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Letter to the Editor: Recognize the Signs and Seek Help Fast

 

October 18, 2017

Dear Editor,

Stroke, the No. 3 leading cause of death in NJ, is largely treatable. The faster you are treated, the more likely you are to recover.  If you or someone you love suffers a stroke, it’s important to recognize the signs and seek help FAST. In most cases, someone other than the stroke patient, like a family member, makes the decision to seek treatment.

Home Country: 1st Archery Contest A Success...Nobody Won!

Slim Randles | CNBNewsnet

 

   Well, the first archery tournament to raise money to buy warm clothes for some of the local kids is now in the history books, and it would have to be considered a success.

  Doc, who has more initials after his name than anyone in town and therefore is considered by strangers to be smarter than anyone else, masterminded the tournament. He charged a ten-dollar entry fee and each shooter was given five shots to hit a paper cup at 75 yards. To the winner would go half the total money taken in. 

  Nobody won. Strange how that worked out, isn’t it?

  So almost all the money went for winter coats for the kids. But not all of it.

CNB Crime: Westville Suspect Attempts to Grab Officer's Weapon During Arrest

 

 

Camden City NJ March 9, 2015 (CNBNews.net)– A Westville man who tried to disarm an officer while violently resisting arrest was caught Saturday night.

 

Officer Robert Shea was on directed patrol addressing quality of life issues in the area of Mount Ephraim Avenue and Dayton Street shortly after 8 p.m. when he observed a male and female suspect involved in a hand-to-hand drug transaction. Officer Shea approached to investigate and the male suspect – James Dorton, 30, of Westville – refused to cooperate and remove his hands from his pockets.

FBI Art Crime Team Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Part 2: Dedicated Investigators Use Time-Tested Methods

02/18/15

Part 2 of an interview with Bonnie Magness-Gardiner, manager of the FBI’s art theft program.

Q: Is investigating art crimes different from investigating other types of crimes?

Magness-Gardiner: Much of what we investigate is art theft, which is basically a theft of property. Most of our agents have a background in investigating property theft and interstate transportation of stolen property. So in one sense they are using time-tested investigative methods. It’s the objects they are dealing with that make these cases special. The items are often fragile, so if they are recovered they must be handled with special techniques. We also have to determine if they are authentic. Is this actually the work we are looking for, or is this a forgery?

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If You Don't Build It, They Won't Come

John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

 

We took a walk last weekend around the David R. Mayer Memorial Park, located on Peter Cheeseman Road in Gloucester Township– the park with the Mayer Monument placed out front to commemorate his magnanimosity for paving over the remaining open space areas in town and turning them into tax-abated strip malls and townhouse developments, and for the overpriced, no-bid municipal health insurance contracts, kickbacks, and other pay-to-play deals that resulted in an 8% tax increase for the residents of Gloucester Township this year.

 

Gloucester Township Goes Gucci

John Reynolds | CNBNews

I used to drive past farmland going to work everyday. Watching geese flying over the meadow and deer coming out in the morning to feed was a refreshing break from the monotonous string of developments and strip malls we normally encounter in Camden County.

Ten years ago, a Cooper Hospital non-profit subsidiary purchased the 55 acre property, located off the Route 42 Camden County College exit. They planned on opening medical offices, but after zoning changes, the land was designated a redevelopment zone, allowing Cooper to use a municipal tax abatement and a potential PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) to attract commercial development. I'm not sure why Cooper Hospital is in the commercial real estate business, or why pristine land located along a major highway connecting Philadelphia and the South Jersey shore needs taxpayer subsidization, but then Cooper is involved.

 

South Jersey Land & Water Trust – New Brooklyn Lake Cleanup And Study Day

Saturday, June 14th, 10:00am.

We will meet at the playground parking lot on New Brooklyn-Blackwood Road. After the cleanup Michael Hogan and the Watershed Ambassador will do a macro invertebrate assessment at the pond and discuss how the numerous macro invertebrates found in the pond can indicate its health. Ave. Bags, gloves and grabbers will be supplied.

Please RSVP. Email Michael Hogan at hoganphoto@verizon.net for a map.

South Jersey Land & Water Trust

SJLWT is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and protect the land and water resources of southern New Jersey - maintaining and enhancing the natural, cultural, and historic heritage of the region.

The Political Stooges Of South Jersey Show

John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

I attended my first Gloucester Township Board of Education meeting last month for the "public hearing" of the new budget.  I wanted to get involved in the political process with my fellow residents to iron out the budget with the board. One thing I couldn't understand was why the taxes were going up 5.4% with the millions coming in from the Red Lights Cameras and the $20 million dollars worth of solar panels plastered around town that didn't cost us anything and were supposed to save us money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Are We Paying These People For?

