Good post Kevin.
Depressing, but good.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Boiling it all down I see it a simple chapter. The State is so askew
> that it needs to take areas and increase density and throw out more
> middle to lower middle income people to balance the droves of upper
> middle and upper class people who left over the last 5 years.
>
> As the government of New Jersey became so "google" in size it
> required excessive taxing. So to keep the rich in the State they
> have cut deals with people to gentrify areas that could be made
> desireable like ocean front property.
>
> For so many years Monmouth County was one of the top ranked counties
> in America. Freehold, Long Branch & Asbury Park are marked for a
> planned reversal of zoning revenue. Taxes will be quad what they
> were 5 years ago, and those who benefitted by the gentrification (sp)
> will be those that make the profits associated with the developments
> and then those who get to live right where the slum was last year.
>
> The politicians are fed by the campaign contributions and the
> decisions are legislated towards those that fund the politicians.
>
> It has nothing to do with Bruce, Asbury Radio, The Press, it's just a
> drug known as "power" and the dealers of this habitual social desease
> are Cherokee, Hovnian, Applied, Matzel Mumford. The unions, and the
> municipalities and the school districts. New Jersey is sick, it
> needs a miracle. Unfortunately I do not see it coming.
>
> We are economically not viable, to think otherwise is to fool
> yourself. No matter what you reveal on the air or in print or
> online, if you think they are worried about what any of us have to
> say, your fooling yourself.
>
> The masses have been numbed, and they are not gonna wake up anytime
> soon, because they can rent a U Haul and relocate elsewhere more
> easily.
>
> "Only the fool thinks they are important to the King, and they are
> right, becasue they are the King's fool!"
>
> KB
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "radio881gal" <restore881FM@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't that be something if Springsteen's 'Radio Nowhere' was
> about
> > the jettisoning of Asbury Radio? When I listen to it I hear a lot
> of
> > potential veins, but I'm still not sure about how I feel about the
> > ones that were actually tapped.
> > Alas, the song seems to be more about the lack of musical
> > identity, than community radio, per se. We did play local musicians
> > though, so maybe...
> > I often did wonder if Bruce ever knew about Asbury Radio - we
> were
> > the only radio show about Asbury Park, after all. I used to make a
> > joke about the fact that I did turn down a Springsteen interview,
> > back in the early 70's, in favor of one with Robert Klein.
> > (Obviously, I was very young!) I invented this whole thing about
> how
> > Bruce wouldn't visit Asbury Radio because he was still punishing
> me.
> > Don't think anyone fell for that one.
> > I used to seriously worry that Bruce ignored us because he
> > thought the show, by examining the redevelopment process in depth,
> > was somehow undermining the quest of redevelopment. (With the
> > exception of the Esperanza's original name, "The Rising", can you
> > think of a time Bruce interferred in the plans?) This was because
> our
> > critics often grouped the show into the 'they're against
> > redevelopment' label. The idea was absurd. How could anyone be
> > opposed to redeveloping a barren, blighted landscape on its face?
> > However, the devil, as we know now,was in the details.
> > It's nearly a year since we were forced off the air and I wonder
> > if we could've even had a show if we were to have started today.
> > There's too much riding on the waterfront's success. How would
> > Cherokee Investments, with its $30 million in the kitty, (It is a
> 50%
> > partner in Asbury Partners) react?
> > There is almost a collective holding of breath out there right
> > now. The notion being that if anyone of us exhales the bubble may
> > deflate even more. One must smile continously and recite market
> comps
> > while doing so. We must all drink the Kool-Aid. The stakes are too
> > high not to.
> > I've always felt that Asbury was a strange little microcosm of
> > what's going on nationally. Have you noticed how the
> word 'politics'
> > has replaced 'communism' in our 'emphasis vernacular'? I swear sex
> > and politics are the two biggest taboos of this century. Sex is
> > imperative to human life and politics, well, Jesus Christ was
> > political, for...
> > So what does Bruce think of all this? I think we're all clear on
> > where he comes down about sex, actually. And, he's never really
> > choked on political issues regionally. But how does he react to the
> > closing of the WB? And the Pony, did someone say it's next?
> > Here's what I overheard about the closing of the WB: the powers
> > that be who have mucho buckoh's riding on the sale of these
> > waterfront condos want Bruce and his gritty following out of
> Asbury.
> > They want to change the image and the message, and attract people
> who
> > are sufficiently entwined in the system to afford to invest here.
> > You know the problem with that? You got it. We'd reduce AP to just
> > another overpriced bedroom community by the sea, thus killing the
> > goose that laid the egg that bore the glory days.
> > But maybe not. Maybe they are right. History, ambiguity, it's
> > messy. We like it clean these days. No gray - just black and white,
> > and lots of antiseptic.
> > Well, what does someone else think?
> > Maureen
> >
> > AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "rook782" <rook782@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you think Springstein is a member of Asbury Yahoo Groups?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dapawprint" <dapawprint@>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I just read that one of Bruce Springsteen's new songs is
> > > titled "Radio
> > > > Nowhere" does anyone know if this song relates to Asbury
> Radio?"
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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