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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
Kevin Allen
Why does everybody who feelsthey need a sign
a) get one b) put in on a new stick Couldn;t the museum and the college use the same stick? Can't soem signs be grouped on the street lights? And the contractors... TJREIDY1@... wrote: I agree with Kevin on this one.............I am appalled at the visual litter-- Kevin Allen Principal Designer Kevin Lee Allen Design, Incorporated klad@... 973.744.6352.v 201.280.3841.c |
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Jitney News -- Other towns, that is....
<<A SHUTTLE FOR EVERY STATION?
- NJT BUYS JITNEYS, BUT OPERATING COSTS A BARRIER - Last Monday, NJ Transit announced the list of communities that will receive 20 commuter shuttle buses next Spring under the agency's "Community Shuttle Program" (see box). The 20-person, $70,000 jitney buses will ease congestion around rail stations and reduce parking overflow by providing frequent curb-to-station service to resident commuters. In off-hours, municipalities intend to use the new buses to serve senior citizens or as added intra- city mass transit. The program is paid for from a $3.5 million ear-mark secured by Representative William Pascrell of Paterson in 1998. Congressman Pascrell was motivated by the success of the Maplewood pilot jitney service, spearheaded by the Campaign in 1996, which now serves 12% of the town's rail passengers every weekday morning. 45% Maplewood jitney riders previously drove to the station. Thirty-three towns and counties applied for the shuttle money, but many more were daunted by the roughly $25,000 a year cost of operating the service that, under the current program, each municipality must pay in full. But a little-noticed item in the draft 2001-2003 North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority Transportation Improvement Program may help. NJTransit has set aside $1 million of federal air pollution reduction money to fund "operating expense for the community shuttle program." NJT should publicize the existence of this money during the second round of grants later this year, so that municipalities unable to cover the full operating costs of a jitney program can still participate. TOWNS THAT WILL RECEIVE NEW NJ TRANSIT-PURCHASED STATION SHUTTLE BUSES Clifton Edison Glen Ridge Hackensack (2) Maplewood Marlboro Metuchen New Brunswick North Plainfield Old Bridge Orange Rahway Redbank Rutherford Secaucus South Orange (2) * * * From the Tri-State Transportation Campaign - MTR#270 Contributing: Charles Komanoff, Lisa Shreibman Editors: Jon Orcutt, Kristen Fountain Executive Director: Janine Bauer Tri-State Transportation Campaign 240 West 35th Street #801, New York, NY 10001 tel. (212) 268-7474 fax (212) 268-7333 tstc@... www.tstc.org>> |
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Re: Mom's March
Louise and Gil Brodnitz
I went to the million mom march and I have no trouble believing the 750,000
person attendance number. It was vast. It was a great way to spend Mothers Day. If anyone would like to follow up on the gun control issue, there is a website that tracks news on this subject: www.jointogether.org I also understand that the New Jersey Senate approved a gun safety bill but it is, according to the speaker of the Assembly, not even going to get a hearing in the assembly. Sounds like some letters would help. |
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Re: Mom's March
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the dc trip was great - there were 12 buses from montclair - we had the essecx county sherif and a few motor cycles proceed us to our destinatiion - the weather was fine - then I went back for a real estate meeting from tues to fri - on the train - everyother person on the train had a cell phone, and in use - a little too mcuh - lets get tog. for lunch and final bills etc. adriana MDK10@... wrote: So, Adriana... did you make it to the Mom's March last week? How did it go? |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
In a message dated 5/14/2000 11:30:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
TJREIDY1@... writes: Zydeco or Zodico music is a Louisana Creole form........french influence,way that is distinctive to southern Louisana.Thanks, Terry. Sounds wonderful. I am sorry I missed the party! M |
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Re: Trying this for the first time
Jessica:
Glad you made it onto Watercooler! But boy, you ask some tough questions that may take a lifetime to find an answer. How to build a community? First, what is a community? An area within certain political boundaries? A neighborhood? A group of people chatting online about things that interest them? I think these are all communities, each with a unique way of sustaining (and building) itself. We are all members of many communities, life being a multi-faceted process. I just returned from a trip back to my hometown in upstate NY, where I spoke to the local historical society on historic preservation. I have not lived there for 30 years, and yet I felt like I was home. I had shared their news via my parents and had agonized with them over the loss of town landmarks over the years. In my introductory remarks, I recalled the demolition of "my" library -- the mansion of one of the town's most prominent citizens -- as being the event that led me to the work I do today. Do you know that people came up to me afterwards and told me how much they related to that incident? Many of them had felt the same sadness with me. In remembering that loss with them, the 30 years disappeared. It was as if I had never left them -- I was and always will be a part of that community because of the connections I had there made in my childhood. So I think "community" is a very fluid concept, stretching over time and place and memory. As for the focusing on the "broad issues" -- I think we all need to focus on the micro before we can get to the macro. Life is a process of moving between those two visions. Mary |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
Dear Mary,
Zydeco or Zodico music is a Louisana Creole form........french influence, African influence, blues and country............all mixed together in a way that is distinctive to southern Louisana............once you hear it, you will never forget the rhythm.....its been around for generations.......however, it was made popular several years ago in a movie with dennis Quaid called "The Big Easy"............. terry |
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Trying this for the first time
Signing on for the first time was difficult enough, both literally,
figuring out how to use my ID, and because I'm in the process of self redefinition. How do we engage the community on broad issues? How do we build community? And, if we don't build community, does anything else matter? |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
I agree with Kevin on this one.............I am appalled at the visual litter
in our community..........all communities.........I see our challenge as figuring out a way to do the business aspects of getting people where they need to go with the least amount of signage possible Terry ps...............Downtown saturday night was a great party..........especially terrance Simmeon (a Zydeco band) |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
Kevin Allen
I differ, horrible idea.
