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Rachel Maddow Has an Alternate Theory of Christie’s “Bridgegate” Scandal

Rachel Maddow has a humdinger of a conspiracy theory about what really caused Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal:

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Bridgegate: Chris Christie’s Big Government Problem

An old joke: Republicans are the people who spend years and years and years telling you how awful government is — then, when elected to […]

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The 5 Best Christie Quotes from the Bridgegate Press Conference

Chris Christie’s “Bridge-gate” press conference went long, which meant there were good quotes aplenty. First things first: He apologized for the scandal, fired a staff […]

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Five Winners in Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” Scandal

Politics is pretty much a zero-sum game. If somebody’s losing—spectacularly, flailingly—as Chris Christie is this week, you can bet there are some winners lurking nearby. […]

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Christie Holding Bridgegate Press Conference at 11:00am

Chris Christie issued only one statement yesterday about bridgegate (he is outraged) and declined interview requests.

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Chris Christie Scandal Dominating News Cycle

Flip on the CBS or NBC nightly news last night? Bridgegate. Anderson Cooper? Rachel Maddow? Bridgegate. Bill O’Reilly? No mention, oddly… Anyways, most of the […]

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Lane-Closing Controversy Threatens to Ensnare Chris Christie’s Administration

UPDATE: According to the Asbury Park Press — which obtained damning emails between Chris Christie staffer Bridget Anne Kelly and Christie port authority appointee David […]

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Christie Delays Public Signing of Immigrant Tuition Bill

CBS New York reports that Chris Christie has delayed a public ceremony in which he’d sign a bill offering in-state tuition to the children of […]

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Christie is Beating Clinton in Iowa

Well, this is interesting. A new Quinnipiac poll of Iowa voters has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie beating Hillary Clinton, 45 to 40 percent.

Yes, still. Compared to the absolute destruction on many North Jersey beaches, where homes are still empty and entire blocks have been bulldozed, our South Jersey shores fared relatively well (and I say relatively because some people here lost everything). Still, climate change isn't going away, and neither are issues of flood zones and flood insurance, nor the debate of whether or not our barrier island beach towns will be here for the long haul, and what we can do to protect them (i.e. dunes — the Margate resistance to dunes should continue to be nasty). We'll hit the two-year anniversary in October, but expect this to be affecting policy for a long time. I still hear people talking about the Storm of '62. Sandy will be on our lips more than 50 years from now, too.
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“Stronger Than the Storm” Basically a Massive Fail

According to a bunch of tourism industry poobahs testifying in front of a New Jersey state assembly committee, Chris Christie’s much-ballyhooed “Stronger than the Storm” […]

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Wait, There’s a Chris Christie Scandal Going On?

Nothing makes the North Jersey/South Jersey divide clearer than the lack of ink spilled down here on the Chris Christie news that’s been all the […]

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More Than 700 Same-Sex Couples Have Married in New Jersey Since October

Marriage equality has only been legal in New Jersey since Oct. 21, but by Dec. 6,  the State Department of Health reports, 709 same-sex couples […]

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Jersey Voters Ready for Chris Christie to Get Another Job

A new Asbury Park Press poll says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would beat Hillary Clinton—narrowly—in a presidential matchup. “He narrowly leads the former secretary […]

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Springsteen Manuscript Has Been Sold

That Springsteen manuscript we told you about earlier today–it’s been sold at auction today. The selling price? $197,000. That seems kind of low, actually, though […]

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Chris Christie Is GQ’s “Boss of the Year”

If Chris Christie wasn’t crazy about this magazine cover, he’s probably not going to be wild about his latest national magazine PR either. Per GQ, […]