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I've worked in NYC and lived in NJ for over 25 years now. I've also been doing my own taxes with Turbotax for about 10 years. I am using TT Premier, and I download 3 states in total (1 free and 2 paid unfortunately) including 1 for a state in which I share ownership in what is now rental property. I have never had issues with Turbotax and my NY/NJ returns. The concept is very simple, and if you follow the Turbotax "Interview" process it all works out. First of all, you pay taxes on where you earned the income. For most of us in this situation, that's NYC/NYS. Also realize that income earned while you are on vacation, sick days, or assignment in another state, for any legit reason, is not taxed in NY, but in the state of which you were in. So when you get to the States part of the interview, always do NY and all of your other non-resident income is earned. NY will specifically ask you if a certain percentage of your NY wages were earned out of state, i.e. out of NY State. It will ask a few questions about days you worked vs holidays and sick days etc. Based on all the information provided, it will correctly fill out your NYS return. Do the same with other states in which you earned income. Finally you do your home state, aka New Jersey. Turbotax will start your calculations normally, but will then apply a credit to your bottom line (figuratively speaking) of the New Jersey tax bill. Yes, you will have wound up sending a whole lot more money to NY than Jersey (this statement includes monies withheld, not just refunds or taxes due at filing), but that's the way the system is designed to work. Turbotax also used to include copies of the non-residents state forms to be sent in with your primary resident state, but I don't think that's required any more. Additionally, Turbotax will guide you as to which states should (or can) be filed electronically and which need to be mailed in. The state taxes really are one of the more simpler parts of the Turbotax process, as long as you understand the concept that Non-Resident earnings and wages must be dealt with prior to doing your Resident state return.
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What amazes me about this story is that the Stair Naming issue was prioritized over the Street Paving ordinance. Come on, what kind of idiotic journalism find that the honorary naming of a set of stairs is more important than the fiscal issue of who pays the large sums to repave streets?
My assumption is that PSE&G will think twice before ripping up a street on a frivolous whim. That they'll combine projects and deal with all the issues under a street block when an urgent necessity comes up for that block. Thus saving everyone money.
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You and all the other Obama bashers are pathetic. Obama is not perfect, but there's noting to do with him in this. Cable TV franchises are a local issue. Sure there are FCC and other Federal regulations but very little has changed with them in ages. The negotiations are totally on the local level. Obama has nothing to do with this.
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It's not perfect, sure, but it does work. Well said. I guess my only gripe is that between fares that have risen beyond anything reasonable, and the same for tolls into the city, it seems we cross Hudson commuters are paying for more than our fair share of a building that really only benefits NYC (if it really even benefits NYC?).
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This may not be the answer you are looking for, but I had the same question several years ago. I wanted to build in custom shelving in a hallway, but had problems finding a contractor who would do it, mainly because the circuit breaker panel was on the wall I wanted the shelves to surround.
Someone recommended this company to me, they provide several kinds of poles, either springloaded floor to ceiling, or L-shaped poles that lean against the walls at the top, along with brackets, and will cut shelves to custom lengths. I totally designed what I wanted, and sent them specs on the length of each shelf. They custom cut everything for me, and I installed it all in one short evening. It wound up being a whole lot less expensive than anything I could have contracted for from a custom contractor. www.issdesigns.com
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JC_Man wrote: Tear up and burn the Constitution.[/quote Please explain how this represents any tearing up of or burning of the Constitution? My guess is you can't. Presidents have been issuing Executive Orders for quite some time now. Even Reagan and Bush the elder issued EOs on exactly this subject. As far as Republicans in Congress, Americans have been pleading for immigration reform, and the House has refused to enact a damn thing if the last 6 years.
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This chart is ridiculous. Just as an example, if women are average tippers, and men are above average tippers, than it stands to reason there must be a third sex that are below average tippers. Hmmmm who are they. Another quick example. It appears on this chart that members of the Christian Religions are below average tippers. Since that group comprises the vast majority of Americans, that means that other religions (including Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists), along with Agnostics and Atheists are the above average tippers, by quite a bit. As an Atheist, yea maybe that's true. There is one thing on this chart I'm sure is true. As the USA is one of the few countries where tipping is the norm, I'm sure that foreigners don't tip as well as perhaps they should. Go to Europe, or Australia, and tipping is really considered a stupid practice. Wait staff is paid a full living salary, and "tips" are only given for service above and beyond the call of duty. We really need to implement the same practice here. Again... I smell some idiocy and bigotry here.
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Excuse me? As a member of the Jewish tribe, I'd like to know where you get your information. I'll gladly compare my tipping practices to yours. Unless I'm dissatisfied with the service, 20% is my norm, and if I'm given service beyond what's required, the tip goes up. Of course it goes down if I don't get proper treatment. Mostly it's very simple, show me a smile, and keep my waterglass full, and bring the right food to us at the right time. How dare you make that statement? The only thing it really proves is that you're a bigot.
