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Posted on: 2012/10/13 19:30
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I just got back from a dance performance the Shua Group put on at a 'guerilla' SK8 Park near the light rail, between the Jersey Ave and Liberty State Park stops. But we need a real SK9 Park. Here's an open letter to Diane Coleman on that issue:
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2012/ ... -park-open-letter-to.html
Posted on: 2012/10/13 19:27
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Ever hear this saying: "Politics makes strange bedfellows"? Do you have any reason why people have saying that since the invention of dirt? Because it's true. Politics DOES make strange bedfellows.
Levin and Healy on the same ticket, that's like peanut butter and jelly on pumpernickel bread, or ketchup on your cornflakes. It's, well, strange. But then Ishmael and Queequeeg made strange bed mates too, but the book turned out to be interesting. Jersey City politics can survive this, and if we end up with Fulop as mayor and Levin as Ward E Councilman, well, that'll be a good thing, no?
Posted on: 2012/10/13 12:58
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Most of this discussion seems to focus on Dan: "Holy crap, the political lamb has decided to lay down with the lion!" Do you really think Dan's going to flop around like a netted fish?
Look at it the other way: Why's Healy not only giving Dan the time of day, but is actually running with the guy on his team? Think maybe this is a defensive move? Maybe Healy thinks Fullop's got a shot and wants some vaccine on his ticket. And surely folks on JCList don't think you HAVE to vote a straight ticket. You're allowed to pick people from different slates.
Posted on: 2012/10/11 14:05
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vindication15 wrote: yeah I agree with everyone, newport sucks. ... Also, the lack of run down properties with homeless people and drug addicts makes me wonder if newport is even moving in the right direction....they should just demolish newport. 
Under Christ Hospital at the old Van Leer chocolate factory, Nov 2005:
Bergen Arches, Oct 2007:
Bergen Arches, May 2011:
Posted on: 2012/9/17 6:46
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After launching an anti-litter campaign
It was time to have fun
More photos here
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?se ... 17.313968312031643&type=1
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I just read the article that FKSJC linked. It indicated that Lyles has some unsepcified "history with the controversial Broad Superintendents Academy." And controversial it is. Here's a bunch of links on the Broad Foundation, founded by Los Angeles billionaire and philanthropist Eli Broad. The most interesting is a blog post by Dianne Ravitch, education expert and critic of the recent corporatization of public schools. The post is entitled Chris Christies's Plan to Privatize NJ's Low-Performing Schools and is dated August 2 of this year. From the post:
The Education Law Center, an independent organization that advocates for the children of New Jersey, obtained a copy of a proposal that the Chris Christie administration made to the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in Los Angeles. The plan calls for aggressive state intervention in the state?s lowest performing schools. Acting Commissioner Chris Cerf wants to set up an ?achievement district? for the low-performing schools. These schools would likely be closed and handed over to private managers as charter schools. The state plan calls for eliminating collective bargaining in these schools.... It?s somewhat strange that people like Cerf (and Arne Duncan, for that matter) think that a school gets ?reformed? or ?turned around? by firing the staff, closing the school, and handing it off to a charter operator. Cerf is a smart enough guy, and he surely knows that charters on average don?t produce better results than the public schools they replace unless they push out the low-performing kids. One of the news stories says that Cerf wants to use New Orleans ?recovery school district? as a model for New Jersey, but I wonder if he knows that 79% of the charters in New Orleans were graded either D or F by the state, and that New Orleans ranked 69th of 70 districts in the entire state.FWIW, Ravitch was once an advocate of charter schools. That was before there were a lot of them. Once there were enough to establish a track record Ravitich examined that record and discovered that, while some charter schools were indeed very good, that the movement as a whole has been a failure. Links to more from Ravitch.
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A link to her employment contract:
http://www.jcboe.org/newboe/images/im ... ed%20lyles%20contract.pdf
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Here's an interesting 2007 NYTimes piece about Ms. Lyles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/nyregion/29facebook.html From the article: "In June, after Andr?s Alonso stepped down to lead the Baltimore public school system, Chancellor Joel I. Klein plucked Ms. Lyles from her post as a superintendent in Brooklyn to become the chief official in charge of curriculum and teaching policies this summer. He said that her experience would make her an ?extraordinary asset? to his senior leadership team. "Ms. Lyles has been met with skepticism from other administrators in part because while she was the superintendent of Region 8 in Brooklyn since 2004, her region?s gains in test scores in reading and math, while solid, ran behind those in many other regions." Some folks in my neighborhood (Lafayette) have organized a boycott this coming Wednesday, 9AM at the Board of Ed (346 Claremont Ave.) to protest her appointment. At the moment I don't know enough about her to have an informed opinion on the issue.
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Posted on: 2012/8/26 15:31
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On behalf of the Lafayette Community Learning Garden, Tina Senatore and Sparkle Mair accept the prize for Most Artistic Garden in Jersey City?s Adopt-A-Lot garden competition. We would like to give special thanks to our artists, Mr. Mustart, Serringe & The Element Tree Art Team, and to Dylan Evans of Mad Mad Media for coordinating the mural. Also, a shout out to the Jersey City Incinerator Authority for sending us a cherry picker and crew to lift the artists up the wall.
