Cash-strapped states eye pot tax
Now that voters in Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational marijuana use, dope smokers there can light up without the usual paranoid fear that the cops are at the door. Politico
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/buzzkill-cash-strapped-states-eye-pot-tax-89412.html?hp=t2_3
photo by Boyd Loving
Reader Asks How can we get the message across that don’t want these papers littering our property and our town?
Over the years I’ve written letters to The Bergen Record/North Jersey Deals on behalf of us and our neighbors who asked me to and the papers will stop for about a month but then they’re back with a vengeance. Phone calls have the same lame effect.
How can we get the message across that don’t want these papers littering our property and our town?
Any ideas?
Information to End Delivery of Non Requested Newspapers
Residents have called Village Hall asking for a way to stop the unrequested newspapers in their driveways – we recommend resident personally contact the appropriate company at the phone number listed on the publication.
To contact The Record – call 888-473-2673; ask to be placed on the “Non Subscriber’s List”.
It may take a few calls to stop the delivery.
The Village of Ridgewood cannot regulate these deliveries as it is a “Freedom of Speech” issue
Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J. fuels debate on ammo stockpiling by feds
A Central Jersey congressman wants federal Homeland Security officials to explain why the agency wants to stockpile nearly 2 billion rounds of ammunition. Home News Tribune
Easter Opus X at Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood
Opus X has arrived in time for Easter!
Only a very limited amount is available
Limit 2 per customer, in store purchase only!
Available now at
The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood
~Gary, Barbara and Collin
The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood
The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood 10 Chestnut Street, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
Phone: 201-447-2204 | Email: [email protected]
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00AM – 5:30PM and Thursday Night 6:30PM – 8:30PM
Jill Martin & Dana Ravich at Bookends March 30th
Jill Martin & Dana Ravich Saturday, March 30th @ 1:00pm
New York Times Bestselling Author & TODAY Show Personality, Jill Martin, and New York Times Bestselling Author, Dana Ravich, will sign their new book: Weekend Makeover Books available March 26th.
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change. Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.
Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.
While we try to insure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.
Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726
Support the RHS Class of 2015: Buy a Stadium Chair
The Class of 2015 is fundraising with the sales of Ridgewood-emblazoned stadium chairs for $45. Please order by April 5.
Click here for more information and the order form : https://tinyurl.com/bw9yper
Ridgewood New development the home to Cooperative Households
Groups Of Adults Turn To Cooperative Households To Save Money
March 26, 2013 11:15 PM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — With the cost of living on the rise and showing no sign of slowing down, total strangers desperate to save money are moving in together.
As CBS 2’s Dana Tyler reported Tuesday, older adults and even families are using this method to pool their resources. And the new communities are redefining the modern family.
Two million Americans over the age of 30 now live with a housemate or roommate, and shared households make up 18 percent of U.S. households – a 17 percent increase since 2007.
Will the Zabriskie Schedler House, in Ridgewood become the next turf field
Reader says to save money, quit buying land and taking it off the tax rolls to make soccer fields
If you want to save money, quit buying land and taking it off the tax rolls to make soccer fields. The horse farm, if its worth the $10 million we got hosed for at the time of purchase, equates to about $250,000 per year of taxes no longer coming in.
Citizens park was paid for with donations from long time residents, whose names appear on the placque. It was for a PARK, not a soccer field, with obnoxious loud people blocking up the traffic there, along with the nite lights. Its disgusting how a nice green park became a brown mudfield to accommodate the newbies here.
Photo by Boyd Loving
Ridgewood Public Schools seemed to have prepared him very well for a rigorous university curriculum
I was not a lover of Ridgewood Public Schools until my son (who was just about the 50 percentile at RHS Class of ’12) took the SATs and ACTs and scored extremely well; well enough to get him into some of very competitive engineering schools and liberal arts colleges. Ridgewood is still looked upon very favorably by most universities. His 3.6 RHS GPA went alot further than I thought it would have. Some might say that Ridgewood is relying on its’ old reputation but I do not. I am happy to say that he excelling at his freshman courses (calc 2, physics, writing, etc) at a very good engineering college. Ridgewood Public Schools seemed to have prepared him very well for a rigorous university curriculum.
