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Interim Corporation Council selected

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

MAYOR ZIMMER APPOINTS INTERIM CORPORATION COUNSEL

Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced that she has appointed Mark. A. Tabakin, Esq. of Weiner Lesniak, LLP to serve as the City’s interim Corporation Counsel. He will attend the upcoming Council meeting on Wednesday, September 15.

The City last week initiated an open process to find a permanent, full-time Corporation Counsel. A Request for Qualifications was issued and is available on the City website. The deadline for responses is Friday, September 17th, and interviews with prospective candidates will be conducted the following week. Read More...

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City Council meeting is tomorrow with more drama to come

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

It’s ten days before the deadline on the layoffs and tomorrow’s City Council meeting promises to be heated with another jam packed room filled with police and their supporters. In that heated environment, Councilman Russo who has had two brothers on the police force  conducted himself worse than in recent memory.  He not only was out of order many times in the evening speaking out of turn and over his council colleagues, he decided he had had enough of one member of the public in the audience.  Their crime: not demonstrating acceptable non-verbal behavior. Read More...

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The Cartel – now available on DVD!

by SmartyJones3 Min Reading
From filmmaker Bob Bowdon

Dear Friends of The Cartel Movie —
Hallelujah!   🙂   

The Cartel Movie has been picked up by a major distributor, and the DVD release date has finally been set.  The worldwide release will be December 1, 2010.  That’s when anyone & everyone will be able to visit our website , put in an order for the DVD, and bask in the good feelings that will flow from helping reform public education.
But no reform movement runs by itself.  We’d like to ask for your help.  And we’re not talking about money.
The biggest hurdle in marketing any film is getting people to know it exists in the first place.  So today, we’re asking all the subscribers on our website; i.e., you, to tell just one new person — someone who is not a part of your household — about The Cartel . Get that person to sign-up for screening updates on our website.  

Our goal is to double our subscriber list before the release.  (Of course, we’d be even happier if you got two, or three, or maybe ten new people to sign-up, but for now, all we’re asking for is one.) 

  
You see, for a period of two-and-a-half years, The Cartel was a self-financed labor of love for me.  Early on, I wasn’t even sure I’d ever finish the project, let alone sure anyone would ever sit down and watch it.  But the film ultimately came together, in no small part because of invaluable help I got from lots of people, many of whom never asked for a thing in return.  Since then, The Cartel has been profiled on MSNBC, The Fox News Channel, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune and countless other major media outlets. 
Now, as we near the finish line, we just need a little more help.  From you.
  And while there’s an aspect to this appeal that’s admittedly self-serving — we’d obviously like to sell a lot of DVDs to make back the production costs and more — I would have never devoted years of my life to this if I weren’t truly disgusted by the dismal performance and blatant greed of much of the education establishment.  Fortunately, I’m just as convinced there is a way out.  School choice could be a catalyst for meaningful, positive structural reform. 

The bottom line is there’s no question that The Cartel movie has really opened eyes and changed minds.  We just want to “open” and “change” a few more in this final push. 

Can you help us?

(The secret is that subscribers to our website will be offered a private DVD sale before the advertised release.  Shhh.)

So that’s all we ask.  Tell at least one person outside your household about The Cartel , andget them to sign-up on our website . We’re talking to you. Yes, you. The sign-up link is here:


Oh, and thanks. 
And the children, whose schools you just might help improve, thank you too.
What else?
Breaking News, Announced Today: 
The Cartel, Winner, “Audience Choice Award” 2010 Atlanta Documentary Film Festival 

In the words of the cheerleaders from my high school days: “Fire Up!”
— Bob

P.S. Your music collection deserves The Cartel Soundtrack.  Sample it for free at “The Cartel Soundtrack” on iTunes, or use the MP3 download link:

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BoE Meeting tonight @ 7:00

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading

PUBLIC NOTICE
HOBOKEN BOARD OF EDUCATION
STATED SESSION
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

DATE: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
TIME: 7:00 p.m. Stated Session
LOCATION: Board Meeting Room
1115 Clinton Street
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

Agenda

1. Board President Report and Board Committee Reports.
2. Approval of minutes.
3. Report of Interim Superintendent.
a. Personnel: postings, resignations, re-appointments, appointments, program staffing, transfers, full and part time staff, training, stipends, substitutes.
b. Curriculum and Instruction: Curriculum and instruction matters; field trips
4. Business Administrator: financial reports and actions; payment of bills and payroll; food service program; facility matters; grants; student placements and services; workshops. Read More...

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Mitzvah Efforts slated for October 10th

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
=&0=& Volunteers Can Choose from 10 Different Service Projects around the Area HOBOKEN — The United Synagogue of Hoboken is proud to announce Mitzvah Day 2010, which will take place Sunday, Oct. 10.

Volunteers from the synagogue community will participate in their choice from 10 activities serving a variety of people, including children, seniors, the disabled, people serving overseas in the military and those in need of blood donations, among others. Read More...

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Assembly members advance penalties for electronic device use when driving

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
=&0=& (TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Patrick J. Diegnan Jr., Caridad Rodriguez and Craig J. Coughlin  to prohibit public transportation operators from using a wireless telephone or electronic communication device while their vehicles are moving was advanced Monday by a Senate panel.

The bill – approved 75-0 by the Assembly in February – stems from a commuter train crash in California that killed 25 people. Investigators found the operator of the passenger train sent a text message 22 seconds before the collision with an oncoming freight train. Read More...

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9-11 Pier A Service in Pictures

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
The Honor Guard officially began the 9-11 ceremony at Pier A Saturday
Special services stood at the rear of the service
Mayor Dawn Zimmer reviews speech while Sen. Robert Menendez and Freeholder Anthony Romano look on
Assemblyman Reuben Ramos and family, City Council President Carol Marsh and 4th Ward Councilman Mike Lenz (in light blue shirt) stand for the National Anthem
Mayor Zimmer speaks as religious clergy look on.
A Hudson School Student was one of several people to read the list of names of Hoboken residents who perished in the 9-11 attack.
A woman is caught in her thoughts during the ceremony.  Applause for speakers was polite but subdued.
Spectators circled the entire area of the ceremony, most standing throughout.
Later the tribute of light to the 9-11 victims as seen over lower Manhattan
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Guest of the Stable: David Dening

by SmartyJones1 Min Reading
Stop The Layoffs:

I am writing to urge the PBA and PSOA heads, Mr. Lombardi and Mr. Drishti, to stop the police layoffs. While there are millions in reserves that Hoboken shouldn’t touch, there will be a large sum specifically reserved for officers, two years of retroactive raises, pending contract arbitration.  The best use of this reserve is to save jobs.

These raises won’t bring consolation to senior officers when they come at the expense of their younger brothers jobs. A lump sum will be cold comfort to officers who lose their job. Instead of forcing the negotiations into mediation, make concessions to save jobs. The PBA and PSOA should follow the example of the teacher’s union in New York. This summer the teachers union gave up raises for two years to save 4400 jobs.  Aren’t the PBA and PSOA at least as dedicated to the welfare of all their members?  Read More...