More than $70 billion in wealth left New Jersey between 2004 and 2008 as affluent residents moved elsewhere, according to a report released Wednesday that marks a swift reversal of fortune for a state once considered the nation’s wealthiest.
Conducted by the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College, the report found wealthy households in New Jersey were leaving for other states — mainly Florida, Pennsylvania and New York — at a faster rate than they were being replaced.
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“The wealth is not being replaced,” said John Havens, who directed the study. “It’s above and beyond the general trend that is affecting the rest of the northeast.”
This was not always the case. The study – the first on interstate wealth migration in the country — noted the state actually saw an influx of $98 billion in the five years preceding 2004. The exodus of wealth, then, local experts and economists concluded, was a reaction to a series of changes in the state’s tax structure — including increases in the income, sales, property and “millionaire” taxes.
“This study makes it crystal clear that New Jersey’s tax policies are resulting in a significant decline in the state’s wealth,” said Dennis Bone, chairman of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and president of Verizon New Jersey.
>Rewards Card Wednesday Deals of the week 2/03/2010
Ok, I know I’m a day late but it was worth the wait. This week came up with an offer on a very popular cheese, famous even, Cypress Grove Midnight Moon. This firm goat cheese, imported by Cypress Grove from a cheese making partner in Holland, is sold for as much as $27.99 in the big organic food stores, and on “sale” as low as $19.99 at discount grocery chains. Our “reward card blowout price” this week is an unbelievable $15.99 per pound! Supplies are limited at this great price, so grab it quick!
Also, we have a great deal on Jarlsberg, and a terrific Champignon Mushroom Brie that is ready to go and if you know brie, you know how important that is, both offered 30 to 40% below regular pricing. Our special pricing on Lucini Parm (up to buy 4 get 6) and Le Roule, (buy one get one free) as well as the Carr’s crackers, (two for five bucks) deals all continue. Plus a couple of more below.
Reg Sale Midnight Moon………………………$27.99………………..$15.99 Aged six months or more, this pale, ivory cheese is firm, dense and smooth with the slight graininess of a long-aged cheese. The flavor is nutty and brown-buttery, with prominent caramel notes. The wheel is finished in a beautiful black wax. Made in Europe exclusively for Cypress Grove Chevre. Reg Sale Baked Brie……………………………..$27.99………………..$19.99 w/ blackberry guava jam in phyllo dough Perfect for the game, just pop it in the oven for 15 min and you’ll be a star at halftime! Reg Sale Champignon Mushroom Brie………….$16.99……………….$9.99 Special game, special cheese, special pricing, special guests. (enough) This cheese has reached the apex of readiness, and is in “super” form. Soft, creamy, lush, w/that mushroom scent and taste ….does it get any better?…..perfect! Reg Sale Jarlsberg………………………………….$9.99……………….$5.99 Cube it, dip it, slice it, melt it, pop it…feed the crowd….our new everyday low price!
Le Roule………BUY ONE GET ONE FREE w/50 points…….$5.99 Save 50% on this 5oz wheel of fresh gourmet spread able cheese rolled in garlic and herb. Looks good…..tastes good…easy!
Reg Sale Lucini Parmigianino Reggiano………$29.99/22.99……………$14.99 Buy two only…….………….…………….$20.00 Buy three…… get four w/100 points…..$30.00 Buy four………get six w/200 points……$40.00 As we said before the best parm money can buy! Aged, organic, ask for a taste!
Carr’s Crackers………….Buy one box …$3.75…Two for ….$5.00 Famous and at a price equal to the “traders” of the world!
DELI We slice the top quality meats we use for our sandwiches. Have a taste when you order! Reg Sale Specials …per lb..Turkey Breast………….$7.99………..$3.99 Black Forest Ham………$9.99……….$4.99 Roast Beef………………$9.99………..$5.99 Pastrami…………………$10.99.……..$5.99 Imported Ham w/herbs….$11.99………$9.99 Capocollo………………..$11.99………$9.99 Prosciutto di Parma…………………$25.99………$14.99 (not a mis-print) Speck (smoked Prosciutto)…………$25.99………$14.99
Shooters…..Hot cherry peppers w/provolone and prosciutto…..$8.99 lb Last minute addition for the platters you build. Maybe we’ll taste ‘em on Saturday!
