They were also hoping for an influx of new viewers (I forget what the cause for optimism was), and they wanted to catch people up on the series. And a clip show was the only way to do that in the pre-streaming era! (I think this was just barely in the VCR era, but you had to be a pretty hardcore fan to tape every episode)

Such a shame Hurley decided to sacrifice his sterling reputation for this horseshit. Wonder what Fireman offered him for his soul.

It was a hugely influential show, but the quality from episode to episode could be uneven compared to the contemporary shows they influenced. (For starters, they had to come up with 26 episodes a year instead of 10-12). And it absolutely drops off after Duchovny leaves. There are a few good episodes here and there, but you're well within your rights to stop watching then.

I'm just happy this is the top comment and not people quoting the "aurora borealis" meme from the Simpsons.

First off, you can't move to Little India and complain about the Indian restaurants. Which are great, btw.

Second, crime's not terrible anywhere, but the rule of thumb is, the closer you are to either river, the safer it gets. Greenville, the southernmost neighborhood in JC, is the poorest and therefore the least safe, but like the rest of JC, it's getting gentrified pretty quickly.

It's absolutely political. The billionaire behind this astroturf campaign is trying to change the law so that private entities can develop public land. And he's trying to destroy the Caven Point nature preserve, (which apart from being a crucial wildlife habitat, is a beautiful spot that belongs to everyone), so he can wall it off for his millionaires-only country club.

Every part of that is political. It's 100% political down to the bedrock. And when you support the deeply shitty politics of a billionaire who wants to destroy a nature preserve and take away public land to make a greasy buck off of it, you absolutely deserve a backlash. Because you took a political stance on behalf of a deeply dishonest cause, and now you're being dishonest on top of that by claiming it's not political.

Froth?

This actually makes a lot of sense — it's all tasks that rely on precision and organization, and largely not ones that depend on creativity or judgement calls.

I love the juxtaposition of nature and man-made, and noplace is a better spot for that kind of sight than Lincon Park West.

I still haven't seen the DEP's plan for the park; I'd be surprised if it didn't include at least some of those things.

And it's funny that we have booming farmers markets at the PATH stations and Fisk Park, but Lincoln Park's is tiny and LSP doesn't have one.

Ironically, the state budget cuts helped TECCS financially, because it was the state that was short-changing them. (There were several funding loopholes they were on the wrong side of — schools founded after 2007 got less money, charters got less money, there was a third thing I can't remember.) When the city passed the commuter tax, the charters actually got their fair share.

But there's a minimum per-student funding in New Jersey that, by law, every school has to get, and for several years TECCS was operating at 2/3 of that minimum. It's a goddamn miracle that school is as good as it is.

No, there is always a lottery, in every instance. We came to TECCS in the second year it was a school and they ended up going through the whole waiting list to fill their spots, but they still started with a lottery. There is never not a lottery. I beg you, do literally any research into how our charter schools work before you try writing about them.

I'll just echo what everyone else is saying: charter schools in Jersey City are by lottery and therefore aren't more selective. So are you being disingenuous? Or do you just not know the basic facts of what you're reporting on?

I do have two kids who went to a K-8 charter (TECCS), and I can't imagine the tests were administered any differently, but the kids did get a lot of support, despite the school's criminal lack of funding in its early years. Smaller class sizes meant they got a bit more attention, and the faculty and staff really took the "community" in the name seriously. I always felt like the people there were invested in my kids and wanted them to do well.

All I did was post the news!

The DEP has their own plan in place for more active recreation in the park, but it's not paid venues and doesn't involve filling up every bit of open space like the billionaire's plan.

Not that I expected that plan to ever be enacted — it's a trojan horse so Fireman can bulldoze the Caven Point nature preserve to expand his millionaires-only golf course. It's what he's been after for years, and he's run one astroturf campaign after another to try and open up the park to development.

Headline: After a long struggle, we finally get some good news!

JC Reddit: I bet this is bad news.

What are you basing that on? The DEP controls the park. I'm not sure even Murphy can overrule them.

Since the article is paywalled, I"ll also share this post from Friends of Liberty State Park:

Thanks DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette for powerfully rejecting billionaire Paul Fireman's LSP commercial venues plans! "Visions of a 5,000-seat sports arena, gone. Thoughts of a 7,000-seat concert venue, also gone. "The head of the DEP laid out general plans for the revitalization of LSP Thursday, but he was specific in saying there would be no major commercialization or privatization of the state park on the Hudson River waterfront".

“Privatization of a public asset that is owned by no one because it belongs to everyone is not a thing, period, full stop,” said DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette.

But we must stay involved as billionaire Paul Fireman's front groups are still pushing lies about the interior 165 acres of spectacular diverse habitats and paths, and pretending that the DEP isn't going to add 61 acres of active recreation to LSP

Please attend to support the Thursday March 23 DEP Open House from 6:30 to 8pm at the Terminal with poster exhibits of the amazing urban nature plans and improvement concepts for LSP and with DEP staff there to answer questions and receive any comments. It's an information session and not a public hearing.

If anyone's talking about Social Security failing, it's because they want to shake confidence in the system so they can carve it up somehow. The Social Security trust fund is one of the biggest piles of money on Earth, so a lot of Republicans look at it the way Wile E. Coyote looks at the Road Runner.

I'm getting YouTube ads from Liberty State Park For Paul. He's really going all-in this time around. I wonder how much money this is all costing him. At a certain point, it's going to be cheaper to buy Port Liberté and tear that down instead of the nature preserve.

Going through college admissions with my older son now, and honestly it's so much easier than trying to get into a high school here. You have so many more options, the admissions departments are so much more organized, and if your kid isn't locked into one subject, colleges actually let you switch majors, unlike the county schools.

Cutting beef out of your diet is the single best thing you can do for the environment. Not only are cows a big direct contributor to climate change (largely through farting out methane at an alarming rate), the biggest driver of deforestation is grazing land (that's where most of the damage to the Amazon has come from), and cows use a disproporationate amount of fresh water, between the animals themselves, and all the grain they eat.

As much as Fulop constantly gets shit for being "in bed with developers" he's done a terrific job from his side of the bed of pushing for affordable housing and green space amidst this mad rush of development (which was going to happen whether Fulop was in office or not).

> the cost can be more reasonable than you’d think if buying in bulk

I love the idea of rich people buying their Evian and fois gras at Costco.