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I split my time between the suburbs and JC. My paternal grandparents came to the suburbs from Europe and my grandfather worked as a stone cutter and didn't speak a word of English. My dad grew up in a family of 13. My mom grew up in PA coal country, and her parents were immigrants and her dad died of black lung. So I know about people coming to the USA looking to improve their lives. Am I blaming the kids? Where did you get that from? I'm just pointing out, in response to the OP, that taxes in JC aren't really affected by the cost of the JC schools, because the local taxpayers pay a pittance of the cost of educating their own kids. And if people didn't have kids they don't want to parent, or raise in a family setting, then the kids that are born into families that are would be much better off. Look up the street at Union City and see what happens when involved parents and support meets government subsidies-you get a success story. Which I'm happy to subsidize. Writing a blank check to support school systems that do not achieve, not so much.
Posted on: 2013/9/16 3:14
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Re: Jersey City Public Schools - No A/C and no Fans? What's going on?
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The hard facts are that Jersey City homeowners (and renters through paying their landlords) pay less than 17% of the cost of educating Jersey City children, the rest being paid for by the Federal Government (about the same as JC taxpayers) and the remainder by NJ taxpayers in total. (Feel free to surf through the NJ State link above to look at JC vs other NJ towns in per student spending, and the percentages of local, state (other taxpayers) and federal support. In other words, the JC students are being carried on the backs of taxpayers from across NJ, in comparison to most suburban towns where they local taxpayers carry the freight. Be happy you're not, as Obama would say, paying your fair share, while the rest of us do it for you.
Posted on: 2013/9/16 1:43
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Nope, but my tax dollars are sure going to educate them-as long as JC is an Abbott district I'm entitled to an opinion.
Posted on: 2013/9/16 0:58
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I don't disagree with much of what you wrote, but the fact is we spend a ton of money on education. European countries get much better educated kids for less money. The reason is that in places like JC, Newark, Camden, Atlantic City we have parents that are often absentee, uninterested, and are products of generations of social network support that has taken away the will to achieve. When close to 3/4 of African American kids being raised in single parent households no amount of education $ can overcome being born behind an 8 ball like that. A place like Union City, with involved parents, shows how government supported schools can do a good job overcoming students from unprivileged backgrounds, often with English not being their native language. When the parents don't care no amount of Abbott funding can produce well educated kids.
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http://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/educat ... dist_code2390&maxhits=650 Under the box Summary of Vital Statistics. Here's a comparison with the town with the highest average real estate taxes in NJ. Look at the percentages of local taxes, Federal, and State for education. Millburn also is usually in the top couple of towns in NJ for education. Also note that besides the disparity in what local taxes are paid for their own students, they spent considerably less per student than JC does. http://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/educat ... dist_code3190&maxhits=650 To sum up, your local taxes pay only 16.5% of the school bill in JC, whereas in Millburn local taxes pay 88.4%.
Posted on: 2013/9/15 22:21
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Don't complain, local taxes pay only about 16% of the cost of educating the local kids in Jersey City. The Feds pay about the same, and other NJ residents (ie the suburbs) underwrite JC schools to the tune of about 71%, at the expense of their own families.
Your taxes are incredibly low considering how JC schools are underwritten, others are paying the lions share from their pockets.
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We drove by yesterday, didn't have time to stop in. Not a lot of info on Yelp, is this place any good? Any specialties??
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Sorry, coffee had yet to kick in! Yes, I think that's the name of the place. Some of the produce seemed like you need to pick it over, but the bulk dried stuff looked pretty good.
Posted on: 2013/9/13 15:29
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$4.99 for two pounds of quinoa at the East Asian grocery store just south of Newark Avenue on the eastbound side of JFK, can't remember the name. Overall their prices looked pretty good as I recall.
Posted on: 2013/9/13 13:58
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Re: An Interview w/ Dan Richer of Razza
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Milled wheat from Clifton? Maybe he said 'Clinton'??
Posted on: 2013/9/9 21:19
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Re: Star ledger editorial: Christie's Obamacare fiasco
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Don't you know it's a Ponzi scheme? It's so terrible that Obama's natural constituents, the unions, are BEGGING him to slow or stop implementation and let the status quo. What does Obamacare do to reduce the cost of healthcare, on a current benefit basis? Isn't the issue the rise in the cost of healthcare? What part of Obamacare addressed tort reform? Look at the poll numbers of US citizens against Obamacare. Are they all Republican, lol? If so, we wouldn't have Obama as POTUS, would we? And for the tens of millions who've chosen not to have insurance, but now have to buy or pay penalties-how is their cost trending downward? How do you go downward from zero?
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Re: The Torch House has arrived
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True, but it's still a plus to the neighborhood. m.a.e. was too good to be true, alas.