Just my two cents worth.
RHS senior Heesung Son has received the Congressional Award Silver Medal for his voluntary public services
Ridgewood NJ , RHS senior Heesung Son has received the Congressional Award Silver Medal for his voluntary public services. To earn the award, Heesung completed over 200 hours of public service by playing his violin for the elderly in nursing homes and spending time with physically disabled children at Camp Sunshine.
He also completed physical fitness and exploration goals. Congressman McGarrity presented the award at a ceremony at The Little Theatre on March 27.
Electronic Health Records: Doctors Want to Keep Patients Out
The emergence of electronic medical records has left many patients wanting access to their own health information. But a new Accenture survey shows that many doctors don’t think it’s a good idea for patients to see their records.
TUESDAY, March 26, 2013 — According to a new Harris Poll survey, conducted on behalf of the management consulting firm Accenture, less than one-third of U.S. doctors think patients should have full access to their own electronic health records.
As a patient, you may literally trust your doctor with your life, and the doctor-patient relationship relies on this level of trust. The relationship should be one of give and take, even if the exchange is sometimes dominated by the professional.
So it may come as a surprise that 65 percent of docs believe their patients should have only limited access to their electronic health records, and 4 percent believe patients should have no access at all.
Sebelius: Yep, ObamaCare is raising insurance costs
By: John Hayward
3/27/2013 07:46 AM
A watershed moment in the ongoing disaster of ObamaCare, as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finally admits that health insurance premiums are rising because of the President’s health insurance takeover, per the Wall Street Journal:
Ms. Sebelius’s remarks come weeks before insurers are expected to begin releasing rates for plans that start on Jan. 1, 2014, when key provisions of the health law kick in. Premiums have been a sensitive subject for the Obama administration, which is counting on elements in the health law designed to increase competition among insurers to keep rates in check. The administration has pointed to subsidies that will be available for many lower-income Americans to help them with the cost of coverage.
The secretary’s remarks are among the first direct statements from federal officials that people who have skimpy health plans right now could face higher premiums for plans that are more generous. She noted that the law requires plans to provide better benefits and treat all customers equally regardless of their medical claims.
“These folks will be moving into a really fully insured product for the first time, and so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market,” she said. “But we feel pretty strongly that with subsidies available to a lot of that population that they are really going to see much better benefit for the money that they’re spending.”
Ms. Sebelius added that those customers currently pay more for their health care if their plans have high out-of-pocket costs, high deductibles or exclude particular types of coverage, such as mental health treatment. She also said that some men and younger customers could see their rates increase while women and older customers could see their rates drop because the law restricts insurers’ ability to set rates based on age and gender.
BOE BUDGET IS ON THE BOARD AGENDA TONIGHT
BUDGET IS ON THE BOARD AGENDA TONIGHT: The Ridgewood Board of Education meets tonight,Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The Board meets on floor 3 of the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, starting at 7:30 p.m. The agenda link is posted below.
• Ridgewood Board of Education public meetings may be viewed as live Webcasts by pasting the following link into your computer browser:
https://www.web2.ridgewood.k12.nj.us/ilife/lhowells/boelive/
• Or, link in via the Link in Live tab on the district website (www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us).
• This meeting will not be televised live on Optimum channel 77, and FiOS channel 33.
• After the live streaming event, Board meetings will be archived and can be found in the BOE section of the website under “Board of Ed Webcasts.”
N.J. gets poor marks in emergency preparedness
New Jersey flunks in the category of emergency preparedness and response, according to a recent report. Yet experiences make us feel we’ve coped pretty darn well with the things nature throws at us. After all, lately we’ve dealt with severe flu outbreaks, whooping cough, West Nile Virus, blizzards, hurricanes, and Superstorm Sandy. Quigley, Jersey Journal
https://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2013/03/new_jersey_gets_poor_marks_in.html
NJ Native Singer Dionne Warwick files for bankruptcy
Dionne Warwick, the singer and actress who was a regular at the top of the Billboard chart for four decades, owes more than $10 million in back taxes and has only $10 left at the end of each month after paying expenses, according to a petition filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey last week. Star-Ledger
https://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/03/singer_dionne_warwick_declares.html
