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Cape May County’s Future Gets Messy Given the EV Mandate
Across the nation electric vehicle sales in September hit a new high at 11% of the market. There were 136,000 light-duty EVs sold, up 67% compared to the September of 2022. According to the Natural...
View ArticlePresidents Day – Don’t Gloss Over It
Presidents Day, also called Washington’s Birthday, is a significant holiday in the United States. It falls on the third Monday of February each year. This day is dedicated to honoring all those who...
View ArticlePublic Schools Are in Need of Community Attention
We have been told since our first day of school that a good education is the ticket to a better future. It opens doors to career opportunities. It makes us better citizens. It leaves us not just with...
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DEP: Because I Said So!
It’s Time for the DEP to Get Its Head Out of the Sand Before North Wildwood Has None Left to Bury It In It’s time the state Department of Environmental Protection takes accountability by explaining its...
View ArticleBeing Neighborly?
With the Five Mile Dune, Are North Wildwood’s Neighbors Taking One for the Team? For a project that has been beyond the initial planning stage for over 10 years now, it’s shocking that there’s a...
View ArticleA Blessing and a Curse
The Property Value Explosion Cape May County, once a haven of affordable real estate in New Jersey, has evolved over the past 50 years into a coveted coastal destination. This transformation, while...
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We Can’t Let ‘Open Public Records’ Become ‘Somewhat Open Public Records’
As this was being written legislation was barreling through the legislature in Trenton that would have significantly altered the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). It would have impacted transparency in...
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Our Community College Needs a Total Rethink
The nation’s community colleges began as Junior Colleges. The idea grew out of the prolific mind of William Rainey Harper, the president of the University of Chicago, who experimented with the German...
View ArticleWhy is Transparency in Government So Hard to Achieve?
Government transparency. I never met a politician who wasn’t on the side of greater transparency. Yet taxpayers struggle to force local governments to increase transparency. So if we all want it, why...
View ArticleBallot Siberia? No — Let the People Decide, Not Party Bosses
Responding to a legal challenge filed by U.S. Representative Andy Kim (NJ-03), a federal judge has ended the use of the county line ballot format for Democrats for New Jersey’s June primaries. The...
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Hats Off to Mayor Rosenello
Hats off to Mayor Patrick Rosenello and the people and businesses of North Wildwood who depend upon the beach and a strong shore protection system, not only for their enjoyment, but for their...
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Yet Another Mandate Is Imposed by Yet Another Agency
On Wednesday, April 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new rules for the monitoring and removal of Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water. PFAS are a class of...
View ArticleClimate Change Support Dips
On May 6 Monmouth University released polling data that showed a decline in the number of Americans who see climate change as a very serious problem. In 2021 two-thirds of Americans said climate change...
View ArticleRemembering Those Who Died For Our Freedoms
Over many years Memorial Day has become tangled with the unofficial opening of summer. It has become a day of remembrance as well as a day of backyard barbecues and parades. But in these troubled...
View ArticleNo Transparency in Murphy’s Race to the Finish Line
In November 2025 New Jersey voters will go to the polls to elect a new governor. Gov. Phil Murphy is barred from running due to term limits. Murphy is effectively a lame duck governor already, but with...
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The Public Be Damned
OPRA vote reveals how little state and local politicians fear citizen anger A bill which 81% of New Jersey voters said they opposed passed both houses of the Legislature in record time and with strong...
View ArticleMurphy’s Energy Master Plan is Being Imposed on the Public
New Jersey has announced an effort to develop a new, more aggressive state Energy Master Plan in 2024. The plan development has been placed in the hands of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities...
View ArticleCape May County’s Public Schools Need Attention
We are at a point where our system of government is increasingly unable to deal with complex problems. The partisan divide is too wide, the culture wars too intense, the zero-sum nature of our dialogue...
View ArticleClimate Change Makes Fleeing Disasters Harder
As we all know only too well Route 55 is a state highway that runs for approximately 40 miles from an interchange at Route 42 near Philadelphia to Port Elizabeth in Cumberland County. The planned...
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We Said Yes to Legal Pot, But at What Cost?
In November 2020 two out of every three New Jersey voters said yes to legalizing cannabis. The vote was the same in Cape May County where 66% of the ballots cast said yes to marijuana legalization. We...
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