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Ohio Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty for Erroneous Punxsutawney Phil
Life, deliberately, or otherwise, is imitating art. Monday, the Onion ran a piece entitled “Punxsutawney Phil Beheaded For Inaccurate Prediction On Annual Groundhog Slaughtering Day.” […]
Chris Christie Unveils $2 Billion Sandy Relief Plan
Having finally received storm relief money from those misers in the House of Representatives, Governor Christie has put forth a plan to spend it. Almost […]
Sammy Hagar’s Beach Bar Is No More, But Chickenfoot Carries On
Onetime Van Halen frontman and Jersey Shore philanthropist Sammy Hagar has announced the dissolution of his relationship with Caesars Entertainment, his partner in Sammy’s Beach […]
Mary Pat Christie’s Sandy Relief Charity Hasn’t Donated a Penny Yet
Four months after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund–run by First Lady Mary Pat Christie–hasn’t disbursed a penny of the $32 […]
This Weekend: It’s “A Shore Thing”
With snowstorms blowing up half the country and cold rain drizzling on what should have been a week of balmy, sunny days, it’s hard not […]
Now That It’s Almost Spring, It’s Time for Philly to Finally Get a Serious Snow
AccuWeather reports: A major storm will bring heavy snow from parts of North Carolina to parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey spanning later […]
Chris Christie Gives Hurricane Sandy Victims an Extension on FEMA Relief
At 11:59 tonight, across-the-board automatic federal spending cuts–aka THE SEQUESTER–are set to kick in. But that’s not the only deadline that was spooking folks ’round […]
New Jersey Sues Hurricane Sandy Charity It Says Was Stealing Donations
The state of New Jersey has sued the founders of a group called The Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars […]
PHOTOS: Hurricane Sandy’s Destruction at the Shore, Four Months Later
It has been nearly four months since the storm commonly known as Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey’s shoreline. And even though Sandy was not, in […]
Seaside Heights Begins Post-Sandy Rebuilding Effort
Construction to rebuild the wrecked boardwalk at Seaside Heights has begun. Heavy equipment began drilling holes in the sand and pounding pilings into the ground […]
Dispatches From the Blizzard of 2013
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. A quiet weekend in February. A trip with my husband, Doug, to the beaches of […]
Battered Shore Town Denied Federal Funding to Rebuild Boardwalk
Ocean Grove, a South Jersey community whose boardwalk was ripped to shreds by Hurricane Sandy, was denied relief aid by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. […]
U2’s Bono Joins Pat Christie’s Star-Studded Hurricane Sandy Relief Effort
It’s only a humanitarian crisis when Bono shows up. Today Hurricane Sandy received the official Bono imprimatur, as he’s joined fellow new arrival Brian Williams […]
FBI Busting Doors and Taking Names in Bob Menendez Prostitute Story
It all seems like so long ago now, that the conservative Daily Caller website attempted to pull an October surprise, just before the election, alleging […]
Pat Toomey Voted Against the Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill
Give Sen. Pat Toomey this: He’s either really concerned about the deficit, or he doesn’t much care what his constituents think of him. Either way, […]