Posted on: 2012/8/23 5:11
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After half a decade of planning, Jersey City is set to turn more than 17 acres of abandoned land into a lush, green oasis that will be the largest municipally owned park in the city.
On Wednesday, ground will be broken at Berry Lane Park, located on Berry Lane between Garfield Avenue and Woodward Street near the Lafayette and Jackson Hill neighborhoods. City officials say they hope the park will bring life and recreation options to the under-served area, which is also known as Morris Canal and has a poverty rate nearly twice the national average. Officials also note that the area has a minority population of more than 70 percent with nearly half of its residents speaking a language other than English. The project, which is being spearheaded by the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency, has long been in the works. ?Getting Berry Lane Park built has been a major initiative for the JCRA since 2006,? says JCRA Executive Director Bob Antonicello. ?When people think of the JCRA, they generally don?t think of park construction, but in the case of Berry Lane Park, the importance to the Ward F community couldn?t be overstated. It?s safe to say that Berry Lane Park is the key to renewal of Lafayette and Jackson Hill communities.? Officials note that the project will turn ?brownfields? ? vacant, abandoned, or underutilized former industrial or commercial properties ? into green, open space for the public. When the park is complete, it will increase the amount of useable, open space in the city overall by almost 10 percent. http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... lvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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On Wednesday, ground will be broken at Berry Lane Park, located on Berry Lane between Garfield Avenue and Woodward Street near the Lafayette and Jackson Hill neighborhoods. City officials say they hope the park will bring life and recreation options to the under-served area, which is also known as Morris Canal and has a poverty rate nearly twice the national average. Officials also note that the area has a minority population of more than 70 percent with nearly half of its residents speaking a language other than English. http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... lvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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It's a grasshopper, about 1 and a half to two inches long. These are cucumbers from the garden:
Posted on: 2012/8/20 16:35
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Spotted in the Learning Garden:
Posted on: 2012/8/20 1:27
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Facebook page for the learning garden:
http://www.facebook.com/LafayetteCommunityLearningGarden
Sunflower in the Learning Garden:
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WHAT'S A COMMUNITY GARDEN COMMUNITY?
Two questions, closely related, but not the same: What?s a community garden? What?s a garden community? So, what IS a community garden? I suppose it?s a garden that, in some sense, belongs to a community rather than belonging to a private individual or organization. In what sense CAN a garden belong to the community? There is the legal sense. This requires that the community form itself into a legally recognized organization and that that organization, in turn, owns the land on which the garden is created. But, legal ownership of the land is not necessary nor sufficient. The land can be donated, and it need not be donated to anyone or any group in particular. It need only be made available. ... And so we arrive at our second question: What IS a garden community? ... The garden is a place where people can meet and mingle. Not only with one another, but with the garden itself. With the plants, of course, the onions and the peppers, collard greens and corn, the blueberries and petunias, the cabbage and cilantro, the potatos and tomatoes, but also the weeds. They grow in the garden too, and must be taken out. And the grape vines. Oh yes, the grape vines. While we planted some grapes in the garden, there?s wild grapes growing in the lot next door and they?re growing over the wall?they?re all over the place in this town! More here: http://truthandtraditionsparty.org/20 ... mmunity-garden-community/
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LOL! I like the sound of that, rolling magnus. Clever things those tendrils.
Posted on: 2012/7/9 15:54
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Tendrils
Can plants earn a merit badge for knot-tying?
Posted on: 2012/7/7 16:32
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A Community Garden Builds Itself
Not, mind you, that the rocks just up and cleared themselves out of the way, nor did lumber arrange itself into planter boxes, much less did the dirt leap into the boxes followed in close order by seeds, seedlings, shoots, and sprouts. Nothing like that. But the garden wasn?t planned by spreadsheet and Gant charts, nor was it built by highly organized teams working against the clock, on time and on budget. Fact is, if you?d been on site any Saturday?and a few weekdays here and there?from mid-April through May and into mid-June it?s not clear to me just what you?d have seen. And I was there.
It all depends on just when you showed up. You might have seen people building things, planting things, watering the plants, and painting the wall. But you might have seen some women and girls tossing rocks over a wall, or a young boy burying himself to his neck in a mound of dirt, or a middle-aged man taking photographs of a plush-toy frog lounging in the lettuce, or men women boys girls and dogs chillin? around the barbecue listening to hip-hop and Rnb on the radio.
Not a high-energy task-oriented workforce at all. But they built the garden.
more here
http://truthandtraditionsparty.org/20 ... ity-garden-builds-itself/
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The Laffayette Community Learning Garden is beginning to bear vegetables:
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The story talks about a community garden that emerged on Pacific Ave. over the past month and a half. The garden is a project of the Morris Canal Community Development Corporation and includes a mural: Garden State of Mind. Here's some photos of the mural in progress:
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Some photos of it:
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It's mostly a fish place, with good coleslaw.
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I can hear the wheels turning, the gears meshing, and hear the screeching a howling. Lots of friction, lots of pain.
This is major stuff. Lots of patronage potentially in play. And: "Healy, who opposed dissolving the JCIA back then [2010], now says he does not take a position on whether the JCIA should absorb the DPW, or vice versa." Hmm . . .
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