With 18 months left in office, Republican Gov. Chris Christie has announced his intention to combat New Jersey’s high tax rates by reworking the funding formula attached to school districts. In his Tuesday afternoon address at Somerset County’s Hillsborough High School, Christie said the state faces two separate, but completely intertwined crises – property taxes […]

After touring neighboring Ocean Grove’s downtown, Republican Governor Chris Christie stopped by The Asbury, the city’s first hotel [of its size] in over 50 years, before taking a walk along the city’s boardwalk. Christie and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin were escorted onto the Baronet, a rooftop deck overlooking waterfront and city landscape, […]

Gov. Chris Christie will visit Asbury Park’s new hotel – The Asbury – Friday afternoon. The second term Republican governor will spend the afternoon on walk through Ocean Grove’s downtown business district before his 2 p.m. visit to the city’s first new hotel in over 50 years. Located one block away from the waterfront in […]

Monmouth County Republican Senator Jennifer Beck says that if Donald Trump is her party’s nominee for President she will not vote for him in November or campaign for him. “I don’t care what party you are, your first job is to do the best for the people you represent,” said Beck [right], whose district includes […]

Representatives from Governor Chris Christie’s office presented Nick Clemons with a gift honoring his late father, Clarence Clemons, at the Stone Pony today. The flag flew over the State House and was lowered to half-mast in memory of the elder Clemons, who played the saxophone for Bruce Springsteen and died in June 2011. Clemons, Springsteen […]

Although national issues were at the forefront during a press conference for Governor Chris Christie at the boardwalk today, the governor expressed optimism about the Jersey Shore and Asbury Park. The governor’s office billed the event as a Promoting the Jersey Shore Press Conference in emails. Christie started the conference at 3 p.m. with a […]

Among the most memorable lines of Governor Chris Christie’s tenure was his demand that sunbathers “get the hell off the beach in Asbury Park” as Hurricane Irene approached last summer. Christie will make the opposite pitch at a 3 p.m. news conference Monday at the Asbury Park boardwalk to promote the Jersey Shore, according to […]