CNBNews | John Reynolds

I  just received the "April Newsletter - New Jersey's 4th Legislative District,"  which I have been trying to un-subscribe to for the last couple of years. I emailed a question to their  website a few years ago –which they never responded to – and now I can't get off their mailing list. They get around the spam filters by switching their sender's address.

I took a peek and scanned the following headlines:

FRED MADDEN BILL TO PROTECT PETS, WILDLIFE FROM ANTIFREEZE POISONING CLEARS COMMITTEE

FIGHTING THE WAR ON POVERTY
Editorial by Assemblywoman Gabriela Mosquera

 I just read in nj.com that there's a "gaping $807 million hole in the state budget. Warnings that the state may not be able to make its promised pension payments. The threat of slashing property-tax rebates or school funding. And yet another downgrade of New Jersey’s already-low credit rating ..."

According to the article , New Jersey has the county's second worst private sector job growth the last 5 years.

 

And this is all our 4th District legislators can come up with? How about  trying to balance the budget and stop spending money we don't have.

CNBNews CHEERS and JEERS for March 2014

 

 

BY CNBNEWS.NET

 

JEER—To the contracted snow plow trucks who stage in the Brooklawn Diner parking lot. They sit there for 10 hours prior to a snow storm doing nothing except annoying home owners by shining their bright lights at the backs of people houses and windows. Aside from this obnoxious inconsiderate behavior is the curious question; does the county get billed for this at the tax payers expense?

 

CHEER—To the Gloucester City Public Works department and the Gloucester City Fire Department for acting quickly to close the Lane Avenue Park when the electric poll was leaning over. By closing the park and blocking access to the danger area they helped keep our little ones safe. Good job to both departments and thank you.

CHEER—To Gloucester Township Mayor David Mayer and his Team for soliciting over $350,000 in campaign "donations" over the last three elections cycles, outspending their opponents 13:1 in the last election, ensuring they can continue stacking the Board Of Education with team players, keeping Pay-To-Play politics alive in Gloucester Township, rolling out deals like the $20 million solar panel project and the Norcross-Cooper land flip along RT42, along with the requisite kickbacks and no-bid contracts.

 

JEER—To the residents of Gloucester Township who allowed their town to be run by the most corrupt political crew in Camden County, so Pay-To-Players like Remington and Vernick could funnel money into ridiculously named PACs like "Citizen’s for Government Reform" and"Citizens for Responsible Government" in order to buy no-bid contracts. The residents deserve the 7% municipal tax increase they’re getting, the Red Light Cameras, poor performing schools, decrepit downtown, and their foreclosed neighborhoods.

 

CHEER—To the upcoming “spring”, with its promise of "fair winds and gentle climes."

 

JEER—To the past “winter” for all the stinking snow we had to shovel.

 

CHEER—The community of Bellmawr has had a influx of new businesses moving into the borough. Some of those businesses are : Amoroso Baking, Conrail Regional Training, Singer Equipment Company, Garrison Architects, Supercuts, Beautiful Butterflies Day School, Metro PCS, Papa Johns, Clean City Dry Cleaners. To make things easier for new businesses, Bellmawr works with each new enterprise to expedite the permit process. 

 

JEER—The City of Gloucester raised their water/sewer rate by $87 annually or $21.80 more per quarter. At the same time the Camden County MUA increased their rate for homeowners from $84 a quarter to $85.50 or $6 more annually. Residents have no other choice but to pay it. Politicians think by just raising the rate a few dollars at a time that the public will not notice. But at some point people are just going to say, “I had enough" and move out of Gloucester or do what 300 other people in the City have done already and abandon their home altogether.

 

CHEER-The Gloucester City Lions Club released its annual itemized report on how they spent your donations in 2013. If only more clubs/organizations would do the same. After all doesn’t the public deserve to know how their hard earn money is being spent. 

 

JEER—The City of Gloucester borrowed $2.15 million in bonds for sanitary sewer repairs in March. When the James administration came into office in 2007, taxpayers were $6 million in debt. Today, with the latest issuance of bonds, that debt is approximately $37 million or $31 million more. Tax and spend, that is what Democrats do. They don’t know any other way. 

