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>OWS Catered Protests , only in New York

>OWS Catered Protests , only in New York 
Protest mob is enjoying rich diet
By REBECCA ROSENBERG

They may sleep in the park, but they eat like kings.
Hundreds of grimy protesters laying siege to Wall Street and stuffed into the now-smelly Zuccotti Park dine each night on gourmet meals prepared by a former hotel chef using only the finest organic ingredients.

“We’re running a five-star restaurant down there,’’ crowed Eric Smith, 38, the ex-le Chef de Tournant at the Sheraton in Midtown, who works out of a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, churning out the meals for more than 1,000 protesters every day.
“The other day, we made some wonderful salmon cakes with dill sauce and some quinoa salad and a wonderful tomato salad with fennel and red onion,’’ he said.

Read more: https://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occu_pie_the_kitchen_PIZ7EsDJEZqzPgzzEWKX7I#ixzz1bEP0CWlW

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>APPLICATIONS FOR VACANT BOE SEAT DUE FRIDAY

>APPLICATIONS FOR VACANT BOE SEAT DUE FRIDAY

The Board is now accepting applications to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Charles Reilly last month. The Board will appoint a member to serve through May 7, 2012, at which time the winner of the seat in the April 17, 2012 Annual School Election will fill the remaining length of the term (one year). Anyone interested in submitting an application for the seat should fill out an application and submit it, along with a letter of interest and resume, to Board Secretary Angelo DeSimone, by Friday, October 21 at 4 p.m. All legally qualified candidates will be interviewed by the Board at its Regular Public Meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, October 24. (Please note that, due to a televising conflict, this meeting will not be broadcast live on Optimum channel 77. It will be available to watch live on FIos channel 33, or via the “Link in Live” tab on the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us.)

Click here for the Application for Board Member. https://tinyurl.com/4ywmzmc

Click here for the Board interview questions. https://tinyurl.com/3b7off4

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>Valley, Englewood hospitals present last stand as Pascack Valley battle heads to hearing

>Valley, Englewood hospitals present last stand as Pascack Valley battle heads to hearing
By Beth Fitzgerald

On the eve of a Health Department hearing on Hackensack University Medical Center’s plan to reopen the former Pascack Valley Hospital, in Westwood, opponents on Tuesday released new studies they commissioned that support their argument that Bergen County has excess hospital beds and reopening the hospital will divert hundreds of patients and millions in revenue from Valley Hospital, in Ridgewood, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.

The hearing by the State Health Planning Board, expected to draw hundreds, will be 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Westwood Regional Junior/Senior High School, in Washington Township.

In today’s press briefing at Englewood Hospital, representatives of Valley and Englewood disputed statistics Hackensack UMC presented in its application for a certificate of need to open a 128-bed hospital at the Pascack Valley site, which Hackensack currently operates as a satellite emergency department.

https://www.njbiz.com/article/20111018/NJBIZ01/111019819/Valley-Englewood-hospitals-present-last-stand-as-Pascack-Valley-battle-heads-to-hearing

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Ten things to fix in Ridgewood

>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…..

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>School vouchers: Out of the spotlight, not out of mind

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School vouchers: Out of the spotlight, not out of mind

Tenure reform and charter schools have dominated education politics of late in New Jersey, but the proposed Opportunity Scholarship Act (OSA) is making a quiet resurgence in the halls of the Statehouse.

People on both sides of the contentious proposal to provide tax credits for privately subsidized scholarships to low-income students have said that a slimmed-down version of the bill has a good shot of coming back in the lame duck session after the Nov. 8 election.

None are putting odds on its passage as yet, and talk of its fall and rise is nothing new. The bill was said to be close to passage at the end of June, yet never came to vote or committee in the Assembly.  (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/1017/2320/
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>5 reasons why income inequality is a myth — and Occupy Wall Street is wrong

>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:

https://blog.american.com/2011/10/5-reasons-why-income-inequality-is-a-myth-and-occupy-wall-street-is-wrong/

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>N.J. lowers payroll deduction rate to save workers an average of $87 in 2012

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 N.J. lowers payroll deduction rate to save workers an average of $87 in 2012

Gov. Chris Christie Monday announced a $190 million payroll tax cut he said is designed to provide a tax savings of $87 annually for working New Jersey families in 2012.

