>Report blames zoning laws for lack of affordable housing in New Jersey
>Sweeney rant fails to sway old allies
>Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration
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Photos by Peter Riemer
>Oil Institute CEO: Obama Energy Policies Wrong
Sunday, 12 Jun 2011 12:56 PM
By Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella
American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard tells Newsmax that easing the Obama administration’s restrictions on drilling for oil and gas could create more than half a million new America jobs.
He also states that a long-delayed pipeline from Canada can help the United States and its northern neighbor provide 92 percent of America’s domestic fuel needs within two decades.
But Gerard warns that the Obama administration’s “fundamentally wrong” energy policies are having a “very significant adverse impact on our energy policy” and charges that attacks on the oil industry by Democrats are “punitive” and “vindictive.”
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The High Price of Obama’s Fake Jobs Scheme
Sometimes magic tricks just aren’t that great, and even the most innocent, wide-eyed child can’t be fooled by the illusionist’s flourish. Such is the case with the rabbit the White House is trying to pull out of its magic hat by claiming that President Barack Obama’s stimulus has created or saved 2.4 million jobs at a cost of $666 billion, all while the United States continues to suffer 9.1 percent unemployment. If you do the math, that comes out to around $278,000 per job.
That information comes from a White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) report released last Friday that desperately tries to maintain the illusion that Obama’s stimulus has saved the day for struggling Americans.
If you take the CEA at its word, you might be a bit confused. Two quarters ago, it claimed that the stimulus added or saved just under 2.7 million jobs. That’s 288,000 more jobs than it claims the stimulus has created or saved today. (The Congressional Budget Office has downgraded its claim of the stimulus’ “success,” too.) Compare that to the President’s promise to create 3.5 million jobs by 2010—the economy, instead, lost millions of jobs, leaving Obama 7.3 million jobs short of his goal.
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Bigots who read New York Times Mar Ridgewood 4th of July Parade
Great coverage.Travell float was one to be proud of. They always produce the best floats.
Unfortunately Here are the comments from the buffoons who read the Times:
What a wonderful thing. Children of color can more easily aspire to be anything they want to be.
This was not only a great float, it was a courageous statement as well. I was proud of the kids and their teachers, which was just as well, because I had been ashamed, a couple of parade units earlier, to watch a crowd of Tea Parties cavort past.
LINK to NYTIMES where comments are posted): https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/ridgewood-n-j-940-a-m/
>Department of Education (DOE) will owe Ridgewood as much as $9.8 million in grant money at the completion of the construction projects at our schools
Without state grant money, Ridgewood school district’s coffers are running low
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Unless the state of New Jersey sends overdue grant money to Ridgewood post-haste, the school district will have to borrow millions of dollars to avert a cash flow crisis.
The state’s Department of Education (DOE) will owe Ridgewood as much as $9.8 million in grant money for construction projects at schools across the district by the time construction is complete; so far, the district has requested about half that amount. Although the district has continued to pay its contractors for the substantial repairs and renovations at eight of the district’s 10 schools, which have proceeded on or ahead of schedule, the state has so far delivered none of the money owed.
The issue has been on the radar screen of the Board of Education (BOE) for some months, but as the clock ticks, Ridgewood’s coffers continue to deplete – now forcing officials to plan to ask for about $5 million in loans, known as grant anticipation notes, by the end of the year so that the district can continue to operate while continuing its construction projects.
“We can’t exactly put out payroll checks and say, ‘Don’t cash it quite yet,'” said Bob Hutton, BOE vice president and chair of the finance committee.
>Ridgewood : A strange case of pedestrians leaping in front of moving cars
The Associated Press are sending a team of reporters to Ridgewood to investigate a strange case of pedestrians leaping in front of moving cars.
I wasn’t there, I didn’t see it, but news reports say the driver was issued a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian.
I hope the driver fights it in court and shows you are right, that they just couldn’t stop their car at an intersection.
There seems to be a rash of Ridgewood citizens who at painted crosswalks or traffic lights leap in front of cars at the last moment. The odd thing is that all the jaywalkers in the middle of streets don’t seem to get hit. Ridgewood is a very strange place.
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>Doctor Shortage no Surprise to this Doc.
I have practiced for 30 years and never saw this till Obama. There are no shortages in China, nor Canada for that matter.
The reason Obama has had this affect are at least two fold : 1. The drug flows where the money is available. ie. since we are contracting dollars to healthcare, the drugs, and doctors for that matter, will flow to countries like
China, where docs are already paid more than in many places in the USA. 2. the new FDA regs make it to where companies just won’t renew or develop. Thank you Mr. “president”.
>President Obama turns to Jon Corzine for help …yikes !
>2 NJ colleges receive accreditation warnings
>Without Assembly vote, vintners fear wine industry will whither on the vine
>Governor Christie’s new budget will spend more money on property tax relief
>State government’s bad financial situation makes New Jersey the 20th worst state to do business in
