5PM January 30, 2013

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Simpson Contracting did a major job down the street from us- basement excavation and replaced sewer line, added a new foundation with sump pump and drainage.

Simpson Contracting General Contractors
Ron & Peter Simpson
(201) 866-6668

If you had problems voting - which includes being denied a provisional ballot, file a complaint ASAP with the State of NJ in Trenton.

Send a fax with a description of the incident to:

Robert Giles
Director - Division of Elections
Fax # 609-777-1280

Include as much detail as possible including:
-e-mail address -
-phone number
-Residence address
-Description of the problem

Tomorrow will be too late. This will put pressure on the Hudson County Elections to have sufficient number of provisional ballots available at polling places.

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Brightmoment, hope you get well soon! If Bright can leave a hospital bed to vote, can't you take 10 minutes out of your day?

vote 2A - 4A - 5A. - Gangadin, Roman & Ranade.

Vote for Parents for Progress - endorsed by Steve Fulop, Dan Levin, & Rolando Lavarro!

This is an important election! Don't miss out!

Polling hours 7Am to 9PM.

Teen stabbed during carnival in Jersey City Heights park, police say
Published: Friday, April 13, 2012, 10:20 AM Updated: Friday, April 13, 2012, 10:21 AM

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

A Jersey City teenager was stabbed during a fight on the basketball courts in Pershing Field park during a carnival last night, police say.

A Jersey City teen was stabbed at the Pershing Field carnival last night after he was challenged to a fight and began getting the upper hand on his attacker, officials said.

Officers responding to Christ Hospital after the 10 p.m. stabbing met the 17-year-old Belmont Avenue boy who had a bloody bandage around his forearm, reports said, adding that his uncle was with him.

The boy said he was meeting his uncle and cousins at the fair when he heard that a group from Duncan Avenue might be on its way, reports said. He was on the basketball courts when he was approached by a male who said, "Do you have a problem with me?" reports said.

The victim said there was no problem but his attacker began punching him and the pair started to fight, reports said.

"When the actor was starting to lose, the actor pulled out a black folding pocket knife with a silver blade and slashed the victim on the left forearm," reports said.

The wounded 17-year-old found his uncle, who took him to the hospital, reports said, adding that the uncle had to leave so police stayed with the victim until his parents could arrange for child care and respond to the hospital.

Anyone with information on the stabbing is asked to call the Jersey City police tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ed_during_carnival_i.html

The BOE Candidate Forum is TONIGHT April 5, 7pm-9pm


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Reminder - the fundraiser is TONIGHT - advance purchase still available online:
http://stevenfulop.com/standup

Tickets: $50 advance, $60 door
Ticket includes show, light food, and open bar

Event Info
Sunday March 25th, 7 PM
Michael Anthony's Restaurant
502 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ


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It's a short walk from the Newport Light Rail station and PATH.
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Stand Up for Fulop
Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 7:00pm
Join us for an evening of stand up comedy in support of the 2013 Mayoral Campaign of Steven Fulop.

The Line Up
NATE BARGATZE
Conan, Comedy Central, and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival

He grew up watching his Father who is a world class magician and decided to follow his footsteps in the entertainment business. Since he made his television debut on CMT Comedy Stage in 2007, he has had two appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, performed on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and at the 2008 Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival in the `New Faces' category receiving critical acclaim in the Hollywood Reporter. In 2007, Nate wrote for the Video Game Awards. Nate recently returned from his second tour in Iraq performing for the troops in Baghdad. He continues to keep the momentum going working every night in New York City comedy clubs when he is not on the road. www.NateBargatze.com

VERONICA MOSEY
The Tonight Show and Comedy Central

is a high-energy comedian with a lot to say. She's a tri-state girl, having been born in CT, raised in NJ and living in NYC for the past 14 years. Her no-holds-barred style earned her the title of One of "Five Comics to Watch" by Rolling Stone Magazine and she is one of only a handful of women who appear regularly at the top clubs in New York. Veronica turns female-comedian haters into fans. She has been seen on Comedy Central, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Huckabee, The Dr. Phil Show, HBO, Last Comic Standing and TBS' Las Vegas Comedy Festival and Oprah. Internationally, Veronica has performed in Montreal, Canada as well as Stockholm, Sweden. She has been heard on Martha Stewart Radio and has been seen on Fox News Channel on The Strategy Room. Veronica has also been working behind the scenes on Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref. www.VeronicaMosey.com

