>Cable Network Rankings: FNC #2, MSNBC #26, CNN #32, HLN #37 in Prime Time
By Kevin Allocca on Mar 16, 2010 06:30 PMIn total Viewers, Fox News was the #2 ranked cable network last week in primetime, averaging 233,000 viewers behind USA. MSNBC was #26, CNN was #32, and HLN was #37. In total day, FNC was #4, CNN was #29, MSNBC was #33, and HLN was #35. 
>In a March 12 message sent to the email list of the Ridgewood Pool Project (RPP), co-chairs Melinda Cronk and Jane Morales make a number of points based on privileged information obtained through their participation on the Village Council–appointed Graydon Pool Committee. Although The Preserve Graydon Coalition’s repeated requests to the Council for transparency regarding the content of committee meetings were ignored or denied, I chose to abide by the agreement among Committee members not to broadcast what had occurred during the meetings. Now that that trust has been violated, I feel compelled to set the record straight.
Truth-Twist #1: “Essentially Keep a Similar Size and Shape”At a recent Committee meeting, Tom Masterson, owner of Masterson Pools in Ramsey, presented a design for a concrete pool. The March 12 RPP email message states that Masterson’s proposed design would create “a concrete barrier in the existing pond which would essentially keep a similar size and shape to what we have now.” What the RPP fails to mention is that Masterson also told the Committee that two artificial islands would have to be constructed in the middle of Graydon to house the pool machinery. Each island would be approximately the size of the existing island with the sycamore tree, which would remain. In fact, Graydon’s swimming area would not remain “essentially the same,” but would be considerably smaller.
According to the RPP, 6,000 people would have to join in order to repay the enormous bond required to build a new concrete facility. Imagine Graydon on a hot summer Sunday in July: too many people in not enough water (or parking spaces).
Truth-Twist #2: “Disinfected Water Is Paramount”RPP claims that only a concrete pool can be disinfected are untrue.
Chlorine kills only 1% of the bacteria in any swimming pool, leaving 99% to thrive, protected by a naturally occurring substance called biofilm. Recently, Graydon started using AQ-C28, an additive that destroys biofilm naturally. This product improves both the clarity and the cleanliness of the water because it eats away at the biofilm, leaving bacteria exposed to the effects of chlorine. AQ-C28 allows disinfection to occur by ridding the pool of organic material and allowing the chlorine to work more efficiently against bacteria.
At Graydon Pool Committee meetings, the RPP co-chairs have suggested ultraviolet light (UV) and ozone filtration, which are used in some pools, to help reduce the amount of chlorine needed. However, these two modalities could not adequately address the problems caused by biofilm. In addition, they entail considerable maintenance and operational costs.
AQ-C28 was used at Graydon for the first time in 2008. This year, besides being used in the water throughout the swimming season, the biocatalyst will be sprayed over the pool bottom to clear it of organic material before new sand is added. Last year AQ-C28 worked so well that 70% less chlorine was needed at Graydon, reducing costs and the impact of chemicals on swimmers.
The chemical methods to be used at Graydon in 2010 are healthy for both the environment and people. Graydon’s water not only passes but surpasses all tests required by the state to assure public health.
Truth-Twist #3: “Fraction of the Cost”
The proposed concrete pool about which the RPP co-chairs say they are “excited” would cost an estimated $8-12 million. What is that a “fraction of the cost” of, as they call it–the $13.9 million project that they proposed in January 2009? or the $10 million project they proposed on July 1, 2009? Or is it possible that they are dredging up the $22 million price tag of a project discussed prior to both of these proposals, which was rejected so quickly and so long ago that no one even remembers it? Is $8-12 million a fraction—or a distraction? Either way, Ridgewood can’t afford it.
I teach reading, but let’s do the math. Say that their concrete pool cost $10 million and that 6,000 people joined every year for 25 years, as would be needed to pay off the bond. A $150 fee per badge, as the RPP proposes, would then supply $900,000 in revenue each year. Bond payments would be $633,000 per year, leaving $267,000 for maintenance and operational costs.
