Census: Non-English Language Use has Tripled
by Elizabeth Sheld
Census bureau data released yesterday shows that the number of people speaking a language other than English has nearly tripled over the past three decades, out pacing the population growth.
While Spanish remains the most widely spoken language after English, other languages, particularly those from South Asia and Africa, have also soared in use, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report.
One in five people aged 5 or older spoke a language other than English at home in 2011, compared to 1980 where the number was 1 in 11, an increase of 23 million. The bureau calculates that over three decades there was a 158% rise, while there was only a 38% increase in overall US population.
CNN boss Jeff Zucker’s son, 15, resigns hours after it’s revealed Cory Booker’s start up put him on the advisory board and gave him stock options
Cory Booker helped found a video aggregation start up site called Waywire
Financial disclosure forms show that he appointed Jeff Zucker’s 15-year-old son Andrew on the company’s advisory board
Andrew has since quit after his role was publicized
Google’s Eric Schmidt and Booker pal Oprah Winfrey are both investors
Booker is now running for the empty New Jersey Senate spot
By Daily Mail Reporter
The 15-year-old son of CNN president Jeff Zucker has resigned from his position on the advisory board of Cory Booker’s start-up after it was revealed that the teenager had a leadership role in the company and receiving stock options for his work.
Hours after the news broke that Zucker’s teenage son Andrew was listed as a member of the video aggregation start-up, a CNN spokesman said that he resigned from the company.
The spokesperson also made a concerted effort to distance Booker, the current Newark mayor who is running for the open New Jersey Senate seat, from the decision to bring the younger Zucker on board
PSE&G to continue installing higher poles in Ridgewood, despite complaints
Thursday August 8, 2013, 12:15 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — A representative from the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. told the Village Council on Wednesday night that the controversial installation of 65-foot-tall utility poles on Hope Street and Spring Avenue would resume before the weekend.
David Hollenbeck, PSE&G’s regional public affairs manager, told the council that crews would return to Ridgewood on Friday to erect more poles.
A total of 78 poles — which PSE&G started installing four weeks ago — will go up. They are designed to handle up to 69,000 volts of electricity. The new poles will connect high-voltage lines from a Fair Lawn substation to one in Paramus.
Ridgewood committee members to tour Schedler property
Wednesday August 7, 2013, 2:13 PM
The Ridgewood News
Members of the Ridgewood Historic Preservation Commission will tour the 7-acre Schedler property before it convenes a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 8 at Village Hall.
Committee members will walk the site nestled between Route 17 and West Saddle River Road beginning at 7 p.m. and are expected to examine the historical, former home of Florence Schedler. The commission is then expected to meet at 8:30 p.m. in Village Hall, in the Garden Room on the first floor.
The specific purpose of the meeting is to discuss the future of the Zabriskie-Schedler house and its detached garage, the only remaining structures on the property.
Grabberts Ouster to cost Village Taxpayers $46,250
August 7,2013
Ridgewood NJ, It was confirmed at the conclusion of Wednesday’s Village Council meeting – Aronsohn, Hauck, and Pucciarelli will vote to oust Village Manager Ken Gabbert by resolution during next week’s public meeting. Riche and Walsh are expected to vote no on the resolution.
Ousting Gabbert will cost Ridgewood’s taxpayers at least $46,250 in termination compensation payment, as per State statue (minimum 3 months pay for involuntary separation). The 3 Amigos may agree to pay him more, just to avoid a lawsuit.
So Aronsohn balked at giving Gabbert a 12% raise, but thinks nothing of shelling out over $45K in termination compensation (maybe more) just because he doesn’t like the guy’s political party affiliation?
Aronsohn should be the one being fired, not Gabbert.
See Something Tweet Something Secret Service: Contact Us to ‘Report a Tweet’
August 6, 2013 – 10:26 AM
By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) – On a day when terror threats continued to dominate the U.S. headlines, the Secret Service — a division of the Homeland Security Department since 2003 — tweeted the following message:
“Contact your nearest field office with time-sensitive or critical info or to report a tweet,” said one message. –
TRENTON – Prepare for Booker vs. Lonegan. At least that is the finding Wednesday of the latest Quinnipiac University Poll, which foresees Newark Mayor Cory Booker and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan squaring off in the U.S. Senate race. PolitickerNJ
Cory Booker: Supermayor Or Self-Promoter?
by August 06, 2013 4:22 PM
In one week, voters in New Jersey go to the polls in a special primary election for a U.S. Senate seat.
