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NorthJersey.com ATLANTIC CITY — On a lead-gray day this week, Lesley Kittler of Fair Lawn drove to this city by the sea to play a little poker, maybe try her luck on the slot machines, too.  But soon enough, she found herself staring into the hollowed casino legacy of Donald Trump. As a cut-to-bone wind swept off the choppy Atlantic and across a mostly deserted boardwalk, Kittler took in the ragged remains of the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. The casino’s tower is slated to be blown up on Wednesday morning — an event Atlantic City sees as a tourist attraction and moneymaker, wit...

Alexandra Shapiro, J.D., and Peter Ackerman, Ph.D. join T. J. O’Hara, the host of Deconstructed, to discuss the incredible imbalance in our Nation’s presidential election that makes it almost impossible for independent and Third-Party candidates to gain any traction with their campaigns. Ms. Shapiro is a partner and co-founder of Shapiro Arato Bach and has the distinction of being one of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first clerks.  She has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and has represented Dr. Ackerman’s interests in a variety of lawsuits a...

2020 in photos: Asbury Park Press and APP.com photographers select their best work Replay Video These photographers made sure of it. Here are some of the best photos to appear in the Asbury Park Press and on APP.com during 2020, with the photographers telling the story in their own words. © Peter Ackerman Jamar Lewis holds 5-month-old Amerius Lewis of Neptune during a rally in Asbury Park protesting the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many marched peacefully in the streets after the rally was over. This moment struck me because the utter innocence of the baby at the r...

Staff report As 2020 comes to a close, we think about what this year has been for each of us. In looking at ourselves, we also asked seven prominent New Jerseyeans to share how a virtue, be it humor, grit, faith, resilience, compassion, joy or patience helped them survive 2020.  This group includes a former governor, a James Beard Chef, an internet superstar, a Rutgers Law dean, two medical professionals and a rock star. Dena Blizzard - Humor "If someone had told me that being a comedian and having the ability to make others laugh would be my pandemic super power, I would have laughed in th...

2020 galvanized democracy reforms, but more are needed | Opinion Updated Dec 27, 2020; By Morton Kondracke If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress — and you, too — should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are bad-news/good-news books about America’s troubled and deeply divided society, with ideas on how t...