Such costs at Stonybrook, a concrete pool in Hillsdale of comparable size, totaled $717,100 in 2009. The early bird price at Stonybrook for an individual over 18 will be $388 this year; for age 62 and up, $220. Family discounts are offered.
For a concretized Graydon, $450,000 would be spent each year beyond what was available through badge revenue. Where would the money come from? You guessed it: the taxpayer.
Truth-Twist #4: “Spent Over $750,000 in Ten Years”The RPP email message continues: “Over the past ten years, the Village has invested over $750,000 on Graydon improvements.” They do not mention that most of this figure, obtained by the RPP by special request to the Graydon Pool Committee, is represented by the $650,000 patio project completed in 1999 (more than 10 years ago) and included the construction of the lifeguard office and First Aid building.
Of the $100,000 remaining from the dollar amount cited, $41,000 paid for the fence and a few thousand dollars went for chemicals, which constitute a normal operational expense, not a facility improvement, as “improvements” implies.
The RPP co-chairs clearly wish to give the impression to the public (that is, voters) that lots of money is spent (read: wasted) on Graydon on an ongoing basis. But the buildings and fence are done. The Village is not routinely spending $75,000 a year, as the RPP email message implies, on improvements to Graydon. In addition, the entire list contains only one capital investment item, in 2009, for improving water quality: a diffuser to aerate the water ($17,875). It has only been in the past two years that capital improvements have been made to improve water quality. The word is getting out. March is too early to predict membership numbers for this summer.
Truth-Twist #5: “Membership Continues to Plummet”
Graydon’ s membership never dropped below 4,000 members until the Ridgewood Pool Project began its negative publicity campaign to malign the pool. In fact, the average number of members at all the local concrete pools for the 2009 season was 4,000 members.
The RPP became official in the winter of 2007. They marched in the Fourth of July parade and set up tables at Graydon to advertise their cause. That summer, Graydon’s membership did plummet from 4,100 in 2006 to 2,800 in 2007. Never before had Graydon experienced such a dramatic reduction in membership. Coincidence?
The RPP has sabotaged Graydon membership in many ways. Since this post is getting long, only one additional point follows.
In March 2009, a flyer was disseminated to the public at the RPP’s open house entitled “Graydon Health Concerns—Fact or Fiction?” This flyer was filled with half-truths, at best.
In the flyer, the RPP stated that it is “essential that the level of chlorine be limited” in Graydon because when “chlorine is added to water with organic material (such as the algae and decaying leaves in Graydon) the reaction causes trihalomethanes (THMs).” The concern is that THMs, which are absorbed through the skin, are carcinogenic.
Organic material is present in all pools, including concrete pools, and includes body oils, perspiration, urine, and more. Combine all this organic material with the huge amount of chlorine used in a concrete pool, especially a small, crowded one, and you have quite a nice THM cocktail.
While Graydon must test for THMs each month because some of its water seeps into the ground, concrete pools are not required to test for THMs at all. According to the medical literature, THM concentrations in swimming pools may exceed the EPA limit several times over. The formation of THMs in pool water is a growing public health concern.
Graydon’s test results for THMs showed “none detected” in both June and July 2009. In August the THM level was 35.2 parts per billion (ppb), more than “none” but still very safe and less than the 80 ppb permissible by both the State of New Jersey and the federal Environmental Protection Agency in drinking water. And that increase occurred only because of an undetected leak (we’re told it was a hairline crack) in the chlorine pump. This will not happen again because a chlorine flow monitor will be installed this year.
This post barely touches on the RPP’s steady manipulation of facts over several years to scare people into thinking they want or need a concrete pool. After reading it, do you believe the RPP is working in the best interest of the Village?
