By Matt Rooney _ Rough conditions on the Delaware River may’ve sidelined reenactors this Christmas, Save Jerseyans, but the Second Miracle of Christmas (the “first” Battle of Trenton) is no less worth remembering today for it. Quite the opposite! Miracle #1: A Read More
Feast Of The Seven Fishes? Here Are The Secrets!
By Dan Cirucci Posted with permission from The Dan Cirucci Blog — People always ask me about the Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes served on Christmas Eve. In fact, the idea of the seven fishes has now become sort of Read More
Merry Welfare-mas! Trenton increases cash assistance by 10%
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey monthly welfare payments are on the rise this Christmas season for the first time since the 1980s when Tom Kean and Ronald Reagan were both in office. This week, without much fanfare, Governor Phil Murphy signed S2845 into Read More
This Holiday Season, Beware of Naughty Charities | Coggin
By Will Coggin _ For many Americans, the end of the year is a great opportunity to donate to charities and use our finances to do a little good in the world. However, a recent report reveals only 19 percent of people Read More
Christmas: Wondrous and Dangerous
By Matt Rooney _ Remember when politics pretty much stopped around Thanksgiving, if not before? Giving everyone a much needed respite until the new year? Neither do I. 24/7 news channels and the Internet are an insatiable beast which needs Read More
If ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ is offensive? Then every Christmas song is awful! | CIRUCCI
By Dan Cirucci Posted with permission from The Dan Cirucci Blog — Unless you’ve been lying under a rock, you’ve heard about the controversy surrounding the “Christmas” song Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Some radio stations have now actually banned the song Read More
Fire DJ who caved to PC attacks on ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ | SPADEA
By Bill Spadea This post originally appeared at NJ 101.5 _ ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside‘ is being characterized wrongly as a song that celebrates date rape. Yup, according to at least one ignorant DJ in Cleveland who, after reading the lyrics, Read More
Thanks to Phil Murphy? New Jersey’s gifts will cost more this Christmas.
TRENTON, N.J. — If you’re an early Christmas shopper? And you purchased something from Amazon, eBay and Etsy on November 1st? You might have noticed a higher-than-usual price tag. That’s because Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill into law on Thursday subjecting online purchases Read More
Stores say Santa was good to them this year
Forget about a white Christmas. For a lot of retailers nationwide, it turned out to be a green one. “By most accounts, the holiday season has been a very good season for retailers,” said Ray Hartjen …