Re: Over/under on mayor's race
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Well yeah, since he ended up with 20,981, I think he still has 14k+ votes. Matsikoudis is running a Washington Generals campaign - seems like Fulop (even with fatigue/disappointment) should be 2:1 at least. Some people will vote for Matsikoudis as a protest, but he doesn't seem to have any meaningful, passionate constituency. The real limiter on Fulop's ability to run up impressive numbers won't be Matsikoudis as much as it will be turnout, I'd think.
Posted on: 2017/10/28 21:03
|
|||
|
Re: Matsikoudis want to expand rent control?
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
That's brilliant! Bus is such an overlooked, underutilized and insanely cheap (relative to rail) and versatile option. Also much more easily adaptable to changing needs in the future.
Posted on: 2017/10/14 1:41
|
|||
|
Re: Top Fulop allies on tape trying to steer city bid, court depositions say
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
So here's the funny part, Ms. Congeniality - I never said one way or the other how I feel about the topic. You also don't know whether I've signed the petition or not. I'll go back to what I said earlier:
"Knowing how to motivate people instead of preaching to them from a position of assumed moral superiority is the key." Name calling doesn't help, either.
Posted on: 2017/10/12 18:43
|
|||
|
Re: Top Fulop allies on tape trying to steer city bid, court depositions say
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
And if you knew anything about how statistics are used, you never would have said that. Sample size applies to polling. You aren't taking a poll - you are collecting signatures. Is your poll that you asked 270,000 people if they would sign your self-serving petition and only 300 did? I like your approach to building consensus though - very inclusive: Sign our petition or eff you! That might have at least something to do with why 269,700 people haven't signed...
Posted on: 2017/10/12 18:28
|
|||
|
Re: Top Fulop allies on tape trying to steer city bid, court depositions say
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Breathe. Exhale. Go to your happy place. My only point was saying "300 signatures" isn't really saying much. As is often the case with Civic JC and the like - there's a lot of noise but not much effective action. Knowing how to motivate people instead of preaching to them from a position of assumed moral superiority is the key. How to motivate people around here is the million dollar question, though.... Apathy rules here.
Posted on: 2017/10/12 17:10
|
|||
|
Re: This N.J. city wants you to 'adopt' a catch basin and keep it clean
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Maybe we could each adopt an MUA employee and if we feed them, treat them kindly and give them fabulous gifts they could keep the storm basins clean. Just a thought.
Posted on: 2017/10/12 16:33
|
|||
|
Re: Top Fulop allies on tape trying to steer city bid, court depositions say
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
300 people in a city with a population approaching 300,000 isn't saying a whole lot. Hell, you could probably even find 300 people who think it would be a good idea if Donald Trump was President...
Posted on: 2017/10/12 16:30
|
|||
|
Re: New York Times: Is New York’s Best Pizza in New Jersey?
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
You'd probably be more comfortable there than you'd think: Maplewood seeks to replace top cop over controversial arrests "Authorities recently released video and audio clips of the incident, which appears to show officers kicking and punching one of the four arrested." "Citizens also said the officers wrongfully used pepper spray to subdue the crowd."
Posted on: 2017/10/11 14:47
|
|||
|
Re: Hurricane Irma possible: Next Tuesday thru Thursday
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
My parents are in Venice and we finally convinced them to leave last night. Modest deviations in course (much less than what has happened with the westward shift over the past 24-36 hours) could put the west coast at huge risk and even if Irma stays to the east there are likely to be widespread power outages - and who wants to deal with that?
Posted on: 2017/9/8 16:58
|
|||
|
Re: U.S. Sen. Menendez - new federal investigation
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Huh?
Posted on: 2017/9/7 17:15
|
|||
|
Re: Rich Boggiano JSQ/Ward C City Council
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Like his brother?
Posted on: 2017/8/30 17:26
|
|||
|
Re: Illegal parking on Newark, the message is anything goes in JC!!
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Once you fall on your head on concrete, all bets are off. Yes, Mikey - people ride much faster than the pace of a walk. I honest to god had someone ride by me on a small motorcycle a few weeks ago. On a sidewalk. And not one of the motorized bicycles that you see everywhere now (I see those on the sidewalk on Grand, frequently). Here are three bike/pedestrian fatalities that happened on sidewalks and another very serious accident:
http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/B ... -collision-378529325.html https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/ ... k_crash_with_cyclist.html https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/t ... pedestrian/article593648/ http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2622804.html
Posted on: 2017/7/11 19:13
|
|||
|
Re: Illegal parking on Newark, the message is anything goes in JC!!
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
If you throw in a plan to lock up adults riding bikes on sidewalks, I'd vote for you for mayor.
Quote:
Posted on: 2017/7/9 1:50
|
|||
|
Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
You've seen a TV show? AND you've been to the JC Loew's? Christ, you should have just said so - I would have appreciated the level of your expertise and never doubted you.
