Yvonne, I'm tired of public charter schools being the culprit. I don't live in a tax abated building either.

My 2005 letter to the Jersey Journal --- some arguments never change.

To the Editor:

Y_____ B_____ writes in today?s letter that charter schools are hurting Catholic schools. Or translated to its most basic terms, good public schools are causing Catholic and other private schools to have to compete for students. Isn?t that what school choice is about? A few years ago, your paper ran a front-page story on the same subject. At that time, you printed my letter in response:

?Let me see if I understand your thesis:

- We can?t have vouchers because those vouchers will destroy the public school system.
- We cannot offer better public schools such as public charter schools because they will ruin private Catholic schools.
- So we sit on our hands and do nothing.

Are you actually suggesting that we should not improve the public schools in order to save Catholic schools? Why aren?t we celebrating the fact that parents who pay property taxes to support public schools are choosing to send their children to a public school, confident that their children are getting a good education? Why aren?t we shouting from the rooftops that parents who have been scrimping and saving to send their children to private schools now want to send their children to public schools??

So here we go again. Not more than a week ago, Ken Thorbourne wrote about the excellent performance of some of this city?s fine public charter schools on the standardized state third and fourth grade tests ? schools that have beat the city and state averages on state tests not just once, but several years in a row. (Unlike public charter schools, Catholic and other private schools are not required to have their students take these tests so there are no comparable school report cards available.) It is axiomatic that an improvement in public education will put competitive pressure on private schools -- religious and secular. An improvement in our public schools also means that Jersey City is no longer a way station for families on their journey out to the suburbs. It means that public schools such as the Learning Community Charter School (the school my children attend) have wait lists for admission year after year.

Ms. B_____ speaks of the tax burden of public charter schools but public education has always been a tax ?burden?. That being said, anyone who bothers to understand the facts knows that public charter schools operate on a much smaller per child allocation from the state than public district schools. In addition, while public district schools are provided housing, public charter schools have no separate funding for buildings and so must pay for housing out of their operational budgets. Talk about a fine and efficient education!

Wow....I guess word has gotten out. She's really that good and also a pleasure to work with.

Call Emma Lam, owner of A Small Green Space at 917-414-2993.

http://www.houzz.com/pro/asmallgreenspace/a-small-green-space

Emma and team designed and installed a beautiful garden for us. We did not have drainage issues but we recommended her to neighbor who did. They were very happy with the results.

Side room at Light Horse too.

No, that's not what Bodhipooh wrote. He said that one won't even be able to get on a train to get into Manhattan. So instead one would have to get on a train going in the wrong direction and stay on when it turns around. The "seated" part was not the point, but odds are one could get a seat going against traffic.

Quote:

....because we can do only one thing at a time......

http://jerseycityeats.blogspot.com/20 ... /marco-and-pepe-sold.html

Love it or hate it, 16 years is a decent run.

The value of the land depends on what you're allowed to build on it.

Thanks

Yvonne, can you be more specific about what type of public school? Magnets and charters are public schools.

We had a large opening that we closed off with Shoji screens. Beautiful open or closed....but not a great sound barrier.

Friends of LSP supports the project and Sam Pesin plans to speak at the City Council meeting in favor of moving forward.

Nor does cutting the Coast Guard and TSA budgets to build that stupid useless wall.

The Penn State kids all have identification and documentation from THON. If you don't want to give, don't.

They actually were from Penn State. Canning for THON 2017....raising money for pediatric cancer patients and family support.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/cam ... e6-a89f-8b41fc0a2f94.html

You cannot possibly calls those things hamburgers.

I hope the new owners keep the kale salad and the lobster roll. The lobster roll was a perfect and a bargain.

135c, you presume too much if you think that one remark is the sole basis for my loathing. And my antipathy began decades ago.

Those of us who despise Trump base our views on the things he has said (direct quotes) and done. We don't need someone else's spin. He does it all by himself.

Fat-Ass Bike, not quite.

WASHINGTON ? President-elect Donald J. Trump?s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.

The mandate ? issued ?without exceptions,? according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said ? threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.

Mr. Trump, by contrast, has taken a hard line against leaving any of President Obama?s political appointees in place as he prepares to take office on Jan. 20 with a mission of dismantling many of his predecessor?s signature foreign and domestic policy achievements. ?Political? ambassadors, many of them major donors who are nominated by virtue of close ties with the president, almost always leave at the end of his term; ambassadors who are career diplomats often remain in their posts.

A senior Trump transition official said there was no ill will in the move, describing it as a simple matter of ensuring that Mr. Obama?s overseas appointees leave the government on schedule, just as thousands of political aides at the White House and in federal agencies must do. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about internal deliberations, said the ambassadors should not be surprised about being held to a hard end date.

The directive has nonetheless upended the personal lives of many ambassadors, who are scrambling to secure living arrangements and acquire visas allowing them to remain in their countries so their children can remain in school, the diplomats said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.

Not reinstating the ambassadors is tantamount to firing them. Asking Flynn to resign is tantamount to firing him.

Dram shop or barkeeper's liability applies to a person injured by the drunk person, not to injury to the person drinking.

Hubby and I went for the first time last week. One of the best Manhattan cocktails ever. We shared three starter plates. A great meal. We'll be back soon

The moussaka is marvelous.

The Ward F meeting hall was packed last night.

William Barthman, 176 Broadway

Hence, my question.

I have nothing against Krispy Kreme but aren't there regulations around new chain stores downtown? Does anyone understand how the regs work?