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Disabled veterans and Purple Heart winners in New Jersey no longer need to fish through their pockets or whip out a credit card to feed municipal parking meters. New placards issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) mean free spaces.

As many shore towns are making it easier to park with more pay stations and new meters that take credit cards as well as coins, one nearby beach town is taking it a step further and letting you do it all from your smartphone.

With the Ocean County St. Patrick's Day parade only days away, a lot of people will be making their way to the beaches this weekend.

Getting your vehicle in between the lines can be a lot harder than it seems.

You may have noticed that the few remaining parking meters in Seaside Park have been replaced by numbered spots and electronic kiosks. This is good news for two reasons - you won't have to worry about carrying quarters with you this summer, and the hourly price of parking has gone down.

Equal rights in China isn't quite the same as it is in the States.

It's like something from "The Jetsons": Automated parking garages, also known as Automated Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems, are becoming the wave of the future in the United States, including in New Jersey.

Over the past few weeks, a lot of us played what I call "the parking lot game". You know how it goes - you drive in circles, up and down rows at the shopping center in hopes of scoring a good spot. Maybe you see someone two rows over pulling out, just to get beat there by another driver. Does that make you mad? Well, it made this guy really mad! Now this is some parking lot rage! Read Mo

It's time to talk about a minor pet-peeve that, this time of year, feels less minor.  In fact, it feels like a MAJOR annoyance right now, when my holiday stress level is high.  People who back into parking spaces.  Why do they do it...