Oh yeah it’s definitely becoming nanny state. I started seeing it in the 90s with bond issuances for open space preservation.
Then I covered an eminent domain case for the Courier Times that was just crazy....basically, there was already a seller and a buyer in agreement on the property, but since the property was surrounded by township-owned land, Middletown wanted to seize it through eminent domain. Seriously. That was their reason. They wanted a contiguous plot of land. People raised hell and it got stopped, but I dunno whatever ended up happening with it.
And you guys went through something like that out your way, didn’t you? The Saba farm?
In some ways I think as screwed up as Jersey is, it might be in a better situation over the long term. It’s so broke, and people are so sick of the status quo, that hardly anything gets done. Pennsylvania seems to have too many petty local officials on a mission anymore.
I don’t know. NJ have everything run through the liberal Judges and they will not give that up. The NJEA, almost 50% of the people working for the state, etc, etc,etc. Look at California... we keep waiting for people/Politicians to change and it just keeps getting worse. If O-destructo keeps moving along and gets a 2nd term it won’t matter where one lives because we’ll be in FEMA camps!