“This N.J. town erected barriers to hold back the sea. A public fight erupted,”
“ This N.J. town erected barriers to hold back the sea. A public fight erupted ,” by The Washington Post’s Brady Dennis: “From atop the local lifeguard headquarters, Mayor Patrick Rosenello looks out over the shrinking shoreline of his hometown. To the north, past the kaleidoscope of umbrellas that dot the beach, he can see the massive bulkheads the city has installed to hold back the encroaching sea — the same ones at the heart of an ongoing fight with the state, which has sued North Wildwood and fined it more than $8.5 million for that and other work it says was unauthorized, misguided and destructive. Rosenello can also glimpse the signs he posted along beach entrances this summer, bearing photos of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and the state’s top environmental officer, calling them ‘directly responsible’ for failing to fix the erosion problems here. … The peculiar, acrimonious fight playing out along the Jersey Shore is, in one sense, an outlier — a rare...