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Friday, November 30, 2012

DEVASTATION: Destroyed Boardwalks, Burned Homes; State Officials See Them All

More than 30 members of the State General Assembly took a bus tour through Ocean County's barrier island towns.

The bed is still made. A wicker shelf stands in the corner of the room, its shelves covered with untouched knickknacks, shore memories. A framed print of a lighthouse and white-capped waves hangs on the wall, just a tad askew. The bedroom’s French doors open to the brisk air and an ocean view previously obstructed by the other half of the house that’s no longer there. The devastation unleashed on the New Jersey shore a month ago by Hurricane Sandy has been captured in countless images and videos, spread throughout the world through news reports and social media, but it’s access, being able to see it first hand, the burned out husks of an entire block of summer cottages, the toppled boardwalk, the homes torn away from their foundations and …

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Paul Michaelis

3:11 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The solar cycle is 11 years +/- and try looking it up on Google.   more ›

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Kean Wants To Kill Red Light Program

Assemblyman wants to sign on to two bills that would eliminate the program or at least significantly alter it

Assemblyman Sean Kean wants to kill the Red Light Camera Program and has requested to sign on to a bill that would do just that, along with another that would significantly alter the program that has installed cameras at some traffic lights throughout the state designed to nab red-light runners. Kean, R-Monmouth, said in a release that he intends to sign on to Assembly Bill 3285, which would increase the timing of yellow lights by a full second at intersections that have a red light camera system, lower the current fine for making an illegal right turn on a red light from $85 to $20 and allow a ½-second grace period once a light has turned from amber to red, according to a release. The bill, sponsored by fellow Republican Declan O’Scanlon…

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Jim Lang

11:07 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

One major point that has been missed by many is that the incentives are all wrong. This should be about safety and not revenue. AAA and other auto driving supporter group studies have shown that the safety factor is greatly increased merely by timing a longer yellow light and even by over-lapping the reds at certain intersections. The monetary incentive is to do the exact opposite. It also should…   more ›

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