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You may be right on that, but... there are at least seven other officers & employees of LSC that make well over $100,000 a year plus other perks and benefits, with few if any of them living in Jersey City. Additionally, when Liberty Science Center laid off all of those people back in 2008 when the economy was in bad shape, guess how many of those six-figure officers were laid off? Zero. Did any of them agree to take a salary cut in light of the times? You know the answer. Somehow this place has the money to pay the $ 100,000/200,000/400,000+ salaries, but has to cut people with $ 30,000+ salaries. Furthermore, of the five highest independent contractors paid by LSC according to their 2015 tax return, guess how many of those contractors were businesses based in Jersey City? You know the answer. This place has gotten somewhat better but still sorely lacks the fiscal discipline and commitment to Jersey City needed to build their case for this land.
Posted on: 2017/3/17 19:08
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Re: Stop the give away of taxpayers' city owned land. Ordinance 17-023
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Agreed with this 100% as well. There will be little or no spillover impact to the closest neighborhoods. The place will be a self-contained type of destination and it will be like the casinos in Atlantic City - people will drive right up to it, stay on the site the entire time, and won't leave until it's time to head home and will never venture into the surrounding neighborhoods. Just like Atlantic City. We see how that turned out. Although the city is ultimately getting paid for this land, who knows how many years that will take. Remember that Journal Square project that the city was supposed to give a low-interest loan for? We saw how that was going to turn out. Oh, and per the earlier post in this thread, I'll go with option #4 as well. Works for me.
Posted on: 2017/3/16 3:04
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Re: Stop the give away of taxpayers' city owned land. Ordinance 17-023
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Quote: The City loaned the LSC $2.5 million in 2008 as they were strapped. Who knows if they ever paid it back! [quote] Did they ever pay back the $ 2.5 million loan, by the way? Does anyone know? Once the loan was approved by the city council, nothing was ever said about it again. I've expressed my opinion about LSC on other threads and don't feel the need to repeat myself, but I will say that LSC should not be subsidized by Jersey City for several reasons 1) the 100+ "jobs" held by Jersey City residents are mostly dead-end low paying positions. i.e. cashier, janitor, exhibit technician, 2) per the Form 990, none of the highest paid independent contractors are based in Jersey City and 3) if the place ever has serious financial problems to the point where it could be closed, I don't think the State of New Jersey would let that happen. Let the state subsidize that place - LSC brings people into New Jersey, but I don't think it brings many people specifically into the surrounding Jersey City neighborhoods to spend money.
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The Food Court is alright but that mall is just so ghetto in general and the selection generally sucks there. Too many middle and high school kids running around causing trouble. I don't think I've EVER used the elevators their either. If they ever move, they move very slowly, otherwise the doors are constantly getting stuck from trying to cram too many people into them. I don't know how you'd ever make that place all that great of a mall. Better than the Hudson Mall, but that's not saying much.
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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity
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+1. I couldn't have said it better myself, other than the fact that they couldn't even run the place when it was just a museum, how can LSC run a hotel, school, condos and whatever other crap they think they're going to build there? Can't wait to see what kind of cost overruns alone this place has when they build it.
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Posted on: 2017/3/12 4:14
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Oh yeah - I got a coupon for a free bagel too. Then I went to the bake shop and saw how pitiful the bagels were. I left the coupon there because there is no way I'd want one of those. Maybe Teddy will redeem it and take it to his Bergen-Lafayette Coalition to Feed the Homeless.
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Re: Bayonne man steals $3K bike in Jersey City burglary spree, cops say (Downtown)
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I wanted to see the actual bike, rather than his picture. It's great that he's been caught and everything but $ 3000 for a bike? Is it made of silver or something?
For that kind of money, the bike should pedal itself.
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Eh... I've filled up most of the monopoly board but of course with every prize it's always one missing game piece (or two or three for the bigger prizes in the center). Getting three out of the necessary four game pieces for a particular prize is worse than not getting any at all. I did get an instant win coupon for a bottle of free aspirin though. Woohoo!
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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity
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The land should have been sold to the highest bidder but that's another matter. It will be fantastic if it ever actually gets built and the Liberty Science Center knows what the hell they're doing when they are running it. Given their past track record, I can't see how they can be trusted.
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Must be nice, with all the FREE land they're getting from Jersey City to build it. Are we sure we can trust Liberty Science Center to not screw this project up?
Remember some years ago when the city had to bail out Liberty Science Center with an interest-free $ 2.5 million loan? This was because when they expanded their buildings years ago, they had no clue how massive the increased utility costs were going to be. I don't know if they ever paid the loan back either. Furthermore, let's not forget all the vice presidents the organization has with their extremely bloated salaries and yet they laid off a slew of people who make less than $ 30,000 per year. Yeah, I'm sure they'll do great running a hotel, school, residential community and research facility.
