicians watching what's going on in at a Connecticut school right now stand up to talk about the American culture of guns, and keeping kids, and the rest of us, safe from them.
Got that, Gov. Christie?
Susan Rice has withdrawn her name for consideration for U.S. Secretary of State, after months of harsh criticism over h...