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Dan, here's the state ELEC site, but I can't seem to get the search to work. Probably why the Hobokeners put the report on a 3rd party site for downloading. http://www.elec.state.nj.us/publicinformation/viewreports.htm The problem with the law is that it's toothless, Campos was able to endlessly make excuses for not filing his report, through both the general and runoff elections. Had there not been the final court ordered re-election his donors would never have been known before an election.
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One step toward electability in my book would be having a recycling can in his store. It really bugs me all the takeout restaurants selling bottled beverages that get dumped in the landfill.
Also, I was under the impression he had leased his store, not sold it, and the leasees weren't doing well enough to want to buy it.
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The reason it'll never happen is the small towns of Hudson are gold mines of corruption for town officials.
Hoboken has 9 council members, same as JC, for a town 1/6 the size. In Hobokens 4th ward race Chris Campos raised $130k mostly from out of town developers and politicos to run for a seat where the winner got 1070 votes. Why do you suppose anyone cared that much? CONTROLLING THE CONTRACT MONEY AND PERMITS!! Look at this donation report from Hobokens 4th ward race: http://www.divshare.com/download/2414766-849
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The commendable inclusion of more children into sports is the exact opposite of the results when the money goes to support bloated "pro" programs for a small roster of kids in the highest profile sports. It's phys-ed vs Varsity sports in a battle for resources, guess who wins? Example: Here's what the JCBOE calls a program for pre-HS sports. http://www.jcboe.org/projectateam/ The "season" for each sport appears to be 4-5 weeks long. How serious can that be? Despite the fact that both Ferris and Dickinson have pools, there appears to be no serious primary or middle school swimming programs. How much use do you suppose those expensive to build and maintain pools really get?
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There's nothing wrong with team sports, it's the "professionalization" that's twisted. The whole thing starts to look like a preteen beauty pageant. My rather large high school on LI had a grass field and bleachers, not a multimillion dollar stadium.
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Turf may not be ready by football season
Friday, July 18, 2008 By PAUL KOEPP JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Cochrane Stadium at Caven Point in Jersey City may not be ready for the start of the high school football season. A $1,293,000 contract to replace the field's synthetic turf was voided by the City Council yesterday pending resolution of a dispute over the bidding. Tell me how it can cost $1.3 MILLION to lay down fake grass on a high school field? Is this really possible or more insane contracts by the city?
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Yes, Healy's incompetent bloated government may be for sale to the highest bidder and expert only at making tax dollars vanish, but let's focus the election on social wedge issues that a Mayor really has very little power about.
Let the games begin....
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Actually, what happens is they don't send their kids to the public school "first". But when someone else they know who's braver or poorer pioneers the public schools and says "come on in, the water's fine" they flood in. This has happened in Park Slope, Manhattans upper west side, Hoboken's 2 charters and currently their public school Wallace, and Downtown's LCCS, and PS 16, now being followed by PS's 3 and 37.
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And these are the retail geniuses you want to open a new store? Ones who can't figure out how to run the only supermarket currently in the area profitably? One would hope that another, better, operator would take over in that location, unless some developer of ugly pink condos has his eye on it. As for traffic, I live next to Academic high school, it's not that bad. Dickinson is really bad because of it's size. The firehouse sounds like a real issue, but a little planning (yeah, I know, this is JC) should solve that.
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+1! I have rarely seen the sentiment put better. The one thing I don't understand in this issue is why anyone thinks the produce and such in a new S&S would be better than in the old one? A store that sells crap will sell it in a large store as well as a small one. All over Manhattan are small supermarkets like gristede's and D'agostino's that sell quality goods. There's no rule that says smaller markets like the current S&S or even Downtown's C-Town need to be crappy, apparently they just see no motivation to change.
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We can agree we have a different opinion on what "cleaned up and revitalized" means. A falling down neighborhood with slightly improved quality of life but low rents and values will still eventually fall down despite having cleaner streets, since no one will invest in it. But property owners, even homeowners, apparently simply aren't on your scope. Some renters view housing like old cars, run it into the ground then move on. The junkheap is then someone else's problem. Hey, at least we agreed in the school thread.
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Don't you think the area residents benefits more from clean modern schools? The grocery service is a zero sum game, jobs added at the S&S would take jobs from the mom & pops. I don't necessarily think protecting them was the best plan on it's own, but compared to new schools, for which empty lots are scarce in the heights, it seems a no brainer. There was talk of filling in the reservoir for school grounds, this is better than that too.
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crushthedemoniac wrote: An area can keep its demographics and still be cleaned up and revitalized. I dont see how gays and artists and yuppies are like the magical solution to fixing a diverse urban area. Yea people that own real estate are making out in the long run but those who rent are getting the short end of the stick in these gentrified areas. Gentrification can sit on a nail for all I care.
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I was recently told that if you break the trap seal to the sewer system, as replacing a toilet or a sink trap does, you automatically need a permit. All this does, of course, is make every homeowner, handyman and even licensed plumber a scofflaw, since this is routinely ignored.
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While Verizon does not require a landline, they do have a "special" price, just for you. If you really want broadband rather than the "slightly faster than dialup" of the cheap low end DSL, you will pay roughly the same as Comcast. Hey, it's not a monopoly, it's a DUOPOLY! They'll compete on anything but price.
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Sadly naive. This stuff doesn't appear from nowhere. Besides the baggy falling down prison garb, the Northface down jackets and Timberland boots stem from dealers trying to keep warm standing all night long on their corners. I do love the idea of prisoners being issued topsiders, khakis and a nice polo shirt as a program for social change. Dress for success: fake it till you make it!
