>$6 Gas? Could Happen if Dollar Keeps Getting Weaker Published: Wednesday, 20 Apr 2011 By: Jeff Cox CNBC.com Staff Write
A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as $6 a gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions.
With the greenback coming under increased pressure from Federal Reserve policies and investor appetite for more risk, there seems little direction but up for commodity prices, in particular energy and metals.
Weakness in the US currency feeds upward pressure on commodities, which are priced in dollars and thus come at a discount on the foreign markets.
>RIDGEWOOD TEACHER RECOGNITION PROGRAM AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The Ridgewood Teacher Recognition Program affords our staff and parents an opportunity to nominate exemplary professional staff members for the award. Joining an outstanding group of previous recipients, this year’s recipients are:
You are invited to attend a reception at 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, in the Board Room at the Education Center. The Board of Education and the Federated Home and School Association are sponsoring this occasion to recognize this year’s nominees, to acknowledge the contributions of all previous nominees, and to celebrate the profession of teaching. The reception will be televised on Channel 77.
>The fact that a drug house, with drug dealers and a gun is in our neighborhoods is VERY troubling
Yes, the fact that a drug house, with drug dealers and a gun is in our neighborhoods is VERY troubling.
Law enforcement officers put their lives at risk every day because of this scourge. The presence of a gun puts anyone in that area at risk, a stray bullet is as deadly as any other.
The young adult girls from Ridgewood “were arrested leaving the home earlier and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Also taken into custody were two juveniles observed making marijuana purchases at the home.”
They were not charged in relation to the gun. The thing that so many people don’t “get” is that by purchasing/using these drugs they are automatically funding people with guns. I hope this a wakeup call to all area parents that even if you “used a little pot in the 80’s”, you should be firm with your children, drug dealers with guns are what they are going to be dealing with, and fund. I hope in the school health programs when they go through the pharmacopeia of drugs, they can now take time to show pictures of a gun also – because it is intimately related to the trade.
I didn”t mean to sound soft on drugs or guns, and I do hope particularly that the 2 young adults and 2 juveniles do eventually get their lives back on track, but as I said “Justice must be served”.
But is there a tear in my eye for them and their families? Yes.
>Balancing Budgets on Drivers’ Backs By William Lajeunesse
Cities and states across the country are broke. But instead of raising taxes, lawmakers are raising traffic fines. “This business of using fines and traffic fees as revenue sources is just flat wrong,” said Lew Uhler with the National Tax Limitation Committee. “This is simply a tax by another name.”
Nowhere is that more obvious than Los Angeles, where the city collects $1.5 million a year at a single intersection in the San Fernando Valley from drivers running a red light. Cost per ticket is $476.
Help us control the Canada Geese population in our brooks, on our fields and in our walkways. Ridgewood volunteers are looking for nests of Canada Geese. If any resident sees either a nest, or sees one goose “patrolling” an area, which means there is a nest nearby, please contact Parks and Recreation Department: 201-670-5560 and a trained GeesePeace volunteer and partner will “check it out”. GeesePeace is a nationwide organization of humane control of Canada Geese populations.
We have had success at reducing the Canada Geese population; we ask all residents to look around their property, especially if it is near a waterway. This is a sanctioned Village program.
Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner’s movements
Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronised.
The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone’s recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner’s movements using a simple program.
For some phones, there could be almost a year’s worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple’s iOS 4 update to the phone’s operating system, released in June 2010.
>Otter Signs Order Banning Health Care Reform Order Prohibits State From Receiving Federal Funds
By Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed an executive order on Wednesday that prohibits receiving federal funding for or otherwise implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
>Linda Bowden of Ridgewood was named Woman of the Year by the Irish Business Association
Linda Bowden of Ridgewood was named Woman of the Year by the Irish Business Association . She is the Northern New Jersey regional president of PNC Bank, responsible for providing executive leadership and supporting client relationship and business development initiatives across the firm’s lines of business in the region.
Bowden is active in a variety of community programs, including The Family Service League in Montclair, the Adler Aphasia Center in Maywood, Youth Consultation Services, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and William Paterson University.
“Each year the Irish Business Association recognizes a broad slice of the New Jersey business community with Irish roots,” said Al Nunan, the association’s president. “There are 1.3 million New Jersey residents claiming Irish descent and Irish-Americans are found in every corner of commerce and community. This year’s honorees reflect both the breadth of the Irish in our state, and the widening footprint of the Irish Business Association.”
Tickets for the awards dinner, meanwhile, are $75 and may be purchased through the Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce by calling (908)352.0900 or visiting www.gatewaychamber.com
Regardless of the math sanctioned by the BOE, trust The Travel Center / American Express to add ADVENTURE + SUN for more family fun.
