>‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
CLEVELAND, Ohio (CBS Cleveland) – An “Occupy Cleveland” protester tells police she was raped in her tent over the weekend.
Cleveland police are investigating an alleged sexual assault incident Saturday at the “Occupy Cleveland” rally involving a 19-year-old female student from Parma.
According to police reports, the 19-year-old student was instructed by “Occupy Cleveland” personnel to “share a tent with the suspect due to a shortage of tents.” The suspect identified himself as “Leland” to the woman. The woman told police that after she had thought the suspect went to sleep in his own bed, she slept in a sleeping bag provided to her by the rally.
>Ten things to fix in Ridgewood (in no particular order):
1. Eliminate cross-walks…drivers don’t pay attention anayway so let’s end the charade. 2. Turn Graydon into a clear water pool. 3. Put lights somewhere on the west side….preferably at Willard. 4. Eliminate the Shade Tree Comm-n….having to replace my sidewalks every 8 years for stupid Oak trees planted by the town is insulting. 5. Have the Council vote on what “authors” can actually have book signings at Bookends. 6. Make Ridgewood and Franklin Avenues 1-way thoroughfares (in the CBD). 7. Move the BoE election to November. 8. Pave Grove Street so it doesn’t look like a highway in Bangalore. 9. Open up a Van Dykes on Pleasant Ave. 10. Have Policeman or an aux cop direct pedestrians when they come out of the train station…..
>5 reasons why income inequality is a myth — and Occupy Wall Street is wrong By James Pethokoukis October 18, 2011, 10:54 am
Sorry, the story just doesn’t hold together. According to left-wing think tanks, columnist and bloggers—and, of course, the Occupy Wall Street radicals—the top 1 percent have been exploiting the 99 percent for decades. The rich have been getting richer at the expense of the middle class and poor.
Really? Just think for a second: If inequality had really exploded during the past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism? Shouldn’t just the opposite have happened as beleaguered workers united and demanded a vastly expanded social safety net and sharply higher taxes on the rich? What happened to presidents Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry? Even Barack Obama ran for president as a market friendly, third-way technocrat.
Nope, the story doesn’t hold together because the financial facts don’t support it. And here’s why:
>A Tale of Two Protests: Media Cheer Wall Street Occupiers But Jeered Tea PartiersStreet Occupiers But Jeered Tea Partiers Study: ABC, CBS and NBC loaded their broadcasts with 33 full stories in just 11 days of coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests. By: Geoffrey Dicken
The Occupy Wall Street protestors have received overwhelmingly positive coverage from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) news networks, as they used their airtime to publicize and promote the aggressively leftist movement. In just the first eleven days of October, ABC, CBS and NBC flooded their morning and evening newscasts with a whopping 33 full stories or interview segments on the protesters. This was a far cry from the greeting the Tea Party received from the Big Three as that conservative protest movement was initially ignored (only 13 total stories in all of 2009) and then reviled.
Where the Tea Party was met with skeptical claims of their motivations — with some reporters claiming they were merely corporate backed puppets and others implying they were spurred on by their racist opposition to the first black president – the Occupy Wall Street crowd was depicted as an almost genial “grassroots” movement.
>Down Town Ridgewood : Make the Central Business District a Pedestrian area
Get the cars out, make it walking only, increase the outdoor seating for coffe shops and restaurants, attract more retail business and divert the traffic to alternative routes. Create a smart parking solution – not on the main road.
Why are there so many cars driving up and down this street anyway?
Do we really need to use this route to get somewhere or can we just shut it down and make it nice and attractive?
I have seen it in other villages and of course a lot of yelling in the beginning but afterwards everybody likes it and business was coming back too.
I know, wishfull thinking and americas beloved automobile will win over any kind of thought outside the box – Sad and true!
Includes free ballroom dance lesson and prize for best costume.
All are invited to enjoy an evening of ballroom dancing and refreshments at the annual Ridgewood YMCA Halloween Masquerade Ball on Saturday, October 29 from 5:00pm-7:30pm at the Ridgewood YMCA.
Single and couples are welcome at the event, which will begin with a free, half hour ballroom dance lesson with Dance Master Lestat. The evening will continue with dancing and refreshments from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Prizes will also be awarded for the best costume, although wearing of costumes is optional.
Tickets are $15 per person or $25 per couple and include a 20% discount coupon for dinner, valid October 30 at The Office and Smith Brothers restaurants and October 31-November 3 at Marcello’s and The Stable restaurants.
To purchase tickets, please contact Carol Livingstone at 201.444.5600, ext 330 or email [email protected]
N.J. bill would use open-space money for flood buyouts
Owners of more than 1,000 flood-prone homes could receive buyouts from New Jersey towns under a proposal that received unanimous support after its first legislative hearing Thursday.
The legislation permits municipalities to establish so-called Blue Acres programs to complement the state’s Green Acres program that enables towns to acquire land for parks or conservation, said Sen. Bob Gordon, a Democrat whose Bergen County district was hit hard by flooding from Hurricane Irene and other summer storms.