CHEESE SHOP TORTE……………………………….$13.99 Don’t forget this famous appetizer when you shop for the big game. They’ll always remember the unique taste, the game? “Hey, where you’d get that cheese thing with the hot pepper jelly at that great Super bowl party you had”?
Watch for our Saturday Food Demo and Wine Tasting e-mail on Fridays
>At the insistence of Deputy Mayor Keith D. Killion, Village Council members effectively killed a proposal to increase Graydon Pool membership fees for the 2010 season.
Village Parks and Recreation Director Timothy Cronin and Village Manager Kenneth Gabbert had proposed the following changes:
a) $10.00 increase in seasonal membership (from $75.00 to $85.00)
b) Senior citizens (now free) would have been charged $15.00 for the season
c) Elimination of coupon books
Citing a continued poor economy, and a desire to encourage as many residents as possible to use the controversial facility, Council members agreed with Killion that fees should be held in place for the entire 2010 season.
Following the public decision last night, resident Roger Wiegand proposed to Killion that fees actually be lowered to draw more users to the pool. Killion indicated that he would take Wiegand’s suggestion under consideration.
A proposal to modify The Valley Hospital’s expansion plan by putting parking and other facilities underground is doable, but handling groundwater during construction would be a problem, a geology expert told the Ridgewood Planning Board.
“It’s technically feasible” to build parking for 2,000 cars and locate hospital mechanicals underground, said Larry Keller, director of geotechnical engineering for Whitestone Associates of Warren. But he said excavation would involve discharging “lots of groundwater” as well as digging through bedrock.
The proposal to go underground – suggested by a consultant to the planning board — is favored by residents who strongly oppose Valley’s original expansion plan.
The original Valley plan calls for replacing two buildings with three new ones and erecting a parking deck — increasing the hospital’s size by 67 percent. But nearby residents worry that those buildings would overshadow their neighborhood. The modified proposal would set the buildings farther back from the residential streets.
Keller was hired by the Planning Board to study whether the modified building plan would work. “Part of this plan is an assessment of the groundwater, and it would be worthwhile to know now, rather than during construction,” how to pump it out and what to do with it, Keller told the Planning Board late Tuesday night.
Another concern would be how to support structures during excavation which, depending on how far buildings are set back, might encroach on property along Steilen Avenue, to the east, he said….
“I understand the village typically wouldn’t want blasting,” Keller said. The blasting charges are small, and might make for a shorter construction schedule, but would create vibration of nearby property that would have to be monitored, he said.
Raymond Skorupa, the medical planning consultant who last fall recommended the underground parking plan, said Keller’s report hadn’t changed his mind, “but I have a better understanding of the impediments.”
“We’d like to see more of the hospital space below grade,” Skorupa said. But it’s up to Valley to decide how much to spend on the project and to the surrounding community to decide on “the trade-off of going deeper, but having to endure the construction, and maybe more trucks,” he said.
Keller and Skorupa were hired by the Planning Board, and paid with escrow funds from Valley. Board Chairman David Nicholson asked Skorupa to return in three weeks with more options. …
Valley officials are concerned that underground construction would disrupt the neighborhood and make the hospital vulnerable to Hurricane Katrina-like flooding.
Paul Gould, spokesman for Concerned Residents of Ridgewood, said that argument was “bogus,” because there are no bodies of water near Valley to flood the hospital.
Moody’s Investors Service fired off a warning on Wednesday that the triple A sovereign credit rating of the US would come under pressure unless economic growth was more robust than expected or tougher actions were taken to tackle the country’s budget deficit.
In a move that follows intensifying concern among investors over the US deficit, Moody’s said the country faced a trajectory of debt growth that was “clearly continuously upward”.
“Unless further measures are taken to reduce the budget deficit further or the economy rebounds more vigorously than expected, the federal financial picture as presented in the projections for the next decade will at some point put pressure on the triple A government bond rating,” the rating agency added in an issuer note.
This week, the White House forecast a $1,565bn budget deficit for 2010, which represents 10.6 per cent of gross domestic product and is the highest such ratio of debt to GDP since the second world war.