On July 1, Christie signed Democratic legislation into law authorizing the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development to calculate a new payroll-deduction rate to finance the Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) fund. For most workers next year, the revised formula means the amount of TDI payroll tax deducted from their paychecks will be reduced from $148 to $61 per year, for a savings of $87 per worker. The changes take effect on Jan. 1.  (Hester, New Jersey Newsroom)

https://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/economy/change-in-nj-payroll-tax-deduction-rate-to-save-workers-an-average-of-87-in-2012
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>Judge declares public employee pension and benefit contribution hikes do not apply to fellow judges

>Judge declares public employee pension and benefit contribution hikes do not apply to fellow judges


Gov. Chris Christie Monday night called “outrageous, self-serving” a judge’s decision earlier in the day that the state’s new pension and health benefits’ plan is unconstitutional as it applies to Superior Court judges and Supreme Court justices.


Assignment Judge Linda Feinberg, sitting in Trenton, ruled the increased health benefits and pension contributions that Christie and Democratic legislative leaders put into effect on June 28, are unconstitutional as it applies to the judges because it amounts to a reduction in their salaries.

The ruling does not affect state and local public employees, including teachers, police and firefighters, who are now paying the increased costs.  (Hester, New Jersey Newsroom)

https://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/judge-declares-public-employee-pension-benefits-hikes-do-not-apply-to-fellow-judges
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>Barely half of New Jersey voters know that the Legislature is up for election in three weeks

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Poll: Unhappy with State Legislature, many don’t know election is coming

Barely half of New Jersey voters know that the Legislature is up for election in three weeks, according to results of the latest Monmouth University/New Jersey Press Media Poll.

But, even though people are generally unhappy with lawmakers, voters appear unlikely to change control of the state Senate and Assembly, the poll found.

Overall, 33 percent of registered voters approve of the job the Legislature is doing and 45 percent disapprove.

Though Democrats run the Legislature, Democratic voters disapprove of the Legislature’s performance, 52-25, while Republicans approve, 49-33.  (Symons, Gannett)

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20111017/NJNEWS/310170046/Poll-Half-unaware-Legislature-race?odyssey=nav|head
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>Thieves preying on fellow protesters

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Thieves preying on fellow protesters
By LARRY CELONA, LAURA ITALIANO REBECCA HARSHBARGER, FRANK ROSARIO and JAMIE SCHRAM

It’s a den of thieves!
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Read more: https://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK#ixzz1b8wPKw8y

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>Peggy Post and Kevin Sorbo October 19th at Bookends

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peggy post theridgewooblog.net

Peggy Post,Wedesday, October 19th @ 11:00am – Off-Site Luncheon
Peggy Post, Director of the Emily Post Institute  will sign her new book: Emily Post’s Etiquette – 18th Editions:  Manner for a New World Call for detail at 201-445-0726

Kevin Sorbo theridgewoodblog.net

Kevin Sorbo,Wednesday, October 19th @ 7:00 pm
Actor from Hercules & Xena, Kevin Sorbo, will sign his new book: True Strength Book available Oct 11th

Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.
Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.Please call the store for details.
 
Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ   07450   201-445-0726

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>A Tale of Two Protests: Media Cheer Wall Street Occupiers But Jeered Tea PartiersStreet Occupiers But Jeered Tea Partiers

>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.

https://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2011/20111013100045.aspx

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>ADOPT THE FIRE HYDRANT NEAREST YOUR HOME!

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Reader suggest and idea to help insure public safety 

ADOPT THE FIRE HYDRANT NEAREST YOUR HOME!

PLEASE KEEP THE AREA AROUND THE HYDRANT NEAREST YOUR HOME FREE OF GRASS, WEEDS AND DEBRIS AND IN WINTER FREE FROM SNOW.

AND PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE NO PARKING!

LET’S MAKE IT EASIER FOR OUR DEDICATED FIRE FIGHTERS TO ASSIST YOU IN AN EMERGENCY.

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