Widespread backlog roils NJ health insurance market (via NJ.com)
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act has clogged the system for nearly all types of health insurance in New Jersey, causing frustration and delays for consumers, agents and policyholders say. Lingering backlogs have left thousands in limbo,…
By Greg Kelly
Friday, March 14
• Family Game Night (Tinton Falls) – MORE INFO
• The Music Man at TRT (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Long Branch Community Job Fair – MORE INFO
• The Odd Couple at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Free Tax Preparation Help (Wall Twp, Shrewsbury, Manalapan) – MORE INFO
• Date of a Lifetime at NJ Repertory Theater (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Monmouth Mall Art & Crafts Show (Eatontown) – MORE INFO
• Henry & Mudge at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO 
• Sylvia at First Ave Playhouse (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO
• Chance Auction (Ocean Twp) – MORE INFO
• Downtown Freehold “Irish Week” – MORE INFO
• Pottery & Pasta Night (Brielle) – MORE INFO
• Theater 24 at BCC (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Aberdeen) – MORE INFO
• Archery with Family (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• CBA Cocktail Party & Photo Auction (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
• AWFNJ Animal Welfare & Care Conference (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
Posted: March 12th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County | Tags: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County, Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend | 1 Comment »The problem is, they’ve already gotten special treatment
Tesla Motors, the manufacturer and retailer of electric powered cars, boasts on its website that it is “redefining the way cars are sold.”
They’ve been selling new cars in an unconventional way in New Jersey for one, two or four years, depending on who is telling the truth. They have a problem now, because the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission suddenly adopted what Tesla is calling a “new rule” that is consistent with decades old law allowing only franchised new car dealerships to sell new cars in New Jersey.
Instead of visiting a new car dealership where you test drive a car, haggle with a salesperson, wait for the salesperson to come back from pretending to talk to his/her manager, make a deal, get passed off to the business manager who bumps your interest rate, tries to sell you undercoating, credit insurance and an extended warranty and then wait a while longer to drive home in your new car, you can’t buy a car at Tesla’s two stores in New Jersey.
Tesla’s New Jersey stores are inside the Short Hills Mall in Short Hills and the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus. You can’t get your new electric car at one of those stores. You can’t even order it at the store. You can only look at a car and talk about it. If you want to buy one, you have to order it online and wait for it to be built in California before you take delivery. If you want to test drive one, you have to an request an appointment online. It might take a day or two for a representative to get back to you with an appointment. Test drives and new car deliveries are done out of the company’s service facility in Springfield.
Posted: March 12th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Christie Administration, Economy, Motor Vehicle Commission, MVC, NJ State Legislature | Tags: Assemblyman John Wisniewski, Loretta Weinberg, Motor Vehicle Commission, MVC, New car sales, Tesla, Tesla Motors | 9 Comments »
The Oceanic Bridge which connects Middletown and Rumson over the Navesink River will be raised intermittently for up to 10 minutes at a time today and tomorrow as the Monmouth County Division of Bridges completes regular repairs on the bascule. The work is being performed between 9:30 am and 3pm, in an effort to minimize the inconvenience to commuters.
Motor vehicle traffic on Bingham Avenue between Rumson and Middletown (CR-8) can either travel west through Fair Haven and Red Bank to Middletown or travel east through Sea Bright and Highlands to Middletown.
Posted: March 12th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Middletown, Rumson | Tags: Middletown, Monmouth County, Oceanic Bridge, Rumson, Traffic | 2 Comments »
By Christopher R. Whalen, CPA
I am writing to express my many concerns regarding the Trinity Hall Development.
Trinity Hall is a commercial enterprise and will bring to our neighborhood all of the communal, societal and environmental harm that such enterprises do.
Let’s project out some of the many terrible impacts this will have on our neighborhood.
The Trinity Hall Development will increase the volume of:
School buses and other school vehicles
Student cars and
Parent drop off vehicles
Evening noise and light pollution.
Daily noise and pollution from the school’s physical plant.
and
Possibly necessitate:
4,109 of 47,906 registered voters in Middletown Township went to the polls yesterday to vote on a $32.2 million spending measure for repairs to the township’s schools. The referendum passed 2,951 to 1,158 with 43,797 abstentions. Mail-in and provisional ballots are not included in these unofficial figures provided by Monmouth County Clerk M. Claire French’s office.
The Middletown Board of Education is now authorized to borrow $19.3 million for school maintenance and repairs. $12.9 million for the project is expected to come from 20 Regular Operating District (ROD) grants from the New Jersey Department of Education.
In an OpEd posted on Middletown Patch, School Board Member Vinnie Brand made the case for the referendum, arguing that the grants are a rare opportunity which give the board an opportunity to make the “critical need” repairs for 60% of cost while passing 40% off to statewide taxpayers. Brand noted that interest rates are low and that labor rates are “more reasonable.”
