RAHWAY – New Jersey Monthly Magazine dropped Rahway from #400 on its rating of ‘best places to live’ in the Garden State in 2010 to #500 last year, close to the bottom of the list, which included only 514 municipalities. Democratic mayoral…
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Low Taxes Don’t Build Strong Economies
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by Gordon MacInnes In the lead-up to Tuesday’s tax filing deadline, there was the usual whirlwind of commentary and assertions, some of it factual, but much of it fictional. In New Jersey, most of the discourse invariably ends up focusing…
Democrat asking if City Hall is out of touch
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RAHWAY — Four shootings in four months and a political speech that concentrated on plans to borrow $3 million for parks improvements has at least one Democrat questioning whether City Hall politicians are out of touch with the serious problems…
Pallone concerned about seismic testing off New Jersey coast
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STATE — A proposal submitted by Columbia and other universities, including Rutgers, seeking permission from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to conduct marine seismic surveys 15 miles off the coast of Barnegat this summer, purportedly to study climate change, is being challenged by environmental groups and lawmakers…
Progressive Activists Target City Hall & Bad Banks
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RAHWAY — The Move Your Money project, a nationwide campaign, came to Rahway to encourage people to divest from the largest Wall Street banks and invest in local financial institutions and chided the city government for ‘sleeping with the enemy’…
Most crimes remain unsolved by Rahway police
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RAHWAY — City police solved fewer than one out of four reported crimes in the city last year, according to current State Police data but that shoddy record is not stopping interim Mayor Samson Steinman from using taxpayer money to boast that violent…
Mayoral Melee!
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UNION COUNTY — Democrats in Linden and Rahway will have competitive races in the June 3 primary election, as Democrats for Change reformers again pose challenges to the regular political organization. Three mayoral candidates are vying for support in Linden,…
Ex-school board president guilty in free lunch scandal
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ELIZABETH — Jurors found Marie Munn, the former president of the Elizabeth school board, guilty of of theft by deception and tampering with public records for stealing from the district’s federal free lunch program. The panel found 49-year-old Munn understated her household income,…
Democrat Devine running for mayor in Rahway primary
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RAHWAY — Residents will have a choice between Hillside township administrator Samson Steinman and Rahway Democrat James J. Devine in the upcoming mayoral primary election, scheduled for Tuesday, June 3. Devine, a strategist who managed all of former Rahway Mayor Jim…
Devine applauds Scutari’s goal to legalize marijuana
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RAHWAY — Although James J. Devine applauded Senator Nick Scutari’s courage for sponsoring controversial legislation, the liberal Democrat questioned his method of trying to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use in New Jersey. “Alcohol prohibition did not work and marijuana…
