Category: environmental justice
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2nd trailer for After the Drowning podcast
The first attempt at a recording was a disaster. We don’t have a n internet signal strong enough to record a live presentation. So I had to regroup and plan a different strategy. Episodes will be taped offline using Windows Sound Recorder program or an alternate program for iOS. I will purchase a better microphone.…
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Try that in a small town
I already know what happens when you “try that in a small town”. I faced the bigotry, the rumors, the accusations that I was a drug dealer because I didn’t leave the house to drive to work in the morning, the assumption what I won the lottery because I had money, the legal accusations where…
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“Never underestimate the bugs”
Bayshore culture has been dominated by annoying bugs. A local gas station owner who offers bits of local wisdom to visitors says that if not for the bugs, our beaches would be lined with high rise condominiums. We have at least five classes of biting insects. I generally do not notice the bugs. This is…
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Trailer for “After the Drowning” show
Tonight I recorded a trailer for a new show, “After the Drowning”. My experience is that a startup show is bound to be loaded with problems and the only way to get through those and improve to a quality product is to just do it. Unfortunately, the video quality was so poor that I trashed…
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“Assessing Inequities in Shore Communities: Who Stays and Who Leaves?”
This has been the #1 big issue for the past decade and it will become larger issue for us in the future. Author Andrew Lewis who wrote the Money Island documentary predicts that eventually only rich people will be able to live at the bayshore. https://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2022/11/living-at-the-shore-after-sandy-should-residents-stay-or-go/
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An environmental legal defense legal strategy that worked!
The environmental law case of State of New Jersey vs. Tony Novak, et. al., CUM-C-17-18 was settled in March 2020 but becasue of pandemic related difficulties within the court, the settlement order was delayed until September 2020 and I received a copy of the court’s settlement order in June 2021. About a decade ago, Baysave…
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What personal responsibility does the governor have in creating our current stress?
“There’s more stress in our state in our country that I think any of us have ever seen. This is exactly not the time to be going after each other. The stress levels are overwhelming. I get it.” – Governor Murphy’s comment this week in response to a foul-mouthed Trump supporter abusing his family at…
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The Power of Government Lawyers
Today’s news carries reports about president Trump switching to a team of government lawyers to defend him in an active rape case. I feel bad for the rape victim. I found out firsthand how difficult it is when corrupt politicians use government lawyers against you in a case a few years ago “State of New…
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Four years after storm Jonas
This week marks four years since winter storm Jonas that brought the most severe flooding in New Jersey in our lifetime. I’ve read anecdotal comments that New York City was “shut down”, and that almost all of Ocean City was flooded. Here at Money Island almost all of our land was underwater on January 23,…
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Finding a new strategic plan
In this first week of December I am settling into a regular pattern again after a month of chaos from the move. Not that the chaos is ended, it just that I can clear a half day now to focus on strategic goals. The immediate plan is to meet and interview people in my new…