Middletown resident Chris Fotache countered Brand’s argument in an OpEd on MMM submitted yesterday as the polls opened. Fotache argued that the Board of Ed did not publicize the referendum in order to assure a low voter turnout that would favor the referendum. He alleged fiscal mismanagement and duplicate spending on repairs and planning fees.
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Posted: March 12th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Education, Elections, Middletown | Tags: Chris Fotache, Critical Need, Middletown Board of Education, Middletown School Referendum, School Repairs, Vinnie Brand | 5 Comments »
RED BANK: LIBRARY PUTS STAFF ON NOTICE (via redbankgreen)
A meeting of the Red Bank library board in the former living room of the Eisner family last month. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Red Bank Public Library has put its entire staff on notice of possible layoffs in the face of a looming budget…
By Chris Fotache
The Middletown Board of Education is attempting to borrow $32 million through a voter referendum on Tuesday March 11, 2014. You have probably not even heard of this because they are doing their best to keep it a secret so that only the school PTA’s and PFA’s (their cheerleaders) are the only ones who come out to vote. They have them brainwashed that this is such a great idea. What many people fail to realize is that the BOE spent $8 million over the last 2 years replacing roofs that needed to be fixed. This was done with extra money left over in the budget. And it was done with only 1% tax increases over the last 3 years. Why now does this new BOE need to pay an architect $1.3 million to do this work all over again? They paid this very same architect over $200K over the last year to do this same exact work. Why are they paying them again???
The answer is they can’t explain it. They refuse to answer any questions. They say vote for it because it’s for the kids. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE?
While it’s important to have the schools safe and running in a functional manner, the new Board’s level of mismanagement, misinformation, and incompetence is staggering. These repairs will get done whether the referendum passes or not as it’s the Boards’ obligation to do especially since the repairs are now public.
The board owns 11 properties in town worth millions that they could sell to fund these fixtures. Why are they not selling them and asking the tax payer to fund this. If the referendum fails, they will be forced to sell some and use that money to fix the schools AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER.
Don’t forget that not so long ago, a $78 million referendum was passed to upgrade schools. So if they were mismanaged in the past, what guarantee do we have that these $32 mil won’t go to waste?
Posted: March 11th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Education, Middletown | Tags: Borrowing, Chris Fotache, Middletown Board of Education, Referendum | 9 Comments »
Chris Christie’s approval rating flips in new poll (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie has called the George Washington Bridge scandal an obsession of the press that the public doesn’t care about, but two polls released today show the ordeal continues to erode his political support and public image. One…
Monmouth County Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, not Devender Singh
Monmouth County Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal has threatened the owner of this website, Gallco Media, LLC, with “all legal remedies under law” unless the post, Feds Charge Indian National With Abusive Sexual Contact, is removed from the site. Gopal’s attorney, D. Sam Han, Esq. of Sobel Han, LLP of Englewood Cliffs, further demands that an apology and retraction be posted that clearly denotes the improper usage of Gopal’s picture on this site. The photo in question is posted to the left. Han’s letter can be viewed here.
On behalf of Gallco Media, I consulted with two attorneys to find out what these “legal remedies under law” might be. Both said there aren’t any and that Gopal does not have an actionable claim. Bring it on, Han. Play it again, Sam. You’re not gonna win, Vin.
We really must have gotten under Gopal’s skin. He didn’t threaten legal action against the campaign of Assemblywomen Caroline Casagrande and Mary Pat Angelini in the the 2011 legislative race when they sent the now infamous Joe Vas mailer out against Gopal who was running against them at the time. The mailer was widely criticized in the media and even by many Republicans at the time. MMM didn’t write about the mailer in 2011 because I was in jail on ginned up charges when the controversy broke. I’m particularly sensitive to the consequences of exaggerated allegations made in the media.
Gopal’s gotten a small taste of his own medicine. We hope he’ll alter his conduct, and lead members of party to do the same. It’s not looking too good, so far, but that is what we’re after in our “Monmouth County Republican Chairman John Bennett did not issue a statement…” posts and our posts calling Gopal on his duplicity.
Posted: March 10th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth Democrats, Vin Gopal | Tags: Andrew Lucas, Caroline Casagrande, D. Sam Han, Devender Singh, Gallco Media LLC, Joe Grillo, Joe Vas, Lillian Burry, Mary Pat Angelini, Monmouth Democrats, Peter Burnham, Sean DiSomma, Serena DiMaso, Sobel Han LLP, Vin Gopal | 13 Comments »© Copyright 2026 | MoreMonmouthMusings | All Rights Reserved