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Yvonne, that is not true to everyone. Location is not always important to the reverence of a prayer. As others have pointed out, for many, including Muslims, where you pray is not important, but that you pray is. For them, they just want a place where they can go to offer their prayer as they feel they are required to do. Again, a common room for all faiths should not be a problem as long as all users are made aware that anyone can enter and use it, so long as they don't impinge on others using it. Muslims would be allowed to use it if their prayers remain short and quiet while others are in there and they don't stop anyone else from entering. Same could be true for anyone else going in. As far as "decoration," they could keep it very simple, but the moment one symbol goes up, than every effort must be made to put up every symbol of equal size and weight.
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There is no reason why the college could not provide an interfaith meditation room as long as it was open to all people of all faiths including lack of religious faith. The problem comes the moment you provide for one but not another.
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That is configurable in your User Profile... Click on "your account" near the top of this page, then "edit profile" and go down almost to the bottom of the page for a pull down menu for "Sort Order."
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This man was drunk (I know allegedly, but he refused a breathalyzer test), and he killed a person while driving. He should go away for more than 5 years. That should be at least 20 years. You shouldn't be behind a wheel when you are drunk and 5 years is just not enough of a deterrent it seems as people keep driving drunk.
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This is neither Democrat, Republican, Healy or Fulop support or bashing. It amazes me how people cry for lowering taxes, preventing waste in government, etc etc. And then turn around and immediately scream, when government isn't prepared for the WORST case scenario. Cities and towns all over the country are low or running out of road salt. The companies that deliver it just don't have any more to distribute, or it's been spoken for. I'm sure if Fulop offered an outlandish premium for the product it could be found somewhere, but then those same people would bitch that he spent way to much for it. These people are plain old hypocrites.
I voted for Fulop, and now I'm beginning to get wary of him, especially over the ambulance issue. But to pick on him over road salt when it's an issue every municipality is dealing with, sorry, it just doesn't hold any water.
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About the lousiest analogy one can come up with. For that $50, one person is servicing me by removing my hair, which I've had done just fine for quite a bit less than that. I'm not going to get a better haircut no matter how much I spend. On the other hand for $100, dinner for two, we're getting the services of waiter, busboy, host, bartender and others, and quality products that cost real money. Lets agree that physical space is equal in both situations, though quite frankly I'd argue that restaurants have a whole lot higher overhead costs. Oh and BTW, no hangover. I don't quite get the obsession with drinking. What I do get out of it, hopefully a great meal often trying things I've never eaten before. I really don't count the next day's toilet activity as part of my dinner out. You are right, everyone has their own priorities. For me, admittedly mostly bald, I don't get spending more than $20 on a haircut, and I'm quite happy with my $12 haircut from someone who's been doing it probably close to 50 years. So happy that I probably do it twice a year whether I need it or not.
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$50 for a haircut? No thanks. There isn't much up there to begin with. I'll take my head to an old style barber who cuts my hair for $12. He's efficient, cleans me up just fine, and nothing fancy.
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Welcome to a world without net neutrality, where the ISPs and the other companies that run the internet can favor some clients over others in delivering bandwidth, all for favoring big business. Verizon just won a big court case over this.
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To those naysayers of the Affordable Care Act, just remember that Dewey Beat Truman. Don't count out the ACA quite yet. Actually the best outcome will be that it leads to a single payer system.
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That happens all over the place, not sure what to do about it. What I find even more disturbing is when young children fund raise for whatever group they belong to, in the middle of the exit ramp off the turnpike extension heading into the Holland Tunnel, or other street locations. No fund raising activity is important enough to ask kids to stand out in the middle of traffic.
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I had really good luck putting my couch on eBay. After not being able to give it away with a pickup via Salvation Army and various other charities, I put it up on eBay and someone paid me $60 for it. Just make sure on eBay (or wherever you post it) "Buyer responsible for picking up couch from current location."
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I wonder if the "top offs" are more common when paying with cash. I use a credit card, and rarely do the attendants take the time to top off the fill up. There's no need to get it to an even amount to minimize the change making process. Count me as one who prefers Jersey style gas stations, as impatient as I can be, though while driving elsewhere I'll deal with doing it myself just fine.
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The clue is, that in states where exchanges were set up, Insurance rates are trending downwards. Obamacare can work if it's used properly. Why NJ has to be part of the Republican obstinance on this subject is beyond me.
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We've eaten there several times now, sitting at the Sushi Bar. Prices are fairly reasonable, and the sushi is pretty good. They just got their liquor license, so their bar is open. Parking is really easy. It's worth the trip if you have a car.
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If you could take race out of it, perhaps you could claim it was reasonable. But since it seems to target people of specific colors, there's already a problem unless you aren't of those colors. Then there's the potential violations of the Bill of Rights. And BTW, I'm not one who is likely to be stopped and frisked, but I still think it's just plain wrong.
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Completely agree. Five Guys has arguably the best fries of any fast food chain. But while they've got great choices of toppings for their burgers, the actual patties are nothing more than chopped shoe leather.
