Home Depot's having a sale on those tiki torches this week. Just in time for the next City Council meeting, say I.

By the way, it's important to remeber that NOBODY in downtown JC ever bothers to vote in local elections. That's why Healy & Co. can walk away at the polls with just a handful of votes.

It's really pathetic.

Perhaps Fulop will be able to interest a few more people, but...

Those who work in Manhattan sadly seem more interested in NYC civic and political matters than those in their own backyard.

This is just more bait-and-switch.

So "municipal" taxes are steady while "school" and "county" taxes are rising? Next year, it'll be the other way around and Healy will crow about stable county taxes even as city taxes go up. (After all, JC is the biggest city in Hudson county, right?)

The tax burden in JC increases EVERY year without any appreciable gain in services provided by the city. So get used to it.

Still, in the interest of full disclose, I'd like to know how much taxpayer funds were used to pay for printing the self-congratulatory letter Healy sent along with the tax bills. (Oh and while we're at it: was the guy who owns the printer's shop a top contributor to Healy's PAC)?

The operative question here, dear readers, is: 75% of what? Dimes to dollars that this PR newswire dispatch conveniently left out the key phrase "of units offered for sale (so far)." This smells of classic developer propaganda by trying to build momentum by failing to disclose the total supply (and thereby hyping the demand for one small slice of the pie.)

No particular axe to grind with 50 Columbus, but everyone out there should be aware that most rental/condo developers parcel out blocks of units in a new building for the express purpose of manipulating the demand/supply equation in their favor.

The original point was not really about teachers' salaries, per se. The issue is whether Healy is allowed to get away with the "easy out" of automatic tax hikes to meet the city's obligations to its schools. There is so much inefficiency, nepotism and sloth in the Greater JC Bureaucracy (and by this I include not only City Hall proper but the JCPA, etc.) that a house cleaning is long overdue---and MUST precede any discussion of raising taxes.
By the way, on the subject of teacher (read: school administrator) salaries: does anyone believe Epps really deserves to earn $230K a year? That's a princely sum.
http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/ind ... ink_of_threeyear_ext.html

Is Healy so unencumbered by his mayoral duties that he's got time to sit around and record fairy tales?!
Can't wait until he recites Pinocchio...

We've got mothers hiring their felon sons onto the public payroll (and ducking camera-toting reporters), broken down street sweepers that act like leaf blowers and a mayor who doesn't check in until 10:30 and then breaks at 12:00 for a liquid lunch.
So before Healy even THINKS about raising taxes to pay for promised wage hikes and offset lower school funding increases (not cuts, mind you), he had best free up some funds by firing about half the paper-pushing bureaucrats at City Hall.

Cool beans. But let's do the math, AP...

You can either pay $585 to see the ships from a Battery Park hotel room or $125 to see them even closer from another ship or...or diddly squat to see them closer yet from the pastoral precincts of Liberty Square Park.

Do I smell a PR agency pitch, or what?

This better not be the backdoor for Mayor Healy's pet project to bring the many splendors of off track gambling to downtown JC...
While we may all be dreaming of a Whole Foods branch, it'll most likely wind up as another dollar store selling recalled frozen e-coli burgers and lead-painted toys.

Did I read that right? We now have BOUNTY HUNTERS roaming within city limits?! Hope Boba Fett can do what our Thin Blue Line apparently can't--keep the thugs off our streets....
What's next--civil militias setting up road blocks off Van Vorst Park? And all the while our photo op-obsessed mayor fiddles.

Yes, the Healy Admin. has now slid below even our lowest expectations of it...Da Mayor REALLY should be asked to respond to this in public. Can you imagine another Big City major being allowed to get away with such cronyism? Unfortunately, it's just business as usual in JC. No wonder the ethics bar is so low for our knave civil servants...

Do any live bodies actually support Mayor Healy? Or is all some sad, sick joke perpetrated by the bemused citizenry and hoary rolls of Holy Name Cemetery?

Granted, he's got the support of the Hudson County Political Machine. And high roller-real estate developer-types with toupees just love 'im. But surely there must be a limit to the gullibility of the JC voting populace.

Correct me if I'm way off base here...

yes, truly a classic in the making. real lime wedges in the tacos. authentic chipolte sauce on request. And tecate (in cans)!

enjoy it before the original owners sell out to the franchise lobby...