No one on the ballot has more name recognition than Cory Booker, the 44-year-old mayor of Newark, who is considered a rising star in the Democratic Party. But Booker’s critics say he’s been more focused on his own ambitions than on governing New Jersey’s largest city.
In the seven years since Booker was elected mayor, he has been ubiquitous on Twitter and on TV. The telegenic African-American mayor has gotten lots of breathless coverage — for to rescue a neighbor, for , even for that was locked out of the house on a bitterly cold night.
Booker is a relentless advocate for a city that had become synonymous with urban decay. When he took office, Newark’s population was falling and the crime rate was high. The city’s previous mayor went to prison for corruption. Now, Booker says, Newark is a model for other cities.
“The development of our city dramatically has turned around,” he says, “to the point where we’re becoming again what Newark used to be: an engine for economic growth for our entire state.”
Booker points to the construction of new office towers, hotels and grocery stores. The city’s population is growing again, too, for the first time in decades.
‘He Didn’t Even Look Our Way’
But if you walk just a few blocks away from the shiny new construction in downtown Newark, you get a very different impression of the city and its mayor.
Terry Peterson, who lives in a neighborhood on the west side of Newark, says he hasn’t seen any change. “You know, you still got crimes, drug-dealing,” he says.
Jerry Brown says Booker hasn’t done anything — except “getting his pockets fat.”
Like Peterson and Brown, others across the city say their neighborhoods have not improved under Booker.
“Everyone thought it was going to be different because we stood up for him,” says Cecilia Brailsford, who lives in the Ironbound neighborhood. “And when he got in, he didn’t even look our way.”
Booker’s critics contend that he’s more concerned with his own career ambitions than he is with the mundane details of running the city.
“Whenever there’s a real issue in the city that needs to be resolved, the mayor is nowhere to be found,” City Councilman Ras Baraka said in November. “The only way you can see the mayor is if you turn on Meet the Press.”
Testimony from residents is up next in Valley Hospital hearings
Wednesday August 7, 2013, 9:46 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Concerned Residents of Ridgewood (CRR) will begin testimony in The Valley Hospital expansion plan public hearing on Aug. 20.
During last week’s Planning Board meeting, CRR President Pete McKenna confirmed the grassroots organization’s upcoming schedule and preliminary list of experts with board attorney Gail Price.
CRR has retained attorney Michael Kates to lead its arguments and facilitate presentations. Planner Peter Speck will also present on behalf of CRR, as will “one or two residents to give their perspective,” McKenna said. No other experts are anticipated to testify on behalf of the organization, with McKenna admitting that CRR’s coffers have been running close to empty.
The grassroots organization was founded in 2007 to halt the hospital’s “Renewal” effort. CRR also filed a lawsuit against Valley Hospital and the Ridgewood Planning Board in an effort to overturn the master plan amendment passed by the board in June 2010.
The New Jersey Choral Society (NJCS), known for presenting outstanding and unique programs, is seeking experienced singers to audition for the 2013-2014 season. Auditions are scheduled for Tuesday, August 27 from 7:00-9:00 pm at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood. Audition requirements include performing one classical solo (oratorio aria or art-song preferred), pitch memory drills, scales (major, minor, etc.), intervals, and sight-reading. To schedule an audition, please call 201-379-7719 and leave a message for the audition coordinator.
NJCS is an ensemble of singers who are joined by their commitment to performing choral music of the highest artistic quality and to foster greater appreciation and enjoyment of choral music. All singers volunteer their services and are selected by audition. Requisites for auditioning include previous choral experience, music reading ability, and availability to meet the NJCS rehearsal and performance schedule. NJCS is a community of musicians who constantly strive for excellence. Rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 -10:00 pm at the Temple Israel at 475 Grove Street in Ridgewood with additional rehearsals during performance weeks.
The privilege of voting allows us a say in who will represent and lead us. To be sure our voices carry their proper weight, only those of us who meet the Constitutional qualification of citizenship can vote. To ensure this, our Founders wrote, in the Constitution, that only American citizens, either born or naturalized, could vote. For people who are not citizens or are, in other ways, ineligible to vote, it would cancel out votes by legal citizens and disenfranchise them.