>Major cable network is searching for a large, extended and multi-generational family to be the stars of their own comedy reality show. We’re looking for funny families that BREAK THE MOLD and BREAK THE MOLD of your typical ho-hum American household. This show will document their lives and explore the family’s complexity while witnessing the craziness, chaos and love that makes their family special.
• At your annual Thanksgiving dinner, do you look around and think your family should have a reality show because no one would believe it otherwise?
• Do you find yourself having to explain your family dynamic to those unfamiliar with how things work in your non-traditional household?
• Do your siblings, parents, in-laws or hired help bring a new element that pushes the envelope? Maybe someone is in a May/Dec relationship or has taken on responsibilities or roles that might deviate from the norm? Perhaps one of them is gay or was adopted from a far-flung exotic locale? Is there someone of a different race or ethnicity that’s mixing things up in your previously homogenous family?
If your family puts the FUN in dysFUNctional, then this is the show for you!!!
Tell us about you and your family. The good, the bad and the ugly.
Please include: All Family Names, ages and occupations. A brief bio about your immediate and extended family. Include a family photo(s). Contact Phone numbers for the main contact in each family. Email info to: [email protected]
*This is a feel good show where at the end of the day LOVE CONQUERS ALL. * All family members involved must live in close proximity to one another. *Characters welcome.
>We offer the best breakfast in Ridgewood and we want you to try us.
Scramblers Egg Benny’s Omelettes Pancakes French Toast Homemade Muffins and Pastries Fresh Fruit and Yogurt! your coffee with breakfast is on us!
Plenty of parking and it’s always free on sundays
Natalie’s Uptown Restaurant at 24 S. Broad Street will be closed for lunch on saturday’s but will be available primarily for private parties and functions. Call on us to host your next shower, christening, engagement, birthday, meeting or special event. We can provide a buffet or complete table service. Also, we are availbale for off premise catering. Bartenders, waitresses, clean-up is no problem either. Talk to us about your next function.
Restaurant Week Continues!
We will continue to offer the Ridgewood Restuarant Menu from Monday to Thursday for lunch or dinner! 3 course dinner for $20.10 offering Pecan Crusted Chicken, Sesame Crusted Salmon, Chicken Parmigiana, Marsala or Picatta and Pasta Natalie plus a homemade cupcake for dessert. All for $20.10 to celebrate the New Year. We will continue to offer this until the unemployment rate drops to 8.5 %. How about that? Great for small get togethers, business dinners and birthday groups. Save as much as 25% off our regular menu. Please call for reservations for 4 or more.
free parking after 6 PM and weekends!
Natalie’s Bakery and Pasta House 17 South Broad Street open for breakfast, lunch and dinner from 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM sun-tues-wed-thurs. and till 10 friday & saturday with complete menu with great blackboard specials to choose everyday. Unbelievable Soups! come on in for retail pick up of homemade cookies, muffins, scones, biscotti or Our Homemade Cupcakes made on premise 201 444 9020
Natalie’s Uptown across the street at 24 South Broad Street
opens from 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM mon-thurs and til 10:00 on fri and saturdays. We offer a more upscale dining experience with a full lunch and dinner menu to satisfy every customer. We are sure our eclectic style of cooking will surpass your expectation. We are closed for lunch on saturdays but available for for private parties up to 45 people.
Lunch/Dinner Reservations for 4 or more are recommended.
201 444 7887 full menu and specials at www.nataliscafe.com since 1993
Your Servers Robyn-Erich-Kristy-Thomas- Matt-Ryan-Alex-Mark
Your Hostess Stephanie
Your Hosts Natalie and Frank Trent
Save as much as 25% Offer Expires: when the unemployment rate drops to 8.5%.
>Meet with Teachers & Volunteers to create Your Science Project!
Tuesday, February 9th, 23rd, March 2 from 3:30 to 5:30pm in the Ridgewood Community Center, Village Hall, 131 N. Maple Ave. A 3- week afterschool program to help you create your projects for SUPER SCIENCE SATURDAY! Sign Up for classes by calling Mel Powers at 201/394-2408 or email at [email protected] by February 6th. Cost: $20 – so sign up quickly before all spots are gone! www.supersciencesaturday.org
>RIDGEWOOD, NJ—Despite celebrating their 100th anniversary this month, the Boys Scouts of America have come on hard times here in Ridgewood. With six cub scouts packs and only two Boy Scout troops, many young scouts are falling by the wayside. However, recently, a group of Eagle Scouts have come together to help revive the traditions and values that formed the foundations of their lives and are in the midst of reorganizing and rebuilding Troop 4.
