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>Govs. Christie, Cuomo had dinner together one week before Port Authority announced toll hikes

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Govs. Christie, Cuomo had dinner together one week before Port Authority announced toll hikes

Gov. Chris Christie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York had dinner a week before the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which they jointly control, announced a steep increase in tolls to cross the Hudson River, according to information posted on New York State government website today.
Christie and Cuomo have both denied knowing about the toll increases until a few days before the Port Authority publicly unveiled its proposal.

The dinner meeting, at the Beacon Restaurant in Manhattan, became public when Cuomo released detailed copies of his schedule for the first eight months in office on a new site intended increase government transparency.

The sharply higher toll increases were announced on Aug. 5, and at the time Christie issued a statement critical of the large rise. He later said he was shocked by the proposal and had only learned of it on Aug. 3.  (Gibson, The Star-Ledger)

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/gov_christie_cuomo_had_dinner.html
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>Christie continues to hammer teachers union

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Christie continues to hammer teachers union

Gov. Chris Christie continued his normally combative tone toward the teachers union today when asked during a Rider University event with Gov. Mitch Daniels about repairing the relationship with the educators before continuing on with his plans for education reform.

Christie said his attitude toward the union hasn’t changed since he first entered the race for governor.
“I’m willing to repair a relationship that is willing to be productive,” said Christie at the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics. “But my position regarding the teachers union has been the same form the time I got into the race until today.  When they are ready to come forward and be participants in meaningful reform that will improve especially urban educational opportunities for our kids then I will sit at the table with them anytime.  If they want to continue to pass on to me warmed over protections of the failed status quo then they can continue to stand outside my office and look in the window.”  (Isherwood, PolitickerNJ)

https://www.politickernj.com/51163/christie-continues-hammer-teachers-union
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>GALLUP: Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias

>GALLUP: Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias
More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias
by Lymari Morales

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 44% of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of trust and the 55% who have little or no trust remain among the most negative views Gallup has measured.

https://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/Majority-Continue-Distrust-Media-Perceive-Bias.aspx

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>GM’s OnStar now spying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe?

>GM’s OnStar now spying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe?
By Zach BowmanRSS feed
Posted Sep 21st 2011 4:28PM

If you’re the owner of a fairly new General Motors product, you may want to take a close look at the most recent OnStar terms and conditions. As it turns out, the company has altered the parameters under which it can legally collect GPS data on your vehicle.

Originally, the terms and conditions stated that OnStar could only collect information on your vehicle’s location during a theft recovery or in the midst of sending emergency services your way. That has apparently changed. Now, OnStar says that it has the right to collect and sell personal, yet supposedly anonymous information on your vehicle, including speed, location, seat belt usage and other information.

https://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/21/gms-onstar-now-spying-on-your-car-for-profit-even-after-you-uns/

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>Ridgewood Garage and Estate Sales

>Garage Sale :Sale will be conducted Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24 (rain date – Sunday, September 25) at 170 Hope Street, Ridgewood, NJ. Special items include: Victorian child/youth chair; mahogany goose neck rocker (needs repair); 1930’s vinyl kitchen chairs (2); men’s and women’s clothing; Christmas decorations; blue Harvey’s Bristol Crème glasses; Pfalzgraff china; Drambuie glasses; kitchen ware; books and 33 rpm records.


Saturday, September 24th – ONE DAY ONLY
9am-3pm
189 Prospect Street, Ridgewood
(corner of Spring)

MULTI-FAMILY garage sale
Furniture, games, toys, American dolls, household items, books, cds and
more.

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>N.J. using little of tobacco tax for prevention, report says

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N.J. using little of tobacco tax for prevention, report says
By Maya Rao
Inquirer Trenton Bureau

TRENTON – New Jersey raised $750 million last year from taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products, but it spent only $1.5 million on antismoking programs, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.

Health advocates on Wednesday called on Gov. Christie and the Legislature to direct at least a dime of each dollar the state collects in tobacco taxes to programs aimed at reducing youth smoking and helping tobacco users quit.

“The money is there. The smokers are paying the money,” said Howard Levite, a medical director at the Heart Institute of AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic County.

https://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110922_N_J__using_little_of_tobacco_tax_for_prevention__report_says.html

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>Rep. Joe Walsh: Media Will Show ‘Real Desperation’ to Protect Obama

>Rep. Joe Walsh: Media Will Show ‘Real Desperation’ to Protect Obama
By Terence P. Jeffrey
September 21, 2011

(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Joe Walsh (R.-Ill.) said Wednesday in an interview with Media Research Center President Brent Bozell that he believes the media will show “real desperation” to protect President Barack Obama during the 2012 campaign.

Having noted that Tea Party audiences show tremendous enthusiasm for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, Bozell asked: “Yet, you see this administration playing class warfare and race warfare games. Now, that’s their problem. But what does it say about the national media that they are aiding and abetting this by not exposing the dishonesty here?”

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-joe-walsh-media-will-show-real-desperation-protect-obama

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>Solar gains in N.J.

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Solar gains in N.J.

For the first time, California no longer reigns as the U.S. state with the largest commercial solar market, and it’s lost that spot to New Jersey, according to a new report on the booming solar industry.

The commercial solar market in New Jersey jumped 170 percent from the first quarter of this year to the second quarter, said Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group. As a result, New Jersey’s photovoltaic (PV) installations now account for 24 percent of all those in the U.S. — up from 15 percent at the end of March.

The administration of Gov. Chris Christie termed New Jersey’s statistics as good news.
Overall, California still maintains a lead in power produced from solar, said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, but the Garden State’s progress is notable.

“This is one of those things where I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,” Tittel said.  (Koch and Schoonejongen, Gannett)

https://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20110921/NJNEWS10/309210030/Solar-gains-N-J-
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>Tatuaje TAA 2011! Available now at The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood.