 

Contributors to this column include: William E. Cleary Sr., Earl Foster, Dan Reader, and John Reynolds. If you have a Cheer or Jeer for next month’s column send it to CNBNews1@gmail.com

 

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Junk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By John Reynolds/CNBNews

Junk mail,  junk food,  junk mortgages –  they're clogging our mailboxes, arteries, and courts. They're selling us crap we don't need or want, they're killing us and our neighborhoods. And if you're still around and turn on the TV, the junk shows will finish you off.

I'm the only guy on my block that changes his car oil in the driveway and inflates his tires with a bicycle pump. I'm old school - actually I'm too cheap to pay Jiffylube and I figure I could use the exercise.

 

 

 

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Philly's not Camden. Philadelphians know that, and so do New Jerseyans across the Delaware River. So, it's been a mystery to many Facebook users why posts from Philly are often tagged as being "in Camden" or "near Camden." When Temple University alumna…

 

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I Hope They're Not On The Clock

Michelle Caffrey / South Jersey Times
 
A handful of South Jersey legislators have kept a particularly busy schedule the last few days, touring important sites, meeting with community leaders and breaking bread with men and women in the armed services.
 
It’s all taking place more than 5,000 miles from their hometowns, however, as members of a legislative mission to Israel, including State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3 of West Deptford), Sen. Donald Norcross (D-5 of Camden) and Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-3 of Paulsboro), prepare to wrap up a trip to the Holy Land.    Full Article

 

 

COMMENTARY:  John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

 

The mandatory trip to the Promised Land of campaign dollars taken by American politicians seeking higher office, with visits to the Western Wall and Holocaust memorial, and sessions with Israeli leaders to assure them of their friendship with the State of Israel. We're sending South Jersey's most famous  'ironworker' and 'electrician' ¹ on an influence-peddling vacation to the Middle East to get schooled in American foreign policy, Israeli style.

 

But I don't see the West Bank Palestinian refugee camps  on the itinerary.

 

I would like to see one of our politicians grow a pair and tell Israel to clear the 500,000 illegal Jewish settlers out of the territory they have occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967, and let the people who have been there for hundreds of years live without the the armed guards and road blocks they've been putting up with for the last 45 years.

 

And the next time Israel comes out with a settlement expansion statement, I would like to hear a response from an American official a little stronger than "It's not helpful."

 

But that will never happen as long as our political campaigns are financed by Political Action Committees (PACS).  With their multi-million dollar war chests, our politicians are afraid to face the wrath of their attack ads.

 

 Notes:

 

1:    When was the last time Sweeney worked with iron, or Norcross wired up anything?

 

 

 

Sometimes Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

 

By John Reynolds/CNBnews.net

There's a famous poem written 100 years ago about two New England farmers mulling over whether to continue rebuilding the stone wall dividing their properties. The narrator didn't see any reason to keep the wall anymore, while his neighbor kept repeating an adage he learned from his father, "good fences make good neighbors."

Anyway, the weather broke last week. The temperature hit 40 degrees and the roads were clear, so I decided to take the motorcycle out for a ride. I rolled the bike out of my garage and turned towards my neighbor's house so I could head down the driveway. As I was sitting on my bike, warming it up, I stared at the pile of junk that has been sitting in front of my neighbor's garage for the last three months – I had enough, and decided to take matters into my own hands – I got off the bike, went into my garage, grabbed a hammer, and headed over to my neighbor's house with bad intentions.

CNBNEWS FEBRUARY 2014 CHEERS AND JEERS

 

By CNBNews 

CHEER—The Gloucester City High School Varsity Girls Bowling Team won the Olympic Conference Freedom Championship this year. Also this year they won the South Jersey Group 1 title, placed first at the Sectionals and placed Second in the state finals for Group 1.  Three of the five girls on the team are graduating seniors.  Members of the team include: Kelsey Keenan, Colleen Kraus, Gina Beebe, Karly Goldschmidt, Kelly Higginbotham, Danielle Smith and Stephanie Wimer.  Colleen Kraus placed in the top 18 at sectionals, qualifying her as an individual at states.

 

ACLU: Newark stop-and-frisk targets black residents more than others

David Giambusso/The Star-Ledger

Despite comprising just more than half of Newark’s population, African-Americans make up 75 percent of the stops under the city Police Department’s stop-and frisk-program, a report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey has found.

Read the full story

 

And I'll bet they're committing at least 75 percent of the crimes in Newark. I can see a problem if law enforcement targeted certain groups of people for stop-and frisk in say Cherry Hill or Haddonfield, but we're talking Newark, the armed car-jacking capital of New Jersey.