I would like to disallow all those signs, including contractors and for sale signs, we have enough visual clutter, there must be other ways. -- Kevin Allen Principal Designer Kevin Lee Allen Design, Incorporated klad@... 973.744.6352.v 201.280.3841.c |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
In a message dated 5/13/2000 9:26:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
aot@... writes: lawn signs for election inGreat idea! It might help, if memory lapses are the reason that people don't vote. I wonder.... News coverage of the election was very slight this time around, with the Mtc Times having shifted its focus to "soft news" during the past year or so. I would love to see more reporting of political and land use issues, like we had before the Times was acquired by a syndicate. Mary |
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Re: Curious Pockets of History
In a message dated 5/13/2000 9:26:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
aot@... writes: commemoratiang something, I'll check it again when I go out.Then of course there is the 'smallest national park in the USA" at the corner of Claremont and Valley -- the boulder that marks the site of "Washington's Headquarters." It was a Crane homestead, the oldest house in Montclair, where Washington stayed during the Rev War. His troups encamped in the meadow around the house for several weeks. Can you imagine a meadow sprinkled with tents at that busy corner? Washington's scouts would travel up Valley Road to the top of Great Notch to check out British movements from the encampment there. It was so high up that they could see the dust kicked up by troop movements. Amazing huh? The air must have been a lot clearer than today! I ran across a series of articles in the Montclair Times around 1900 when there was an attempt (later successful) to tear it down. It was HUGE preservation battle (this time PRO-preservation, unlike recent years when property rights has dominated). Lots of letters to the editor from organizations like the DAR or some such, a number of articles about its history, lots of public lamenting and wringing of hands. I haven't found the last chapter yet... I am only up to 1902 in my whirlwind scan of the Times. Mary |
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Re: Curious Pockets of History
In a message dated 5/13/2000 9:26:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
aot@... writes: what was the name on the plaque?I don't know. I will have to drive by to check it out.... have you ever noticed the little park next to cvs on valley roadYeah, right next to Photo Cullen? I have passed it so many times, and never stopped to read it. Let us know... Mary |
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Re: Curious Pockets of History
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have you ever noticed the little park next to cvs on valley road -= an eagle, on the bldg - commemoratiang something, I'll check it again when I go out. something about Lafayette I think adriana MDK10@... wrote: I was chatting with Mark Porter, editor of the Montclair Times, who said that |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
I think we might have to consider tacky, but useful, lawn signs for election in
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off years, so that voters remember - it turns out there is no regulation agains them = ( it would be unconsidtutionnald ( whatever) and might help bring attention to an election date adriana MDK10@... wrote: In a message dated 5/11/2000 4:52:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, klad@... |
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Curious Pockets of History
I was chatting with Mark Porter, editor of the Montclair Times, who said that
there was some person who had come across a plaque in Glenfield Park commemorating the gift of the park by a large estate owner. He wanted to know more about it. I didn't have a clue. Apparently, the land was part of his estate, and he wanted to donate for public use as a park. As I recall, this is a county park. My questions: who was this person? When and why (no really, why) did he donate it? Who put up the plaque? And what has become of his legacy? There are all sorts of other strange remnants of our history around. Some we pass by without really noticing. For instance, there is a metal "garage" -- very near the Glen Ridge border on the north side of Bloomfield Avenue -- old and kind of rusty. I didn't realize, until I read an advertisement about it in a 1911 Montclair Times, that these were early structures that resemble our modern garden sheds -- Home Depot types. They were just the right size to house a Model T (even though they didn't come out until a few years later). They were inexpensive, quasi-temporary structures for a particular purpose -- i.e., cars. The manufacturer was a company in Glen Ridge. There were other companies who advertised these, too. One in Newark, I think. I had seen one near Oak Place and Label Street. A friend has come across more of these funny structures around town. Anyway, I thought that some of you would have come across other curious artifacts -- lampposts, plaques, clocks, or some funny other thing that must have a story. They make going around town so interesting. Mary |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
In a message dated 5/11/2000 4:52:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, klad@...
writes: but I can't help butWe were fantacizing that physical evidence of the person would still be required, so that people would still come to a central voting place, but have to put their thumb on a print-reader to verify they were who they said. Given the latest hacker successes, I have a feeling that balloting will not be online anytime soon! M |
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Re: Thoughts of a Poll Watcher
Kevin Allen
For some while, we will ned the old methods, but I can't help but
imagine that voting online is something soon to arrive. a userID, a password, and viola. Maybe more people would participate, they can vote from the office in the city. Either you have to choose electronic balloting or the voting machines have to be replaced with computers or the folks who man the polls need a database linked to the internet offering a realtime check of who has voted. Could be the end of vote early, vote often. -- Kevin Allen Principal Designer Kevin Lee Allen Design, Incorporated klad@... 973.744.6352.v 201.280.3841.c |
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