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02.14.16

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CHRISTIES
NEXT STEPS

Now that his presidential campaign is over,

the governor will now focus on state issues
MICHAEL SYMONS @MICHAELSYMONS_

Gov. Chris Christie is back in New Jersey, his presidential prospects

dashed, preparing to outline a new state budget in a speech to state
lawmakers Tuesday. He will need a quick pivot. After sparring
on the national stage almost exclusively since June about the distant, the improbable and sometimes the absurd, Christie faces a bevy of very real, familiar and stubborn New Jersey problems.
What his priorities are for New Jersey not to mention for Christie
in the 23 remaining months of his term is a mystery.
See CHRISTIE, Page 5A

Areas of concern for Gov. Chris Christie

Road
work:

How to
pay for
projects?
Higher
gas tax?

Property
tax relief:
Pace of
tax hikes
increasing. Can
reforms or
more aid
help?

Pension
money:
Shortchanged
for years,
its crippling N.J.s
credit
rating

Substance
abuse:
$100M to
care for it
and mental health

GETTY IMAGES

111 years of Press archives online

The Asbury Park Evening Press from April 6, 1917, reports the
nasty conflagration that destroyed four blocks of the old
Asbury Park boardwalk, including the famous Natatorium.

ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN

Going into the archives of a newspaper is the closest

one will ever come to time travel.
It is not merely that history is written in the present
tense, but the writing also reflects the sensibilities and
mores of the times of the journalists.
Now, nearly every single page of the Asbury Park
Press in its original format news articles, birth and
wedding announcements, obituaries, advertisements

The Asbury Park Evening Press from Dec. 8, 1941, reports the
United States declaring war on the Empire of Japan in response
to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day.

and classified ads from 1905 to the present is available online at app.newspapers.com.
The Press is doing a great public service to put all
these online even for a fee, said Timothy G. Hart,
director of the Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission. These papers are a window into the history of
the times not a dry textbook but as close to the moment as possible with the possible exception of a journal or diary. Especially in the past, the current separation between editorial and news was not established to

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VOLUME 137
NUMBER 38
SINCE 1879

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The Asbury Park Evening Press from July 21, 1969, reports
the Apollo 11 spaceflight that first landed man on the moon.
Neil Armstrong became the first to step on the lunar surface.

our standards. The opinions of the editors and news

writers are often not very hard to discern.
In the old editions of the Press, local and international dispatches sit side-by-side on the pages. They are
a record not only of what life in America was like at any
given moment over the newspapers 137-year history,
but from the unique perspective of what life was like as
a resident of the Jersey Shore.
See ARCHIVES, Page 10A