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Are you sure? I saw what looked like people moving in a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Vote drops ed budget in state's hands - JC Board of Ed fails to pass a budget for the 2009-10 ye
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Ok, then how much should JC spend to get a quality school system? $30,000 per student, $40,000, $50,000, $100,000? What's your number? Or is it really not about the amount of money being spent but how it's being spent?
Posted on: 2009/4/8 19:55
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I don't think most people would disagree with you that we have to educate our children (and pay for their education). The problem is that $20,000+ per student is an awful lot of money. And I think most of us would say we, the city as a whole, are not getting enough value for that money. In many other municipalities in this state "proper" public education is delivered for much less.
Posted on: 2009/4/8 17:40
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This is one of the best ideas I've read on this list. Sheer genius!
Posted on: 2009/4/8 17:23
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Re: Vote drops ed budget in state's hands - JC Board of Ed fails to pass a budget for the 2009-10 ye
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To Brewster, G_Elkind and T-Bird, thanks for the thoughtful discussion on this very important issue. I hope this thread is read by all jclisters.
Posted on: 2009/4/7 14:21
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1) Irrelevant 2) The JC Historic Preservation Comission disagrees 3) So does most likely all of downtown JC 4) It hasn't decayed much in almost 100 years, and it probably won't in another 100 5) The blight on the area is caused by other factors. There are hundreds of threads on this list about those issues. The embankment is not one of them. 6) It may not be well lit now, but it can be better lit without having to demolishing it. Also, if you look at local crime statistics, they don't support this argument: muggings happen all over and are not concentrated around the embankment 7) Any public park requires money to maintain. There is money in the city budget for parks. 8) The only motive is to preserve the embankment and turn it into a park 9) The park renovation budget would be relatively small part of the city's expenditures 10) There are plenty of elevated public spaces (have you heard of the High Line in New York?) 11) There's plenty of trash in front of some houses in the area as well. Should we demolish those? 12) That's a new one. I'll ask about this at the next Captain's meeting.
Posted on: 2009/4/7 14:18
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Except in a negative way, men are essentially invisible. They're everywhere but no one notices them unless there's a problem. So I'm pretty sure you're reasoning for why Tommyc doesn't see attractive women in JC is not the case.
Posted on: 2009/4/6 18:50
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My 2 cents. Hoboken is about 10 years ahead of JC in it's gentrification path. It's now more like the Upper East Side (the way east parts) than JC. What's it going to take for JC to get there: mostly time. The most important elements are falling into place slowly but surely, mainly new housing to attract single professional tenants/owners. As more and more young, single professional women feel it's safe/acceptable to live in JC, the process will feed on itself and accelerate. So the perception of public safety is key. Otherwise, I don't think there's anything that can accelerate the process. Establishments that launch thinking we're already there (or will soon be there) are going to have a hard time.
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A big +1. The terrible state of public schools in JC is one of the biggest issues for JC and it's future. Basically, most middle income families with young children (me included) eventually have to figure out what to do about our children's education. The options are: private school, JC public schools or move out to a suburb. The vast majority of us wind up moving out to the burbs. What this means is that middle income families don't take root here. This is huge and in my opinion, most of JC's problems stem from this: the cohort that generally lends stability to a community, that demands competence from their elected officials views this city as a temporary stop on their journey. They don't get involved in bringing about political change because they know they will soon be gone. And unfortunately, this will not change in the near future because all of the powers that be here, the local government, board of ed, etc. have a vested interest in this sad state of affairs to continue. In our local government, failure equals more money (bigger budgets). It goes something like this: "we can't do a good job educating our children, we need more money", or "we can't fix our streets, we need more money", etc. Competence means lower budgets and therefore doesn't usually happen. The bigger budgets then get used for patronage to all sorts of interest groups to make sure the politicians get re-elected again and again. The only way this corrupt cycle can end is with a broad-based political challenge to the entrenched interests. And this is less likely to happen if the middle income families with school age children, who would otherwise stay in the city for the 12 years of their children's education, keep leaving the city.
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I'm a property owner and I'm pretty sure a reval would lower my property taxes. In addition a reval would be very salutory from a political perspective: once their taxes go up, maybe more residents would start to focus on how their government is spending their money.
Posted on: 2009/4/4 18:12
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Gentrification means replacing the decay and crime in a neighborhood with renovation and safer streets. People of all colors can participate in this process. Your ethnic characterization of the process is malicious.