Suzanne Kelly
Member, Village Council Graydon Pool Committee
Co-Chair, The Preserve Graydon Coalition
>Please attend our meeting this Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 PM (doors open at 7)
Location: Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center, 475 Grove St., Ridgewood
Learn about:
Council’s Graydon Pool Committee; RFP update
How Graydon is disinfected; water quality improvements in 2009 and 2010
New badge fees with Early Bird discount, on sale April 1
Special guests:
Two candidates for Council who want Graydon preserved: Tom Riche and Bernie (Bernadette) Walsh
Certified Professional Geologist Charles Stebbins on the environmental regulations that could prevent the construction of a concrete pool
We hope to see you Tuesday night. Doors open at 7 PM; meeting starts promptly at 7:30. Please spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, and your 100 best friends.
Swimmingly,
Marcia Ringel and Suzanne Kelly, Co-Chairs
The Preserve Graydon Coalition, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
“It’s clear—we love Graydon!”
[email protected]
https://www.preservegraydon.org/
>CNN Politicker Ticker
March 18, 2010
Washington (CNN) – The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Democrats’ revised health care bill will cost $940 billion over the next 10 years, a House Democratic source told CNN Thursday.
The bill cuts the deficit by $130 billion during that period of time, according to the source. ( if you believe this I got a bridge I want to sell you)
Link To Article: https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/18/source-cbo-estimates-health-care-bill-at-940-billion/?fbid=UScvNzE7ODa
So government takeover of Healthcare will now cost a wopping $940 Billion!!! Add the Medicare cuts, tax increases and inevitable rationing and addition to the Medicaid enrollment, and 2409 pages of mandates and ultimate, unrelenting Czar (Health Commissioner) powers…and fines you will all receive if you don’t buy EXACTLY what the government tells you that you must buy…
This is the most un-American, Socialist takeover of our lives that I’ve ever seen.
We should move to impeach, fire or otherwise immediately remove from office every Senator/Congressperson voting to ram this through against the will or vote of the citizens who pay the taxes.
Respectfully submitted.
Doc Bob
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>None of this is going to be fun but the time has come to pay the bills. We’ve all lived on atificially low interest rates, easy credit and the tidal wave of Real Estate appreciation that was created. Those days are over. Real Estate (the basis for our taxes) has depreciated 20% to 30% in our area, public sector salaries and benefits have not, and that has to change.
We need to totally change the mind set of the BOE and the employees. 3.5+% annual raises, and full retirement and health care packages are things of a bygone era. For years the BOE has managed the budget to the 4% annual increase allowed by law. We need to change that mentality. Lay-offs have already started and with the Governor proposing a 2.5% cap on annual budget increases going forward and the BOE and Union already locked in to annual increases greater than that the problem is going to get worse not better as “the negative spread” between revenues and expenses widens. It is simple economics, you can’t run a business for very long if your expenses are more than your revenues.
The BOE needs to begin laying the ground work to roll back salary tiers 10% in the next contract negotiation. If our State aid is being reduced, the natural result should be a reduction in costs. (i.e. salaries) It is very simple, in my business if my revenues are down for the year my employees make less, period. If a teacher (As well as Administrator) is making $90,000 per year, the new contract should roll that back to $81,000. The only way we can afford to keep our schools at the level they are at is to cut salaries and benefits. Towns like Ridgewood, Chatham, Mendham, Wyckoff, etc… are going to end up with zero state dollars. It is bad enough when salaries and benefits are 80% to 85% of our budget, what do you think it is going to be like when they are 90% to 95% of our budget?
It will be a disaster. The combination of 90% of the budget going to salaries and benefits combined with facilities maintenance and repairs will take up the entire budget. There will be no bands, no plays, no athletics, nothing, as the BOE simply will not have the money for any activities, but the employees will be well paid, fully covered for health care, and set for life in retirement.
The natural reaction will be that a 10% roll back is too extreme, “the backlash will be too great,” “there has to be another way,” “the teachers will strike.” Real unemployement is running around 15%, there are very talented people looking for jobs, I don’t think we’d have any problem finding people to teach in the Ridgewood School System however, the BOE needs to get that thought process in their heads now and express to the Union that they are serious so that every one is prepared for it when it comes to fruition in the next year or two.
