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Mon Nov 28, 2011 at 03:00:27 PM EST
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Quote of the Day is today's Tweet from Courier-Post columnist @Jeremy_Rosen:
ICYMI @GovChristie took state chopper to his Camden appearance 2day... nothing wrong with that, but is he scared of city streets?
Thwock. Thwock. Thwock. Gov. Chris Christie availed himself of the mammoth state helicopter down to Camden this morning for the 35-mile ride from Trenton. In Camden, a city with far fewer police to keep a watchful eye on the Guv, he announced the future expansion of what sounds like a good idea (unless it masks another privatization initiative) to shift drug offenders into rehab programs instead of prison.
Christie did his press conference at Cathedral Kitchen, the largest emergency food provider in Camden; feeding since 1976 "the homeless, the jobless, those with disabilities or addiction problems, the working poor," from "infants to the elderly".
It's great to see Christie draw attention to Cathedral Kitchen's work. But seriously, did Christie's cocksure press operation give any thought at all to how arrogant it looks for the governor to chopper in - at great public expense - to a place where hungry people come to be fed, on the day after we learned there are twice as many New Jerseyans are relying on food stamps than 4 years ago?
Thwock. Thwock. Thwock. Guess nobody thought of that.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 at 10:47:47 AM EDT
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It's been a killer couple of news days, but I just wanted to take note of a news mention of LD-16 Assembly candidate (and Christie YouTube confronter) Marie Corfield, a mention I didn't expect.
Our Quote of the Day is from olitical reporter Jane Roh in her Courier Post Strictly Politics blog post (which was mostly about George Norcross):
I Tweeted this before so I may as well say it here: If Marie Corfield, the Democratic Assembly candidate in LD16, were the face of the NJEA, public educators would be in a much better place right now.
Jane's comment, while genuine about Marie, is in the context of criticism of NJEA's current leadership; her last line muses how "different leadership" might have produced different results. I'm not going to speculate on that, just point out Jane's comment came not long after this and this.
Disclosure: It's not hard to be either supporter or friend of Corfield. I am both, and would take note of Jane Roh's impression of her even if I was neither.
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Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 08:44:35 AM EDT
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Check out this thought provoking nugget by Jeremy Rosen via today's Courier Post which explores Governor Christie's casual borrowing of taxpayer money for personal expenses:
Sure $2,488 is a relatively small amount of money to owe, especially for a millionaire governor with $159,156 in his campaign coffers.
But what if everyone had the right to owe the state, penalty free?
One set of rules for Chris Christie, another set of rules for everyone else.
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Fri Sep 03, 2010 at 12:44:23 PM EDT
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 Gov Christie and Mattheussen. $800,000,000 worth of stupid. Photo: NJ Courier PostGovernor Christie's colossal blunder costing the state $400m in Race To the Top educational grants has been the talk of the nation for good reason. So naturally Christie is ready to change the subject. But it is a surprise the Governor would take refuge at the scandal- plagued Delaware River Port Authority. Go below the fold to find out why......
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Mon Apr 05, 2010 at 10:30:00 AM EDT
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I was reading the Courier Post editorial about how the Governor should lead by example and take a modest pay cut to his salary as Governor to show his own sacrifice. Then they look at him in the context of the previous resident in Drumthwacket and the teachers themselves:Christie's predecessor, Jon Corzine, only took $1 a year as pay. Of course, he was a millionaire many times over. Christie is not a millionaire and has young children to support.
So to, however, teachers aren't rich. Most of them have families to support and bills they struggle to pay. Now wait a minute, are they really comparing the Governor's net worth and struggles to that of the teachers? I clearly remembered during the campaign that it was a battle of the rich guys, so I did a quick search using the google and found this:Christie previously provided The Star-Ledger with copies of his tax returns from 2003-2007, and estimated the net worth of he and his wife at $3.8 million. The newspaper reviewed those returns -- and the federal financial disclosure reports Christie filed for the years he was U.S. Attorney -- to describe his finances, including his income, how much he paid in taxes, and his range of assets and investments. I don't really know how much more evidence you need than the IRS. Just because Jon Corzine was the wealthiest governor in recent history doesn't mean that the comparatively less rich Chris Christie is a man of the people. He's still a millionaire! The average New Jersey resident has an income of $38,000, Chris Christie made $448,720 in 2008, up from about $373,000 the year before. His net worth is around $3.8 million. Despite what many assume due to his relative modesty compared to Corzine and what is now stated in Courier Post editorial, Chris Christie is a very rich man.
I don't begrudge someone for having or making money, but when they go after people who struggle to get by and the media helps distort their own standing to make the argument, we've got a problem. Now that they know he's a millionaire, maybe they'll call on him maybe they'll call on him to share in the sacrifice and enact policies for other very wealthy folks to do just the same.
