>To allow the Bush-era tax relief to expire for those families making $250,000 or more,” wrote Lance. “This would have a disastrous effect on New Jersey’s working families and small businesses.
Lance dings Geithner ahead of Prez visit to Edison
Coming here to Edison is fine, but put some distance on those weekend remarks of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Lebanon) told President Barack Obama in a letter he fired off to the White House this afternoon. A day before Obama’s drop-in to a town cut in half by the 6th and 7th Congressional districts, Lance called on the Democratic chief executive to back bench Geithner. (Pizarro, PolitickerNJ)
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He works 50 to 60 hours a week. Goes to all of the sporting events during the week and on weekends. He attends all committee and board meetings at night. Has a Ed.D. Countless years of experience. Is in charge of a 89 million dollar budget. Oversees the education of over 5000 students. Responsible for 10 schools. Responsible for the employment of over 500 employees.
So what does a private company pay a CEO for a company this size? Certainly a lot more then the $220,000.00 salary Fishbein receives.
Those of you out there that think the position is so easy try applying for it. Do you have the credentials? Experience? Knowledge?
So stop saying he is over paid. In fact he is probably underpaid.
The governor is a thug who continues to take money from Bergen County and giving it to all of the urban districts. WHERE ARE ALL OF THE JOBS THAT CHRISTIE PROMISED TO CREATE DURING HIS CAMPAIGN? He has added to unemployment but has done nothing to create one job beyond his offices.
Christie is not a hero, he is destroying NJ and continues to make all public employees out to be the villains. This is not leadership. He is acting like a 5 year old bully, who thinks he can still use his weight and size to push kids around on the playgrounds of Newark.
>DONOVAN LEADS McNERNEY BY 12 POINTS AMONG LIKELY VOTERS, 49% – 37%, IN BERGEN COUNTY EXECUTIVE RACE
Republican County Clerk Kathe Donovan leads incumbent Dennis McNerney among ALL voter demographics in the upcoming election for Bergen County Executive; Poll was commissioned by NJ Laborers’ Political Action Committee
“Kathe Donovan is well known and well liked by a majority of voters in all voting demographics and is poised to win on November 2nd,” said Raymond M. Pocino, vice president and eastern regional manager of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA). LIUNA has endorsed Kathe Donovan for election as Bergen County’s next County Executive.
Other key findings include:
Donovan currently defeating McNerney 48% to 38% among seniors 52% to 32% among independent and unaffiliated voters 50% to 33% among voters 18 to 44 years old 52% to 35% among men President Obama has a 37% approve, 51% disapprove rating in Bergen County. Governor Christie has a 48% approve, 36% disapprove rating in Bergen County.
“Simply put, it’s virtually impossible for Dennis McNerney to win, given the numbers and Kathe’s overwhelming popularity among all voter groups,” said Jeanne Baratta, Communications Director for the Donovan campaign. “Voters know Donovan and trust her. Donovan won re-election as County Clerk in 2008 during a massive democrat landslide and Kathe Donovan will win again in 2010.”
The survey was conducted prior to the recent Bergen County Improvement Authority scandal which led to the resignation of its Democrat chair, and subsequent calls for investigation of that agency.
Methodology: This automated poll was conducted July 14-17 with 833 likely voters for the laborer’s Political Action Fund. Voters with prior vote history were contacted with a special emphasis on G09, G07 and G06 to reflect turnout in a non-presidential year. Plus, a “vote intensity screen” was used to filter out voters unlikely to vote in the upcoming election. The margin of error for an 833 sample size is +/-3.39% at the 95% confidence level.
Susquehanna Polling and Research is a Pennsylvania-based, survey research and polling firm for GOP clients and conducts polls both nationwide and in many Northeastern and Midwestern states.
I am sad to report that senior, Caitlin Alvaro, passed away today. Our Crisis Intervention counselors will be available to meet with any parents and students who need assistance. Lauren DePinto and Kevin Feeley will be in their offices at the high school from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. If you feel your child needs individual help, please contact me at 201-670-2800, Ext.20501 or email me and I will make arrangements for support. Thank you. Jack
>Proposed N.J. legislation would change charter school guidelines
A proposed bill would allow charter schools to be authorized more quickly, with more diversity, and in greater numbers in New Jersey. If passed, the bill would grant Rutgers University the power to approve charters and would limit review time for charter applications to five months. Applicants could submit charters on a rolling basis, and charter schools could include single-sex, online, and special-needs schools. (Wulf, Inquirer)
Hon. Matthew Boxer New Jersey State Comptroller Office of the State Comptroller PO Box 024 Trenton, NJ 08625
Dear Mr. Boxer:
Serious concerns have been raised about the administration of the Bergen County Improvement Authority (BCIA) as the result of recent shocking reports in the media of statements by co-workers of its Chairman alleging misuse of the BCIA for personal gain before a federal judge, and what is apparently an ongoing federal investigation by the United States Attorney’s Office (See eg, The Record, Editorial “Scandal and exit, Implicated BCIA chief resigns” Sunday, July 25, 2010 and prior reports therein on Friday, July 24, 2010 and Saturday, July, 25, 2010). The Agency’s chairman has resigned evidently as a result of allegations of wrongdoing. Presumably unrelated to these allegations, the Agency’s Executive Director has announced his pending retirement.