RICH KIAMCO
The Howard Stern Show, Sirius XM, and WE-tv
Rich is a force of nature that rips across the stage leaving laughter, tears and applause in his wake. His comedy career began with a sewing machine while attending the Fashion Institute Of Technology. He began performing stand-up at campus events and then became the costume designer for comedian Judy Tenuta. He eventually began performing with Judy as her "love slave" backup dancer, appearing in venues across the country, in Las Vegas and on The Howard Stern Show and a he's never left the stage since. His one man show, Unaccessorized, received the Overall Excellence Award in Solo Performance at the NY International Fringe Festival and Best Solo Show at the Montreal GLBT International Theatre Festival. Rich has brought his tsunami of comedy to campuses and venues across the USA, Canada, China and the Philippines. He is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's OutQ: Focus Group, was featured on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and co-hosted the WeTV's 3 Men And A Chick Flick. www.RichKiamco.com

The Jersey Journal article also omitted the fact that Mukjerji pleaded guilty to a trespassing charge (according to the 2007 newspaper article) - related to the indictment for stalking two women. This has been mentioned by neverleft.

http://www.goleader.com/07jan11/07jan11.pdf

Thursday, January 11, 2007
Indictments Dropped Against FW Man; Fed. Case Remains
By PAUL J. PEYTON
Specially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
FANWOOD – A five-count indictment
by a Middlesex County grand
jury against a Fanwood lobbyist, developer,
businessman and Marine
Corps intelligence specialist was dismissed
Monday after the 22-year-old
pleaded guilty to a trespassing charge
following a plea agreement reached
with the Middlesex County
Prosecutor’s Office.
Raj Mukherji had initially been
indicted on two counts of stalking
and one count each of witness tampering,
burglary and contempt. Assistant
Prosecutor Manuel Sameiro
told The Scotch Plains-Fanwood
Times that the burglary charge was
reduced to trespassing and “all the
other charges were dismissed.”
“I think it is a fair resolution in light
of the victims’ desires. They approved
the plea,” Mr. Sameiro said.
The assistant prosecutor pointed
out that as part of the agreement, Mr.
Mukherji is banned from having any
contact with the two women he allegedly
stalked – a Rutgers University
student and a woman he had
attended high school with in Union
County.
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This issue is an ongoing problem...

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Today, Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop announced that he will have a resolution on the upcoming city council agenda requesting that the Jersey City Parking Authority reimburse all city residents that were illegally booted during the last four years. The formal request is a follow up to the successful first reading ordinance at the last City Council meeting that addresses many changes at the parking authority.

"Illegally booting residents on the first offense is not only an excessive hardship placed on individuals but it is back door tax on residents and their visitors. No other city in the country will confiscate an individual's car on the first offense as Jersey City is doing," said Fulop.

"Past Directors of the Parking Authority have acknowledged that they know confiscating a person's car after the first offense is not consistent with city laws. If city leadership can't follow its own laws how can we ask others to do the same? The right thing to do at this point is to return the money that was illegally taken," said Fulop.

At the last City Council Caucus it was explained that the city issues between 100-200 restrictive devices on cars per week. Both the second reading ordinance regarding the Parking Authority and resolution for reimbursement will be on the June 17th City Council .

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... tys_councilman_fulop.html

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There's also Ador L. Equipado -

August 23, 2009
In a post Friday, NJ Voices Thurman Hart delves into the statistic Journal staff writer Amy Sara Clark highlighted on Hudson County Now and in the paper last week: Three out of four deputy mayors Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy has appointed has wound up in handcuffs.

Indicted for extortion last week, Leona Beldini, is the just the latest example of a Jersey City deputy mayor getting into trouble.

