The Blogfinger cow wonders what is happening at the A. Park Press. “Moo who wrote this story?  Blogfinger already did that, done that. This is udderly repetitious.  It’s about as new as pasteurization”  Ann Paterson photo.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor  @Blogfinger.net

After a month on the front page of the Coaster, just when it seemed that the Bridgegate nonsense was over, the Asbury Park Press shows up with a story on their front page that is about as stale as a fish sandwich in July.

Even Mayor Moor of A. Park is quoted in the APP as saying, “We’re all friends. I’m just disappointed in maybe the process, not the outcome necessarily”

So it seems we are left with the Mayor’s feelings being hurt… we all can survive that issue.

The APP reporter tries desperately to find a new hook for this story.  He tries to compare the contrasting cultures of the two towns, but that is a concept that is over 100 years old,—-hardly a new idea.

Moor is also quoted as saying that “despite the differences over the bridge he hoped the communities would continue  to closely partner  on issues of public concern.”

We hope that he will remind his town council of the same thing.  Many of us in the Grove have not forgotten how the AP Council voted not to support our bid for FEMA funds after Sandy.

Do any of you read the Asbury Park Press?  You may have noticed that they almost never send a reporter to Neptune Township Committee meetings.  They used to.  So while they routinely ignore our game changing issues, such as the North End Redevelopment, their reporter has evidently awakened from a coma to file this  story and to try to stoke a fire that has already been snuffed out.

This reporter and the Mayor of AP must have time on their hands.

CHAIM TANNENBAUM:  “Time on My Hands”