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Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 03:00:00 PM EDT
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An editorial from the Courier Post yesterday said that the Governor is fixing a broken state. There really isn't much argument about whether we have problems, but the size, scope and solutions are open for discussion. They use the Governor's numbers for the size of the deficit and we get this:A governor coming into office this year could have:
A. Made up the deficit by getting $11 billion more in revenue -- i.e., increasing taxes -- or . . .
B. Cut spending dramatically to the tune of $11 billion.
Christie has chosen the latter. We suspect had Corzine been re-elected he would have done some major cutting but also leaned heavily on the first choice of tax increases. There are a few things wrong with this passage. First, the $11 billion number is overstated. The state almost never funds all of its obligations, but the Courier neglects to mention that fact. The number includes a $3 billion pension contribution and $1 billion toward property tax rebates, both of which are not funded in the Governor's proposal.
Then there is the amount that could be taken away from that with the extension of the tax on the super rich, which is currently being added to our deficit rather than helping solve the problem.
Finally, they once again let the Governor get away with saying he's not raising taxes. Taxes are being raised and the media is writing about it in their headlines daily as we have pointed out. The Governor just doesn't want to take responsibility and the media is doing their readership a disservice by not holding him accountable for what he's really doing.
I keep hoping they'll do their job and am disappointed every time I see the talking point go unquestioned and repeated. In fact, rather than call him out, they try to apologize for him by saying the Democrat would have been worse.
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Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 11:45:00 AM EDT
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More cuts in the newspaper industry:Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. plans to cut 1,400 jobs in the next few weeks, about 3 percent of the work force, as it faces a prolonged slump in advertising revenue.
Bob Dickey, head of the company's U.S. community publishing division, informed staff of the layoffs in a letter Wednesday. He told employees that "there have been some promising signs of a recovery, but the reality is the improvements are not broad-based and the economy continues to be fragile."
The majority of layoffs will come by July 9, he said.
The move follows a 10 percent cut at Gannett in 2008, which left the company with about 41,500 employees. Talk about putting a damper on the holiday weekend for your employees. I'll put the full memo they sent to employees below the fold. In New Jersey, Gannett papers include the Asbury Park Press, Courier News, Courier-Post, Home News Tribune, the Daily Record and the Vineland Daily Journal. It remains to be seen how many of those cuts will hit these NJ outlets.
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Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 03:30:48 PM EST
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Gannett has been struggling along with the rest of the Newspaper industry:Gannett (GCI), the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., reported Q3 revenue of $1.6 billion, a decrease of 11% over the year, while meeting analysts? expectations. EPS of $0.76 was lower than the market?s expectations of $0.78 and was down 25% over the year. As a result , the budget axe is swinging again:Gannett Co. Inc. is eliminating positions today at six newspapers in New Jersey due to declining advertising revenues and the severe economic downturn afflicting the state and the nation.
The company began notifying the affected employees this morning at the Asbury Park Press, the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, the Courier News in Bridgewater, the Daily Record in Parsippany and the Daily Journal in Vineland And according to PNJ, their Trenton staff will be cut by 2/3:The latest casualties to media cutbacks are four Gannett New Jersey statehouse reporters: Tom Baldwin, Michael Rispoli, Lisa Ryan, and Greg Volpe. That cuts Gannett?s statehouse bureau from six reporters to two, with only Bob Ingle and Michael Symons surviving the budget cuts. This is just a continuation of the downsizing for NJ media outlets including the Star Ledger who lost all but 1 member of its editorial board and NJN where many workers accepted buyouts. The new editorial page editor of the Star Ledger may not trust or like what is on the internet, but if this trend keeps up he won't have many other options because there will not be many people left actually covering New Jersey.
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 10:10:58 AM EDT
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So far, at least nine papers have published endorsements in the Democratic US Senate primary, and at least seven have endorsed in the Republican primary.
If you know of any endorsements that we're missing, post them in the comments and we'll add them to the table.
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Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:41:38 PM EDT
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A few months ago, we here at Blue Jersey discussed the imperiled plight of the Red Knot bird, whose numbers are dwindling. The Red Knot is targeted for the endangered species list, and its sightings are getting rarer and rarer in the state.
Like the Red Knot, another native species, the frankus lautenbergus, has also become a rare commodity in the state, so much so that even editorial boards are calling for the organism to return to his state for some face time.
Kidding aside, multiple editorial boards have all but called Lautenberg a coward for not agreeing to multiple debates in multiple formats (the 3 a.m. equivalent on NJN notwithstanding) and for being generally absent from the campaign trail.
