JC is 16, 793 per square mile per person or roughly 10411 per kilometer, which is the density of many third world cities. But realistically, downtown is probably double that number. Once Journal Square and other parts of JC are built up, we will surpass many third world cities but unfortunately our streets will not get wider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFJY- ... =UUPZCDR4rCUMJtCl7__MaEag
This 27 minute video covers 4 parts: What people pay in taxes, Fulop?s abatements, McGinley Square, and the closing of Newark at Barrow/Bay for an outdoor mall.

I just returned from the Freeholder's Meeting and I gave my opinion on a prayer room in the county college. Only time will tell what will happen.

This is a great job, but it is not the salary that is a problem it is the debt. It has balloon in the last 25 years.

Where is the desk audit that Fulop promised when running for office? Now he is too busy hiring more employees.

This is to ?Angry Mom,? perhaps it is time to draw another scene where people with criminal or unethical past receive jobs in JC, while the mayor gets rid of people who do their jobs. We hire a former NJ governor who has a chapter in a book on corruption in NJ and another person who stole from the Welfare program. Yes, the city is being rebranded but not in a positive way.

There are people here who cannot read properly, for the record I have said numerous times the laws on same sex marriage makes no exceptions for bakers, florist or other people in the wedding business. Jesus said a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife and the two will be one flesh...it is his father intent. I refused to call Jesus a liar. I choose to follow my faith not some laws of government. The reason I believe separation of church and state. Also Jesus said when speaking to the people, He said to do what the Pharisees say not what the Pharisees do. Jesus was referring to the Mosaic laws. The Mosaic laws do ban homosexuality. Do I personally care who someone marries? No really. But at the end of my life I will be judged by Jesus, not by laws of government. I do not care if I am attacked for putting God first. I don't care for government telling me how to practice my religion in any fashion including same sex marriage.

Joshua, I have never met her and I do go to those meetings. The issue if not Maryanne, the issue is Fulop, I was voting for change but instead I got McCann and Schundler again.

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So how is this any different than Healy? Maryanne put her heart in the work. She loves Jersey City and that attitude is priceless.

To speak the truth is does not take away from her work. I agree, Maryanne is a fabulous person. I thought Fulop was above this, I voted for change. But I have to say even Healy knew how to cross the aisle. When Healy thought the state would change public access tv, his office called me and I went to Trenton and spoke at the hearing. Fulop has the smarts but not the maturity to be mayor.

Jesus said give to Cesar what is Cesar and to God what is God. Cesar today is government or the state. So let's keep religion separate from the state. Actually, I was always grateful that this country believes in separation of church and state. I do not want this country telling me what to believe.

If the job is not needed then why replace her? No, she has developed many friendships with the FOL and that does not make Fulop happy.

If she is being ?let go? because the job is not needed, then why replace her with a new person? My instinct tells me Kelleher is friendly with the FOL, and that makes Fulop angry.

First God hears all prayers, this is not about hatred towards any group but the responsibility of a particular group to provide prayer space for that group. Students are Hudson County Community College are legally adults. They are not children. I remember leaving school an half hour early and traveling with my brothers for my CCD classes at the local Catholic School. I was a very young person, not an adult.

Religion is respected in this country because we don't favor one religion or support any religion. This prayer room will break that trend and perhaps bring backlash.

There are many properties off the tax rolls including Hudson County Community College. It is the reason, I believe JC should have an income tax as their main source of income and not a property tax. But returning to the subject, religion is not the responsibility of the public but the responsibility of the believers. I am sure the next request will be a place to wash feet which is a custom of the Muslim faith.

How do you share a room when there are different practices? When the Synagogue was purchased for Islamic worship, the benches were removed. Christians and Jewish services use benches, but the Muslim faith do not. But that is not the point. Each religious group is responsible for their own faith practice. As an example, St. Peter?s Church in lower Manhattan has a chapel named the St. Joseph Chapel for worshippers near business. Likewise, Muslim groups should purchase property for their members as a site of worship near the college. http://stpetersrcnyc.org/index.cfm?load=page&page=7

CdeCoincy, everyone ate fish and everyone had the Jewish days off, we are referring to a special room for prayer. If religion means that much, do what many religious groups do, create your own school. Down the road the college will be defending a lawsuit from the an atheist group and taxpayer's money will be used to defend this.

What does a particular religion has to do with prayer, it is where the prayer is held. Prayers are sacred and not something to take lightly. Jerseymom, God is not Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or Muslim but people are. My conduct in church is reverent but my conduct in a library is not. I would not be comfortable doing research is someone is praying. I would feel I was disrespecting God while someone is praying and I am doing research.

If I had to use the library and knew someone was praying, I wouldn?t use the space. I would not feel comfortable. But the issue for me ? shouldn?t a religious sect provide for their own?

Today, I went to St. Ann's Church on Tonnele Avenue and the second collection was for Catholic Universities of America. It should be the responsibility of various religious groups to raise money and purchase property for their religion. They should purchase property near the college similar to a chapel. People forget that the beautiful churches in NY and NJ were the donations of poor immigrants, especially Irish maids. My concern is this will go through and it will not be universal.

Imtiaz Syed wrote on Facebook: Muslim students at the Hudson County Community College requested the authorities that a small room to be designated for the prayer in the college, since this has been allowed and practiced at the airports ,Hospitals and many offices, I fail to understand why a request for a peaceful prayer place be denied.
This will be discussed May 8 at the Freeholders Meeting. Personally, any prayer room should be open to all faiths not exclusive to one. Several years ago, I read in the Jersey Journal that a priest was asked to leave the county building during Ash Wednesday; he eventually gave ashes in the parking lot. It would be nice to see all religion treated equality.

My suggestion - attend the events at Lincoln Park and speak the the people who live there. I recently sat a fundraiser table and met many people from that area. Nice people.

La_Vardad, I was here at the beginning, there was no offer of abatements. Newport came because they won a $40 million UDAG grant. Mayor Cucci asked Samuel LeFrak for affordable housing and the rest they say is history. By the way, before Newport, Dixon Mills did not receive a long term abatement, neither did Society Hill which was built over contaminated soil. When the developers saw how eager city hall was, they started to ask for abatements. Abatements became routine when Schundler ran for governor and basically gave the city away, it was developers who pay for his campaign. So, history does not match your statement.

Great work Brigid, now we need to add the abatements that are active from previous administrations.

It's location, location, location...getting that right is half the battle. There is no bus stop on the SE corner of Montgomery & Barrow...It is the NE corner.

Astor Place has many neighborhood events, you should try to attend one and meet the people.

Sometimes an ordinance that is proposed is used differently than the original purpose. The fact it has the term ?aggressive behavior? is disturbing. I remember when Episcopal priest, Jim Pinto, with Hudson County roots, was arrested in the South at an abortion clinic for handing out literature. This happened in the 1990s and then President Clinton filed a friend of the court to keep him in jail. So if I were to protest an abatement, could this proposed ordinance be used against me? Chicago instituted a ?bubble zone? to keep out protests, I find it disturbing that the first amendment rights are under seize.

I never saw a fight in high school and I am a child of sixties. We were afraid of the adults not the students. I went to high school in Hoboken. Today, people accept bad behavior as normal.

I found out the ordinance that established the P2P law (Ord.08-128),contain a section (11) that requires indexing.