Blogs

By: Rose Krebs
Burlington County Times
January 16, 2010

WILLINGBORO - As first years go, U.S. Rep. John Adler's was a doozy.

He went to Washington to fight - for senior citizens, for health care reform, for a responsible banking system, and for his constituents back home. The 3rd District Democrat from Cherry Hill discussed those topics with the Burlington County Times' Editorial Board on Friday.

"It's been a fun, thrilling, exhausting and trying first year," Adler said.

By: Kirk Moore
Asbury Park Press
January 15, 2010

Rep. John Adler, D-NJ, and two other members of Congress have asked the General Accounting Office to investigate the condition of buried piping systems at nuclear plants, after a leak of water carrying traces of radioactive tritium were detected at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey and a similar problem turned up at the Indian Point reactor in New York.

By: Thomas Fitzgerald
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Fri, Jan. 15, 2010

Rep. John Adler (D.,N.J.) today pressed for legislation he co-wrote that would provide a one-time $250 Social Security payment to senior citizens and disabled veterans to make up for the lack of a cost-of-living adjustment in benefits this year.

By: ERIK LARSEN
Asbury Park Press / TOMS RIVER BUREAU
December 12, 2009

There are more veterans living in Ocean County than any other county in New Jersey and more veterans in Ocean County over the age of 65 than any county in the United States.

With the global economic crisis having devastated 401Ks and other investments, and the unemployment rate above 10 percent, more veterans are relying on the benefits promised to them for their military service as a lifeboat in these hard times.

By: Ryan Morton, ASA-Dix Public Affairs
November 26th, 2009

FORT DIX, N.J., Nov. 26, 2009 -- Escorted by a police and motorcycle brigade, more than 150 Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors who are currently training at Army Support Activity, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (ASA JB MDL) for ongoing contingency operations were transported by buses to a Thanksgiving feast at America’s Best Value Inn Ballroom in Cherry Hill Nov. 26.