By the way, the Village Council should be thinking the same way in regards to Police, Fire, and DPW workers.
>In Rememberance of Connor Donohue, RHS Class of 2003, services will be held as follows:
Wake — Thursday 3/18 from 4pm – 8pm at:
Moriarty Funeral Home
76 Park Street
Montclair, NJ
Mass and funeral service — Friday 3/19 at 10:30am at:
Saint Cassian Church
187 Bellevue Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ
>Tim Cahill slams Barack Obama, Dems on health care
By Jessica Van Sack Wednesday, March 17, 2010 https://www.bostonherald.com
State Treasurer Tim Cahill, taking swipes at both Gov. Deval Patrick and President Obama, boosted his bipartisan chops yesterday, telling Herald columnist Howie Carr on WRKO, “I voted for John McCain, believe it or not.”
Cahill, saying he was barred from the 2008 Democratic National Convention because he wouldn’t endorse either Obama or Hillary Clinton, said, “My own party basically voted me out.”
“I was afraid of what we had already been getting in Massachusetts, and at that point in 2008, I was aware that it wasn’t working,” he said. Separately yesterday, Cahill accused Obama of “propping up” the Bay State’s health plan with federal aid in order to help push the Democrats’ plan through Congress.
“The real problem is that this . . . sucking sound of money has been going into this health-care reform,” Cahill said. “And I would argue that it’s being propped up so that the federal government and the Obama administration can drive it through.”
Gov. Deval Patrick argues the state’s universal health care program has added 1 percent to the budget, but Cahill said the real impact is buffered by federal dollars.
Meanwhile, Republican Charles Baker’s campaign said Patrick “has consistently failed to address rising health-care costs in Massachusetts.” Baker, the former Harvard Pilgrim CEO, advocated for years for greater transparency on the part of medical service providers.
Cahill called on congressional Democrats yesterday to go “back to the drawing board,” saying he fears they will “bankrupt” the country.
Patrick’s campaign yesterday used Cahill’s health-care smackdown in its latest fund-raising pitch, e-mailing supporters that Cahill “is advocating policies that could put that access, and their health, in jeopardy.” Patrick, whose administration held a hearing on health-care costs yesterday, said exorbitant premium increases and medical service costs need to be curbed through legislation he has proposed.
Article URL: https://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1240176
>By Peggy Ackermann/Statehouse Bureau
March 16, 2010, 10:13AM
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/court_says_nj_tea_party_cannot.html
A state appellate panel today ruled New Jersey’s secretary of state must accept a petition a citizens group filed to recall U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.
The court stayed its decision to allow Menendez (D-N.J.) to appeal its ruling.
NJ Tea Parties United and the Sussex County Tea Party have said they want Menendez, (D-N.J.) recalled from office because he votes for too much government spending.
• Tea Party group seeking to recall Sen. Robert Menendez appears before N.J. appeals court
The case — which puts the state in the unusual position of arguing against its own law and calling part of its constitution unconstitutional — began last fall after then-Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells rejected the committee’s notice that it intended to begin a recall effort against Menendez. The removal process requires the secretary of state to approve such a notice before a recall committee can begin generating petitions.
After the notice is approved, the committee then must secure the signatures of 25 percent of registered voters of the affected district before a recall election can be held. There were 5.2 million registered voters in November, meaning the committee would have to secure 1.3 million signatures.
Menendez lawyer Marc Elias argued that the petition drive should be halted because voters do not have the right to recall a federal lawmaker under the U.S. Constitution.
Menendez will be up for re-election in 2012.New Jersey Real-Time News
Breaking Local News from New Jersey
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/court_says_nj_tea_party_cannot.html
>
Ridgewood shop tries to build a better bagel
By Joseph R. Perone/The Star-Ledger
March 15, 2010, 7:00AM
https://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/03/ridgewood_shop_tries_to_build.html
Some look like green shamrocks.
