Re: Jersey City school board votes to allow members with conflicts of interest to vote on teachers union
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Ah, I misremembered, it's actually >93% of, as I said, equivalent districts. But since when is more than even 88% "NOT among the highest paid in the state."??? Per Pupil Ranking Within Group (2017-18 budget): 91|98 https://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/education/csg/18/csg.pl Quote:
This actually bears a striking resemblance to how insured Americans have been indifferent to skyrocketing healthcare costs. I still don't fathom how the state returned control when we're so obviously spending out of control, and how they didn't rein it in over the >25 years they had control.
Posted on: 2019/3/11 16:46
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Re: I got sanitation violations for garbage that someone illegally dumped
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Did it take you 2 appearances each time, one for the arraignment and one for hearing? What was that "Minimum fine"? I recently went to court on this for 2 (they rescheduled twice), but when I saw the way it was going, I just paid it, $400. This stuff is simply nasty, there's just nothing you can do, especially if you don't live there. It's hard enough to control your own tenants, never mind what gets dropped on your property. Often you don't even know about it till you get the summons in the mail weeks later.
Posted on: 2019/3/11 16:35
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Re: Notice of violation & Order to correct - JCFD
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Me too and I've been here over 20. This is gonna get nasty, no doubt. My experience with FDJC fire inspectors, as I've said upthread, is that they're extremely poorly trained.
Posted on: 2019/3/11 1:32
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Re: Jersey City school board votes to allow members with conflicts of interest to vote on teachers union
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Posted on: 2019/3/10 19:54
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Re: Notice of violation & Order to correct - JCFD
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Sounds like someone in the dept is trying to generate easy money for their electrician buddies. I wonder if they'll start in with the 3+ unit places even though we get inspected for all that by the state?
Posted on: 2019/3/10 19:51
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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Wegmans!!! Cabela's!!! (Or at least a Dicks or REI) Selling commodities is a loser, you need to sell stuff people want to lay their hands on up close.
Posted on: 2019/3/8 21:20
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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Thing is, 'big box' structures like the Pep Boys, & BJs are designed to be disposable, I remember reading that Walmart calculates 10 years for it's stores, anything after is gravy. A mall? Not so much, it's go a lot more going into it, both structure wise and the investment the individual retailers and even the theater have made. If a far more obvious knockdown like Target is going nowhere, don't hold your breath for the mall. Look at that chunk of land, including the moribund Newport Plaza shopping center it's about 3/4 the size of the mall + the Marin parking deck.
Posted on: 2019/3/8 18:12
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Re: Bayonne Costco opening March 7th...
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Yes, among the many ways Costco is a superior company is the fact that they generally don't lay out their parking lots so that all the entering and exiting vehicle traffic needs to cross all of the foot traffic entering the store. BJs & Shoprite is exhibit A, but that practice is ubiquitous.
Posted on: 2019/3/8 2:11
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Who do we vote for to get rid of these ridiculous county by county liquor laws? I have a hard time believing the booze bodegas are paying enough to legislators to keep the status quo, so who's benefiting?
Posted on: 2019/3/7 23:38
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Re: Bayonne Costco opening March 7th...
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Teterboro is a madhouse 7 days a week. There's never anything but a full parking lot there. I respect their planners for not wanting to cannibalize customers from one store to open another, but it's a bit ridiculous that it took this long to open one in Hudson County. It's in the ass end of nowhere IMO, but I guess we'll see.
Posted on: 2019/3/7 22:46
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I wouldn't hold your breath! I bet the operator has like a 50 year lease. I guess people go there, though I can easily go a year without setting foot in it. Especially since the Cajun place in the food court went.
Posted on: 2019/3/6 22:07
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Kmart + NDW is a whole lot of space available. They should move the Target there, where it is Downtown is a remarkably poor use of extremely valuable real estate. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Walmart, they seem to feel there's no such thing as building them too close.
Posted on: 2019/3/6 19:06
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Under most circumstances no one will ever look at the ID on the card. A lot of card borrowing goes on!
Posted on: 2019/3/6 18:51
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Re: $7k DCA Inspection Penalties - HELP!
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Isn't the change of ownership of the association irrelevant to it's debts? The charges are to the property "owner". Is it a corporation? The whole corporate thing is weird, I had a personal bench warrant out for me when I missed a court date for a Sanitation summons to our LLC!
