It’s Tuesday morning, and Bob Judge is handing out  emergency bags” to a long line of people at his church in Asbury Park. Each bag has five to seven items of nonperishable food that will get a hungry person through the next day or two.

This month, we’re heading to Atlantic City and the “shore” for glitz and glam.

Chances are, you’ve just mailed yet another fourfigure property tax payment. And though statewide taxes saw a smaller increase in 2007 than over the past few years, the reported 5.5% hike did not dip as low as the 4% goal Governor Corzine set last January.