I actually really like the idea of building a new bridge and having the old one rehabbed with added BRT Lanes. Anyone who travels past 14a knows that there's a tremendous amount of container cargo coming out of the port and that adding a couple of lanes of bridge would ease the problems there. They could even have the lanes on the old one reverse like the third tube at the Lincoln.

But anyone with a brain knows that widening from 14a to the tunnel is idiotic. You'll just be creating a larger parking lot!

All that said, I would love to understand the reasoning that the containers from the port aren't being put on rail cars instead of trucks. Rail is just so much more efficient and environmental.

>I have a knee-jerk aversion to voting for the developer-backed slate

More than an aversion to a BOE controlled by the union it supposedly negotiates with?

The entire Public Safety budget, both police & fire, is less than the BOE budget increase. Follow the money!!!

That would be tragic if someone died during morning gridlock, but I doubt it would cause change. It's been a decade since Sandy, and absolutely nothing has been done to change our vulnerability there.

Taking a kayak on a bus is somewhat difficult, and they don't let you off at the side of the water.

>Fulop became mayor without establishment support.

He was opposed by the HCDO, but made lots of deals with other power brokers like Sandra Cunningham. Deals brokered by seasoned political operative Tommy Bertoli. That's how the sausage is made.

>It'd just take actual effort from a lot of folks who don't care to put forth effort.

Wow, thanks. I had no idea that was the answer!

People who are unrealistic are doomed to disappointment at best, the wall at worst. Your naïve attitude is like "why doesn't someone tell Putin to stop being so mean?" Until you have the votes, guns, or sometimes both, optimism is idiotic. Ask an Iranian or Venezuelan.

These power structures are powerful and stay powerful because they're really, really good at it. We can't even successfully take on a local self serving teacher's union, never mind appointed and unaccountable statewide and interstate "Authorities".

Yes! Of course! You're as practical and realistic as always.

They're not locals, they're just heading to the tunnel. The PA & TPK could easily eliminate all Downtown tunnel transients using the EZ-Pass system, but they have no incentive. To them, DT gridlock is a feature not a bug, otherwise the TPK would not have built and paid for the Jersey Ave Bridge.

Solomon cannot get elected Mayor without making the exact same deals with the corrupt JC power brokers that Fulop did. As a councilman, Fulop was exactly the reformist gadfly Solomon is.

Don't want to blow your mind or anything, but sometimes people actually NEED to drive, like an out of JC trip or, like me when I encountered this tunnel traffic shitshow, going to Home Depot for building supplies. And no, they could not be carried home on foot!

This is a species of sub-human called an "asshole", defined by a total lack of the social skill known as "The Golden Rule". Then do what they want when they want, without a bit of consideration for its effects on other people.

You can find them just about anywhere, but situations like on the road where they intrude into your activity, or being trapped like you were on a train, are typically where their attitude of "no one else is real and has wants and needs, except for me" truly shines.

Cell phones are merely the latest way for the Asshole to make his presence known, it's direct predecessor was the boombox used to share their shitty taste in music with the known universe. It's current iteration is the car with the absurdly high-powered audio system and windows down blaring their shitty music.

I'm trying to figure out why 2 separate articles in my google news feed on this from NPR and CBS show different photos of United Synagogue of Hoboken. WTF, do they know something? It's not like they sent someone to a convenient NJ shul, one was an aerial shot.

EDIT: now the New York Times posting has a picture of USH! WTF?

I don't buy this in the least. All these teachers, firemen and cops would not be investment bankers. A relative has 2 Ivy degrees, manages a couple of dozen people in private health care, doesn't make what a teacher of similar seniority would, and has nothing like the Bennies.

If you're getting flour on your pendants I would say they're too low! In my experience the ceiling of a kitchen gets grosser than anything else because of the rising grease from inadequate range venting.

IMO a ceiling fan fixture, under-cabinet lights, and perhaps a pendant over the sink is far superior to cans. Not least because the downward pointed cans don't shed light INTO the cabinets so you can see what's in there! I have a 2nd row of glass door 18" cabs over a row of 30", and the ceiling fan lights them up beautifully, as well as making the kitchen more comfortable in warm weather.

I grew up in a lighting family, my dad was a lighting sales rep, and I studied industrial Design. I hate recessed lighting. It's an awful, no brain, cookie cutter approach to lighting. I do like having a central room light, often a ceiling fan fixture, and then you can accessorize with lamps. What you might like best is a "torchiere", a bright light on a stand that points to the ceiling so that all the light in the room is reflected down. Very soft and comfortable, some even have a reading lamp secondary light on the side of the pole.

https://www.amazon.com/Torchiere-Standing-Adjustable-Stepless-Dimmable/dp/B08YRC5FXH

>Learn from successful schools such as McNair

There's nothing to learn when a school's success is based on skimming the best students from the rest of the district. Your premise would hold a lot more water naming a very successful lottery entry Charter like LCCS as a model. It produces superior results on a fraction the budget of a district school, and yes, it still has to pay for special ed students.

You missed the point of trying to give away junk, it's supposed to be less work not more! Having you take one or two and leave him with the pile of crap is not the goal!

This is simply not true. My son is a professional 'mountain man' who spends his time all over the Rockies, Cascades, Alaska and Vermont. He has service from an ATT MVNO that has not been a problem at all.

Sounds good as long as it's cheaper. I've always had cell service from MVNOs, and think anyone who pays top dollar for direct service with the carriers is a fool.

Horseshit. I grew up in Nassau County with the Republican machine that produced Al D'Amato, the Republican doppelganger of Bob Menendez. It was every bit as corrupt. Machines are machines are machines.

She's apparently counting on HCDO corruption and voter apathy to not only to keep her office, but probably to see her through to the mayors office. Not bad plan given our history. Princesses will princess, you can all fucking eat cake!

Those filters do not apparently function in spreadsheets other than actual Excel, which is often not owned by people like me who have no reason to invest in the MS pro suite. In LibreOffice (open source) I get this error "Ranges containing merged cells can only be sorted without formats." I managed to get them to sort in Google Sheets, but not by those filters. So I need to download the files, then upload them to google!

Government agencies should not publish data in proprietary formats. Jersey City distributed a sheet about boiler inspections in a Word doc instead of a PDF! Yes, I know PDF is originally Adobe, but at this point there's many readers/writers and I've never had a problem with it. Word often has problems with interoperability, as apparently does Excel.

But, to get back to your inquiry as to why focus on teachers rather than bloated admin staff and salaries: teacher are 56% of the overall budget while admin is 8%. I shouldn't need to tell a CPA to follow the money!

Have you ever taken a look at the JCPS "user friendly budget"? I did. I found line item terms that Google couldn't define!