Posted on: 2013/9/9 3:06
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Re: JJ: 9/11 families find empty park at 'Empty Sky' ceremony when organizers quietly cancel it
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The private, non-governmental group that is responsible for the event dropped the ball. How can you try and throw crap at Christie when the organizers themselves canceled the event-Christie wasn't even invited to speak. Here is the post from the organizers on their Facebook page. Does it look like ANYONE from NJ Government was invited/involved? Feel free, Brick, to apologize to Governor Christie for trying to throw crap against a wall and hope it sticks. Empty Sky: New Jersey September 11Th Memorial August 19. Hello! We were planning an event on September 8th, 2013 to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks but we have had much difficulty in generating interest in the event from New Jersey family members. Can any of the followers of this page indicate whether they are interested in such an event? Thanks for responding.
Posted on: 2013/9/9 2:59
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Re: Star ledger editorial: Christie's Obamacare fiasco
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Whose fiasco? Why aren't individuals afforded the same delay that the more advantaged individuals who work for companies are getting re:implementation?
Wait till the 100,000 plus IBM retirees see what the effect of having their company insurance dropped in favor of a cash payout for them to buy their own will have. Isn't the fiasco the lie of 'you'll be able to keep exactly what you have, with the same doctors' that Obama promised? Is there a bigger lie ever told by a politician, that will affect more and cause more harm, in our country's history? And this is now a Christie problem? Please buy a clue, if you can't find one.
Posted on: 2013/9/9 0:32
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I don't care if Assad 'personally' issued the orders. Presidential deniability gives him an out. All that does is make Assad join Eric Holder in the Sargent Schultz 'I know nothing, nothing!' club.
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Re: Former Gov. McGreevey to head Jersey City jobs commission
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Re: Former Gov. McGreevey to head Jersey City jobs commission
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Prisoners who have been released have served their crime. McGreevey hasn't ever copped to his crimes. He used his sexual orientation to dodge the issue. It wasn't him being a 'gay American' it was him being corrupt.
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Want to make art? Tag your own home/property or buy some canvas. Otherwise, you're just an idiot who THINKS you have talent and/or a point of view, both of which you lack.
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The Short Hills mall is the third highest grossing mall in the USA-I'd say the Newport Center mall isn't in the top 10 in NJ. Someone mentioned Tiffany-they average $3,000/sq ft per year in their stores, second only to Apple. A decent mall will average $500 sq/ft, more or less. Overall, the SH mall brings in close to $1,100 sq/ft. And with that huge ratable, Millburn/Short Hills still has the highest township tax in the state!
Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne and the surrounding environs can't support the type of sales that high end luxury brands need to have a store in a mall like Newport.
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Pebble, Christie is for gay rights. He offered a referendum on gay marriage, even though he opposes it personally due to the religious beliefs he and many other NJ voters hold.
I hope you're ire was as strong at Gov Corzine and the Democratic held Legislature, who had the ability to write legislation about gay marriage when the Democrats held Trenton and were veto proof-and DIDN'T DO IT. Conveniently, our GED Democrat leader Sweeney now looks back with 20/20 political regret, how shocking-and politically self serving! (Stronger than the storm money came from the Feds, in case you didn't know or forgot-and was earmarked for NJ Shore PR-no houses needing repair were shorted because of this successful PR effort).
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I spoke to someone there today, and the soft opening is Saturday at 6.
Posted on: 2013/9/6 20:41
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Didn't the new McGreevey/Fulop hire work for the same firm that Christie was accused of steering the Stronger than the Storm media towards? I don't hear all the whiners mentioning that.
McGreevey's gayness was known to anyone halfway with a clue in NJ, going back to his days of cruising Garden State Parkway rest stops while mayor of Woodbridge and earlier. No biggie there. The issue was hiring his lover, a foreign national, to an incredibly sensitive and important position meant to safeguard the citizens of NJ. I'll never forgive him for that, and this bad judgment should preclude him for any public office.
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Booker was against it, and now is walking that back. Cory must've gotten a late night call from the President during his 3 AM mani pedi.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/co ... o-military-intervention-i
Posted on: 2013/9/6 15:36
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Re: Cory Booker: the inexorable rise of Newark's neoliberal egomaniac
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10 in 10 days, this time a 14 year old child.
Posted on: 2013/9/5 4:17
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Re: Cory Booker: the inexorable rise of Newark's neoliberal egomaniac
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Pebble, some feel that Booker's claim to fame is that he's the only Newark mayor in decades who hasn't been found guilty of a crime.
I say the bar should be set a bit higher than that. And I'm old enough to remember the 67 riots and have served on two Essex County juries in Newark on murder trials.
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http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/201 ... _days.html#incart_m-rpt-1
9 dead in 9 days. Where's Booker?
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Posted on: 2013/9/4 14:16
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Pebble is having a problem with the fact that a) nj loves their Republican governor, and b) Booker is an empty suit in the closet it would seem.
Posted on: 2013/9/4 3:27
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