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Black History Month Spotlight: New Jersey Last To Stop Slavery

Monday, February 15, 2010

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On this day, February 15, 1804, New Jersey was the last northern state to put forth as law the gradual ending of slavery.  Wikipedia states that: New Jersey banned the importation of slaves in 1788, but at the same time forbade free Negroes from elsewhere from settling in the state.  In the years following the American Revolution, the [...]

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Jersey’s Super Mall May Never Open

Monday, February 15, 2010

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New Jersey has been looking at a mammoth of a mall coming there for some time.  The mall, Xanadu, if completed would be the biggest mall in America.  The  promise of an era of prosperity with the world’s super mall it seems has fallen through.  It seems that the major investor, Lehman Brothers, pulled out and their [...]

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Mumps Outbreak on East Coast Causes Alarm

Friday, February 12, 2010

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As if the East Coast didn’t have enough to contend with in the wake of “snowpocalypse” 2010, now here comes the mumps.  All of this mump business started with just one little boy coming from Britain back to New York for camp for orthodox jewish boys.  CNN reported that so far there is more than [...]

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32 Story Condominum Building…1 Resident?

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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How would you like to live in a high rise complete with pool, marble floors, private cinema, clubhouse, and marina?  Well, what a New Jersey family thought would be a dream home for them in Florida, has turned into a nightmare. The Vangelakos spent $430,000 for the condo that they thought they would retire to, but so [...]

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New Jersey Officials Caught In Biggest Corruption Scandal Ever!

Friday, July 24, 2009

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  Some Rabbi’s, three Mayors and some lawmakers were all going together to purchase some Gucci bags, when someone said, “Hey Rabbi, Craig needs a kidney, so we need to swing around and pick that up as well.  Oh yeah, but let me pick up my bribe money from this FBI informant first.”  This sounds like [...]

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5 Cops Shot In Shoot Out In Jersey

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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The cops in New Jersey were not prepared for a wild, wild west type of shoot out when they were investigating a couple of robbery suspects in the wee hours of yesterday morning.  One of the armed gunmen, Hassan Shakur had a shotgun on him inside his monk gown and immediately started  shooting when an officer approached him.  When [...]

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