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Mayor John Higgins to citizens: You’re not smart enough to participate
Who should decide Clinton Township’s future? Not its citizens, according to Mayor John Higgins. At a September 5 Hunterdon County Freeholder meeting, Higgins said: “I don’t know very many people in the township that have enough knowledge of … our land use … Continue reading
Posted in Hunterdon County, Municipal, Sprawl
Tagged Clinton Township, freeholders, John Higgins, John Lanza, land use, pilot, planner, planning, politics
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NHVSD School Board Members: Absent & Truant
Suppose you didn’t show up for work 40%-50% of the time last year. Think your boss would fire you? Two North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School board members who did that just got re-elected. Roger Straight: ABSENT North Hunterdon Vorhees High School … Continue reading
Hunterdon Freeholders to Millennials: Don’t listen to what we say
After lots of noise about initiatives for “economic development” to encourage Millennials to live and work in Hunterdon county, freeholders John Lanza, Matt Holt, John King and Suzanne Lagay turned off the sound — to protect good-old, 20th-century, back-room politics. … Continue reading
Posted in Hunterdon County
Tagged audio, freeholders, hunterdon, meetings, open pubic records act, recordings
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Want to save $1,000 on your Clinton Township taxes?
You once had the right to vote on school taxes every April in Clinton Township. Remember? Actually, you had that right for over 100 years, until the Clinton Township Board of Education (BOE) took it away from you in 2012. … Continue reading
Posted in Municipal, Schools, Taxes
Tagged board of education, Clinton Township, election, schools, taxes
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Do you want to get back your right to vote on school taxes?
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
Posted in Municipal, Schools, State, Taxes
Tagged Antonin Scalia, BOE, budget, Clinton Township, confiscate, First Amendment, freedom of speech, Maria Grant, School Board, taxes
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Marra & Imbriaco: The Windygate Legacy
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
Posted in COAH, Municipal, Sprawl, State, Taxes, Windy Acres
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Clinton Township: The wolf is at the door
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
Posted in COAH, Municipal, Sprawl, State, Taxes, Windy Acres
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Clinton Township’s COAH Plan: A bogus political campaign promise?
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
Posted in COAH, Municipal, Sprawl, State, Windy Acres
Tagged affordable housing, Cimei, Clinton Township, COAH, Imbriaco, Marra, Old Municipal Building, Peck, SHPO, State Historic Preservation Office
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NHVSD Board President Beverly Thorne: (Oops! I did it again!) Ignores NJ Open Public Meetings Act
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
Posted in Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, State
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North-Voorhees School Board: Why don’t you record public meetings?
This is an open letter sent to the North Hunterdon Voorhees School Board today, regarding the August 15 “special meeting” to be held at 7:00 pm at the District Office. (See Hunterdon Democrat, North Hunterdon-Voorhees Superintendent Shaddow could face calls … Continue reading
Posted in Hunterdon County, Schools, State
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