For several months our Mayor kept bragging about how well his discussions about funding a parking garage were going with the Bergen County Improvement Authority’s chair.
What happened Paul? No word of late regarding cash from the County. Did they say no, or have you just forgotten to update the public?
The design<https://www.northjersey.
All of this is leading to election day. On November 3, Ridgewood voters will have a chance to express their support for a parking deck … a widely-shared goal that has eluded our community for generations.
There are several ways to support this campaign:
ü Learn: If you would like to see parking proposals/studies dating back to 1945 … please visit the library archives<https://www.
ü Discuss: I would welcome the opportunity to come talk about our parking garage plans with you, your friends, your neighbors and your colleagues. Please contact me to schedule a date and time. Also, we will continue to discuss this initiative in public meetings. Please see Village website<https://www.
ü Promote: In our effort to generate awareness and excitement, we have law signs, posters and palm cards to distribute. (See design is below.) If you want some … just say the word, and we will deliver them to you.
ü Share: Please share this email with friends and neighbors.
ü Vote: On November 3, you will have the chance to express your support for a downtown parking garage. Please vote. And please encourage your friends and family to vote, too.
Together, let’s make history.
Thank you.
Paul
Paul Aronsohn, Mayor
Village of Ridgewood
@paularonsohn
Schedler Site Development Study – 460 W. Saddle River Road
Below are the Site Development Plans prepared by the Ridgewood Engineering Department.
Click Here for Part 1A
Click Here for part 2B
Click Here for Part 3 C, D, E
Ridgewood NJ, A spokesman for CBR just made an announcement at tonight council meeting that they are withdrawing their lawsuit against the village for the changes in the master plan for the Central Business District ( CBD ).
Stating that they trust the council with do the right thing after their decision to do more studies on the large project. Do you believe that. Something smells. They trust the “3 amigos”, (Paul Aronsohn ,Albert Pucciarelli, and Genn Hauck )after all they have done , what is that PT Barnum once said ….
N.J. violence commission report puts spotlight on mental illness, gun violence
A long-awaited report from a commission formed in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut recommends reforms to the state’s mental health programs to help curb violence. S.P. Sullivan, NJ.com Read more
N.J. lawmakers call for replacement of Port Authority Bus Terminal
Two North Jersey Democratic leaders joined state Senate President Stephen Sweeney at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan on Tuesday to call for the building’s immediate replacement. Christopher Maag, The Record Read more
Teachers’ union is big donor to N.J. Democrats
The super PAC that has spent nearly $1 million to support Democrats in New Jersey’s Assembly elections next month has received nearly 90 percent of its money from a group affiliated with the state’s largest teachers’ union, records filed with state regulators show. Andrew Seidman, Philadelphia Inquirer Read more
https://www.northjersey.com/news/reports-democratic-assemblymen-raised-11-times-more-than-republican-challengers-in-38th-district-1.1431547
https://www.northjersey.com/news/reports-democratic-assemblymen-raised-11-times-more-than-republican-challengers-in-38th-district-1.1431547
Heavy spending by independent special interest groups is driving up the cost of this year’s Assembly campaigns, according to an Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) analysis of the first wave of reports filed for the fall general election. Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more
Democratic Assemblymen raised 11 times more than Republican challengers in 38th District
OCTOBER 13, 2015, 9:48 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015, 11:07 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN AND DUSTIN RACIOPPI
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
Campaign finance reports released Tuesday show that two incumbent Democratic Assemblymen have raised 11 times as much as their Republican challengers in the state’s 38th District, traditionally one of the more competitive districts in New Jersey.
Democratic Assemblymen Tim Eustace and Joseph Lagana have raised $699,620 to date compared to $62,088 for Republicans Mark DiPisa and Anthony Cappola, according to reports filed with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission.
Those reports show Cappola had raised $10,466 before dropping out of the race because of controversy over “Outrageous”, a book he self-published in 2003 that DiPisa called “offensive garbage” because of its negative depiction of blacks, Muslims, gays, seniors and other groups.