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Re: Secaucus Boy Kicked Out of Scouts Because He's Transgender (Petition)
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I must mention this a third time, please don't consider me a troll. I don't agree with Yvonne's logic and beliefs at all, but I say the Boy Scouts did him a favor by kicking him out.
Just look at all the controversies associated with Boy Scouts over the years, all the volunteers who were sex offenders who have somehow gotten past the screening process and molested a lot of young boys. When that has happened again and again, the national office in Texas just shrugs and says each troop operates independently. While nothing ever happened while I was in Boy Scouts (though one of the assistant scoutmasters was a real dick and acted like it was army boot camp), I will not let my son be a part this organization, where it is men working around young boys. My own child and this kid from Secaucus are better off in a co-ed organization like Campfire, 4-H or Young Marines. Furthermore, Scouting in so many other countries is co-ed, the fact it is only for boys in the USA continues to create problems, but there's no way the Girl Scouts organization would ever agree to a merger with BSA.
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Re: Car stolen from front of my house on York St.
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When property taxes start to get too high, and when they get calls every day from realtors and developers presenting attractive all cash offers they just can't refuse (while not everybody will want to sell, some people ultimately get seduced by a high enough offer, however short-sighted it may be). Or, when there are families from a particular class of people (i.e. middle, lower middle) who don't live there in the first place but their particular income range used to be able to move in and buy or rent in a particular town just can't afford to anymore. Look at New Brunswick for example. It was a place I was considering buying in 12 years ago when it looked like I might be switching jobs; now, I doubt I could afford to buy anything remotely desirable there, despite my higher income and assets.
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There already is more than one type of such organization. There's CampFire USA, 4-H, Young Marines and the Boys & Girls Clubs. All of them co-ed organizations that don't have any issues with atheist, gay or transgender individuals being members. All of them with an all-around better track record than the Boy Scouts of America organization. I'm sure they have their issues and flaws but I've never heard any horror stories about kids getting molested in them like I've heard with the Boy Scouts. You have men and women working with young boys and girls together. With Boy Scouts, it's men with working with young boys. Sorry but the latter combination just seems like a recipe for disaster.
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Not agreeing with Yvonne here but the Boy Scouts probably did him a favor by kicking him out. In about five years, regardless of how this person looks and what kind of support they get or don't get, they will be glad not to be associated with the Boy Scout organization. I was in Boy Scouts until age 14 and just hated it in so many ways. We had a troop leader that worked the hell out of us like it was the army or something on the camping trips and it was no fun at all. Furthermore, rather than learning to survive in the woods, I've since mastered this great concept of finding an inexpensive hotel with electricity and running water. It works out much better for me. Also, rather than being able to start a fire by rubbing sticks together, I've got a great thing called matches.
Furthermore, BSA has a total lack of control over the individual troops and the rap sheets and controversies associated with Boy Scout troops is a mile long. No matter how much screening and safeguards are taken, you hear story after story about all these perverts that somehow weasel their way into the organization and end up molesting one or more of the boys. The Girls Scouts organization has no such record. Bottom line here - this transgender is better off going to a co-ed organization like 4-H or Campfire that welcomes everyone and has both males and females running the organization.
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Re: Merry Xmas, Mayor Healy
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Because he was an airhead with a drinking problem who thought himself to be above the law. A few other things to mention about Healy... Bradley Beach, and Kevin Freibott. I'm sure others know more
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If you would like to travel between airports seamlessly, not have to deal with carrying luggage while changing trains, there is the NYC Airporter. It costs $ 28 and is probably slower than the train, because you're going through traffic but it's a straight shot - airport to airport.
https://www.nycairporter.com/ourservices/newarkairportshuttle/
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If you want to get to know Yvonne, go to a city council meeting. She isn't hard to find. I actually think she is very devoted, means well and I even agree with her most of the time, it's just the fact that she and a few other individuals (some of whom read this board and know who they are) feel the need to get up and ask questions or comment about EVERY single resolution before the city council, sometimes asking multiple questions and dragging a city council meeting that could have been two hours into a four hour or longer saga. There's another person with the initials N.R. who also does a lot of it and pisses me off to no end - even though I agree with her most of the time too!
It's their right to do that of course, but I find it extremely rude, unnecessary, self-serving and inconvenient to us who need to get back home and put the kids to bed and have a longer commute to work in the morning. They all think they speak for their neighborhoods or even the general populace but that's all a load of crap - they would be on the other side of that city council table if that were the case. There was a resolution to put time limits on speaking but sadly it was defeated. I don't go to these city council meetings much anymore, maybe in another decade or so when my kid is in college, thanks to these so-called "community activists" who have an unending hunger for self-aggrandizement meeting after meeting.
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Oh yeah? What's his/her personality like? Do all the conversations consist of telling you news stories? Just wondering. I had a friend who was a radio announcer, and his voice became dead silent every time I drove under a bridge when he was riding in my car.