Ador L. Equipado resigned in disgrace in 2007 after pleading guilty to charges that he demanded about $130 from couples for the then-free service of marrying them at City Hall while also trying to sell the newlyweds phone service plans.

Then last summer, Deputy Mayor Kabili Tayari was arrested for not paying his rental car bill and charged with theft by Essex County. .

The charge was later downgraded to a disorderly persons offense and on January 16 the charges were dismissed altogether at the request of the Essex County prosecutor.

The only deputy mayor Healy has appointed who hasn't been arrested is Rosemary McFadden. Unlike Beldini and Equipado who earned $66,000 a year, and Tayari who earns $104,000, McFadden, the former head of the New York Mercantile Exchange, works for $1 a year.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... thurman_hart_cites_j.html

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For cables and related items monoprice.com is awesome. Bestbuy sometimes has decent prices on computer cases and hard drives. I'd never buy a cable there.

If you're in a hurry Staples or Bestbuy. Willing to drive?
Microcenter in Patterson.

http://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/north_jersey.html

Your best bet, if you value your time, is order from Newegg, and often Amazon has better prices (and usually don't collect NY sales tax).

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Based on the Yelp reviews I can imagine where this company will be 2 years from now -- defunct.

Published: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 3:02 AM

By TERRENCE T. McDONALD
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

The no-shows were the talk of last night’s forum for candidates in next week’s Jersey City special election for at-large council seats.

The at-large incumbents Kalimah Ahmad and Ray Velazquez were both absent, as was Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson, who is trying to grab one of the two at-large chairs on the nine-member council.

“I find it disgraceful that the two supposedly leading candidates aren’t here tonight,” said candidate Richard Boggiano, a retired police officer, to applause from the crowd at Ferris High School.

After attending one of the first of several candidate forums held this campaign season, Ahmad and Velazquez have skipped the rest. Candidate Sue Mack, a Board of Education member, said she thinks the candidates’ repeated absences are telling.

“I believe that we can now say this is a strategy for the incumbents not to attend public meetings,” Mack said. “They believe it’s a done deal.”

The two-hour forum attracted about 80 members of the public.

The winners in Tuesday’s contest will replace former council members Mariano Vega, who resigned in September 2010 after pleading guilty to corruption charges, and Willie Flood, who stepped down in February 2011, citing health concerns. Twelve of the 17 candidates in the election attended last night’s event.

The candidates didn’t stray too far from their campaign playbooks last night. Gov. Chris Christie was the target of a number of attacks, as was Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

“The biggest area where the mayor is failing is attitude and direction,” said candidate Ihor Ed Ciolko, a retired city inspector. “We’re spending entirely too much time worrying about license plates on cars.”

Questions from the audience focused mostly on hyper-local issues, such as tax abatements, which candidates said they oppose with some exceptions.

The four candidates who were asked said they haven’t accepted campaign cash from Spectra Energy, the Houston energy giant hoping to build a natural gas pipeline through parts of Jersey City.

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... ers_of_jersey_city_c.html

More rain today:

By Adam Maher/The Jersey Journal
Tuesday, September 06, 2011, 7:32 AM

NJ-HudsonUrban flooding is expected, as well as stream and river flooding throughout all of Hudson County today.

A Flash flood watch will remain in effect through this afternoon for all of Hudson County.

Periods of rain with embedded pockets of heavy rainfall is expected today in association with a stalled front and tropical moisture weather system streaming throughout all of Hudson County.

This scam was portrayed in an episode of the Sopranos :

Chris and Little Carmine head out to Hollywood to pursue Chris' dream of making a movie about his life. They manage to get an interview with Ben Kingsley, but the star isn't impressed with their idea. While in town, Chris falls off the wagon and starts drinking and doing drugs again, and also mugs Lauren Bacall before returning to New Jersey. Back home, the families are celebrating as the books open again to induct two new members, Gerry Torciano and Burt Gervasi. Amidst the festivities, however, Artie gets into a confrontation with Benny, one of Chris' crew-members, first over his affections for Artie's new waitress Martina, then later when Artie discovers that Martina and Benny have been stealing credit card numbers from the restaurant's customers. When things turn violent between the two, Tony must step in and mediate, saving particular criticism for Chris for going to Hollywood rather than keeping his men under control.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705261/

A second, device was used to swipe the credit cards.