Posted on: 2017/7/2 17:07
|
|||
|
Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Yeah - because I'm sure because they are both called "Loews" they have the exact same problem and need the exact same amount and type of work. Brilliant.
Posted on: 2017/6/29 17:44
|
|||
|
Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
I'm talking about the Jersey City Loews - there have been studies that by the city and an independent firm that put the range between $20 million and $30 million to fully renovate the JC Loews. The cost of the Brooklyn renovation is irrelevant.
Posted on: 2017/6/29 14:40
|
|||
|
Re: For anyone interested in obtaining a Concealed Carry Permit
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Same. (LA, Houston, NYC and JC for me.) We should make mental health services available to people who are so fearful they need to have a gun strapped them to make it through their day.
Posted on: 2017/6/29 14:39
|
|||
|
Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
I don't know why you keep wildly speculating on the cost of renovation (you've said "$75 million" and "almost $100 million") when there have been actual studies, made public, by people who actually know what they are talking about, that range between $20 million and $30 million.
Posted on: 2017/6/29 14:06
|
|||
|
Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
The city should pay to restore the Loew's and/or utilize legitimate and equitable public/private partnerships. But the first dollar should not go into that place until the day after the lease is up and the FOL are no longer the beneficiaries.
Posted on: 2017/6/28 23:11
|
|||
|
Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
As opposed to low-price schlock that virtually no one attends? I'll take the restoration. And you are being overly simplistic assigning an one-price-fits-all to things - some shows would be expensive, others (particularly community run events) would be much less so. You claim to be a free markets guy - what could be better than that?
The city never really understood what it was doing nor what it was up against. As a result, we'll be stuck in this nowhere for years to come - not enough money to properly restore and renovate (so no ability to book big acts and earn your way out of the hole) and people running the thing who believe it's their own little playhouse, either clueless or indifferent to what the broader public (i.e. taxpayers, who are subsidizing their clubhouse) want. Sigh. Jersey City. It could be something. But it isn't. Quote:
Posted on: 2017/6/27 21:17
|
|||
|
Re: Grove Street Path - Evacuated by Police with Guns Drawn
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
+1 Strange how people equate guns with strength. They are really emblems of fear. People who are so scared of the world they can't walk through it without something that can kill off anything they perceive as a threat. That is the ultimate snowflake.
Posted on: 2017/6/12 14:47
|
|||
|
Re: another fulop protected slum burns down
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
He's also a disgruntled police or fireman who either thought he was going to get something from the new regime and didn't or was a Healy guy and paid the price for it.
Posted on: 2017/4/25 17:12
|
|||
|
Re: another fulop protected slum burns down
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Way to ruin a delusional conspiracy rant with facts. Thanks!
Posted on: 2017/4/25 15:35
|
|||
|
Re: St. Anthony's High School is Closing
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Have you been to a madrass, Mary Pat? Or are you just repeating the monosyllabic grunts you hear 14 hours a day on FOX?
Posted on: 2017/4/7 17:09
|
|||
|
Re: Tab for public workers' unused sick days tops $2 billion
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Nope. He raised the issue. When someone says they intend to do something, I pay attention as to whether or not they do it. Sad for you that you are stuck in the "yay Republicans!" school of political "thought". I'm more interested in solutions than rooting for a team.
Posted on: 2017/4/3 18:37
|
|||
|
Re: Tab for public workers' unused sick days tops $2 billion
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
I thought Christie was going to put an end to this.
Posted on: 2017/4/3 17:19
|
|||
|
Re: Fulop: Trump’s proposed budget would cost Jersey City $9.6M in HUD funding
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Jesus Christ, Mary Pat - do you even have the ability to critique information as you take it in or is it just a straight mainlining of Hannity, Rush and the Dooce? No. There isn't only one hotel in Tahiti. $2,000 a night? No. There are many, many for far less - the InterContinental is showing up on Trip Advisor, for instance, for $270 per night. This is the same asinine shit that led to a bunch of bobble heads running around saying Obama's trip to India cost $2 billion. That was absurd on its face - if you stopped and thought about math - m-a-t-h - for like three seconds, you'd realize that unless they were sleeping with blankets that were stuffed with ten million dollar bills, it would be impossible to spend $2 billion. But thinking isn't much at a premium these days...
Posted on: 2017/3/21 17:14
|
|||
|
Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
And you think this is a new desire? I'm sure you could have said the same thing in 2001... Point is, the old policy was working. No one was killed in the US in 2016 as a result of terrorism committed by immigrants (or refugees). Thanks again for your information.
Posted on: 2017/2/7 20:41
|
|||
|
Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Home away from home
|
Quote:
Interesting link you provided - looking through it, I find that nobody was killed in the US during 2016 by an immigrant in a terrorist-related incident. I guess the old policies were working just fine. Thanks, Yvonne!
Posted on: 2017/2/7 18:04
|
|||
|