Category Archives: Politics

Bruce Springsteen signs autographs outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in May. Report outta Denver today says Shore-based popstars Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi will play at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, bookending Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance...

Sen. Barack Obama Prepare for a traffic jam in the vicinity of Navesink River Road next week. Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Barack Obama will visit Middletown on Friday, September 5 for a two-stop lovefest that wraps up at the riverfront chateau...

About 100 people turned out for Monday night's meeting on consolidating police work on the peninsula. According to a show of hands, most were officers or their relatives. You're not showing us any real savings. You're creating a new bureaucracy,...

Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...

Cindy McCain, right, wife of GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain, arrives for lunch this afternoon at the Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street, accompanied by state Sen. Jennifer Beck. McCain was coming from a fundraiser in Rumson. She and her...

GOP council candidates John Tyler, left, and Grace Cangemi, right, meet with reporters after last night's meeting. By virtue of a strong showing in last year's race, second-time council candidate John Tyler Jr. may have been the presumptive favorite to...

Contrary to a report in Sunday's Record of Hackensack, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will not be dining at a private residence in Rumson tomorrow night. According to Mayor John Ekdahl, the Arizona senator's wife, Cindy McCain, is expected...

Curley: why hasn't Mallet repaid a nickel of her 2003 campaign debt? Freeholder candidate John Curley, getting a jump on the fall election battle, is taking Democratic opponent Amy Mallet to task for what he calls "illegal" machine-politics campaign funding....

Sen. John and Cindy McCain, Jersey-bound. Trailing in three recent New Jersey polls, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is set to visit a GOP redoubt next week: Rumson, where no Democrat is said to have been...

Ready to serve, he says: John Tyler at borough hall last night. As expected, the Red Bank Republican organization has nominated John Tyler of Leighton Avenue and two others for the borough council spot vacated by the resignation of John...

Councilman John Curley embraces Mayor Pasquale Menna after tonight's council session. With four months left to his term, firebrand Republican John Curley announced his resignation from the Red Bank Council tonight, creating the possibility that a party-chosen successor could get...

The standing-room crowd watches a power-point presentation on the merger proposal; Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon, left, who initiated the idea, addresses the crowd, and Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge listens. Elected officials exploring the idea of merging the police departments...

Some of the torsos seen at the finish line in 2006. For the 15th time since it was moved from Asbury Park, shortened to a five-miler and re-christened, the George Sheehan Classic is set to take over Red Bank's downtown...

After giving him the boot as borough attorney in April, Matawan Democrats are now explaining their action by claiming that Pasquale Menna charged too much and gave the borough a "lack of adequate representation," according to a report in this...

Former mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams' challenge to the the outcome of Sea Bright's 2007 mayoral election can continue, a Superior Court judge has ruled, according to the Asbury Park Press. The fact that Kalaka-Adams failed to post a $500 bond to...

Rare species sighted: Rumson Dems Michael Steinhorn, left, and Fred Blumberg march in the town's Memorial Day parade. "This is history being made here," Michael Steinhorn was shouting from the middle of West River Road Monday. He was referring to...

Mayor Pasquale Menna's removal as borough attorney in Matawan was made official with the hiring of his replacement earlier this week. But the council members who voted to remove him still aren't saying why, the Asbury Park Press reports. James...

Not to give too much away, but there's a moment in "Mark Twain's A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage," the new play at the Two River Theater, that involves a last-minute rescue of an innocent by a lawman in...

The R-FH Euro challengers: from left, Sam Wilson, Robbie Trocchia, Margot Keale, Steven Fuschetti and Jennifer Lapp. If you think understanding the U.S. economy is a brain-buster, try overlaying its complexity with currency exchange rates, European history and social trends...

Springsteen signs autographs before last night's show. Bruce Springsteen gave fans something to gush about last night, according to the accounts we've seen so far. His show with the full E Street Band at the Count Basie Theatre included complete,...