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(201) 447-2204.
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>Ridgewood will honor military families with a candle-lighting ceremony

>Ridgewood will honor military families with a candle-lighting ceremony

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

There will be some extra illumination in Ridgewood this Sunday as military families gather for a candle-lighting ceremony at Van Neste Square in honor of Gold Star Mother’s Day.

A national observance in honor of mothers and families whose sons or daughters have been killed while on duty in the United States military, Gold Star Mother’s Day takes place on the last Sunday of September each year, accompanied by a proclamation from the president.

This Sunday will mark the first time an official commemoration has been conducted in the village, something American Legion Post 53 member Bob Paoli attributes to a simple fact.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/130298188_Ridgewood_will_honor_military_families_with_a_candle-lighting_ceremony.html

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>Bring in the clowns: Traffic expert testifies before Ridgewood council on Valley proposal

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Bring in the clowns:Traffic expert testifies before Ridgewood council on Valley proposal

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Even with suggested improvements to traffic infrastructure near The Valley Hospital, the facility is already too large for its neighborhood, according to one expert whose testimony in front of the Village Council on Monday night raised new questions about the hospital’s “Renewal” project.

Joe Staigar, the traffic engineer who testified in front of the council at its second hearing on the hospital’s expansion proposal, pointed to serious traffic problems around Valley Hospital’s campus at North Van Dien and Linwood avenues. At peak times, students leaving nearby schools weave through gridlocked traffic in the hospital’s driveways, and drivers sit through multiple traffic signal cycles to get through intersections, he said.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/130271268_Traffic_expert_testifies_before_Ridgewood_council_on_Valley_proposal_.html

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>In ethically challenged NJ : Christie hammers home ethics reforms in town hall

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In ethically challenged NJ : Christie hammers home ethics reforms in town hall
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie roused the crowd Wednesday at his second town hall event of the week to push his stalled year-old package of bills to strengthen the state’s ethics laws.
“It seems like a ban on dual-office holding and two public salaries, we can all agree on that, right? It’s not a Republican or Democratic issue. We should all be able to come together and say it’s wrong,” Christie told the crowd packed into a senior center in Sayreville, as two local priests looked on from the front row.
After all, who doesn’t want more ethics?
“Not even a hearing — they acted as if it’s not even there,” the governor said of the Democratic leaders in the Legislature. “What that tells me that they again don’t want to tell you what’s going on.”
But while the concepts seem simple — lawmakers should only be able to hold one elected office, should only get paid for one public job, and should disclose their conflicts of interest and as much information as about their finances as the Executive Branch — Democrats say the bills are an oversimplified smokescreen brought back around by the governor as an election nears.  (DeFalco, Associated Press)
https://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=mycentraljersey&sParam=37512149.story
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>N.J. schools fulfill mandate to teach financial literacy

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N.J. schools fulfill mandate to teach financial literacy

Millions of American adults are learning the lessons of their financial mistakes as the current recession lumbers on.

So are their kids.
The 2011-12 school year is the first in which New Jersey public schools are required to administer personal finance courses, part of the legacy of former Gov. Jon S. Corzine, previously CEO of Goldman Sachs. The global financial crisis spurred schools to develop curricula voluntarily, well before it was required by state law.
“We already had it in place. Now we just make sure it’s aligned with state requirements,” said Kevin Kitchenman, superintendent of West Deptford Public Schools.

West Deptford High School has offered personal finance classes as an elective for at least three years. This year’s freshman class will be the first required to fulfill 2.5 credits in financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy in order to graduate. Washington Township High School has taken the further step of offering a full-year course, as opposed to a half-year class.  (Roh, Gannett)

https://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110921/NEWS01/309210016/N-J-schools-fulfill-mandate-teach-financial-literacy

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>Child Predators :State assemblyman’s poll finds support for repeal of new-driver decal law

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Child Predators :State assemblyman’s poll finds support for repeal of new-driver decal law

A state assemblyman said Wednesday that an online survey he conducted found widespread noncompliance with the law requiring new drivers to display red decals on their cars and strong support for the law’s repeal.
Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, R-Bergen, said 86 percent of respondents to his survey said it was important or very important to change the law requiring the decals to be placed on license plates when new drivers are behind the wheel.

He said there was more support for other provisions in New Jersey’s Graduated Driver License (GDL) Program, such as limits on the hours in which new drivers can drive and the number of passengers allowed in the car. But only 21 percent of young drivers said they always or often complied with the decal law. Sixty-three percent said they never do, and another 7 percent said they rarely use the decals, Schroeder said.
Reasons cited for noncompliance included fear of being targeted by stalkers or someone who would harm the young driver and fear of being profiled for enforcement by police.  (Froonjian, Press of Atlantic City)

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/state-assemblyman-s-poll-finds-support-for-repeal-of-new/article_d4dc0cee-e47d-11e0-a7c3-001cc4c03286.html
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>Ridgewood teachers enter into development partnership with Montclair University

>Ridgewood teachers enter into development partnership with Montclair University

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Starting this school year, Ridgewood teachers will have access to a new ongoing professional development consortium through a partnership between the district and Montclair State University (MSU).

Called the Montclair State University Network for Educational Renewal (MSUNER), the organization is a partnership among the university and New Jersey school districts from across multiple counties that aims to promote “the simultaneous renewal of schools and teacher education through collaboration between and among the university and member school districts,” according to the MSUNER website.

The Ridgewood school district was accepted into the program in the spring following an application process and a site visit from MSUNER representatives, said Superintendent Daniel Fishbein.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/130293743_Ridgewood_Teachers_enter_into_development_partnership_with_Montclair_University.html