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Re: Friends' Rally Supporting the Liberty State Park Protection Act

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I was there, big turnout. Somehow the Democrat Gov and Legislature escaped criticism over their non action on this.

Posted on: 1/15 14:49

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Re: 5 N.J. officials & candidates charged in sweeping public corruption investigation

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Can’t wait to see Fulop respond to this.

Posted on: 12/19 19:15

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Re: JC joins Newark in suing de Blasio’s homeless relocation plan

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Comrade Wilhelm won’t let NYC employees travel to North Carolina over its bathroom gender rules, but he doesn’t mind shipping his homeless problems there!

Posted on: 12/18 20:07

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Re: McNair Academic Ranked #1 in NJ!

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Back to reality, of NJ’s 422 high schools, Snyder ranks 322, Dickinson 285, Ferris 345, and Lincoln 339.

Posted on: 2019/7/2 17:39

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Re: McNair Academic Ranked #1 in NJ!

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Magnet schools should be ranked with other magnet schools, not to those who accept all. What are the rankings for JC’s regular schools?

Posted on: 2019/7/1 14:32

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Re: Possible relief on the way?

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JPhurst wrote:
Based on prior constitutional mandates and court decisions, the BOE is correct.

And it was state law that a) imposed a property tax cap and b) required all PILOT payments to be made to municipalities. So don't blame the district for underfunding.

Towns can ask for cap rises over 2%, and no city (including JC) was forced to give PILOTS at all, especially in non distressed areas like the JC waterfront.

Posted on: 2019/5/1 19:41

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Re: Possible relief on the way?

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JC schools have been playing with house money for decades, and given that it is Jersey City we can only imagine the graft and waste. Now that JC taxpayers will have more skin in the game, will they demand reform and transparency?

Posted on: 2019/5/1 19:11

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Re: Murphy pulls Mississippi flag from LSP

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tern wrote:
> Choppers totally embarrassed us

A new nickname from Monroe! Iv'e missed his updates on"whiney" "weasley", etc.

What is your pejorative nickname for AOC? I know you will have a good one!

Robin.

It’d have to be ‘the idiot barmaid’ if I thought about it.

Posted on: 2019/4/29 21:39

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Re: Murphy pulls Mississippi flag from LSP

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Choppers totally embarrassed us with his congestion pricing comments, which Cuomo and the MTA denied. And I was ready to give him props for that!

Posted on: 2019/4/29 17:52

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Murphy pulls Mississippi flag from LSP

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https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/ ... Statue-of-Liberty-grounds

Posted on: 2019/4/28 17:00

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Re: 4/25/2016 4:40pm anyone know where the fire is?

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Just south of Port Liberte.

Posted on: 2019/4/25 20:48

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Fulop wants to charge NY’ers their own congestation pricing

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Good job Steve! https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7ny.co ... ngestion-pricing/5230648/

Posted on: 2019/4/2 20:34

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Re: ‘Massive’ $120M budget shortfall is subject of special Jersey City BOE meeting

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Meanwhile, nearby Maplewood is getting almost an overall 7%
tax increase. https://villagegreennj.com/towns/gover ... QLbQCoKU3U4En2YAlaVNfvpo8

Posted on: 2019/4/1 14:47

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Re: ‘Massive’ $120M budget shortfall is subject of special Jersey City BOE meeting

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Yvonne, the result is a 2% increase in JC taxes. Considering how low JC taxes are compared to the NJ average your takeaway should be ‘how lucky JC taxpayers have been for decades’.

Posted on: 2019/3/30 16:58

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Re: ‘Massive’ $120M budget shortfall is subject of special Jersey City BOE meeting

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To be clear, the 100-200% tax increase refers to the portion of taxes that support schools, not your overall real estate tax, no? It’s so large, since JC homeowners currently pay such a tiny amount to fund JC schoolchildren.

Posted on: 2019/3/30 11:35

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Re: Springsteen’s son could land firefighter gig in Jersey City

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Springsteen gets job, E Street Band to play downtown July 4th, no connection there folks! :)

Posted on: 2019/3/27 13:15

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Re: The new $480M Wittpenn Bridge construction is a year behind. Why? It’s complicated.

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This is a perfect explanation for why Christie vetoed the tunnel to Macy’s basement-NJ would’ve been solely responsible for all cost overruns.

Posted on: 2019/3/3 14:50

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Re: New Amazon HQ

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Tax revenue 27 billion, tax break generated from that 3 billion. AOC is as stupid about math as she is on everything else.