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TRENTON — Plans to create a permanent public school choice program in New Jersey continue to advance in the state legislature.
The measure would allow parents to move their children to schools across district lines. It would replace a pilot program that expired in 2005, though many participating districts continue to informally honor its arrangements.
The Assembly passed the measure late last month 75-0 and sent it to the Senate, where it has been referred to the Education Committee. That panel, though, has not yet scheduled a hearing on the proposal.
However, the proposal is expected to be discussed Monday when state education officials appear before the Assembly’s budget committee to discuss their 2011 fiscal year spending plan.
If the measure becomes law, schools seeking to participate in the program would apply to the state education commissioner, detailing services available to their students. The applications also would include an accounting of fiscal issues that schools could face by taking part in the program.
Students who want to transfer would have to apply to their district of choice, which would decide whether to accept students based in part on their interests in the school’s offerings. Schools also would be allowed to hold lotteries if the number of applications outpace the number of available seats.
Students’ home districts would have to provide or pay for transportation for elementary school pupils who live more than two miles from the receiving district, and for secondary school students who live more than 2-1/2 miles from their new school. Sending districts would not have to pay these costs if the new school is more than 20 miles from the student’s home.
“Public school choice is an important step to ensuring each child has the ability to attend a school that is best suited to their individual needs and talents,” said Assemblywoman Mila Jasey, D-South Orange. “More importantly, public school choice programs can improve educational outcomes for students without seeing taxpayer money funneled out of New Jersey’s strong public school system.”
Jasey, a former member of the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education, sponsored the measure in the Assembly with fellow Democrats Joan Voss, a retired educator from Fort Lee, and Paul Moriarty of Turnersville. The primary sponsors in the Senate are Shirley Turner, D-Lawrence, and Republican Leader Tom Kean Jr.
Don’t be too quick to suggest an on line newspaper is the way to go!
The Ridgewood News publishes several successful weeklies to many local districts. They are distributed gratis and are the most financially solvent of all the Newspapers. They produce AD income.
PS the Ridgewood News as one of the “Legally Required” municipal notice publications,can’t be given away. It’s rates and costs are determined by verified “paid distribution circulation. That includes the Record.
On line pages and Blogs don’t produce advertisers income for many employees and are self serving.
Says this well informed “My Community” Editor, without a payroll to meet, but with a large protected readership list (not for sale)that many would like to have or use. Reader answer :
you must work for North Jersey Media. Defending the Dinosaur Media and not recognizing that the move to all forms of digital media is basically inevitable.
As for “Legally required” notices, that is more of a nod to the unions. Have you seen a classified page section lately? It’s wafer thin. Public notices (billed at a heavy discount) are the great majority of the column inches. Soon, we’ll see the “legally required” move to the town/village site (like ridgewoodnj.net) or on video channels (Cablevision, FiOS,etc)
The carbon-based model is dying a slow and painful death. If they only read “Being Digital” by Nicholas Negroponte in the early 90’s, they would have a clue now.
As for the Record, if they are not the most self-serving paper I have ever read, I’m not sure who is. I stopped bying it, except for Sundays, over a year ago and my recycling crate barely gets full in a month.
I’m not saying that blogs are the only place to advertise, but ads in all new media are on a steep ascent. My money is on them.
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>How the heck is one random uninformed prediction front paged? Riche “has shown that small changes are oftentimes as important as big flashy projects.” Really? Sounds nice, but how? And how are Walsh and Riche representing fiscal responsibility? Riche’s record says exactly the opposite. (Village Hall anyone?)
What was his big accomplishment when he served? Take your time, because there isn’t one. Then he “decided” not to run for reelection. Then he ran again in ’04 with Harlowe. The crew here has got to get their heads out of the sand. Walsh doesn’t have one idea about how to fix things. Not one.
She says that nothing can be done at Graydon because it’s in a flood plain. Her running mate built a Taj Majal Village Hall in the same flood plain. Fiscal Responsibility? How much is Riche’s pool at Upper Ridgewood Tennis Club going to run us? Proven leadership? How about saying, in the middle of a debate after identifying a specific home, that the family that rents it is about to be evicted? Untrue and slanderous. Real leadership there. Time for some new names so we can finally get something done around here.
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>Ridgewood officials say rift between Governor Christie and teachers to blame for budget defeat Saturday, April 24, 2010 BY EVONNE COUTROS The Record STAFF WRITER
RIDGEWOOD — Officials say the public fight between Governor Christie and the New Jersey Education Association — and the unwillingness of teachers to take a wage freeze — were to on Tuesday.
“We lost,” Board of Education Vice President Robert Hutton said. “The turnout at the polls in Ridgewood was over the top as board of education elections go. In the overall scheme,the governor and the NJEA warfare was brought to the forefront in this election.”