Posted on: 2016/12/13 5:38
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Re: 25-year tax break on tap for new Downtown Jersey City tower
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If the amount of property taxes assessed on this building would normally be $1.1 million per year (and even that seems low), Jersey City could build and fund plenty of its own schools with a few years of that tax money. I actually agree with Yvonne here, the school being in the building is just a ploy to attract residents and the developers won't pay any of its operating costs once they transfer to the city.
Downtown developers should not be getting ANY tax abatements in downtown - there are plenty of developers who would build there any pay the full amount of property taxes. Journal Square, Greenville or the Heights would be a different story. Why do they keep doing this with downtown?
Posted on: 2016/12/10 19:59
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Looks like the truck was more badly damaged than the gazebo. Maybe the guy had issues with his employer and that's why he did it on purpose.
Posted on: 2016/12/10 4:59
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These people might be able to help you out, but the fees are only worth it if you're seeking to have the entire ticket voided -
www.parkingticket.com In my opinion you do have a valid case to have the entire ticket voided given that you had a ticket issued and then it disappeared.
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For a few weeks anyway. It will eventually be back to its same old condition, I guarantee it.
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That Starbucks was overrun by the homeless and "office-less" long ago. It was bound to happen, given its location. The place may be overrun but management probably doesn't care, given the steady stream of customers at the register.
Given the numerous other places not too much further from the PATH that I can get a coffee and sit down, I voted with my feet (literally, by walking just a little further). You might as well do the same.
Posted on: 2016/11/21 4:26
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Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
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I'm not saying I totally disagree with you about the cost of illegals, but I don't think you can easily substantiate the statement that the costs of illegal immigration far outweigh its benefits. Furthermore, to simply state that businesses would make less profit without employing illegals and instead employing Americans is also a pretty simplistic statement. There are plenty of jobs out there that could easily be filled by Americans who choose to simply work the system and receive government benefits rather than work, and that is not the illegals' fault. There are plenty more Americans that are simply unemployable as well, i.e. mentally ill, disabled, etc. and also cost taxpayers a lot. Yes, illegals cause problems and cost tax dollars, but if all of them were deported immediately and the border with Mexico was heavily fortified, the lack of low-cost labor would cause plenty of problems too.
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Alright, you've quoted a reliable source and was well aware that the children of illegals have a right to public education in the United States. But I'd really love to know some statistics on the volume of welfare benefits received by illegal aliens. I can't imagine it being that substantial nor do I think there are very many leading a lifestyle like the one you described for Joe Illegal. Most illegals from what I've seen are large numbers cramped in small apartments and barely getting by after they send money back home. They are not exactly living a lavish or anything close to a middle class lifestyle. Illegal aliens are certainly a problem but I think it is greatly exaggerated by the press and politicians. There are a lot of jobs out there that would never get filled and businesses that couldn't survive without them (i.e. restaurants, car washes, cleaning, etc.).
Posted on: 2016/11/19 21:07
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I agree that illegal immigration is a problem, but the analysis doesn't completely make sense to me. Perhaps I'm ignorant here. I was with you until you got to the part about health insurance coverage. How does Joe Illegal get "full coverage" for free from medical and dental clinics, and even if he does, is the quality of care all that great? As an illegal, Medicaid is out of the question. Also, how does Joe Illegal get food stamps and welfare or a federal rent subsidy? Illegals get instantly deported if they apply for benefits although I'm guessing you imply that Joe Illegal can falsify his family's identity or something. Also, what is that separate insurance for $ 200 per month you're talking about since Joe Legal is already paying $ 600 per month for health insurance? Is that car insurance?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/ ... io-trump-vendor.html?_r=0 Not quite.
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Two things - 1. Do you pay your bills in full and on time? I do. I agree, nobody's perfect, but Trump has story after story of not paying his bills and his imperfections have made lives difficult for a lot of people in New York and New Jersey. They have essentially subsidized Trump's limousines, helicopters, yachts and airplanes. If he has ANY heart at all, he'll sell some of his assets to pay the money he rightfully owes that wasn't discharged in his bankruptcies. I don't care how long ago these debts were incurred - better late than never. 2. Regarding enforcing the border, do you think that his delusional plan to build a wall between the US and Mexico will do much to solve the illegal immigration problem? Even if he is successful in building the wall, then many of the undesirables will just stay here rather than go back to Mexico after they've earned enough money. The porous border between the US and Mexico is not an ideal situation, but I think a wall would probably make things worse. Furthermore, if Trump has such a problem with illegals WHY did he hire them when he was building the Trump Tower? http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/ Or at his modeling agency? http://www.aol.com/article/2016/08/31 ... egal-immigrants/21463003/ Seems like it's all right for him to use illegals when it benefits him personally, but when he runs for and becomes President, he advocates for their deportation because of course that's the ideal political stance. I'm sure there are still illegals working in his hotels and resorts today - you are never going to staff your entire housekeeping department without them. Talk about hypocrisy.
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