On Wednesday February 10th from 7:00p.m. to 8:00p.m., at the West Side Presbyterian Church on 6 South Monroe Street, Troop 4 will hold an open house for cub scouts looking to continue in scouting.
Under new leadership from experienced Eagle Scouts, Troop 4 hopes to set a new standard of excellence within the scouting community.
“With the other Troops in Ridgewood meeting Tuesday’s and Thursday’s, there are many kids that are looking to join scouting but can’t make those meeting nights,” said Anthony Chirdo, District Executive for Northern New Jersey Council of the Boys Scouts of America. “It’s good to see Troop 4 reorganizing with new, young leaders, all in their mid-twenties, who are willing to meet on Wednesday nights to take in some those kids.”
Between 2001 and 2002, six scouts from Troop 56 in Elmwood Park achieved the monumental Eagle Scout rank. After several ceremonies attended by local congressmen and women, mayors, chiefs of police, and numerous community members, these scouts went off into the world where they received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in such fields as Engineering, Political Science, Accounting, History, Writing and Information Systems.
Now these eagles have flown home.
“We all started as Tiger Scouts with Pack 8 in Elmwood Park and just kept going,” said Anthony Scotelaro, one of the new leaders of Troop 4. “Through scouting we created this great bond and friendship that helped us push through those tough times when we wanted to quit because of sports or one of us got a car or whatever.”
“If it wasn’t for that bond maybe half of us or none of us would have become Eagles and maybe none of us would have even graduated college.”
For scouts who sign up with Troop 4 at Wednesday’s open house they will receive a free copy of the Boy Scout handbook. They will also get to meet and talk with several members of the troop’s new leadership, view an Eagle Scout memorabilia display, and learn more about the goals of the new troop.
“We definitely encourage parents to get involved with the troop,” said Scotellaro. “We want parents and family to realize that everyone is invited to get involved to help these young scouts advance toward Eagle and become self sufficient young men.”
“I know for sure that identifying animal prints and tying knots have not been helpful in the rest of my life,” he continued. “But the discipline, the values, the teamwork skills and all those things you gain by doing these activities I know for a fact has been a part or my life and certainly the other guys as well.”
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation’s foremost youth programs of character development and values-based leadership training. To learn more about Troop 4’s open house on February 10, please contact: Dan Cappello at 201-458-2955 or [email protected]
> At least 9 Republicans file to run for Bergen freeholder
Midnight marks the deadline for potential freeholder, county executive and sheriff candidates to file letters of intent with the Bergen County Republican Organization. With less than seven hours to go before the deadline, nine have filed to compete for the party nod for three freeholder seats, two for sheriff and just one for the county’s top post.
“I personally have never seen this kind of number,” said Bergen County Republican chairman Bob Yudin. “It’s very good – it’s encouraging. Its shows how vibrant the BCRO is now. It shows a rekindling of interest. It’s an excellent number of people, many of them elected or former elected officials.” Republicans, fresh from picking up two freeholder seats in November, can take control of the freeholder board if they win all three seats that are up this year.
Competing for a chance to run for freeholder are John Felice, a former River Edge councilman and son of former Assemblyman Nicholas Felice; John Mitchell, an independent consultant who has run unsuccessfully for council in Cliffside Park several times; Raymond Herr, a former Fairview councilman and a candidate for Bogota council last year; Jeff Bader, a councilman from Woodcliff Lake; Rosina Romano, the former mayor of South Hackenack; Frank Valenzuela, the mayor of Rochelle Park; John Criscione, a former Fort Lee councilman; Maura De Nicola, the mayor of Franklin Lakes; and Ken Tyburczy, the chairman of the Bergen County Young Republicans. A tenth candidate, Montvale resident Arthur Lavis – who ran for freeholder in last year’s primary on gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan’s line – has also submitted a letter of intent. But Yudin said that he has not yet filled out a statement naming Yudin as the campaign manager for the purposes of bracketing – a precondition to run in the convention. “As far as I’m concerned, my position is that he hasn’t completed his application,” said Yudin. (Friedman, PolitickerNJ)
Nominating Packets Available for Ridgewood Village Council
Nominating packets are available for Ridgewood residents who are registered voters and wish to run for and serve on the Ridgewood Village Council. They may be picked up at the Village Clerk’s Office in Village Hall, 131 North Maple Avenue, during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays. The deadline for filing completed nominating petitions is March 18, 2010.