Posted on: 2009/4/3 14:07
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Re: TIME TO FIGHT BACK - Re: Heights Reservoir Avenue store robbed at gun point at 7:30 p.m
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You sound like my wife. The only thing she gets worked up about is people's attitudes. The rest of it, the garbage on the street, the graffitti, etc. she doesn't even see.
Posted on: 2009/4/2 13:56
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I think by trying to pin this on Healy, you're actually creating some goodwill for him: no one without an agenda could possibly believe Healy could prevent something like this, so your comments look like a baseless political attack. So the real question is: who do you support, Healy or his opponents?
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It sounds like all of these shootings involved the settling of scores. I don't think the police or the administration can do anything about this type of crime, except catch the perpetrators after the fact. About the only people who can do anything about this are a) judges who can give repeat offenders longer sentences and b) parents who can teach their children to resolve disputes in ways other than shooting each other.l
Posted on: 2009/3/31 14:00
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Posted on: 2009/3/27 15:00
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Re: "We'll help you leave" High Tax Hoboken for Jersey City -- Honest, but Rude, Truth on Billboard
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Excellent point. It reminds me of the old saying: "fools and their money will soon be separated". And the corollary for muggings is that you're foolish for being in a place/situation where you can be mugged.
Posted on: 2009/3/26 21:00
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I don't see how my statements implied that minorities have something to hide. Leaving that aside, racial profiling is a legal and political issue that has made it to the courts. Just google "Racial profling in New Jersey" if you want to research this issue. Here's a quote from the ACLU's press release on a racial profiling suit they filed: NEWARK, N.J. -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today filed a lawsuit on behalf of Willie Nevius, an African American driver who was improperly stopped and searched on the New Jersey Turnpike. "I felt humiliated by this experience," said Nevius, a 38-year-old man who currently resides in North Carolina. "I didn't do anything wrong, and there was nothing wrong with my car, so the police stopped me for only one reason: I am a black man." ...
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According to Wikipedia, Newark is 25% white, 75% non-white. So if you did stops of people driving from Newark to Jersey City, statistically you'd be stopping a high percentage of minorities and that's why it would be racial profiling. What am I missing?
Posted on: 2009/3/24 14:48
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Because Newark is mostly minority. To not do racial profiling, you'd have checkpoints at random entry points to JC.
Posted on: 2009/3/24 14:35
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That's illegal. It's called racial profiling.
Posted on: 2009/3/24 14:09
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Perhaps he's concerned that in the process of pressing charges, he'll have to provide some identification of himself that he doesn't wish to share, for example, his immigration status. Not a high risk, in my opinion, but if that were the case, I would understand.
Posted on: 2009/3/19 21:16
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Here's something else that's obvious: There would be no need for bollards if less people took the carts and didn't return them. More obvious statements: What's convenient for one person (taking the cart) can be inconvenient for many (the bollards).
Posted on: 2009/3/19 17:59
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Ok so what is it: a. treating people as second class citizens makes them act like second class citizens, or b. acting like second class citizens makes other people treat them like a second class citizens? I'm sure there's as much consensus on this as the chicken and the egg.
Posted on: 2009/3/19 14:00
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There are a lot of inconsiderate people out there and most people know that. That's why there hasn't been a stink about the bollards.
Posted on: 2009/3/18 18:03
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I suggest you attend the next Captain's meeting and bring up this issue. It's an excellent forum to bring issues to the attention of people that can do something about them.
Posted on: 2009/3/10 14:07
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You're equating "taking responsibility for someone else's actions" and "helping someone else". They're two totally different things and not doing the former doesn't mean you don't, can't or shouldn't do the latter.
Posted on: 2009/3/8 19:05
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I was raised to take responsibility for my actions. But I'm sure as heck not going to take responsibility for the actions of others, especially perfect strangers.
Posted on: 2009/3/8 16:12
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I beg to differ, but unless you (and we) are politicians, lobbyists, judges, lawyers, and bureaucrats you had nothing to do with it, except for ignorance, of course, but that's not sufficient. Yes I know, we elect politicians, but what are our alternatives? I think closer to the truth is: a few bad apples spoil it for everyone. That applies to everything and doesn't make the innocent bystanders complicit.
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Please explain how you helped to create them.
Posted on: 2009/3/7 15:44
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