John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

Steve Sweeney named administrator of embattled Ironworkers Local 401 in Philadelphia

By Joseph P. Owens | South Jersey Times

 

 

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney said tonight he has answered the call to take over embattled Ironworkers Local 401 in Philadelphia less than a week after the union's leadership was indicted on charges including extortion, arson and assault.

Read all about it

Apparently, criminals and politicians are interchangeable. How many jobs can this guy hold down, he must never sleep. He's already pulling down a paycheck from the State of New Jersey for his Senate gig, and from the Ironworkers National Union for his 'negotiating' skills .   John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

 

The New Jersey Money-Sucking-Machine Keeps Chugging Along

Dem leaders adamant that $2.4 billion go to N.J. pension fund (via NewsWorks)

As Gov. Chris Christie puts the finishing touches on the budget proposal he will unveil Tuesday, top Democrats in the New Jersey Senate are insisting that the spending plan include the required state payment into the pension system. Acknowledging that 

Acknowledging that formulating a budget plan will mean many difficult choices, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said making the $2.4 billion pension payment and funding the Transportation Trust Fund are paramount.

 

According to the Democrats, New Jersey has a Revenue problem, not a Spending problem. John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

 

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

 

 

 

A Camden man been arrested in connection with a shooting Monday morning that killed a Clementon man. Isaac Bruce, 24, of Camden, was charged Tuesday with murder for the killing of Marvin McClinton, who was found dead at the bottom of the stairs of a 6th Street home. Police allege Bruce arrived at the home on the 1800 block of 6th Street in Camden some time after 1:30 a.m. on Monday and was carrying a shotgun — something that wasn't cause for alarm for the people in the home because he often carried the weapon ....  read the full story

 

When it's normal for people to walk around carrying loaded shotguns, it's time to move out of the neighborhood.             John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

        

 

Convicts And Congressmen

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Losing It

 

John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

I've been reading about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare™. It's supposed to overhaul our current healthcare system, which is going bankrupt. There are a number of problems with the way we have been paying for healthcare in this country over the last 49 years since Lyndon Johnson enacted Medicare: medical tests and procedures are expensive; doctors are expensive and they get paid for the services and tests they provide, whether they're needed or not; people over 65 consume more services than they paid into; young people and those that don't work are not paying into the system; and anyone who walks into an emergency room must get treated, regardless of whether they have insurance, money, or  "documentation." Private insurance has been subsidizing all of this for years.

Stand Up Guy

"I am running for Congress because South Jersey needs someone who is going to stand up for us in Washington, D.C., as Rob Andrews has done for more than two decades," said Donald Norcross. "I have spent my career fighting for middle-class families, senior citizens and workers."

                          ... and if that doesn't motivate you to pull his lever ...

"The state Senator already received endorsements from Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-3, of West Deptford), Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald (D-6, of Mount Holly) and Sen. Fred Madden (D-4, of Washington Township) who serves as Gloucester County Democratic party chair"

Besides being endorsed by the local pay-to-play power broker and a couple of double-dippers, what does this guy bring to the table?

John Reynolds | CNBNews.net

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God Bless Hyphenated-America

By John Reynolds/CNBNews.net

After reading the Martin Luther King articles in the media recently about how much progress we have made in this country towards racial equality, but how much more we need to go, I thought:  we are two generations into civil rights and affirmative action, with trillions spent on urban renewal, housing, food, education and health care for Hyphenated-Americans, and we still haven't reached racial parity yet – except in the field of political corruption.

If you look at the roster of Camden politicians who spent time in the slammer, you'll see a diverse mix, cutting across all racial and ethnic lines. It's a time-line of the rise of minorities in this country. You have Italian-American Angelo Errichetti doing time for bribery in the early '80s, African-American Arnold Webster jailed for stealing money from the schools in the mid '90s, and Puerto Rican-American Milton Milan succumbing to the temptation of cash envelopes in late '90s. All Hyphenated-Americans.

We need a one-legged-female-gay-Asian crook to fill out the list. Who says America isn't the land of opportunity. To quote another famous King, Don, "Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen."

 

The World According to Cappelli

CNBNews.net | John Reynolds

“I would like to thank my fellow Freeholders … for their continued hard work and dedication to improving the quality of life for the residents of Camden County … 2013 was a good year”

... in fact, it was a great year for Camden County. Happy days are here again ...

“we have become more sustainable, and saved money ... our police departments have successfully shared services”

...  driving past fields of ugly solar panels planted in front of Timber Creek High School on Jarvis Road, wondering why my electric bills and taxes keep going up ... 

