This post came about because someone had commented on the New Jersey Freezes $10 million in Cultural Grants article and I felt that my reply was important enough to bear repeating in its own article.
What a bogus argument from someone who never let facts get in the way of a rant. Sports Franchises are named [...]
The article below was in the Star Ledger today concerning the freezing of grant allocations to the arts organizations. Now I can see Christie wanting to freeze all new expenditure prior to him taking office, basically he wants to keep the politicians hands out of the cookie jar creating even more of a mess than [...]
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Dear Mr Christie -
I wanted to congratulate you on your win. Hopefully now we can make some very necessary changes to New Jersey, and I hope for the better.
I did want to point out to you the importance of tourism and the image that New Jersey portrays to the world. Everyone goes over the numbers [...]
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It’s amazing – people get upset and say stop the exporting of America. The labor unions in particular are very supportive of this mantra. However, when it comes to our own state – everyone is silent. Of course most people don’t look at this particular issue as “Exporting of New Jersey”, but [...]
Well the legislature is considering severe cuts in the funding for NJ arts, history and tourism. Some people may on the face of it it say that these are frivolous expenditures anyway when we have so many other pressing issues in this state. The thing is – these investments, and yes they ARE [...]
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I thought it would be great to open up the new AboutNewJersey.com Blog at the start of the New Jersey tourism season – Memorial Day weekend. I know, I know, many New Jerseyans do not see the benefit of tourism to the state’s economy and many actually complain and wish that people would go home. [...]
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