This year, there are two four-year terms on the non-partisan Village Council which will be voted on at the May 11, 2010 Municipal Election. The newly elected Councilmembers will be sworn in and take office on July 1, 2010.
Any questions concerning the Municipal Election should be directed to the Village Clerk’s Office at 201-670-5500 ext. 201.
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Citizen Volunteer Information
The Village of Ridgewood is fortunate to have many residents who volunteer their time and talents on various boards, commissions, and committees for the betterment of the Village. If you wish to volunteer to serve, please click here, and forward your resume, along with the completed Citizen Volunteer Leadership Form to: Heather Mailander, Village Clerk, at [email protected] or mail to her attention at: Village of Ridgewood, 131 North Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07451.
Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.
A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia’s climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced.
It was presented as fact. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by India’s very own RK Pachauri, even announced a consensus on it. The world was heating up and humans were to blame. A pack of lies, it turns out.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrarywise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see? —Alice in Wonderland
The climate change fraud that is now unravelling is unprecedented in its deceit, unmatched in scope—and for the liberal elite, akin to 9 on the Richter scale. Never have so few fooled so many for so long, ever.
The entire world was being asked to change the way it lives on the basis of pure hyperbole. Propriety, probity and transparency were routinely sacrificed.
The truth is: the world is not heating up in any significant way. Neither are the Himalayan glaciers going to melt as claimed by 2035. Nor is there any link at all between natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and global warming. All that was pure nonsense, or if you like, ‘no-science’!
The climate change mafia, led by Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), almost pulled off the heist of the century through fraudulent data and suppression of procedure. All the while, they were cornering millions of dollars in research grants that heaped one convenient untruth upon another. And as if the money wasn’t enough, the Nobel Committee decided they should have the coveted Peace Prize.
But let’s begin at the beginning. Mr Pachauri has no training whatsoever in climate science. This was known all the time, yet he heads the pontification panel which proliferates the new gospel of a hotter world. How come? Why did the United Nations not choose someone who was competent? After all, this man is presumably incapable of differentiating between ocean sediments and coral terrestrial deposits, nor can he go about analysing tree ring records and so on. That’s not jargon; these are essential elements of a syllabus in any basic course on climatology.
You cannot blame him. His degree and training is in railroad engineering. You read it right. This man was educated to make railroads from point A to point B.
>Thanks for the last write-up included in your blog. We actually had a few first time visitors.
On another note;
The Ridgewood Elks Lodge on Maple Avenue invites all to enjoy the Super Bowl in our cocktail lounge.
Again, we are now open to non-members and you can enjoy the game on 4 T.V’s . We are offering reduced price beverages, free snacks and a free delicious spread during halftime.
Doors open at 3 PM.
We appreciate the local support and it is our continual aim to support many endeavors including Camp Moore for kid’s with special needs.
Stores are leaving Ridgewood at an alarming rate as the economic downturn — combined with long-standing issues such as high rents and lack of parking — continues to punish the village’s downtown, according to a report in The Record.
Up to five businesses have closed or merged with other stores in the Bergen County town in the past month. And the business exodus isn’t over, merchants say. Cardventure and Artventure are closing in February, Irish Eyes Imports, which has been in town for 20 years, is bolting for Westwood and boutique shop Happy Tuesday will shut its doors this month.
“Some want to blame this on the [lack of] parking,” Councilman Keith Killion said. “But it’s a combination of things that make it a perfect storm. It’s the proximity of the malls, the rents and the landlords, Internet shopping … and the economy. To say it’s just one incident is being unfair.”