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It also has the benefit of, depending on where you end up, walking up the commercial strips of Newark or Grove. It makes you feel part of a real live neighborhood, walking past the shops and restaurants rather than through a sterile mall. Plus you can pick up anything from produce to socks to petfood to $0.99 knickknacks. (fave recent dollar find: 3 bulb LED keychain flashlight!)
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I relish thinking about what the plates do to those silly low profile tires, not to mention their expensive rims! I once had a tire on my old 1970 Nova ripped open by one of those in Manhattan.
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The nomenclature assigned to people in the new is often very telling. Whether an 18 yo male is a boy, a teen, a student, a man, or a perp depends on the POV of the writer.
One of the things that made reading "Into the Wild" excruciating was the author constantly calling a 24 yo man a "boy", thus absolving him of adult responsibility for his actions.
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BE - EXTREMELY - CAREFUL - ABOUT - THIS The grand St area has bad flooding. Don't take the sellers or the agent's word about this, speak to neighbors if you can, and get a 1st class inspection. A flooding basement apartment will make you miserable. You simply can't be too suspicious about this issue, particularly if it seems "a real good deal". Is it newly renovated? New sheet rock? Bad sign. Other than that it's a pretty nice hood, the main downside of the area is it's proximity to the school and the skanky Pathmark plaza. But those can pluses too. Good luck
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The alternator went on my wife coming up St Pauls, so she manages to roll backwards onto Stillman and park facing the wrong way, and leaves a note on the dash saying she broke down. Naturally she gets a ticket for "incorrect parking" in the hrs before AAA tows us to Joe's.
Do you think I can get the ticket pitched by showing up with the towing record?
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So much for gas locks. Thankfully, by the late 90's Chrysler was so sure we'd have cheap gas forever that my 01 Caravan has no lock on the gas door for today's gas thieves to break.
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I know some will disagree, but I find even Hoboken's infill construction to be leaps and bounds better than JC's. I haven't noticed a real POS (like all over the Heights) go up there in a decade. JC is just a race to the bottom.
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Parsing what's a new classic and what's a fad ain't easy. Assuming the kitchen is large enough for an eat in, but not so large you can do without additional work space, an island is extremely practical, rather than just trendy like, say, those hideous recessed can lights that are virtually required now. Our "island" is a 5' x 2.5' x 2" slab of laminated oak strips on 3" diameter counter height brushed steel legs that I made. With oak swivel backed stools, it's where my family eats 6 days a week, and in the separate dining room on sabbath. And granite is simply the new standard, pushing out formica, but much more practical and indestructible. For that reason it's no longer the choice of those looking for a "statement" kitchen. As for sprinklers, though I've not been required to, I'm thinking of voluntarily installing them in the basement where the laundry, workshop and boiler are. I've had enough paranoid episodes of wondering whether I turned off the soldering iron or was the lint filter cleaned recently, and will I come home to a pile of smoke.
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The Holland traffic cams are nearly useless, a still doesn't tell you whether traffic is moving or not. At least show several lights in the frame, you can tell if it's backed up or not. The ramp from the TPK is ALWAYS backed up, no info there!
As for radio, it occasionally helps but is no guarantee. And places that are always slow aren't even reported, SNAFU. If I had a dime for every time I was stopped dead in traffic that was not reported on the radio....
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My Wife and I have been going to Center for Family Health, a clinic of Hoboken University Medical Center, for at least 9 years. It's not a ritzy practice, but it's clean, well run, and because it's part of a teaching hospital, even if your regular doctor is unavailable, you can ALWAYS get seen that day by a resident. If your problem is over the resident's head then an attending doctor is available.
We've found that for basic healthcare, and gatekeeping like prescriptions, referrals etc, they're pretty satifactory and conveniently local.
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Have you ever been to one of those south Florida "retirement condo" developments? It's not exactly a lake cottage in the Poconos. They are like 6 floor apartment buildings clustered around small lakes in the middle of giant lawns infested with fire ants. The lakes are there because it was a swamp to begin with and they needed to figure out what to do with the water. They do get stocked with largemouth and peacock bass, and we saw some gar in the attached canal. A neighbor of my folks told me he caught some bass upwards of 5lbs on nightcrawlers, but I'm still trying to figure out how to catch more than sunnies there. The fire ant thing I thought was old folks being overcautious, "don't sit on the grass", until I put my foot in a hill of them. HOLY CRAP!! That mistake stayed with me for MONTHS! Those things make me believe in God, an evil God.
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Thanks, that looks like it's worth a trip. We've been going to Round Valley State Park, about a 45 minute drive. Haven't gotten a bass there yet, but my son can't get enough of the sunnies. I've even tried out my minimal flyfishing skills on them. Supposedly a number of state record fish have come out of that lake. The license thing gets me crazy, there should be some kind of reciprocity. I frequently visit NY, PA, CT, FL and OR. I could spend hundreds on licenses! Usually I just play fishing coach to my son, although at my parents condo in FL I feel pretty safe since the pond is on private property.
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You sound like a great fishing citizen! I only brought it up because there are so many shorts being kept from the river, many people are either ignorant or uncaring. I'm glad to know about the NH park, my 9 y/o son's a fishing fiend too, and lacks the patience for Hudson baitsoaking. Do you know if they allow you to put in a canoe there?
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Back to the subject, what's up with the reservoir? The website has not been updated with any open days for this summer. Has the deal with the city been broken?
Ninasdogwalk: While I don't know much about North Bergen park, and love to eat my catch as much as anyone, I hope you will release what you catch at our reservoir, I don't think it's large enough for everyone to keep what they catch. There would very quickly be no fish left, and that would be sad for the kids who are thrilled to catch fish in their neighborhood.
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