 “and because of our prudent fiscal policy, 2014 will be viewed as the year that economic recovery took hold in Camden County” 

...  just saw the third store-front church and umpteenth vacant property along the Black Horse Pike in what is becoming historic downtown Blackwood.  It's going to take more than Jesus and pay-to-play deals to save this town  ...

“redevelopment projects and revitalization of properties which are underutilized or vacant”

... there's the abandoned Super Fresh property on Blackwood-Clementon Road, land-banked, generating no tax revenue. I heard that people used to buy food there ... 

 “and it was a monumental year for public safety ... Camden City and Camden County are safer places to live and work … due to the leadership provided by this board ... the quality of life in Camden County will improve in 2014”

... haven't seen any of those million dollar parks or bike paths they're talking about yet, just the solid waste plant off I-676 and some abandoned crack houses on Broadway. There's the Camden County waste treatment plant and some junkies hanging out on Ferry Avenue ... must be in Lanning Square, near Cooper, saw a couple of Metro Cops and union construction projects  ...

“We will see job growth, continued public safety improvements, improvements to our recreational facilities, increased property values and increased services to those most in need”

... with all due respect Mr. Freeholder, I don't think so. According to the latest census data, the middle class are moving out of New Jersey, unloading their homes at a loss, paying the ridiculous New Jersey exit tax. Data from the moving industry backs that up – and that trend will continue as long as the power brokers, pay-to-players, double-dippers, and their bootlicks continue to infest New Jersey politics. So who you gonna believe, the data or those lying cockroaches ...

 

Measure pushing N.J. towns to share services may have to wait

You would think given the bad economic conditions in this state that our legislators would put the interests of the general population ahead of the special interest groups. And you wonder why the middle class are leaving New Jersey   CNBNews – John Reynolds

 

Measure pushing N.J. towns to share services may have to wait (via NewsWorks)

With just a week to go, a bill that would encourage New Jersey towns to share services might not be enacted before the end of the current legislative session. The measure would withhold some state aid from towns that don't move ahead with recommended…

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Lincoln Goes Hollywood | cnbnews.net

By John Reynolds

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Lincoln: the guy on the copper penny; self-taught student of Shakespeare and the Bible; rail-splitter, backwoods lawyer; jokester with a crazy-assed wife; 16th president of the United States and preserver of the Union; said a few words at Gettysburg and turned out to be the most quoted American in history; the subject of 14,000 books, hitting the big time when one was made into a Hollywood movie. And if he were still alive, he'd be on Oprah.

I picked up the DVD at the library last week. Being the movie came out in 2012,  I figured

Merry Christmas to everyone in the CNB extended family

 

 

 

By JOHN REYNOLDS 

 CNBNEWS.NET

1+1=3 – It's A Cultural Thing

 

 Diversity, equality, and fairness are the latest buzzwords coming out of academia and echoed in the media. Everybody is supposed to achieve the American Dream today, regardless of who you are, where you came from, or what you did to get there. According to their math, equality of opportunity equals equality of outcome, and if it doesn't, rig the formula until it does. 

 

CNBNEWS EXCLUSIVE: Pete Dexter, One of the Best Newspaper Columnist to Come Out of Philly

BY JOHN REYNOLDS

SPECIAL TO CNBNEWS.NET

He kicked around Florida a few years working odd jobs, pumping gas and trying to

PETE DEXTER

sell baby portraits, not having much luck until he persuaded a newspaper to hire him as a reporter. But that didn't last, and he wound up pumping gas again. Or maybe he was selling cars before losing his job at the newspaper.

 

As luck would have it, an editor at the Philadelphia Daily News who knew him in Florida took a shot and offered him a job. With rent coming due and his soon-to-be ex-wife living with another man, he decided it was time for a change and headed North. Arriving broke, he secured an advance from his new employer and found a place on Race Street for $10 a night, including complementary unsolicited room service.

I'm piecing this together from his old columns, fictional-autobiography, and interviews. Some of it may have actually happened.

Pete Dexter started out in Philly as a reporter for the Daily News in 1974 covering traffic accidents, fires, and other routine news items. His job may have been routine, but he wasn't. His first boss didn't care for his irregular hours, sloppy dress, or bad attitude, and tried getting him fired. Luckily, that boss didn't last long, and his new boss, Gil Spencer, seeing his raw talent, gave him his own column, turning him loose on the city. Cranking out 900 words, three days a week, Dexter gave his readers a view of the city and some of its characters they wouldn't normally run into – or would want to.