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I don't think that's entirely true. NJ is not an "open" state for voting in primaries.

"A registered voter currently affiliated with a political party who wishes to change their party affiliation must file a Political Party Affiliation Declaration Form 50 days before a Primary Election.

A registered voter currently not affiliated with a political party may declare their party affiliation up to and including Primary Election day."

http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/parties_doe.html

If you are listed as Undeclared, you need to change your party affiliation to Democratic when you go to vote in order to vote for Democrats for Jersey City Column D candidates.

BTW the voting hours are 6AM to 8PM on Tuesday June 7th - as listed on your sample ballot that should have arrived in the mail.

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Why would Angel Valentin endorse an "independent" candidate? Did he do so at the request of Frances O. Thompson, and as a way to brown nose the superintendent and the machine backed council majority? Angel Valentin votes consistently along party lines and from what I can tell brings absolutely nothing to the table.

From Jersey City Independent:

Jersey City Board of Education Extends Voting Hours for This Year’s School Board Election
By Chris Neidenberg • Mar 23rd, 2011 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

One year after a record-setting high turnout, the Jersey City Board of Education (BOE) has increased the time residents can vote in this year’s school board election by seven hours. The polls will be open this year from 7 am to 9 pm; last year they were open from 2 to 9 pm.

Board of Education (BOE) trustee Sterling Waterman, who pushed for the change, insists the added cost of the move is a small price to pay when compared to the goal of greatly expanding democratic participation.

Read the rest of the article at JCI.

Please note that the voting hours are 7AM to 9PM.

The flyer from "Efficient Effective Education" incorrectly states that the hours are 9AM to 9PM:



I've heard that thousands of these flyers have been distributed with the incorrect dates.

So again - the correct times are 7Am to 9PM!

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3 dead, 2 missing after massive Pa. gas blast
Elderly couple, baby killed in explosion, fire that consumes row of houses

UGI Corp. said Thursday morning that one of its natural-gas pipelines likely exploded.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41503700/ns/us_news-life/

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"purchase a key "? There was a two year waiting list the last time I checked.

Today on MSNBC - Fracking!

'Fracking' for energy in Northeast: boon or doom?
GOP election wins give momentum to backers; critics worry about water and EPA is studying impacts

HARRISBURG, Pa. — To supporters, it's a 21st century economic boom that will benefit millions across the Northeast. To critics, it could be this century's biggest national eco-disaster, tainting water supplies for tens of millions.

The it is "fracking" for natural gas buried between the rocks of the Marcellus Shale, a formation that extends from West Virginia and eastern Ohio through Pennsylvania and into southern New York.

Some geologists estimate it could yield enough natural gas to supply the entire East Coast for 50 years.

Fracking, shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, injects millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals into each well to break apart the shale and release trapped gas.

A drilling boom has been under way since 2008 in the formation, the biggest known deposit of natural gas in the nation.

Controversy over the technique has been building, with momentum shifting towards supporters after the midterm elections earlier this month.

The GOP takeover of the U.S. House will almost surely doom efforts in Congress to impose federal regulation over gas drilling. Congress exempted fracking from federal clean water regulations in 2005.
In Pennsylvania, Republican Gov.-elect Tom Corbett is seen as a lot friendlier toward the gas industry than outgoing Democrat Ed Rendell, who has clashed with companies over both taxes and tougher new clean-water regulations.

Corbett opposes any attempt to slap a gas-extraction tax on the industry. Pennsylvania is the largest gas-drilling state without such a tax, and Rendell tried and failed to persuade the Legislature to approve one.

Corbett has also said he will lift Rendell's executive order preventing the issuing of any more drilling leases in state forests.

The huge commercial potential was underscored earlier this week when oil giant Chevron struck a $4.3 billion deal to buy Atlas Energy, a major Marcellus Shale driller.

