The Asbury Park Homeowner’s Association Sunday meeting at The Complex became the last public opportunity for candidates and the public to speak about the issues ahead of Tuesday’s election and the municipal ballot questions. President Jordan Modell opened the discussion with a summation of each of the municipal ballot questions. Regarding the question to shift […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, As usual with Asbury Park elections, controversy reigns supreme. So while the Mayor runs unopposed and a hard working community female is running against an incumbent, what has changed? Nothing has changed. Incumbents tell us to vote no on ballot questions that would keep the status quo in power. The same […]

Editor, Asbury Sun, Whomever I speak with has a different take on the three municipal questions on the Ballot. My questions is, what will separating Asbury Park into three wards accomplish, and who’s prepared to deal with consequences if passed?   A letter to the editor author states unreasonable rent increases in Asbury Park almost […]

Editor, Asbury Sun, Mr Kendle’s opponent in Asbury Park’s City Council race is allied with the ‘ward/partisan elections’ faction. This group, despite the ticket’s ‘For all the People’ title, seeks in reality only power for themselves. An agitating force, which if this person is elected, will import tension into the presently team-oriented council, this faction […]

The League of Women Voters of the Township of Ocean [LWV] has put together a nonpartisan vetting of the Asbury Park Municipal Ballot questions ahead of the Nov. 6 elections. “LWV member Kerry Butch was the driving force behind the ballot question explanation, urging the League to get involved and recruiting experts to help out,” […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I am a member of the committee in support of the short-term rental petition, municipal ballot question #3. In a recent article, the City Council continued its singular narrative that short-term rentals are the cause of higher rents and of a reduction in affordable housing in this city. The Council, however, […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Thank you for publishing Yvonne Clayton’s recent passionate letter to the Asbury Park Sun. We wish you would republish it every week leading up to the November election; for those who haven’t read it, simply go back on this site to find it. Too many people with “agendas” are trying to […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I was surprised and saddened to read quotes in recent newspaper articles that the southwest quadrant of the city has not been served by this council. As the African-American council person who resides there, I was disappointed to discover that I and my accomplishments were invisible; physical evidence to the contrary. […]