Month: March 2013

Decade-old Silly String ban still in place in Ridgewood
Thursday February 28, 2013, 3:15 PM
BY  CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record

RIDGEWOOD — You will not find Silly String amongst the toys and trinkets for sale in the village.

That’s because aerosol cans that shoot neon strands of liquid plastic have been banned in the village since the late 1990s, thanks to one particularly arid Independence Day parade.

During the council’s meeting Wednesday, the governing body was treated to a brief lesson on the history of the ordinance by Village Clerk Heather Mailander.

Councilman Tom Riche alluded to the “Silly String ordinance” Wednesday during a discussion on a proposed smoking ban in the village.

Mailander said the ordinance was passed in 1998, after the 1997 July 4th parade through town.
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Poll: Internet edges networks as public’s source for news
February 28, 2013

Bye bye Walter Cronkite, Brian Williams and Scott Pelley. Hello Google, Yahoo and Drudge.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that traditional network news continues to fall as the nation’s source for news. The internet now is a bigger source of news for Americans than network TV, by a point, 25 percent to 24 percent.

Cable TV is still king, with 32 percent of the 1,000 likely voters Rasmussen polled getting their news from that source. Newspapers barely register a 10 percent, and radio is the source of news for 7 percent of the country.

The poll gauged how well the public trusted the media and if they see a bias. On both fronts, it is bad news.

Just 6 percent of the nation considers the national media “very trustworthy,” and nearly half believe reporters are more liberal than they are, said Rasmussen.

https://washingtonexaminer.com/shock-poll-internet-edges-tv-networks-as-publics-source-for-news/article/2522828