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This is a Bay State Alert Special:
In the battle of the teabaggers vs. the fisters, it’s not looking too good for the latter. Something is already amiss. The forward progress thinking people are already resorting to paternalistic attacks blaming the woman. Is it over already? Well it seems within the inner circles it in fact is as we’ve tapped into a larger network over the last week and the low key approach of working through the holidays while Marsha Croaking was on vacation drinking mint julips to her anointed victory and now she’s going down in flames. Attacks in the White House are even pointing fingers at Sen. Robert Menendez, just recently in town on Friday to collect, I mean sanctify federal funds for the Jubilee Center. (He later went to make his collection pickup at Amandas Restaurant where he was honored with an event at $250 per head.) No word on if that gets you a job in any of the local hospitals.
This is part 4 of the audio interview with Judy Tripodi, the state fiscal monitor. Initial questions here are twofold: one on the practical impact of the standards adopted and implemented in the 2010 budget and in the secondary area of updated financial software. Public Information Officer Paul Drexell jumps in at one point to identify a detail.
First question here starts asking what are the advantages with the revamping of the budget process and the specific benefits to Hoboken. Then the issue of budget transparency is discussed with the public’s desire to get more details on the existing information and drilling into how more details can be made available. Parks become an interesting example as part of this discussion.
This rendition of the “A Change Gonna Come” really did capture the spirit of today’s event. The audience response gives you a true first hand view. Can I get a witness?
For this video we experimented with a used 30 year old manual Pentax M-lens. It lent some atmosphere, perhaps a little too much and it did double duty with the earlier photos. This is Pentax’s new K-x and we highly recommend it. The Pentax 55-300 lens packaged is an absolute must. Amazon has a great deal on the package.
Here’s just a taste of today MLK Celebration at All Saints. Musicians, speakers and a packed house absolutely filled to the gills. There was not one spot anywhere available. We ran into the jolly green giant and also the new full time reporter for Hoboken.patch.com Claire Moses working the event too. So check them out for more coverage on the spirited event.
Photos courtesy Jhnnynewman. All rights reserved.
Mark Mauer at Hoboken Now posted a story on the events honoring MLK today and it’s important to mention the program scheduled this afternoon at 4:00 – 6:30.
8th annual ‘Sing out for Justice’ MLK Day concert in Hoboken
=&0=& Photo Courtesy Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey JournalRelated: Hoboken Housing Commissioner Jake Stuiver is sponsoring an essay contest honoring Martin Luther King’s inspiration.
Claire Moses at Hoboken.patch.com summarizes the activities with a forum allowing readers to post their comments, photos and videos.
There’s not many years in Da Horsey’s life that’s begun with so many challenges to start the New Year. Hoboken sits staring at a brutal tough economy with double digit unemployment, its home state facing billions in deficit (with perhaps 25% funding cuts right behind Gov. Corzine’s $400 million slash) and a nation that is in deeper red ink. The answers from the federal level? Well there is no answer offered unless you call adding an entitlement to others already trillions in the red that alone chew up 92% of the US budget by the end of this decade. How do you add another unfunded, underestimated “healthcare” entitlement to the mix? Sigh, let’s avoid that reality for now, everyone else is. The real bill for that will come in November…
Few men in American history are known by or for just a few words. Martin Luther King is one of those few Americans who hold that honor for speaking about American truths, American principles and American dreams. Many video clips are available but this one is selected specifically for capturing the essence of the words in the “I have a dream” speech delivered in Washington DC. The speech has become a universal symbol of American principles, American aspirations and American freedom.
Andrew Tavani reported earlier for the Jersey Journal on the sad story of an apparent suicide by a man who jumped eight stories from the Tea Building uptown. No details on the man’s identity but the police including Chief Falco have been on the scene.
Condolences to the family on this tragedy.
Photo: Police cover the body of an apparent suicide fallen from the Tea Building
Courtesy Andrew Tavani / for The Jersey Journal
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