brewster wrote:
Could that be clouds parting in JC? Unqualified hacks NOT being reappointed? Imagine a real professional board riding watch over the MUA! What might they discover? Could we actually get sewers that don't overflow into our basements with every rain?

I wonder what happened to Tom Wilen, the ex-Chief Operating Officer at Jim Beam Brands who ran for school board a few years back. I bet he'd be a great board chair, someone who knows how to read a fiscal report and spot the BS.

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jcdd wrote:
we should start sending the reviewing Court letters and declarations...

You're about two years too late.

The only remaining legal case is beyond desperate. They're trying to claim that FERC itself is unconstitutional. It has no chance of success.

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thor800 wrote:
I am about 10 blocks away on Grove Street and still worried about being affected by a potential blast, emissions with prevailing winds, PCB contamination, leaks, emissions, and god knows what else.

I can't even imagine having a kid in school or at a playground right next to this monstrosity.

Thor, what are the potential issues with PCBs and prevailing winds?

Wasn't almost everybody in Jersey City opposed to this, including the mayor? How is it moving forward then?

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OneJC wrote:
http://onejerseycity.org/?p=1363

Comments on the State of the City Address

Finally, the administration is working on long overdue and much needed initiatives.

....adopting a stricter ethical standards code with independent enforcement mechanisms; banning campaign contributions in city offices and on city property; Daniel Levin

Dan, what do you think about this issue of Healy not giving back the nearly $ 70,000 that came in via the Solomon Dwek bribe money?

Yvonne wrote:
At least Dan Levin attended the council meeting on the plan affecting Van Vorst Park area, but where was Candice? Not attending meetings after you announce for office tells a lot about commitment. I just see commitment just from Dan.

Vigilante wrote:
Waste of time and money.

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OneOBall wrote:
I find it laughable you would call out Dan for his decision to put himself on a ticket.

Dan joining a ticket isn't the problem. It's Healy's ticket.

Maybe Dan thinks he can dive into a cesspool and come up without any stink. Too late for that.

His self-serving comments about what Healy's done for the city mean that the Danny Boy we once knew is dead and gone.

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BrightMoment wrote:[...]

Ive been hearing people like yourself characterize those of us looking for use of renewable, sustainable energy counter to our dependency on fossil fuels, since 1970. Over 40 years of being called "crazy-leftist" for wanting clean, safe water and air. Now there is an international realization that climate change is real and principally caused by man and then by use of fossil fuels.

If that makes me a "crazy-leftist", for wanting a stop to fracking then count me and my brethren among that order.

I admire your ideals, but personally, I think globalizing the issue hurts the battle more than it helps, it makes you look (accurately in fact) like you're fighting the whole gas industry more than simply the land route through Hudson County. Without advocating an alternative route, you lose credibility, Spectra can argue that you're against anything they would do, so why pay attention to your specific route concerns. And while I agree that exporting the gas is a flawed idea on many levels, I don't think the gas that reaches Manhattan will be exported.

Was there a reason beyond added cost as to why they couldn't run it up through the bay & river? Was there an issue of a pipeline on top of the tunnels? I've never heard the specifics of this.

Dolomiti wrote:
FYI, Spectra says they will NOT be disrupting the operation of the Liberty Humane Society.

They're doing underground boring. They aren't laying pipe on top of the ground, or digging up the property.

There are also no eminent domain proceedings at this time.

More info:

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

stillinjc wrote:
Maybe they will sue. I don't know. It seems to me that No Gas Pipeline just hijacked the pipeline issue to promote their crazy-leftist anti-fracking campaign to get eyeballs and $$$. So I don't count on them much with regard to JC. I count even less on Healy. So there.

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Rorschach wrote:
nObama, Odumba, Democraps .. you right wing troglodytes are so clever. How sad that this country may soon be in the hands of Romney, Fox News and the Tea Party.

Well, it is Obama who is sticking this pipeline up your arse, isn't it?

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bjay wrote:
Is there a map of the election districts anywhere? District 28 now has to vote at MLK school on Tuers Ave., which itself is in District 8. It makes no sense.

Email received Sunday, April 15:

As per our conversation, Jersey City election district F-28 was inadvertently misplaced in the wrong polling location during the re-warding and redistricting process. The Hudson County Board of Elections has decided to move the polling location to its proper location at P.S. #9, 222 Mercer St. This is the location that the vast majority of the voters have voted at previously, and we feel this is the best way to ensure maximum voter participation.