The BCIA is a creature of Bergen County.In my opinion, it operates without appropriate oversight while controlling hundreds of millions of dollars of expense, revenue and guarantees through four separate budgets. It is a jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved through audits conducted by a thoroughly independent office.
The office of State Comptroller is the appropriate agency to audit the BCIA. You have the resources and integrity required to conduct a comprehensive review of this independent, free standing by product of Bergen County government.
I thank you for your consideration of this request and I look forward to hearing from you.
Gov. Christie dropped the hammer on the exorbitant wages superintendents in some of the state’s more than 600 school districts make. That act would hold most to under the $175,000 the governor makes unless they work in the biggest cities or get bonuses. It would take effect with new contracts and maybe by December rules would be in place. Well, this is New Jersey and the expected happened: Word has it superintendents were trying to rush contract extensions through. (Ingle, Gannett)
>Can NJ keep its pension promises? No way, many officials concede
Jack Curtis was driving with his wife to the grocery store recently when the 63-year-old elementary school principal from Morris County announced they needed to downsize their retirement dreams. Why? Because the state’s pension system is so far in arrears that Curtis doesn’t think he can count on it anymore. The reality of New Jersey’s pension system crisis is sinking in. (Method, Gannett)
>Healthcare Rationing something to look fiorward to in the USA
Axe falls on NHS services
NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.
Some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions of pounds, despite government promises that front-line services would be protected.
Patients’ groups have described the measures as “astonishingly brutal”.
An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered widespread cuts planned across the NHS, many of which have already been agreed by senior health service officials. They include:
* Restrictions on some of the most basic and common operations, including hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery and orthodontic procedures.
* Plans to cut hundreds of thousands of pounds from budgets for the terminally ill, with dying cancer patients to be told to manage their own symptoms if their condition worsens at evenings or weekends.
* The closure of nursing homes for the elderly.
* A reduction in acute hospital beds, including those for the mentally ill, with targets to discourage GPs from sending patients to hospitals and reduce the number of people using accident and emergency departments.
* Tighter rationing of NHS funding for IVF treatment, and for surgery for obesity.
* Thousands of job losses at NHS hospitals, including 500 staff to go at a trust where cancer patients recently suffered delays in diagnosis and treatment because of staff shortages.
see full story : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html
The Smart Girl New Jersey Summit will bring together conservative activists along with some of the most prominent conservatives in the state of New Jersey. This event is being held in the beautiful historic Molly Pitcher Inn.
Join activists from around the region, for a day of socializing, training, and motivating speeches.
Debra Burlingame-Keep America Safe
Laura Drain-National Hispanic Republican Coalition
Steve Lonegan-American For Prosperity
Anna Little-Congressional Candidate District 6
Pastor Herbert Lusk-Former Faith Based Leader for George W. Bush
Betsy McCaughey-Healthcare Advocate and Former Lt.Governor of NY
Christine O’Donnell-Senatorial Candidate for Delaware
Katie O’Malley-Human Events Magazine
Grassroots Candidate Panel (Alan Bateman, Bruce Baker and David Corsi)
Constitutional Panel (Leigh-Ann Bellew and Bill Miller)
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>Like most residents I have had little interaction with the police. I suspect is not the case with the person who entered this post. No doubt there might be some other motive at work here.
None the less, I don’t see the problem with a 12 hour shift. Some quick math will most likely tell you that the police are still working the same number of hours a year. While I do not know the specifics as to how the RPD operate, I do know that many industries which maintain a 24/7 work staff do operate on 12 hours shifts. In my industry we support public utilities throughout the country and in Canada. It is very common for public utility line staffs to work 12 hour schedules. It has been seen as a benefit in that industry and I suspect the use of 12 hour schedules for police staffs were brought about due to the same line of reasoning. Perhaps larger departments like Paterson do the same thing, I am not sure. I doubt that the Ridgewood PD is the first and only police department to work this schedule.