Money raised through local open-space taxes – subject to voter approval – could be used to buy out homeowners, knock down flood-prone structures, and turn the property into parks. (Delli Santi, The Associated Press)
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>“No Money” : Habernickel was bought, many other projects undertaken, and money was found for those – and still seems to be found- even for retroactive raises
One person we know of who was badly affected by the non-connected storm drains asked the Village to fix that for many years, and sadly he died still waiting for the problem to be resolved. It still is unresolved.
Many times his family’s property was damaged. Many times he requested the Village take care of the problem – and was told over and again “no money” and that they would get to it when there was money available. This pre-dates fields, turf and Habernickel.
Other people we know have asked that very worn curbs be fixed for years and received the same answer.
And on our street, Village planted trees many years ago and then refused to care for them when they uprooted walks and driveways, saying they’d retroactively changed the law and the trees now are yours- but you must get permission if you want to cut them down.
If you read elsewhere on this blog too, you’ll see that recently a new proposal to give more Village trees to homeowners was made though tabled (for now). And also that the Mgr just announced a discharge fee would be applied to some homes.
Many streets are also in bad shape and need repairs around the Village.
It wasn’t as much about sewer connections as these other things, though years ago the Village didn’t charge you for the under-the-street part if that failed, either- as other posters have noted. You were not responsible to pay for the part under the street, just under your own property. If you have to dig up the street, many fees and charges apply and there is a big and expensive process involved.
In the interim though, Habernickel was bought, many other projects undertaken, and money was found for those – and still seems to be found- even for retroactive raises.
But apparently not for all the other stuff – that’s the issue- why not?
An end to No Child Left Behind could spell an end to outside tutoring in NJ
With all the talk of New Jersey and other states seeking waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, one result could be an end to the growing reliance on outside tutoring firms for students in the lowest-performing schools.
In the last available count, more than 23,000 New Jersey students in 2009-2010 availed themselves of the free after-school tutoring that NCLB requires schools to offer if they fall short of achievement requirements. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)
>Valley Renewal : Having these special meetings allows more citizens the opportunity to witness this phase of the process and offer input they were denied in the Planning Board phase
As far as the current Village Council meetings are concerned, Yes, experts did presentations to the Planning Board. And the Planning Board made it’s decision.
The next phase of the process is for the issue to come before the Village Council, who also will hear from experts and have a chance to question them before deciding whether or not to introduce an ordinance in support of the Planning Board’s decision. They have graciously responded to amount of public interest in this issue which is particularly important since the Planning Board did everything they could to disrespect and disregard the citizens of Ridgewood. Having these special meetings allows more citizens the opportunity to witness this phase of the process and offer input they were denied in the Planning Board phase.
The time the Village Council is spending on this is part of the process by which changes like this are decided. The meetings are a necessity either way. The fact that they have made them more easily accessible to the public is commendable.
> OWS Protester Proclaims ‘The Jews Control Wall St.’ In Zuccotti Park Rant
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — “Blame the Jews.”
That’s the message one Wall Street protester was trying to spread in Lower Manhattan to anyone that would listen.
A new video posted to YouTube shows the protester loudly and aggressively proclaiming “the Jews control Wall Street.”
In the nearly 6-minute video, the man is seen standing in Zuccotti Park ranting against Israel and Jews while holding a sign reading “Hitler’s Bankers – Wall St.”
The protestor, who would not give his name to those gathered around him, is also seen arguing with members of the public who took offense to his choice of words.
A number of others also ask the protester if Fox News had paid him to stand and display his sign to which he responded: “[expletive] Fox News, that’s [expletive]. [Expletive] Jew made that up.”
>For every instance of kids walking into the street without looking I could site examples of mothers with baby carriages waiting in crosswalks as cars zoom past.
The fact of the matter is the majority of pedestrians killed or seriously hurt in town in recent years were in crosswalks. The law clearly states that pedestrians have the right of way and drivers MUST STOP for them.
The problem in Ridgewood is compounded by drivers who get annoyed by situations that “force them to stop” just like you expressed. Usually there is a very good reason for the car in front of you being stopped – they are probably obeying the law and yielding to a pedestrian. The impatient driver will make the determination that the driver in front of them must be daydreaming and pull their car around the stopped car, usually with the pedal on the floor….OPPS, I just ran over a person in the crosswalk! Oh well, I’ll just get a ticket for failing to yield to a pedestrian and go on with my life.
Bringing “Wall Street” into this issue is silly and irrelevant but since you did – The only obvious similarity between the two issue is this: Neither the self important Wall Street hot shots (who ran the world economy into a ditch) nor the distracted drivers who hit pedestrians in crosswalks go to jail. Oh, and both groups live in Ridgewood. What a surprise!
Finally, why is enforcing the law as it pertains to pedestrians in crosswalks or jaywalking for that matter an example of a “nanny state” mentality? If someone came up behind you on the Ridgewood Ave and stole your wallet out of your pocket, I’d bet you’d go straight to the police, right? I might argue (in your world at least) that you should have been more careful, had your wallet in your front pocket with your hand over it to prevent someone from pickpocketing you. I could go on to argue that by reporting reporting the crime to the police you were looking for the big bad Government to bail you out of your own stupidity. Just because you’re clearly inconvenienced by the law that compels you to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks doesn’t make the law go away. Do everyone a favor and slow down, yield to pedestrians and help solve the problem we have in Ridgewood. The life you save just might be one of your loved ones.