At least they do at Wide World of Bagels, which hand rolls them for every occasion. The Ridgewood store’s shamrock-shaped bagels, which they make throughout the month of March, are its best sellers.
Owners Elliot Cohen, a former manager for Bankers Trust on Wall Street, and Scott Handler, a former car wash owner, say they plan to form a chain of franchised specialty bagel shops to compete with established players.
“My goal is to expand the name throughout northern Bergen County, then throughout New Jersey and then the United States,” Cohen said. “Bagels are profitable because it’s dough and water, and you are making sandwiches, and selling a lot of coffee, which is very profitable, as we all know with Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts.”
Shamrock-shaped bagels, sold throughout the month of March, are best sellers at Wide World of Bagels. Not all bagels are puffy and covered with poppy seeds.He plans to spend up to $200,000 to expand, with franchisees paying as much as $40,000 plus royalty fees to open a store. It won’t be easy because the bagel shape-shifters will have to fight big chains such as Manhattan Bagel, Einstein Bros. and New York Bagel.
see rest of story…
https://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/03/ridgewood_shop_tries_to_build.html
>March 15, 2010
PSE&G storm update – March 15, 2010 at 10:30 p.m.
— The latest outage number is now at 76,000 statewide, with about 61,000 customers without power in Bergen County. Additional outages have been reported throughout the day and evening due to the continuing stormy weather.
— Since the storm began this weekend, PSE&G has restored service to more than 380,000 customers – making this the worst storm in PSE&G history.
— There are also about 3,700 gas customers in Passaic and Somerset counties without service due to flooding. Gas customers will be restored in coordination with municipal inspections as the flood waters recede.
— Crews will continue to work throughout the day and night to restore service. The utility is also getting assistance from utilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania through an arrangement called mutual aid. About 200 workers from AEP and Duquesne Light are helping restore power in hard-hit Bergen towns.
— Based on the extensive damage – especially in Bergen County, PSE&G is estimating that the majority of customers will be restored by Wednesday with the remainder on Thursday.
— Customers can find information on outages, flooding and restoration at https://www.pseg.com/customer/home/safety/outage.jsp.
— Many of the outages are caused by falling trees and limbs, which bring down power lines. Downed wires should always be considered “live.” STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOWNED LINES. Do not approach or drive over a downed line and do not touch anything that it might be in contact with. To report a downed wire, call 1-800-436-PSEG and tell PSE&G the nearest cross street.
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>Trenton braces for impact
Almost everyone here at the Statehouse has a look on his face as though he’s bracing for impact. Lawmakers, particularly Republicans, worry about the way Gov. Chris Christie’s $29.3 billion budget will hit their suburban towns tomorrow as Christie tries to close an $11 billion deficit. That one figure of $1.3 billion in school funding cuts triggers political panic. Temporary suspension of rebate checks for seniors triggers panic. (Pizarro, PolitickerNJ)
https://www.politickernj.com/max/37685/trenton-braces-impact
>*This article appeared in Detroit News on August 27, 2009.
Michael F. Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10488
some points…
If you are curious about how President Barack Obama’s health plan would affect your health care, look no farther than Massachusetts. In 2006, the Bay State enacted a slate of reforms that almost perfectly mirror the plan of Obama and congressional Democrats.
Those reforms reveal that the Obama plan would mean higher health insurance premiums for millions, would reduce choice by eliminating both low-cost and comprehensive health plans, would encourage insurers to avoid the sick and would reduce the quality of care.
Massachusetts reduced its uninsured population by two-thirds — yet the cost would be considered staggering, had state officials not done such a good job of hiding it. Finally, Massachusetts shows where “ObamaCare” would ultimately lead: Officials are already laying the groundwork for government rationing…
The most sweeping provision in the Massachusetts reforms — and the legislation before Congress — is an “individual mandate” that makes health insurance compulsory. Massachusetts shows that such a mandate would oust millions from their low-cost health plans and force them to pay higher premiums.