Posted on: 2019/2/21 14:42

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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict

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We can agree on your last thought. At least the reval woke up some JC residents to wasteful school spending.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 23:49

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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict

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My point here is that as long as JC has been severely overfunded and undertaxed JC residents didn’t care about school funding, and BOE inefficient and wasteful spending. Now that’s changing we’ll see JC taxpayers sing a different tune.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 22:58

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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict

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Bullshit? Dad pays $32,000 per year in property taxes despite not having a child in school since 1978. And school cost in his town is less than $18,000/year.

JC residents pay 17% of the $23,000 cost. Pretty good deal. Fulop has been squealing about JC paying its fair share, to the point of getting the payroll tax rather than take care of its own children.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 22:32

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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict

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Plenty of people pay property taxes enough to cover education costs in the suburbs. As JC pays only 17% of educating its own children (and illegal kids) the impact is tiny. As JC will begin paying its fair share expect the tone to change.

Posted on: 2019/2/20 18:34

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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict

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Add in ESL, lunch, IEP’s, and I’m sure the average illegal kids costs well over $25,000/per student per year. Let’s say two kids-are their parents paying $50,000 a year in taxes?

Hell no.

Posted on: 2019/2/19 22:43

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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict

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The story guesses almost 12% of K-12 students are here illegally. If that’s the avg, then JC must be higher. Yet Fulop with his sanctuary city crap encourages illegals to come here. Imagine how much it costs the BOE and NJ taxpayers who carry JC’s load?

https://informedconservative.blog/2019 ... QI9NX6uCdKEm2DU#more-1226

Posted on: 2019/2/19 22:22

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Re: New Amazon HQ

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brewster wrote:
Even with the "welfare" 25K highly paid jobs pouring money into the local economy was nothing to sneeze at. The nation is becoming a "bitchocracy", rule by the loudest and most offended.
Same thing going on with the VA Governor, most people don't give a crap about something tasteless a guy did 35 years ago, but the loudest and most "virtue demanding" are hounding him out of office.

Somehow our Spartacus has ignored the NJ gal in the Alvarez mess, (after attacking Judge Kavanaugh), but has gone after the VA folks. Go figure.

Posted on: 2019/2/14 18:29

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Re: New Amazon HQ

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hero69 wrote:
amazon has decided not build HQ2 in Long Island City. Can't say that I'm too sad given all the financial incentives ("corporate welfare") amzn was due to receive. maybe they can expand their newark operations as well as dc and nashville.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/amazon-hq2-queens.html

NY politicians and 'activists' trying to blackmail them into using union labor sure didn't help.

Posted on: 2019/2/14 17:14

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Re: The SUV Phenomenon

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Quote:

Sutherland wrote:
Dude, pack up your SUV and your wife's van and move to Maplewood or better yet Whitehouse Station!!

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bodhipooh wrote:
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Dude, you are making a fool out of yourself: those two specific examples (Mazda CX5 and Acura RDX) are VERY short by SUV standards. In fact, they are both shorter than the average mid size sedan, certainly shorter than a Ford Fusion.

I am not trying to argue or defend the ownership of SUVs (people can own whatever they choose!) but your stance just comes across as petty and misguided when your justifications are based on misconceptions.

You can keep spouting your crank, but it is nothing more than shaking your fist at the sky: you will accomplish nothing because your argument and logic are not based on facts, just feelings and misconceptions.

Maplewood? No overnight street parking in Maplewood.

Posted on: 2019/2/11 17:54

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Monroe

Re: The SUV Phenomenon

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Ralph_Abutts wrote:
Sorry, but if parking spaces are in short supply, as you suggest, a $15 a year residential permit does not help. Make the permit $1,500/year and surely demand will not exceed supply.

Punish local car owners while developers are getting zoning variances allowing them to provide less onsite parking, forcing more people to park on the street? That's ass backwards.

Posted on: 2019/2/11 14:15

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Monroe

Re: The SUV Phenomenon

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JC gives out zoning variances allowing builders to short parking in their new structures, then JC residents complain about lack of street parking.

A solution is available, don't give out those types of variances.

Posted on: 2019/2/10 17:22

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Monroe

Re: The SUV Phenomenon

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Ralph_Abutts wrote:
1) Is public parking a problem?

Jersey City - Yes

Red Bank - No (per Monroe)

2) Annual cost of a resident parking permit

Jersey City - $15

Red Bank - $1,000

Wrong. The $1,000 is for non residents to park in municipal lots. Residents get a car sticker, for free, allowing them to park on their own residential block. The non resident fees are directed to out of towners who commute via NJ Transit trains and need to park their cars somewhere.

https://www.redbanknj.org/189/Parking-Permits

Posted on: 2019/2/9 14:08

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