What I am sure of is that any reduction in personnel will have little to do with an 8 hour schedule or a 12 hour schedule. Productivity will not be a key factor either. The police are not a revenue producing service, they are not out there to make money for a private for-profit corporation. As a citizen I do not see any benefit in a police department that is nothing more than a squad of uniformed revenue collectors.
Ridgewood does have a low crime rate, I feel safe walking the streets. If Ridgewood were Paterson I would not live here. A low crime rate does not just occur naturally, there are many factors that keep the crime rate low and the police are a key element. That is true anywhere, not just Ridgewood.
When I lived in a tree lined suburban community in California community 15 years ago that was not the case, gang related crime was a major concern. I did not live in the hood, I lived in a upper middle class suburb. You never saw an officer on patrol and they took 45 minutes to respond when you called (or so my fellow residents maintained in their letters to the editor). My small city refused to hire more officers due to the cost, yet my taxes were high there also.
Reducing the number of personnel means reduced service, plain and simple. If we want to contain costs then we are going to be forced to accept less service from all branches of government. The questions is what are we willing to give up and what will the true cost be in the long run? I suspect my answer to that question will be far different from that of the poster of this thread who appears to be motivated by some sort of a grudge.
I don’t see any big raises in the future for any public employees or increases in their numbers, the police included. However, I am very leery of any reduction in their numbers be it through attrition or layoffs. To do so would be in open invitation to the criminal element from within and outside or borders. A couple of soccer moms talking on their cell phones while driving and difficulty crossing the street will become the least of our problems.
>12;03 your scare tactic comment won’t cut it. We have an ample staff on the PD. Actually overstaffed. If I was a PBA member, I would be trying to do the best to show my employer *THE TAXPAYER* the value they received for the taxes they paid.
The pay scale is very generous, as are the benefits. The work rules permit you to have more free time than the residents. 3 days one week? 4 days the next? Do tell us how those 12 hour shifts add up. It was conceived by the PBA PURELY to benefit the officers, and they convinced the ‘the Chief’ at that time that it would work. How you could fight off an old lady after working 9-10-12 hours is beyond me(especially observing the gut hanging over the beltline of most) To expect automatic raises, to expect no layoffs, to expect no furloughs is fantasy land. Be thankful you have a job…. so “IF” you want to convince your employer of your worth, perhaps now is a time to show how to better make use of the current level of staffing. Work 5 days a week like the rest of us. Have varying shifts so that there is adequate coverage at peak times. Get the brass off their ass and out on the street. (I actually noticed a superior in a white shirt walking Ridgewood ave on Saturday.-take a hint from him) We do not need multiple levels of Seargents, Leuitenants to supervise every single detective, juvenile, crime prevention etc.
Too much BS. For all the BS I read about cops having to make split second life or death decisions, one would expect that for what you are paid you can think and do some actual police work other than answering a 911 call and typing it into the computer and dumping onto the detective bureau. Nobody expects BS ticket blitzes but to whine about ‘not enough cops’ to those of us who have watched you ‘protect’ the coffee shops and van neste square won’t be very convincing. Being proactive might just save your job. Remember, we all read the police blotter. This isn’t Paterson or NYC.
· We had a bond referendum shoved down our throats under the specter of vanishing funds from state grants · We had or state school aid eliminated this year · We had 2 years of multi-million dollar school budget deficits · After the school budget was defeated, the Village Council reduced it by a whopping 1/10 of a percent · We laid off or retired around 30 town workers and more may follow After all the angst and tumult in this past year, now we’re getting LIGHTS for our artificial fields?!?
During the dog days of summer, our geniuses at the Board of Ed decide that gadfly Jack Carroll’s idea to add field lights to RHS was a good idea. But don’t worry, sez Big Jack – he’ll shake down various village sports groups (like was done for Maple Field) to offset the cost. If that’s not enough, we’ll take come of the overbudgeted funds from the bond referendum. (Remember, Laurie said that they added a little (10% – our money) extra padding to the referendum – just in case!!)
Carroll has been playing puppetmaster for almost 20 years and this is his latest act. The Board of Ed decided it was cool to “roll the dice” (especially when few were watching – or so they thought). The Village has be mostly against turf fields and now we’ll have 3. And lights now too that will illuminate the new Staduim field and bleachers? How do they pull that off when the state New Jersey won’t even allow a bloody concession stand to be built? Ask the Vandevender Foundation about that one.
This whole process stinks to high heaven. I bet you didn’t realize that when you signed your kids up for a rec sports team, you’d be paying for lighting a field you may never set foot upon. You probably thought that the Board of Ed may want to take it easy with the spending and scheming considering they are staring down new state budget rules and regs – not to mention a possibly explosive REA contract negotiation.
