22 years ago I stood here as the towers fell and a toxic cloud engulfed lower Manhattan. This morning the clouds and fog looked eerily the same.

Craig Guy, all but certain to be the next Hudson County executive, was found not guilty of DUI because the arresting officer didn’t show up to court. politico.com/newsletters/ne…

My columnist colleague Charles Stile today called the inaction by Democratic-led legislature to hold hearings into the veterans home disaster the new "Blue Wall of Silence."

Twitter put a warning on my post about the end of tomato season. I get it. it's triggering for me too.

I’ll be on My9 New Jersey Now public affairs show today hosted by Mark J. Bonamo with Jeanette Hoffman, Brendan Gill and Dan Cassino talking about the DOJ’s critical report into the breakdown in care at the NJ Veterans homes that led to 200+ deaths from COVID. Noon and 3 pm on Ch. 9.

Strange orange glow appears over NYC this morning. Citizenry in panic.

New in ⁦POLITICO Magazine⁩ “He’s not even in hospice. The priest is there.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

You’ve probably noticed I haven’t been posting much on X. The reason is simple. A thread…. 1/97

The sun rises behind the Jet Star, perhaps the most iconic symbol of Superstorm Sandy's devastation at the Jersey shore, as the roller coaster plunged off an amusement pier in Seaside Heights. 11 years ago today, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey. 📸12/31/12

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” -The Ghost of Christmas Present

I haven't seen NJ flood forecasts this bad in a long time. Wednesday and Thursday are going to be brutal in some parts.

Are licensing requirements for out-of-state doctors preventing New Jerseyans from accessing the best in healthcare, especially rare disease docs and specialists? Take a read: northjersey.com/story/news/hea…

soccer fans, have fun trying to figure out how we do roads here

😲 This NJ woman spent 6 years fighting a $225K hospital bill. When a reporter recently called for comment, the hospital waived the bill. northjersey.com/story/news/hea… via NorthJersey.com

So many reporters have done great work on hospital bills — Scott Fallon here, Sarah Kliff and the Kaiser Health News team for years, among others — but it shouldn’t have to require their intervention. “Journalist calling for comment” is not a scalable strategy to address obscene bills.

Because it's what I do, I'll break down Murphy's cowardly signing statement in this thread (in no particular order): 🧵(Gonna release tweets as I go since reporters are writing stories)

The emperor wears no socks.

just leaving this here

If Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 didn't like something you wrote, he told you... sometimes loudly. If he didn't like something another pol did, even a Dem, he told you. He was a pain in the rear in the best of ways because he always knew his job was to get stuff done. RIP northjersey.com/story/news/202…