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Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 10:50:29 AM EDT
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I love to read the differing takes that the news outlets often have on the same issue. Take today's example, Paid Family Leave. Now here on Blue Jersey, we have followed the debate and often overblown rhetoric about the effects this program may have. Today, we have the Star Ledger calling the Chamber on their crap, while the Courier continues to do their bidding by shoveling some more of it. Let's go to the papers. We have the Star Ledger editorial, "Scare talk on Paid Family Leave" battling the Courier Editorial, "With Family leave, jobs leave". Are you scared from the title because I know I'll be sleeping with a nightlight. The Ledger begins... Spring has arrived, but Scrooge is still firmly ensconced in Trenton. Scrooge would be the state Chamber of Commerce and other staunch opponents of paid family leave. A sensible, compassionate paid family leave bill has, finally, passed the Legislature and Gov. Jon Corzine promises to sign it shortly. Yet the critics will not let up on their drumbeat of doom.Paid family leave will be the death of small business, the naysayers insist; it will drive more businesses out of the state; it will never be able to support itself on the 64 cents or so to be deducted from employees' paychecks each week. The way the Chamber and others yelp, you would think Lenin's embalmed body had been transferred to the Statehouse dome, followed by an order for mandatory Communist Party membership for all. And the counter opening from the Courier... Paid family leave will further drive employers away from New Jersey.
It was not unexpected that the state Senate approved paid family leave for New Jersey workers. With Gov. Jon Corzine already having pledged his support, family leave is now inevitable.
It's too bad our state lawmakers cannot see the error of this. New Jersey is already a state that many businesses don't want to move to. Taxes for both businesses and their employees are extremely high. Government regulations are complex and arduous. Traffic is heavy. Are the Courier and Star Ledger reading the same bill? That's right boys and girls, traffic is heavy so we can't have family leave. It's the latest reasoning because all of the other reasons haven't worked and they say it's inevitable like it's the worst thing to ever happen anywhere at any time. Follow me below the fold as the contrast in coverage continues...
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Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 07:02:45 PM EDT
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Progressive media watchdog group Media Matters has released yet another groundbreaking study of conservative bias in mainstream media, and this time they are focusing on the editorial page of U.S. newspapers. In compling data on U.S. newspapers, they found out something that many of us on the left already know: The vast majority papers include conservative columnists over progressive ones. Their findings show that 60% of U.S. newspapers favor conservative columnists in number over their progressive counterparts, while only 20% feature progressive columnists (Dionne, Dowd, etc.) moreso than conservative columnists.
After looking over the Media Matters' findings on N.J. newspapers I would say that, while we do have some newspapers (Bergen Record, Burlington County Times) that feature a greater number of progressive columnists over conservative ones, many newspapers, such as the The Courier Post, feature more conservatives than Democrats. After reading yet another editorial by Cal Thomas in today's edition (with no featured liberal columnist), for example, I did some research on the Courier Post on Media Matters' site and found that they have a 6-1 pro-conservative bias in their choice of regular columnists, which includes such "dignitaries" as Michele Malkin and Bill O'Reilly.
Let's help the Courier Post become a more inclusive newspaper and contact their editor, Mike Daniels at mdaniels@courierpostonline.com, to ask them politely to change their editorial policy so that more progressive voices are included. Look up your local paper, and see what their level of bias is, too, and be an activist to change conservative-leaning editorial boards.
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Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 10:34:01 AM EST
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The good news this morning is that Menendez has a 6% lead in the senate race over Kean Jr., according to a Research 2000 Poll. The bad news this morning is that three New Jersey newspapers, The Courier Post, The Press of Atlantic City, and Asbury Park Press, have all endorsed the unqualified Republican over Menendez.
We need to work the media, both traditional (e.g., print) and nontraditional (e.g., internets, blogs), to ensure that Menendez defeats Kean Jr. in 9 days. If you live in any of the areas served by these three newspapers, please take a moment to write a letter to the editor and let them know your displeasure with their endorsements, emphasizing the positives of the Menendez campaign. I've already written the Courier Post, who, despite serving a heavily-Democratic readership, have once again supported a Republican for state or nation-wide office.
1). Asbury Park Press:
http://www.app.com/a...
Letters to the Editor: yourviews@app.com
2). Courier Post:
http://www.courierpo...
Letters to the Editor: (scroll down on same page; fill in form)
3). Press of Atlantic City:
http://www.pressofat...
Letters to the Editor:
"We will not accept letters without your name, full address, daytime and evening phone numbers. Please remember: letters are subject to editing. The shorter the letter, the more likely it will be published. For full details of The Press letters policy, call (609) 272-7279. You can send your letter to:
The Press Editorial Page
11 Devins Lane
Pleasantville, NJ 08232
For more information, call (609) 272-7266 or 272-7267
letters@pressofac.com"
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