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New Jersey Pays Company $100 Million to Move From One NJ City to Another
Hamilton Nolan · 04/20/11 10:49AMPanasonic's North American headquarters are currently located in Secaucus, New Jersey. Today, the company plans to sign a lease to move its headquarters ten miles down the road to Newark, New Jersey. Why? Because the state of New Jersey paid them more than $100 million (in the form of tax breaks) to do so.
Sobbing Child Named Honorary New Jersey Governor
Jim Newell · 04/06/11 04:11PMChristopher Walken Kidnapper of College Girls Now Lurking Around Princeton
Maureen O'Connor · 04/06/11 11:56AMIs Christopher Walken Trying to Abduct College Students?
Max Read · 04/04/11 07:11PMRecently Defeated New Jersey Congressman Dies
Jim Newell · 04/04/11 04:01PMBruce Springsteen Writes a Letter to the Editor
Max Read · 04/01/11 02:23AMBruce Springsteen looks pretty good for 61, doesn't he? Not that it stops him from doing classic old-dude stuff, like writing letters to the editor of his local paper—which he did this week. The Boss' letter was not, however, about how the lady at Wal-Mart said "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" (though give him 15 years)—it was a letter of commendation for the Asbury Park Press' front-page story on poverty and budget cuts:
Snooki Is Worth $2,000 More Than Toni Morrison
Max Read · 03/31/11 11:55PMThree-Year-Old Really Wants to Be the Governor of New Jersey
Marisa Gladstone · 03/31/11 04:00PMThree-year-old Jesse is crying because he's sick of being told he's too small to be the governor of New Jersey. I mean, he's already got the proper education under his belt...or so he claims. His first order of duty seems to be raising property taxes.
Sobbing 3-Year-Old Really Wants to Be Governor of New Jersey
Jim Newell · 03/31/11 12:09PMPoor three-year-old Jesse here can't stop sobbing in the car ride home, because people keep telling him that he's too small to be governor of New Jersey. By current New Jersey gubernatorial size standards, he is absolutely too small. But can't somebody make an exception? This passionate kid is volunteering to be governor of New Jersey, one of the worst jobs in America. Maybe he can temporarily fill in the next time Sandwiches runs off to Disney World. [via Buzzfeed]
Woman Can't Close Her Eyes After Botched Plastic Surgery
Brian Moylan · 03/30/11 12:24PMMarilyn Leisz can't close her eyes even when she sleeps, and she was in a New Jersey court yesterday suing her plastic surgeon Paul Parker, because she claims this is the result of a cosmetic eye surgery gone bad.
New Jersey Covered in Fine White Powder
Brian Moylan · 03/29/11 03:15PMThe blanket of fine white powder covering Englewood, New Jersey, wasn't anthrax, it was fallout from a flour silo at a wholesale bakery that blew its top. The last time we scored some white powder from New Jersey it was some grade-A shit, so we have high hopes that this is the finest flour in the land.
Police Accidentally Leave Partying Teens in Freezing Cold Van for 12 Hours
Richard Lawson · 03/28/11 03:56PMA group of teens who were attending a Fort Lee, NJ house party over the weekend were put in a police van by officers busting the fabulous fete and then just... forgotten about. The kids were only let out, after a miserable twelve hours, because a passerby heard them screaming and banging on the windows.
Who's Lame Enough to Pay $1 Million for a Phone Number?
Jeff Neumann · 03/25/11 04:43AMSome guy from New Jersey is auctioning off a New York phone number with a "coveted" 212 area code on eBay with a Buy It Now price of $1 million. Who on earth is terrible enough to pay that? No one, hopefully. But "Carmen" is giving it a shot! He explained how people's insecurities will make him rich to the Daily News:
Man Claims Four Loko Gave Him Permanent Heart Damage
Max Read · 03/21/11 09:51PMLawmakers Attempt to Decriminalize Sexting
Max Read · 03/15/11 02:19AMRight now, tweens in New Jersey who send "suggestive photos" to their "bffs" can be prosecuted as sex offenders. And even though this makes perfect sense, and is a productive way for the state to teach adolescents that the expression of sexuality is a deeply harmful thing, pervert lawmakers are attempting to stop it with a new bill. Yes, New Jersey may soon be the Amsterdam of sexting:
Chris Christie Is a Big Fat Liar and No One Cares
Max Read · 03/10/11 03:06AMDid Someone Really Call Chris Christie "Hot and Sexy?"
Adrian Chen · 03/09/11 07:27PMHoboken Had an Awful, Lawless Frat Party Last Saturday
Jeff Neumann · 03/09/11 06:51AMChris Christie Knows He Could Totally Beat Barack Obama
Jim Newell · 03/02/11 04:11PMIt's been a little while since we last checked in on the good Governor Sandwiches of New Jersey, Chris Christie, but he's suddenly become the most popular Republican in the country! And all it took was a few choreographed YouTubes of him screaming at teachers' unions, with his sleeves rolled up (crucially). So why won't he run for president already? Republican operatives, who hate all of the other candidates, demand it.