Any voter that attempts to vote at P.S. #11, 111 Tuers Ave, which was printed incorrectly on their sample ballots will be directed to the correct polling location, or be given a provisional ballot which will be processed, counted and reported by this office.

Again, we are sorry about the confusion this has caused. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at any time.

Regards,

Brian Cardino
Hudson County Board of Elections
257 Cornelison Ave. 4th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-369-3435 x 2857 (Phone)
201-893-8978 (Cell)
201-369-3436 (Fax)

bjay wrote:
Is there a map of the election districts anywhere? District 28 now has to vote at MLK school on Tuers Ave., which itself is in District 8. It makes no sense.

JerseyF wrote:
My apologies if this has been discussed already, but I see a very simple solution for the problem that should be considered.


If Spectra wants to put a pipeline through undeveloped land in Jersey City, why don't we develop it first and block their move?

corybraiterman wrote:
You brought up all of those points, not me. Unless you set up your own strawman, then that term isn't applicable. As someone with years in writing and editing, perhaps I can offer you some outside learning? Reasonable rates, of course.

Again, I highly, HIGHLY doubt that constructing a park in a residential neighborhood (a mostly fully developed one, I might add) adds a drop in the bucket into destination tourism. Were this along exchange place, I might feel differently, but given all the current factors: nope.

corybraiterman wrote:

Bright, you're seriously going to tell me that someone's going to put up a hotel on Division and 6th next to Legal Beans and Healey's new bar because there's a new park nearby?

NO. "Destination tourism", which JC lacks, generates $$$'s city-wide. Hotels cater to market segments not currently being provided. Hotels that cater to this segment will be built where there is under utilized property which could be anywhere that PATH, Light Rail or Buses connect to downtown near the Embankment. JC will benefit in jobs and tax revenue generated just as with HIGH Line though not as much due to different economics at NYC/High Line.

Next time I'm teaching my marketing courses at Fordham you are welcome to sign up either enrolled or audit if permitted. Economic Impact Analysis and Market segmentation drives all marketing.

Are they going to rezone 6th street for business? You're bringing up Whole Foods and Trader Joe's... on this?

Again "straw man" arguments. Retailers of all size are brought principally by the result of Economic Impact Analysis driven by MSA data for each segmentation.

Example-I knew that B&N's use of MSA data and Economic Impact Analysis would never open a store in JC( having ran NYC and Boston for them in early '90 as Regional Director). The reason? simply because the "buying segment" of book customers is less than 4% in US for books. This is why apart from B&N's real estate locations they primarily acquired 1,000 locations from B. Dalton, the significant sales "profit" are not books as all bookstores in US selling new books have a rising floor on costs and a fixed ceiling on profitability. It's real estate is principle value.

So retailers will come due to the Economic Impact Analysis of the Embankment's contribution to the entire city, the county, the MSA region and finally the US as destination tourism

Those $$$s will help bring jobs and tax revenue we need and you can all thank the Embankment Preservation Coalitions work with different administrations from Schundler who wanted to tear it down to a city council and Mayor Healy came on board realizing what I'm saying here.

Yes there are some who lack the ability to see what visionaries like the founder of the EPC , their board and members throughout JC see. If you felt different why did you never organize folks who felt as you?



Dude. Really.

Really?

Wow.

WOW.

"Dude. Really."

Any more schooling and I'll have to bill you Cory.

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I am all for the Embankment, but we can't discount corybraiterman and stillinjc's concerns.

And we haven't! The discussion over funding, maintenance, upkeep, etc is something that advocates for preservation have been discussing for years. And it still is being discussed. Questions of feasibility, expense are constantly on the table for discussion.

Of all the groups I've seen advocating for open space and/or preservation, the EPC along with the Reservoir Alliance are probably the most thorough in addressing these issues. These groups actually raised funds, obtained earmarks and pledges, drew up plans, hired engineers, conducted studies, etc.

The problem is not that a minority on this board are raising "concerns." The problem is that they are making ill informed personal attacks on other people. When they do raise an issue of substance, it is something that, had they done their homework, they would have realized it had been largely addressed.

By all means, people should attend the meetings, council hearings and the like. I will simply note that at last night's council meeting, or for that matter any other council meetings where the subject was addressed, no one who thought this was a "waste of money" bothered to show.