Years ago, when people registered to vote, they showed their birth certificates, citizenship papers, or other documentation, and were then given a voter registration card. This was an important document, because it not only identified your Party affiliation, and proved you were eligible to vote, it prevented you from voting in another Party’s primary to illegally affect its choice of candidate. We also have the FEC (Federal Election Commission) to insure the proper election rules are followed, according to the States’ dictates, as enumerated in Article I Section 4, of the US Constitution, and also make sure the States keep their voter roles free of ineligible voters, and delete the names of voters who have lost their voting priviledge, e.g.- become felons, or died.
Since we usually vote where we live, the “poll watchers” know most of the voters, and only need ask those they are not sure of for their Registration cards. This keeps those who would commit fraud from voting multiple times, or if they are ineligible. Some time ago, for reasons unknown to me it seems they stopped using Voter Registration cards.
Today, there have been so many allegations of voter fraud, that the citizens want the ability returned, to insure voters who come to the polls are entitled to vote. This should be a simple task. More than 90% of all citizens ave driver’s licenses or equivalent DMV-issued ID cards. Passports also serve as valid ID. Any citizen needing an ID can obtain one free at their State Motor Vehicle Agency.
So why do some people, or politically-motivated goups, protest a voter ID requirement, claiming it would disenfranchise “poor people”? I see no valid reason. For decades, voters had to show an ID to vote. Nobody had a problem with this; if you were ineligible you simply didn’t vote. For this reason, I contend that using voter ID in the past caused no problems, and no eligible voters, poor or otherwise, were disenfranchised, voter IDs should be brought back. The reason is that the voting demographics have changed, and the current system, where proof of citizenship is not required to register to vote, or to actually cast a vote, leaves the process open to unimaginable degrees of fraud. It means almost anyone, with no documentation at all, can wind up voting in both Local and National elections. With numbers of known ineligible residents, unimaginably larger than at any point in our history, the possibiity of sufficiently changing the outcome of our elections to reflect the desires of those voting illegally, could easily cause the actual legal American citizens to be disenfranchised, not – as some groups argue, the “poor” people, that the anti-voter ID groups represent, who are mostly here illegally, and ineligible to vote.
A major concern of not knowing if voters are eligible is not just the number of illegals who are registered to vote, and do, but the threat of an “amnesty” for millions of people here illegally. These people would eventually become citizens and legally vote. Historically these illegals have been supported by the Democrats, who see them as a Democratic voting bloc. No matter how hard you try to ignore this bloc’s make-up, or political leanings, it holds the very existence of the United States of America in its grasp. There is little doubt that almost every illegal, courted by the Democrats, who use financial incentives such as free health care, free education, food and housing assistance, and protection from the Immigration Department deporting them, will vote Democratic upon being awarded citizenship.
Like it or not, this aspect of having a voter ID law must be included in any discussion, because the sheer number of illegals would guarantee that the Republicans could never again get enough votes to control the House, the Senate, or the White House, leaving a one-party Government that would be, in reality, a Dictatorship.
For our Government, and our entire way of life as created by our founders, to be overthrown and replaced, because one political party may succeed in granting a group, consisting of millions of Illegal lawbreakers the gift of American citizenship, solely to perpetuate their own power in office, simply cannot be ignored or allowed.
Our own Founders, people like Alexis de Tocqeville, and others, warned of this possibility. It is a weakness inherent in our system of Government, and can only be prevented by a moral and religious citizenry, as noted by James Madison. I believe our morality and our religious roots have been severely damaged, over a number of decades, and the ability to restore them is uncertain.
So I truly believe the issue of whether or not to pass voter ID laws is not a simple issue. It is of the most extreme importance because, seemingly innocuous, the very existence of a future America may be decided by it. You see, the voter ID laws are necessary to hold honest elections. Illegal votes could seat enough pro-amnesty politicians, to push into law total amnesty for those who are here illegally to begin with. Thus would our Federal Republic be toppled by a group of outsiders who broke our laws to come here illegally, to be put in such a position by self-serving traitors. This almost doesn’t seem possible, but it is.
Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce presents:Annual Fall Car Show!!
FREE to the public.
We welcome you to Ridgewood! Live music by Take 4 will keep the evening lively! There will be trophies for many categories and food from local favorites. So come park your car and enjoy an excellent evening in Ridgewood.
