Monday, September 10, 2012
Select what Fair Lawn park you think is most attractive.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Fair Lawn’s “rank order specialist” Cornell Christianson took photos of his 14 parks around town and showed the photos to a panel of "experts" who determined the seven finalists. Now it’s your turn to pick the most beautiful park. Honorable Mentions go to these parks: Beaver Dam, Brookdale, Center, Everett, Gregory, Saddle River County Park (Fair Lawn side off Saddle River Road) and Thomas Jefferson. The seven finalists in alphabetical order: 1) Berdan Grove (Berdan Ave) 2) Edison Park / Fair Lawn Bird Sanctuary 3) Fair Lawn Tree Arboretum (Fair Lawn Ave) 4) Henderson Park (Henderson Blvd) 5) Memorial Park / Memorial Pool 6) Radburn A Park 7) Radburn B Park Voting will run until Friday at 5 p.m. -- Follow Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Patch on …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Fair Lawn residents Stuart Pace, Steve Brown,Rich Seibel and Zak Koeske make their fantasy football selections for the weekend
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Welcome to the weekly Patch NFL Pick 'Em, where Fair Lawn residents and wannabe NFL prognosticators Stuart Pace, Steve Brown, Rich Seibel and Zak Koeske offer up their picks for three games each week and dish out a little fantasy football advice to boot. If you'd like our opinion on fantasy roster moves, have a fantasy football question you'd like answered or would like to compete against us as a Guest Picker, email Patch NFL Pick 'Em at zak.koeske@patch.com This week's Pick 'Em games: Stuart Pace’s Game Picks: New York Giants over Dallas Cowboys -- Who am I to be the guy to go against the World Champs? Every year I question the G-Men, and every year they prove me wrong. As I will be at this game as a guest of the NFL, I will take the host…
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Fair Lawn Republican Club President Daniel Dunay was in Tampa this week attending the Republican National Convention.
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
I had not originally intended to write a second blog comment on my time at the convention (click here to read Dunay's first blog on Gov. Christie's Keynote), but several folks prevailed on me otherwise. And, in the end, my experience over the last few days became much more than a partisan occasion. It was an opportunity to attend a national gathering of civically devoted Americans. And that unto itself was a touching life moment. Here with us from New Jersey alone were state legislators and local leaders. A current governor, a prior governor, congressmen, and a former cabinet secretary. From Fair Lawn we had at least four individuals attending, among them our prior municipal chair and sitting planning board vice chair. These individuals…
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Fair Lawn Republican Club President Daniel Dunay is in Tampa this week attending the Republican National Convention.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
We arrived in Tampa on Sunday to grey skies and wind, but yesterday began to a sunny glisten, both in the sky and in the eyes of the New Jersey delegation as we learned that everyone would have an opportunity to see Governor Christie speak. It seems that, by the hard work of our state leadership and by the generosity of other states' sudden (and, in my experience, not universal) generosity to assist the New Jersey delegation, all 600 of the visitors from our state would be afforded a chance to see our governor speak live at the convention center. We were fortunate enough to see many speakers that night and some entertainment too. The Oak Ridge Boys sang "Amazing Grace," and we all sang too (though not quite like them). Ann Romney gave a …
The property tax burden needs to be reduced but not by simplistic solutions that concentrate on one part of the problem
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
By Joel L. Naroff, NJ Spotlight New Jersey’s property tax burden is a massive barrier to growth that borders on being confiscatory. But the discussion about changing the tax is filled with political bluster without much economic thinking. Before any solutions are proposed, it would be nice if we knew why New Jersey’s property taxes are so high compared with other states. If you don’t know the root causes of the high taxes, solutions become guesses not answers. High property taxes result from spending decisions and thus are a symptom not the illness. Currently, education, which makes up so much of the tax bill, bears the largest part of the blame for high property taxes. But saying that education costs are too high is meaningless. We don’t …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Union president says taxpayers should consider elimination of county executive position.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
As president of PBA Local 134, I once again find myself in the unfortunate position of having to address yet another barrage of insults, misrepresentations, and outright lies directed at the men and women of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, by Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan. “Political Environment” In her August 17, 2012 press release, Ms. Donovan asserts that the Sheriff’s Office operates in a “political environment,” not a professional one. To the contrary, in Bergen County I can assure you the duties carried out by our sworn staff are done so in a strictly professional environment. Our sworn officers are hired and promoted like many other law enforcement officers throughout New Jersey; through the New Jersey Civil Service …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Vote for your favorite Fair Lawn Cop Card photo in the poll below.
A newly-minted Fair Lawn Police Sergeant introduced me to the Fair Lawn Cop Card web page recently and I must say I've been engrossed ever since. What's a "Cop Card," you ask? I wasn't sure either, but thankfully the page provides a handy explanation: "For years, baseball players have had their photos on trading cards.....now it's our turn!!!!!!" Apparently, since 1998, the Fair Lawn Police Department has been having cop cards made for a select number of officers and dispatchers who would like to have their likenesses (and 90s mustaches) preserved for eternity. In all seriousness, the cards were actually intended to make the officers more approachable and to help open up the lines of communication between the police department and the …
Friday, August 10, 2012
Advice for sending your kid off to college without the need of an epidural.
Nobody tells you that labor pains don't really kick in until your child hits adolescence. And the closer they get to leaving the nest for college, the more intense those pains become. As one mom emphatically put it during National Night Out, "I'm so ready for her to leave--she's driving me (expletive deleted) crazy!" It's only when your child turns the corner of 17 that you realize the iconic book on parenting "What To Expect When You're Expecting" should have a "College Bound" edition. Let's face it, the last few years with your child have been an emotional rollercoaster with everyone's hormones a-popping, including the dog's. Your burgeoning adult is testing your mettle while you're just emerging from an 18-year stupor filled with …
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Housing advocate and municipalities try to prevent the state from taking their funds.
The battle between the Christie administration and the Fair Share Housing Center continues. This time, the two sides are going to court Friday over as much as $200 million in local affordable housing trust funds. So far, the Appellate Division of Superior Court has been kind to the Cherry Hill-based housing advocates, but this case could be a different story. To help balance the budget, Gov. Chris Christie recommended the state use the trust fund money. The administration appears to be within its legal right to do so, as the law creating the funds—and the developer fees that municipalities levy to subsidize them—specified municipalities had to “commit to spend” the money within four years. The clock strikes midnight on July 17. But as …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
After spending vetoes, governor calls for a special legislative session on tax cuts.
Gov. Chris Christie had the last word on state spending last Friday, vetoing most of the new expenditures the Democrats had sought within the budget and in separate bills. And then he went further, calling the Legislature back for a command performance, a special summer session on Monday to try to bully them into the tax cut he has been seeking all year. Rarely, when there is divided government, does the theater that is the process of enacting a state budget in New Jersey disappoint. And that’s what all of this is, political theater. Because the Democrats are not going to pass Christie’s 10 percent across-the-board tax cut proposal as it gives more money back to the wealthy than to the poor and middle class. And there’s no way Christie is …
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9:16 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Interesting back-and-forth here. Sorry I missed it earlier, I must have been busy that week. I'm not sure that @Jen had any nefarious purpose, other than a snippet of history that wasn't referenced properly. The eventual deal with Daly Field was that pieces of the property owned and contracted by Radburn were still being disposed of in court up to the war years, and Plaza Field (the Grand Union … more ›