NJ Millennials ‘Feel the Bern’
While support for Bernie Sanders among those in New Jersey’s general Democratic Party establishment is weak compared to support for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, there is one group that seems to be “feeling the Bern” in New Jersey: Millennials. Alyana Alfaro, PolitickerNJ Read more
Ridgewoood NJ, A Volvo SUV rammed into an unoccupied parked vehicle in front of 127 Walthery Avenue Ridgewood just before 8:30 PM on Tuesday, 10/13.
Dem debate message summary = More free handouts. They will be voting in droves. We need to get out and vote Trump BIG TIME!”
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has predicted that Tuesdaynight’s first Democratic debate would be a bore — largely because he won’t be on stage. So the billionaire businessman took it upon himself to liven things up — by live-tweeting the event on his Twitter page. Brent Johnson, NJ.com Read more
Ramapo State Forest closed for second week after reports of aggressive bear
OCTOBER 13, 2015, 8:04 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015, 8:06 PM
BY JAMES M. O’NEILL
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
The state has decided to keep Ramapo Mountain State Forest closed for a second consecutive week in what officials are calling an abundance of caution after a series of encounters between hikers and an aggressive bear in recent weeks.
Traps remain in place throughout the park that the state Department of Environmental Protection set to immobilize bears. One of those traps captured a black bear on Oct. 5, which the DEP then killed.
“We don’t know if it’s the right bear,” said DEP spokesman Bob Considine. “We do know that we had three accounts of a potentially aggressive bear following three different sets of hikers in two weeks and the bear that was caught was acting aggressively after the capture.”
Nine students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4.0 or higher on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.
These students are Benjamin Bechtold, Akash Chaurasia, Yunseok Choi, Caroline Gonzalez, Maximilian Jerdee, Warren Li, Nikhil Mendiratta, Jaesung Son and Donald Zheng.
Fifty-two students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
Thirty-five students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
Forty-seven students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher.
About 18 percent of the more than 1.9 million high school students worldwide who took AP Examinations in May 2015 performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.
The Democratic front-runner’s performance was as good as it was dishonest.
Hillary Clinton won. She won because she’s a strong debater. She won because Bernie Sanders is not. She won because the first Democratic presidential debate focused on liberal policies—and not her email scandal or character.
The embattled front-runner won herself a news cycle or two, because she stretched the truth and played to a friendly audience. It won’t always be so.
It took more than an hour before CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Clinton about the covert email system she established as secretary of State in defiance of federal regulations, subverting the Freedom of Information Act, thwarting congressional oversight, and jeopardizing U.S. secrets. And, even then, her chief rival offered Clinton cover.
“What I did was allowed by the State Department,” said the woman who headed the State Department, “but it wasn’t the best choice.” Clinton noted that the GOP-led Benghazi committee—the panel that discovered her rogue email system—is on record trying to undermine her credibility. GOP partisans were partisan, and yet, she dramatically declared, “I’m still standing.”
The Democratic crowd roared. “I think the secretary is right,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a populist threatening Clinton from the left. “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about emails.”
Professional Democrats and the party’s strongest voters are certainly tired of hearing about the email scandal, but it’s not going to go away—not with the FBI investigating whether confidential information was mishandled under Clinton’s system, and not with independent voters losing faith in Clinton’s word.
Character and judgment are gateway political issues. An untrustworthy candidate might check all your policy boxes, might tickle your ideological buttons, and might even grind away long enough to get your vote—but you’re not going to like it.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/90050/hillary-clinton-won-wont-always-be-this-way
John Mitchell in Ridgewood Schedler Property
Republican Freeholder candidate John Mitchell has released a response to allegations made by Bergen County Democrats that he did not comply with former County Executive Kathleen Donovan’s resolution to eliminate stipends for part-time county employees in 2012. Alyana Alfaro, PolitickerNJ Read more