Combining a new process of horizontal drilling with fracking, drillers are unlocking vast deposits there and in other formations around the U.S. such as the Barnett Shale in Texas — a boom that could ensure cheap and plentiful natural gas for many years to come for homeowners, factories and power plants.

The drilling frenzy in the Marcellus Shale is also credited with enriching landowners and pumping new life into trucking companies, short-line railroads, quarries and steel-pipe makers, as well as the restaurants and hotels hosting out-of-state drilling crews.

An industry-financed study by Penn State projected that the boom would generate tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in state and local taxes in the coming years.

A 2009 report prepared for the Energy Department said sand and chemicals typically account for less than 2 percent of fracturing fluids, with water making up 98 to 99.5 percent.

However, the use of fracking is raising pollution concerns across the Northeast.

While the industry maintains that fracking has been proved safe over the decades, homeowners are coming forward with tales of wells producing brown, foul-smelling water or water polluted with methane and chemicals.

In the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock, a hotspot of Marcellus Shale exploration, some residents no longer use their polluted well water and can light their taps on fire because of methane they say seeped into their wells because of drilling.

The Rendell administration intends to bill Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. the $12 million cost of installing a water line to serve 14 families in Dimock. Cabot denies the methane is connected to its drilling.

The gas drilling business got what it wanted in the election of Corbett, who received nearly $1 million in donations from the industry. Among his first actions this week was to name Christine Toretti, a national GOP committeewoman and owner of a Pennsylvania drilling company, as co-chair of his transition team.

Without giving specifics, Corbett on Wednesday promised a "reasonable" regulatory stand that protects the environment. He will be able to appoint a new head of the Department of Environmental Protection, which under Rendell has tried to aggressively deal with the problems brought by the gas rush.

"I look at this as an industry that's going to be here long after all of us in the room are gone," Corbett said. "It is going to be a great industry and we need to develop it properly. We need to develop it protecting the environment and growing jobs in Pennsylvania."

In the U.S. Congress, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., sponsor of a measure that would subject fracking to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency, predicts a bleaker landscape now for his bill.

"If anything, there are more votes against it," he said Tuesday.

Whether events ultimately unfold to the industry's liking remains to be seen.

The election doesn't affect a web of federal, state and even municipal regulatory bodies that could stand in the way of drilling, industry analysts said.

The Pittsburgh City Council, for example, this week voted 8-0 to ban natural gas drilling within the city limits.

And the EPA could try to regulate fracking without congressional approval.

The federal agency is already studying whether the chemicals from fracking can get into drinking water supplies and asked drillers to provide lists of the chemicals they used. Eight of nine complied, the EPA said this week, the exception being oil services giant Halliburton.

The company also has faced renewed criticism over the provision in the 2005 energy law that prevents the EPA from regulating fracking. The exemption is commonly called the "Halliburton loophole," in reference to the company's pioneering role in fracking.

An energy task force convened by then Vice President Dick Cheney, a former Halliburton CEO, had urged the EPA exemption.

Initial results from the EPA study are expected in 2012.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40135664/ns/us_news-environment/

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By Julianne Pepitone, staff reporterNovember 11, 2010: 10:10 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Hulu now reaches 30 million views a month, and Zynga's games draw a bigger daily audience than the New York Times. At a pair of rival conferences in New York and San Francisco this week, tech and media executives gathered to hash out the implications of those new realities. Hulu's growth rocket: Tech blog GigaOm kicked off its New TeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. In his keynote speech, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar spilled new stats on the video streaming service. Hulu is expecting $240 million in revenue for 2010 -- a huge jump from the $108 million it took in last year and the $25 million it generated in 2008.

Much of that revenue comes from advertising. Kilar cited a Nielsen study showing that ads on Hulu are 55% more effective than those on traditional platforms like cable and broadcast. Hulu's success has spawned rumors that the company may be looking to go public, but Kilar would not comment on the prospect of an IPO.