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Having just recently fractured my fibula while on vacation, I am using the services of Dr. Robin R Innella of Associated Orthopedics. They have offices in Union and Bayonne.
http://associatedorthopaedics.com/ I think my healing has been very routine, 7 weeks in a boot, no surgery, no need for crutches. But I have no complaints what so ever.
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They are literally going to build the new roadway some 60 feet over the old roadway, using the same arches already in place. A very interesting process.
http://www.panynj.gov/bayonnebridge/
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Media Bistro is reporting the difficult times that local media is having in Little Rock concerning the current ExxonMobil Oil Spill
Media Bistro -- TV Insider Article Little Rock Stations Grapple with Covering Local Oil Spill By Kevin Eck on April 9, 2013 11:50 AM As Central Arkansas news stations continue to report on an oil spill in Mayflower, just north of Little Rock, there are concerns ExxonMobil, which owns the burst Pegasus pipeline, is controlling the storyline. Mother Jones reports on the difficulties some reporters are facing ? including threats of arrest ? while covering the spill. On March 29, a 20-inch buried pipeline burst in the town, releasing oil into local backyards and streets and, as one local station discovered, a nearby lake. TVSpy checked in with several Little Rock stations to find out how they?re covering the story. We reached out to FOX and NBC affiliates KLRT and KARK, ABC affiliate KATV and CBS affiliate KTHV. KATV news director Nick Genty says none of his reporters have been threatened with arrest, but says reporting the story has been a challenge. ?Some of the issues that we have run into are that Exxon is running the show at the site. When we try to get information from local law enforcement, they direct us to the PR from Exxon.? ?We have found other ways to obtain video,? Genty says, ?mostly from viewers that have sent in cell phone video from inside the neighborhood.? ?I wouldn?t say they?re controlling the county officials,? KLRT-KARK news director Austin Kellerman says. ?I think the county officials are deferring to Exxon because of their experience handling events of this nature.? Kellerman adds that guided tours of the area add to the notion that Exxon is controlling the narrative. ?I think it?s unfortunate Exxon has only allowed media in the impacted neighborhood for guided tours during times of their choosing,? he says. ?However, I understand there are safety concerns with a situation like this. There have been times we?ve asked to go into the neighborhood and been told by Exxon we could not. County officials supported that decision.? Genty?s team has taken those guided tours adding that aerial coverage is another issue. ?There were some questions about the ?no fly? zone, but when we pushed the issue, they (the FAA) reduced the level and allowed KATV to fly over the site.? ?When we put in a request for an interview, tour of homes, etc., they?ve replied,? says Kellerman. ?It hasn?t always been the response we?ve wanted, but they?re responding.? ?Getting the information out and not just being a mouthpiece for Exxon is a delicate dance,? says Genty. ?We need Exxon for info. However, we can and still question what they release. Exxon said there is no oil in Lake Conway, we brought the Attorney General on to our morning show and for the first time, an official went on record to say ?yes, there is oil in the lake.?? ?This is a story that will be going on for a long time,? says Genty. ?It?s compelling, relevant and the people of Mayflower and the state of Arkansas have the right to know.? Kellerman has invited an Exxon representative on to KLRT-KARK, ?At this point, they haven?t made anyone available.?
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If you got a bill for May 1 for "the first 6 months," and it was on a white sheet of paper, it is most likely A PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes), also known as a Tax Abatement. At least one community, the one I live in, Port Liberte has a 30 year abatement scheduled to end in 2017. Part of that abatement agreement was that owners would be "weaned" off the abatement in 5 year increments. The last 5 years were to be charged at 80% of the normal tax rates. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on which side of the equation you're on, someone in the tax office did not do their due diligence in checking on the abatement agreements and the 5 year escalators beginning in the 10th year were never noticed or enforced. This year, however, the tax office noticed the error and did what it had the right to do, charge the owners at Port Lib the higher of either the Tax Abatement calculated charge, or 80% of the normal "Taxes otherwise due." What they aren't doing is going back after past taxes. Exacerbating the issue, they are assessing us at the highest value our properties ever reached during the housing bubble. For me, that is somewhere around double the actual current comparable assessed values. I like many others, am applying for a re-assessment of my property value. If you are by some chance a resident of Port Lib you should have heard about this, it's being discussed all over the community. The Condo Association publicized the issue and had a night with attorneys who are willing to help with re-assessments. If you are not a Port Lib resident, I would call Maureen Cosgrove in the Jersey City tax office and discuss the issue with her. They seem to be very helpful. One other point, this has nothing to do with the city wide ReVal that is happening as we speak and which will not take affect till at least next year.
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Quite frankly, I happen to disagree with Dolomiti, and I am as against this pipeline as anyone. But even worse than the pipeline is the way you are all attacking him. He is as entitled to his view as you are to yours. Question his views, that's fine, but don't attack him personally for having them. Unless you know who he actually works for, or who he's related to, you have no right to make some of the statements you folks are making. The old adage about this country still should be in place, but it gets lost way to often in this day and age, "I might disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." You should all be ashamed for the comments you are making about him.
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