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Re: Embankment- Update Thread
#31
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So someone who can't really own the embankment, does. And the city which already had plans and money to purchase the embankment, won't.

Yup, sounds like JC as usual. This is a fight worth fighting.

Posted on: 2007/6/20 2:09
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Re: Embankment- Update Thread
#32
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The meeting is this week (June 20th) not next week....

Any more specifics on how subdividing the embankment will impact the preservation effort?

And to Skwirrlking's point, who should we contact in addition to or instead of showing up?

Posted on: 2007/6/19 0:52
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Re: Embankment- Update Thread
#33
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BM-
Please forgive my ignorance, but why is subdividing the embankment bad?
Will it make it easier to get it re-zoned?

I am against development of the embankment and would like to speak at the meeting but just want to make sure I'm informed.

Thanks!

Posted on: 2007/6/18 15:09
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Re: What about the state of City Hall? Mayor's state of city address overshadowed by staff issues.
#34
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I'm not sure what's worse: The mayor not having a clue of what is going on, not caring or knowingly allowing it.

Posted on: 2007/1/21 21:36
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Re: Manzo: Asks blind trusts for big earners with power
#35
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Is it just me or does Manzo love to waste time. He's such a blowhard and I have never cared for his opinion. How he got elected is still a wonder to me....

Posted on: 2007/1/15 3:57
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Re: Jersey City Deputy Mayor & Former Director of Water Department Wanted Tip to Marry Couple.
#36
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Any chance of getting Donnell Morrison to run for office here in JC. If she can get a deputy mayor canned in a few months, imagine what else she could accomplish.

Posted on: 2007/1/5 18:41
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Re: NYT Op-Ed on apathy
#37
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This is from a Center for Public Integrity article from 2004 by David Dagan:
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Many states have rules against "double-dipping"?drawing more than one salary or pension payout?and put restrictions on legislators' contracts with the government.

Most states also have some limit on dual government employment in their constitutions. In at least 38 states, the constitution prohibits legislators from holding specific offices, or any that are categorized as positions of trust or profit.

Still, states vary widely in the numbers and combinations of political and civil service jobs they allow a single person to have. For example, Louisiana prohibits an individual in a statewide elected office from holding any other elected post or employment in state or local government, with a few exceptions. Federal law is also strict. In New Jersey, on the other hand, a 1971 law explicitly protects a person's right to hold simultaneously state, county and municipal elected or appointed office.

Dual office-holding was also caught up in a raucous debate over political ethics in New Jersey this year. Although the Legislature passed a 23-point ethics reform plan, it did not restrict legislators from holding second offices ?and the Senate even turned back attempts to have a commission study the issue. Assemblyman Michael J. Panter (D-Monmouth and Mercer Counties), a freshman who sponsored a bill that would have banned state legislators from holding another elected office, told the Center that the practice leads to "inherent conflicts of interest." For example, he said, a legislator-mayor may favor his or her home municipality over others in distributing "a finite amount of state resources."
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Link to the article: http://www.publicintegrity.org/oi/report.aspx?aid=378

According to the public integrity website, NJ and Oregon are the only two states where more than 40% of state legislators hold multiple offices.

It is such a conflict of interest I wish that there was more uproar as opposed to the apathy that is accurately described in the article...

According to that website

Posted on: 2006/12/10 19:18
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Re: Dentist Recommendation
#38
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Lesser_Demon,
Its funny that you mention that your co-workers think Dr. K pushes for unnecessary things. I had the same thought when the gf went in for one issue and ended up going back for a bunch of "preventive" things. They do treat her very well and she has been happy with the service but after your comment, combined with my suspicions, I guess I would now hesitate in recommending him.

Posted on: 2006/12/7 19:30
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Re: Dentist Recommendation
#39
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My gf can't recommend Dr. K of Dr. Cohen's office on Newark Ave enough. i haven't been to them yet, but she is extremely picky with Dentists and she loves it there. However, I don't believe they are part of any insurance network group so your insurance would probably only cover a visit if it covers out-of-network visits.

Posted on: 2006/12/7 18:49
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