Category Archives: State

A new model to fight sprawl: Citizens sue their own towns

Posted on April 13, 2023 by admin

More and more citizens in New Jersey are standing up to bad municipal government decisions to approve more sprawl in the name of phony “redevelopment” — while handing developers sweetheart deals for ultra-high-profit projects that don’t belong in their towns. … Continue reading →

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The Lame Pitch to Close Route 629: This dog don’t hunt

Posted on July 7, 2022 by admin

July 7, 2022 Open Letter to Marc Brooks, Executive Director, NJ Water Supply Authority Dear Mr. Brooks: On June 22 the mayor and council of Clinton Township voted unanimously not to oppose the permanent closing of county route 629 over … Continue reading →

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Clinton Township’s affordable housing partner indicted

Posted on July 20, 2018 by admin

On the heels of one affordable housing controversy after another, a partner of one of Clinton Township’s seven affordable housing projects has been indicted by a Hunterdon County Grand Jury. Suspended, disbarred, indicted According to reports in the Hunterdon Review … Continue reading →

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Windy Acres: The fatal fraud in Clinton Township’s affordable housing scheme

Posted on January 24, 2018 by admin

Clinton Township’s affordable housing settlement with the Fair Share Housing Center hinges on all the seven projects within it delivering the number of housing units Mayor John Higgins and the council have agreed to. If any one of the sites … Continue reading →

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Doherty Says: Jesus Agrees, Women Don’t Need Equal Pay

Posted on October 26, 2017 by admin

Hear that hollow ringing sound, women of Hunterdon County? That’s New Jersey State Senator Michael Doherty asserting you deserve equal pay — right after he voted against equal pay and told a female reporter to stop making him walk on … Continue reading →

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Do you want to get back your right to vote on school taxes?

Posted on May 20, 2016 by admin

Who could possibly suggest that taxpayers should be deprived of their right to vote on how much we are taxed? In Clinton Township, the answer is: Your school board, which took away our 100-year-old right to vote on school taxes. … Continue reading →

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Marra & Imbriaco: The Windygate Legacy

Posted on June 18, 2014 by admin

It’s Windygate all over again. In 2010, Clinton Township councilmen Jim Imbriaco, Peter Marra and Spencer Peck filed a fraudulent affordable housing plan with COAH (Council On Affordable Housing). Mayor Cimei voted against it, but lacked a majority. Call it … Continue reading →

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Clinton Township: The wolf is at the door

Posted on February 10, 2014 by admin

It will soon be open season again on Hunterdon County municipalities. After Clinton Township led a coalition of 20 towns to launch a legal battle in 2008 against unfunded state mandates for affordable housing, we both won and lost. The … Continue reading →

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Clinton Township’s COAH Plan: A bogus political campaign promise?

Posted on February 6, 2014 by admin

A recent story in the Hunterdon County Democrat about Clinton Township’s old municipal building and the township’s affordable housing (COAH) planning is wrong. In 2008, many people invested a lot of time and energy to create the plan in the … Continue reading →

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NHVSD Board President Beverly Thorne: (Oops! I did it again!) Ignores NJ Open Public Meetings Act

Posted on August 17, 2013 by admin

Subjected to questioning by the public about the letter she did or did not write, Bev Thorne couldn’t even get the Open Public Meetings Act right. How can the public trust her to manage public business? The special August 15, 2013 … Continue reading →

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