The Car show will be held in and around Memorial Park at Van Neste Square and along East Ridgewood Avenue. Non Pre-registered cars will begin registration at 5:00pm. Enter at 133 E. Ridgewood Avenue & Walnut Street. Parking will be on a first come, first served basis. Spaces are limited. Registration fees are not refundable.
Pre-Registration fee by August 16th is $17.00
August 19th – September 6th fee is $20.00
Sponsorships: to display more than one car and have signage for your company.
$500.00 – The Chamber will designate and reserve location of your cars. All cars must be set up by 5:00pm.
$250.00 – Table ONLY which the Chamber will designate and reserve location for table.
The Ridgewood Police: Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
The Ridgewood Police Department would like to advise residents that the National Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign will be conducted from August 16, 2013 through September 2, 2013. The Ridgewood Police Department will be conducting special patrols focused on drinking and driving during the period.
Readers Respond to Pro Valley Expansion “Name Calling”
What’s funny about the shrinking number of people who support this is that they resort to taking cheap shots rather than sticking to the point, primarily because they can’t. Sort of like, “I’m taking my ball and going home.” Pretty pathetic.
This uneducated boor should not be given too much attention. He rears his ugly head periodically and then goes away after being corrected.
He is probably slaving over his next screed on the schools or Democrats. I just hope that he calms down before he gets behind the wheel.
Willard construction was like building a shed compared to the valley project. Nd day taffic to willard will not increase after construction. The residents actually wanted more clasroom space.
Residents want better schools and pay with their taxes. They do not want commercial business expansion in a residential area to benefit a business. There is a difference.
Trauma centers are regulated. The hospitals have specialized equipment and highly trained staff and participate in research. Car accident and pedestrian accident victims in Ridgewood are transported to Hackensack/St Joes because they have the facilities for the best outcome.
Reader asks why is Valley and its supporters pushing for the massive construction, when it fact it will not be great benefit to the residents
As the original poster to a number of articles about Valley, its ability to treat trauma victims and its occupancy rates, I am very glad to see that I got the answer from a fellow poster in that:
“Trauma centers are regulated. The hospitals have specialized equipment and highly trained staff and participate in research. Car accident and pedestrian accident victims in Ridgewood are transported to Hackensack/St Joes because they have the facilities for the best outcome.’
So in reality, Valley hospital is primarily in the business of medical healthcare specialties in that they don’t treat trauma victims from car accidents, to heart attacks.
The question then crops up, why is Valley and its supporters pushing for the massive construction, when it fact it will not be great benefit to the residents but will be of sound financial benefit to Valley and those specialists that work there. This is all about wealth creation for the hospital and its employees and contractors, those that are working at Valley in the numerous medical specialties.
Look, Valley is a great hospital. We gave birth to our daughter there a number of years ago and they did an excellent job but I think there were two babies born the same day as my daughter so the maternity ward was at a small occupancy rate – I know that the cancer unit is located in Paramus and they also have a great cardiology department but hey, what else do they do? There pulmonologist department is tied into their cardiovascular department – but I would sincerely doubt whether any of these departments are operating at full capacity on any given month, never mind any given day.
So because they are a specialty hospital, operating purely for profit, although they have non-profit status, why do they feel the need to increase their current structural size – it’s not as if they are going to increase their patient capacity, is it??? People will continue to go to the hospital they feel most comfortable with; the hospital that they know have the experts to cater to their medical needs and no amount of new buildings will attract more patients.
Most cancer patients will continue to travel into New York to receive treatment at the world famous facilities there. Those that can afford it will obviously travel further afield for most exclusive treatment so just because you build it, it doesn’t mean that they will come to it.
Apart from anything else, the majority of residents in the entire village of Ridgewood are against the expansion policies of Valley Hospital as we all know there is no need for creating such an expanded facility in Ridgewood, when most people tend to go out of town for treatment.
I think that we can put up with all the comments from the pro-Valley people because they know that the expansion is a pipe-dream and it will not happen. Anybody that does think it will go ahead, needs to visit a good psychiatric facility in another part of NJ or New York City as Valley doesn’t have one – there is no money in that specialty.
AND NO, I AM NOT PJ – I AM AN ORDINARY RESIDENT AND I SUPPORT PJ AND THE RIDGEWOOD BLOG!!!