Posted on: 2019/3/4 19:44
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They keep harassing me about changing them, but when I tell them they must do them all at once, not one at time wasting my time, they shit the bed and tell me they can't, for reasons they can't tell me. So I tell them to fuck off till they can. This has been going on for years.
Posted on: 2019/3/4 1:24
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Re: $7k DCA Inspection Penalties - HELP!
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Wow. What a mess! Shouldn't title insurance have picked that up? I hope you can find some way out, but I'm going to guess that paying up is cheaper than lawyering up. Welcome to home-owning! I don't see this is much different than my discovering that the previous owner had used plaster to cover over severe foundation problems when he put it up for sale.
Posted on: 2019/3/3 19:23
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I wanted to say that immediately, but then thought I'd just be fulfilling the JCList stereotype. Someone who registers just to slag a local business needs to be taken at less than face value.
Posted on: 2019/2/28 18:51
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LOL. File that prediction under "not so much".
Posted on: 2019/2/22 23:40
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Re: For six years, Jersey City schools chief was at center of conflict
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If you limited your righteous tirades to that, they would be less offensive. It's undeniable that all the public institutions in JC are unaccountable money vanishing machines. Has anyone ever explained how the state was never able to reign in JCBOE spending yet thought it was OK to return them control? Was there no one willing to say "no, you can't pay your janitors that".
Posted on: 2019/2/20 23:25
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Your anecdote of your wealthy dad is not really relevant to how our education system is funded. There is no expectation that anyone pays enough yearly to educate their kids, and very few do. Like SS, its a pay as you go system, everyone pays to benefit the students of that year, some over their lifetime will pay many times over for that education, some not, depending on their property value. Your bullshit is always trying to frame the normal system of areas with poverty getting more aid as some sort of conspiracy. If your agenda was more transparency, and less waste and generous contracts in the JC system to bring down costs, I'd be right beside you, but all you want is less education money going to this city regardless of its outcome. 'Starve the Beast' always has innocent victims.
Posted on: 2019/2/20 22:50
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Now you're deep, deep in the bullshit. Average NJ property tax is $8,767, and schools get perhaps half that. Have 2 kids and you're paying like 1/8 the cost at best. Try again, that one did not fly.
Posted on: 2019/2/20 21:56
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Citation please? US Supreme Court decided in 1982, Plyler v. Doe that all children qualify. Wrote Justice Brennan in the decision: Quote: It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare, and crime.
Posted on: 2019/2/20 18:27
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Re: Early Dismissal at 12:45pm on 2/20 for JCBOE
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By this time of the year they can afford to waste them. They're budgeted. It's also a function of how few teachers actually live in JC, that they don't want a tough drive home to the burbs. It's for the teachers, not the kids.
Posted on: 2019/2/20 18:15
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No one, citizen or not, who actually sends their kids to public schools pays taxes that come close to the education cost of their kids. We as a society decided education was a thing we needed to do with taxes from everyone, even those with no children.
Posted on: 2019/2/20 2:54
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Regardless of the dubious accuracy of that "guess", the undocumented most certainly pay taxes. Property tax through rent even if they don't own, sales taxes, and even a good chunk of income tax and SS they'll never see back if they're using a stolen SSN to work on the books like Trump's employees.
Posted on: 2019/2/19 22:27
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Re: Plastic bag bans coming to Hoboken, Jersey City
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We've got a pile of canvas style bags to grab when actually grocery shopping, and the little stuffsack nylon bags to (hopefully) have in your pocket or bag for a quick unplanned shop. The latter are like $2-3 each on Amazon in package of 4-8 bags.
We had gotten a few ChicoBags as premiums from WNYC, and they're great. A little more expensive at $6 each. But they will custom print them, and someone could probably do pretty well selling ones with branding or cute locally inspired graphics.
Posted on: 2019/2/19 1:00
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Re: Have you evicted a non-paying tenant in Jersey City/Hudson County?
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Why are you still asking? File, or find an attorney to do it if it's worth saving your time.
Posted on: 2019/2/13 22:27
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Nothing does, which is why some problems need to be picked at rather than coming up with a "Grand Solution for Everyone". But defunding after school activities is patently stupid.
Posted on: 2019/2/13 18:05
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Downtown is a small portion of JC, and the other areas mostly have much poorer quality and quantity of public transit options. We can, and must, do better.
Posted on: 2019/2/12 21:15
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