“The effect,” writes the Boston Globe, “has been to provide more comprehensive insurance than in most other states but also to raise costs.” Premiums are growing 21to 46 percent faster than the national average, in part because Massachusetts’ individual mandate has effectively outlawed affordable health plans.
Over time, as mandates eliminate low-cost options and price controls eliminate comprehensive options, both the Massachusetts and Obama reforms will march consumers into a narrow range of health plans.
As goes choice, so goes quality. Statistics on waiting times for specialist care in Massachusetts read like a dispatch from Canada. In 2004, Boston already had the longest waits among metropolitan areas. By 2009, waits had generally shortened in other metro areas (average wait: less than three weeks) but lengthened in Boston (average wait: seven weeks), according to the Merritt Hawkins survey.
Voters who believe the Massachusetts law reduced the quality of care outnumber those who believe it helped by nearly 3-to-1 (29 percent to 10 percent).
Massachusetts has reduced the share of its population that lacks coverage from an estimated 8.3 percent in 2006 to an estimated 2.6 percent by June 2008. Former Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican who signed the Massachusetts reforms into law, boasts that “no other state has made as much progress in covering their uninsured.”
Yet that achievement carries an exorbitant price tag: at least $2.1 billion this year, according to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a figure that doesn’t even include the cost of the additional coverage discussed above. Since Massachusetts has covered just 432,000 previously uninsured residents, the cost of covering a previously uninsured family of four — at least $20,000 — is well above the average cost of an employer-sponsored family policy (about $13,000).
https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10488
>They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools
by Adam B. Schaeffer is a policy analyst with Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom and author of “The Poverty of Preschool Promises: Saving Children and Money with the Early Education Tax Credit,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 641, August 3, 2009.
https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11432
Although public schools are usually the biggest item in state and local budgets, spending figures provided by public school officials and reported in the media often leave out major costs of education and thus understate what is actually spent.
To document the phenomenon, this paper reviews district budgets and state records for the nation’s five largest metro areas and the District of Columbia. It reveals that, on average, per-pupil spending in these areas is 44 percent higher than officially reported.
Real spending per pupil ranges from a low of nearly $12,000 in the Phoenix area schools to a high of nearly $27,000 in the New York metro area. The gap between real and reported per-pupil spending ranges from a low of 23 percent in the Chicago area to a high of 90 percent in the Los Angeles metro region.
To put public school spending in perspective, we compare it to estimated total expenditures in local private schools. We find that, in the areas studied, public schools are spending 93 percent more than the estimated median private school.
Citizens drastically underestimate current per-student spending and are misled by official figures. Taxpayers cannot make informed decisions about public school funding unless they know how much districts currently spend. And with state budgets stretched thin, it is more crucial than ever to carefully allocate every tax dollar.
This paper therefore presents model legislation that would bring transparency to school district budgets and enable citizens and legislators to hold the K–12 public education system accountable.
https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11432
>PSE&G storm update – March 14, 2010 at 2:00p.m
— PSE&G is reporting an estimated 148,000 customers without power due to the storm’s damaging winds and driving rain. The majority of outages – more than 92,000 — are in Bergen County. The utility provides electric service to 2.1 million customers.
— Crews will continue to work throughout the day and night to restore service. The utility has also reached out to other utilities for assistance.
— Based on the extensive damage – especially in hard-hit Bergen County, PSE&G is estimating that the majority of customers will be restored by Wednesday with the remainder on Thursday.
— Many of the outages are caused by falling trees and limbs, which bring down power lines. Downed wires should always be considered “live.” STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOWNED LINES. Do not approach or drive over a downed line and do not touch anything that it might be in contact with. To report a downed wire, call 1-800-436-PSEG and tell PSE&G the nearest cross street.
— To report a power outage, call PSE&G’s Customer Service line: 1-800-436-PSEG. Customers who have registered with My Account can also report power outages. To do so, Log In now or register.
**The next update will be at approximately 5 p.m.
