Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican candidate for governor, talks a lot about the state’s high cost of living. He talks about housing, too, but not often in the same sentence. New Jersey’s problem isn’t that it’s building too little housing, Ciattarelli says: It’s that it’s building too much. One ad posted to Ciattarelli’s Instagram account shows bulldozers cutting down trees behind ominous music and a short clip of his opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, saying “we’ve got to build more houses” on repeat.

Ocean City councilman offers downtown lot to fund playground plan

Ocean City Councilman Keith Hartzell has offered a downtown lot as a means to fund a request for a new playground, asking for an $800,000 budget.

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