>Councilman Tom Riche explains the Council’s objections to the panels
Some writers to the Blog accept PSE&G’s incomplete defense of the solar panels being installed around the state and mocking those who oppose them as hypocritical, anti-“green,” or NIMBY. In fact, the issue is more complicated than that. PSE&G has not revealed the full story.
Tom Richie makes a pretty compelling case against the Solar Panel project in this link to a video of Mr. Riche’s interview on the subject on Fox & Friends.
>Ridgewood blog Quickly Restored after Cyber Attack
Ridgewood NJ- A hack attack was reported on the Ridgewood blog around 4:39 pm on the 28th of March by several astute blog readers .The blog was back on line within an hour. We want to thank our readers for reporting the issue so quickly . At this time it is still unclear whether this attack was related to the “LizaMoon.” mass-injection cyberattack .
thank you,
PJ Blogger and the Staff of the Ridgewood blog
Millions of sites hit with mass-injection cyberattack By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal April 1, 2011 10:37 AM
PC World – Hundreds of thousands — and possibly millions — of websites have been hit with a cyberattack that some are calling “one of the biggest mass-injection attacks we’ve ever seen.”
The attack was discovered on March 29 by security firm WebSense, and the injected domain was called lizamoon.com — thus, the name of the mass-injection is “LizaMoon.” According to WebSense, LizaMoon uses SQL Injection to add malicious script to compromised sites. While the first injected domain was lizamoon.com, additional URLs have since been injected in the attack (WebSense has a full list here).
Readers fault Tenure for decline in “Tradition of Excellence”
Do you trust the principals of our schools? Do you trust their judgment and knowledge of their teaching staff?
Like every manager in the private sector, they should be free to hire and fire the personal who work under them. Are their politics involved, you bet. But so what, that’s life. Teachers are not a special class that should be immune to judgment.
Get rid of tenure and put the responsibility for the performance of each school in the principals hands. If the school fails, we will know who to blame. Simple really.
Testing should be just one tool. Parents and students should evaluate teachers too. Just like any other field, put the customers first.
It is time to stop this silly game of protecting teachers with tenure. It is a dog eat dog world. Let teachers perform and deliver a quality product efficiently or bounce them out the door.
The state received 58 applications for new charter schools by its Thursday deadline for another round of possible approvals, an Education Department spokesman said. (Brody, The Record)
>Loophole allows Essex County Executive DiVincenzo to collect full salary, pension
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. didn’t want to wait until leaving office to begin collecting his pension. (Megerian and Augenstein, The Star-Ledger)
The state Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to revisit laws aimed at forcing towns to provide affordable housing for low-income residents — a significant move that could alter the way towns are required to provide such housing. (DeFalco, The Associated Press)
It does not contain ALL the individual lines you mention, but it does contain some of them, plus summaries for things like Total Kindergarten Teacher Salaries and Total Grade 1-5 Salaries, and quite a lot of other detail. The format and information in the budget, and the (confusing) way it’s organized/displayed, is dictated by the Dept. of Education.
Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas has arrived on average throughout California, and a number of other states are headed in that direction.
>NJMET Announces National Multiple Sclerosis Walk 2011 Sponsorship
Ridgewood NJ- Joseph Federico, Vice President of NJMET, announced that NJMET will sponsor a team in the 2011 Walk MS event at the Ridgewood, NJ Graydon Pool on Sunday, April 11, 2011.
NJMET Vice President and director of operations Joseph Federico has announced their fifth annual sponsorship walkathon to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of the New Jersey area.
“On Sunday April 10, 2011 team NJMET will assemble at the Ridgewood Graydon Pool on 259 North Maple Avenue in Ridgewood, NJ at 8:00am for the 9 mile walk” said team leader Joseph Federico, of NJMET headquartered in Clifton, NJ.
Walk MS is a simple, but incredibly powerful way for everyone to share in the hope for the future.
Walk MS is a rallying point, a time and a place for us to stand together – to help raise critical funds that support cutting edge research, drive change through advocacy, facilitate professional education and provide programs and services to help people with MS move their lives forward.
If anyone is interested in participating on NJMET’s 2011 National Multiple Sclerosis Society Walkathon team, please call Joseph Federico at NJMET’s headquarters in Clifton, NJ at (973)546-5393. Please visit NJMET at https://www.njmetmtl.com.
NJMET provides professional electronic component testing to the Commercial, Military, Aerospace, Industrial and Automotive fields worldwide. Its state of the art Mission Imposter® Counterfeit Detection Process identifies counterfeit or cloned products.
>Sen. Kean Jr. pushes for another vote on ending payouts to N.J. employees for unused sick days
The Republican leader in the New Jersey Senate wants to see another vote on a measure to end huge payouts for unused sick days by retiring public employees. (The Associated Press)
>The NJEA, a big player in local school budget elections
Much is made of the New Jersey Education Association’s power in state politics and policy, but the union’s most dominant role may be in a very local place: school budget elections. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)
With an unspecified number of companies submitting proposals Monday to run cash toll collections on the state’s three major toll roads, officials have about a month to evaluate them. (Higgs, Asbury Park Press)
>Union’s proposal promises state millions in savings on benefits
The union that represents some 35,000 state and local government workers is offering to make changes in New Jersey’s health insurance system that would, as one official promised, save “tens of millions of dollars.” (Method, Asbury Park Press)
>New Jersey Redistricting Attempt to Silence Suburban Voters
There is currently a plan being discussed that will diminish registered voters in the suburban and rural areas by as much as 50% because of low voter turnout in the cities. The districts will be weighted in favor of urban areas 2 to 1.
This proposal, if passed, would in essence allow one person’s vote in an urban area to count twice as much as the same vote in the suburbs, continuing and possibly worsening, the unbalanced & skewed elections we have had in the past.
1 person = 2 votes + voter fraud + high voter turnout = your voice is SILENCED! What is being proposed is DIAMETRICALLY opposed to common sense and the Constitution. The fairest way to establish the districts is one person, one vote.
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