Mayor Robert Kleinberg, post debate

The after-effects of over-development still plague Marlboro, which became a feeding trough for numerous corrupt officials and in the process ballooned its population by double over 20 years.

Now with what little space is left, this town of 43,000 is trying to find the right place to satisfy its state COAH (Council on Affordable Housing) obligation - something the town’s so-called public servants in the past avoided. The biggest policy difference between Republican Mayor Robert Kleinberg and his Democratic challenger Jonathan Hornik is over where to build that glut of units.

In arguably the most bitter senate campaign of the general election season, district 12 competitors Democratic Sen. Ellen Karcher and Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck Wednesday evening made their closing arguments before a spill-over audience in Marlboro’s age-restricted Greenbriar Community.

Karcher said she lit a fire in her first term in office in Trenton, while over the past two years, Beck has kvetched and complained. Karcher contrasted herself as a big picture public servant against Beck, whom she portrayed as a private-interest opportunist whose past work has cost taxpayers millions.