Drilling in New Jersey? No Fracking Way!

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  August 25th at 11:30 PM  | 

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie issued a conditional veto on a measure that would have imposed a permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing — a/k/a “fracking” — in the Garden State. Instead, Christie has suggested a year-long moratorium on the practice. The debate over fracking in New Jersey is mostly symbolic. New Jersey has exactly zero oil and gas wells. It is, however, the nation’s #7 | Read More »

New Jersey Dem Operative Found Dead in ‘Suspicious’ Circumstances

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 28th at 11:39 PM  | 

Longtime Democratic operative Jack Shaw was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday. Shaw was one of several dozen connected Democrats arrested in a public-corruption roundup in the Garden State. The prosecutor of Hudson County rated the death ‘suspicious’. although no weapon was found. “It could be natural, it could be accidental, it could be suicide,” he said, without elaboration. An autopsy is planned for | Read More »