Zynga rules social gaming: Game developer Zynga wasn't at the Digital Hollywood conference in New York, but the company still overtook a panel discussion about the social gaming arena. "Zynga has gotten so big that it's basically a media company that happens to have games," said Alex Rampell, chief executive of online payment platform TrialPay.
0:00 /2:41Zynga CEO names top 3 tech companies
Zynga, whose games include FarmVille, FishVille and Mafia Wars, grew huge thanks in part to infamously spammy tactics. The company once piled users' Facebook pages with a constant barrage of game notifications, which helped it lure in more players.

Facebook has since curtailed such methods, but Zynga's head start made it difficult for other developers to catch up.
"It's not about the game itself -- you can buy a Farmville clone for $2,000 from China," said Mike Lu, director of product at game maker RockYou. "But Zynga has so many users that they have a huge platform to advertise to specifically."

The panelists agreed that 99 cents seems to be the sweet spot for mobile games, although there may be some room for a higher price point on tablet apps.

Old media, meet new tech: A separate panel on focused on the best ways to bring magazine and newspaper content to devices like smartphones and tablets. Zynga came up yet again.

"Zynga touches more people every day than the New York Times," said Kenny Miller, founder of creative consultant firm theKMco. "Not to make a judgment, but it's just a fact. So what do we do with those kinds of facts?"

Advertisers are still figuring out the answer to that question, said Audrey Siegel, co-founder of communications company TargetCast: "Individual magazine publishers can tell us people spent X minutes reading an issue on their tablet, but that doesn't tell us much." "We need time to absorb all this data as these devices become more of a habit," she added. "As an advertiser, I can't buy ads based on data I can't measure and replicate myself."

The panelists mostly reacted angrily when an audience member questioned the ability of traditional media to make a smooth, profitable transition to an ever-changing digital world.
"TV didn't replace radio, and digital's not going to replace media that came before," Siegel said. "But things will change."

Lincoln Millstein, an exec at the digital section of Hearst Magazines, went even further: "The tablet is the best thing to come along for advertising since the television."

-- CNNMoney executive video producer Caleb Silver contributed to this report.


http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/10/techn ... gital_hollywood/index.htm

Our FIOS was down early this morning but was restored before 10AM, not sure of exact time.

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Just the sort of arrogant statement that I would expect from some of the current BOE members. By any reasonable standard Dr. Epps is under-performing. He's obviously an intelligent and capable person, but I'd grade him a "C+" at best. Conducting a nationwide search is the right thing to do.

And milkbone, don't be so sure about your assumption. An excerpt from Jersey City Independent today:

...A spokesman for state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler said yesterday that the state Department of Education “is reviewing the contract extension to see that proper procedures were followed.”

Spokesman Alan Guenther also said that the extension would go to the state’s Hudson County executive superintendent, Timothy Brennan, who is empowered to review and revise any and all school administrator contracts in the county.

“And when he finishes his work, the commissioner will look at it,” Guenther added.

Guenther would not detail what, if any, concerns the state may have. But the commissioner’s office is already in the midst of deciding whether to renew the contract for Newark’s superintendent, Clifford Janey, and the Jersey City board’s controversial vote hits even closer to home for Schundler, the city’s former mayor.

The BOE extended Epps’ four-year contract an additional two years by a vote of 6-2, with one abstention. Epps’ contract was not up for another year, but a provision allowed him a full year’s notice if he was not going to be renewed, and the board moved to give him a vote of confidence with the extension.

But one of the two dissenting members of the board, Sterling Waterman, plans to contest the vote with a state ethics complaint, saying the public was not given required notice. And some parent and community leaders have questioned whether such a big decision should have been made without at least considering other candidates.

It will be a two lane road - not four lane as was in the original proposal. Sam Pesin - Friends of Liberty State Park approved of the project. Since there's the light rail in the way with traffic lights and limited to two lanes it won't be a high traffic roadway according to traffic studies. There will be a pedestrian/bike lane next to the road and the project looks pretty nice. I'm personally against it, but it could have been much worse.

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"Hysteria aimed at dog-owners"? What are you talking about? Please explain.