Not sure what I did different but just searching for individuals to move things has been pretty straight forward.

That's not been my experience. I've literally only used taskrabbit to move things up and down stairs because it was too heavy to do solo.

The average low in Seattle in February is 37 degrees, in New Jersey it's an average high of 40 and low of 21, the constant melting then freezing of ice is what does most of the damage here. From what I can find Seattle gets 3.9 days of snow per year on average, NJ gets 12.2 days of snow on average, but again it's really the bounce between above and below freezing that is what does the damage.

So it's very significant that we literally have 3 entire months where the daily average high is above 32 and the low is below 32, where as Seattle has exactly 0 months where the average low goes below 32.

Depending on the severity it ranges from vandalism to criminal mischief and interfering with transportation to reckless endangerment. Regardless I won't feel bad if someone who is actively threatening the lives and safety of other gets their property damaged a bit, also I'm being hyperbolic not actually advocating it incase that wasn't clear to some dolts.

Years ago there was as story about a guy in China who started throwing bricks through windows of people running red lights after a young girl was hit by one of the assholes. I'm not saying we should throw bricks through their windows, but maybe ninja rocks?

Even if we do decide to rename it I guarantee it somehow turns into a shit show. The hispanic population in the 70's and 80's wanted to name what is now Manila Ave after something culturally relevant and the city council shot them down, some years later the Filipino community request it be named Manila Ave and it was approved. So then the hispanic community was like "what the hell" and so the city council decided to rename Henderson St. to Luis M Marin blvd.

Not saying this is a reason not to rename it, just that whatever happens I can almost guarantee there will be more people unhappy with the change than not.

Get the 40 trip unless you plan on going in on weekends as well. With the various holidays coming up you'll likely end up wasting money with a 30 day pass vs a 40 trip.

Beat me to it, I was gonna make one that the zones draw a middle finger after work.

That would be good but let's be real what are you actually going to get from these criminals?

The guy above said they are supposed to do 6 points of ID at the MVC but he's just used his ID. So I assume he's just doing basic renewals.

I think the 6 points is just for new licenses and address changes. I only had to show 6 points when getting my first nj ID, after that it was just ID and proof of address.

NY has sales tax exemptions on food and a few other necessities as well.

Put mine on our stoop and balcony and the squirrels are eating them up.

I've got a rec, https://www.theravive.com/cities/nj/anger-management-jersey-city.aspx

Police and the military have always been tokens, the right doesn't actually give two shits about them. My father puts out "Veterans for" signs for democratic candidates in Kansas and they get stolen almost every election cycle. The don't care about the health of Veterans, they don't care about their well being in any way, they don't care about separating them from their families over total bullshit and they certainly don't want to hear what a veteran has to say if they don't fall in line with the GOP.

Lol, I tried doing research on Change for Children and all that came up was last years candidates and the article above. They literally haven't updated their online presence which is why i got confused. Same concerns for both groups though.

Added an edit at the top.

>They didnt raise the school tax levy for years, only deciding to do so when it was an emergency since the state withdrew their funding (which was inevitable)

You know that because we didn't have full autonomy from the State Abbott districts until 2017 we had limited authority on changing taxes for schooling. Because the state funding was a function of a % of local spending they limited the BOE ability to increase funding unilaterally.

> Who is to say they wont decide to close schools again for a winter peak. Nobody knows because they haven't said anything.

Even during the Omicron outbreak in 2021 we only went remote for 5 days, so I severely doubt that quadruple vaxxed teachers are gonna shutdown. I mean just compare the general environment now compared to any other point since March 2020 and it's fair to say that the majority of people are basically done trying to mitigate anything short of getting vaccinated.

Not to try to sound like I'm making excuses for everything I'm sure there are tons of things to be fixed but I don't know enough about the finer points, like schools lunch quality or busing. I'm just EXTREMELY skeptical of anyone who comes in talking about fiscal responsibility with no concrete plan and funding from a LeFrak PAC.

If any of the three running had actual tangible actions for how they intend to make the system more efficient that isn't freezing teacher pay and "removing programs"(literally no more detail than that), I could consider them, but as it is 90% platitudes and Republican PAC funding take them out of contention for me.

It's worth noting that places that opened up early like Florida had very similar drops in reading comprehension and math. COVID had a significant impact regardless of closures, and a June study in Florida showed that 3rd grade reading levels in Florida are stagnant for the last 2 years despite having been mostly in person since early 2021.

On top of all that what do you think the BOE would have done to force the teachers union to go in last year? Do you think they would have threatened to fire hundreds of staff and replace them when the number of open positions was already much higher than the people to fill them? The teachers unions here have a lot of power and so the teachers made a decision regardless of the BOE and I don't think the BOE really had any recourse.

Regardless, schools are back open so it's a moot point moving forward until we have our next pandemic(hopefully not in our lifetime) and you literally didn't answer my question. I said aside from COVID related issues what are your examples of the BOE/unions not caring about children?

Aside from not wanting to risk their lives over COVID before we rolled out vaccines, what makes you think that children's educations aren't their primary goal? They might be inefficient with the budget which is a different conversations but what specific examples non-COVID related do you think the BOE doesn't care for children?

I don't know if we as a city would allow it, but from the words of Baez talking about removing funding from low performing programs and freezing teachers pay it really sounds like some No Child Left Behind bullshit that saw money moved from poor low performing areas and given to wealthier areas. My mother worked for low income public schools for about 25 years and I can tell you that policies that reward test taking make it so that teachers focus on teaching to the test rather than actually educating children effectively.

EDIT: well turns out that Change for Children hasn't updated any of their social media presence and the top searches for the group are all from 2021, so I was looking at the groups candidates last year and short of the article above and the Hudson Reporter listing candidate I have no other information than whats in the post above about the candidates. Feel free to read what the group was about last year, otherwise the only information we have is basically this extremely limited article.

Information on Change for Children 2021:

Went to the insta for each of the Change for Children candidates and they all seem to reword the same 3 things.

First is budget transparency. Which I'm honestly skeptical of from any politician.

Second is "benchmarking" to "remove programs that were 'not productive or effective'" which I assume means more standardized testing.

Third a platitude about "holding the administration accountable".

Individually there is some stuff that would get killed by unions day one by fucking with teachers pay.

Halley mentions updating technology and having faculty training.

Ervin seems do have no concrete things in her bullet list of wants.

The takeaway for me is that Change for Children talks mostly about transparency and budget reform but doesn't actually go into detail about how they intend to do that. Personnel budget transparency sounds fine but the lack detail on the rest.

My 2 cents, the only one I'd consider is Halley. Baez is basically getting into union busting territory which I don't like, Ervin has no concrete goals, and Halley at least gives a few tangible goals(on their insta campaign).

All said none of the BoE groups thrill me but if I have to choose between LeFrak PAC backed(that was fun to say) candidates or union backed I'll stick with the unions. LeFrak family are billionaire donors to republican campaigns so anyone he stands behind talking about budgets and fiscal responsibility I have to question.