When did we stop being able to have mature, rational conversations about politics? Why does every new election cycle look less like a debate about ideas and more like a fight-to-the-death cage match?

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When did we stop being able to have mature, rational conversations about politics? Why does every new election cycle look less like a debate about ideas and more like a fight-to-the-death cage match?
Mt. Holly Mayor Jason Jones has been named in a six-count campaign-finance complaint by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). In 2014, Jones was treasurer for Brian Grant, Democratic candidate for Mt. Holly Township Council. Grant won the primary but dropped out before the general. At the same time
According to Lumberton resident Andrew Huber, one hundred townhomes in the Country Estates Development in Lumberton, NJ (marked below in red) are potentially being overcharged by the Mt. Holly Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA). Huber provided digital
Citizens’ Media TV conditionally retracts our article from Saturday, July 28, 2017, entitled “Gina LaPlaca’s job application for MHMUA Commissioner was received three days before her predecessor resigned.” The article as originally written was accurate, based
The Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority (MHMUA or MUA) is the governmental body that supplies safe drinking water and processes sewage, and bills for such. The Mount Holly MUA services about seventeen thousand homes, six hundred businesses, and six “regulated industrial users.”
The latest BCT article presents some of the facts and history in what it calls the “battle over a disparity in sewer rates, bills, fees and representation on the MHMUA.” But the battle is a recent one, and it is one that centers around those who sit on its Commission and those who appoint them…and those who influence those who appoint them.