Weather: Considerable cloudiness. High 81F
- Food distribution
- Chai4ever: Boxes at 2313 County rt 547 Lakehurst, NJ 08733 (In the Parking Lot next door to Alba's pub) today at 5pm
- Bnos Devorah 16 meal boxes at bmg 9th st parking lot & Herzka building 1:30 pm for those registered
- 20 new covid cases in Lakewood since Friday totals 14005/312
- Israel New covid cases soar: A record 7,177 new coronavirus cases was reported in Israel on Monday, with 6.08% of tests returning positive, Of those infected, 528 were in serious condition and 93 were on ventilators. 20 dead The death toll stands at 6,687.
- Ami Magazine: Is anyone old enough to remember the Carter presidency? The rising oil prices and inflation, and of course the Iranian hostage crisis! Well, it’s unfortunately de ja vu all over again. #JoeBiden
- TRUMP: responds to Biden speech "It's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left!"
- Biden admits Taliban takeover of Afghanistan unfolded 'more quickly' than anticipated, takes no questions, returns to Camp David
- Nearly a half dozen U.S. officials (across the administration) tell Reuters that there is increasing frustration and even anger with the way Biden has handled the evacuation from Kabul, saying his White House wasted too much time in the months leading up to last week.
- Biden speaks 4 pm here
- Mayor Bill de Blasio.Starting tomorrow, you'll need proof of vaccination to "unlock everything New York City has to offer.
- Tehillim 20 month old in critical condition name added Tzeporah Yehudis bas Chaya Bracha
- USDA to permanently boost food stamp benefits by 25 percent Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps SNAP program will rise more than 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels. The increased assistance will be available indefinitely to all 42 million SNAP beneficiaries. The average monthly per-person benefits will rise from $121 to $157. (AP)
- Pfizer and Biontech to U.S. FDA: Third vaccine dose shows "favorable safety" profile.
- Lithuania’s government has shelved plans to build a conference center on a Jewish cemetery in the capital city of Vilna "because of how the COVID-19 pandemic “has changed the conference tourism market and environment.” Rabbonim and roshei yeshiva from the US and Israel have fought a long battle to stop the planned construction.
- Forest fire intensifies and burns again around yerushalayim as winds pick up, fire reaches a hospital and smoke is seen throughout the city neighborhoods evacuated. Metzuda winery destroyed a loss of 80 million shekel.
- Census data for Lakewood : 48% of the population is under 18 years old, that is over 66,000 children under the age of 18.
- TRUMP: "Can anyone even imagine taking out our Military before evacuating civilians and others who have been good to our Country and who should be allowed to seek refuge? In addition, these people left topflight and highly sophisticated equipment."
- TRUMP: "The outcome in Afghanistan, including the withdrawal, would have been totally different if the Trump Administration had been in charge.”
- Lakewood boys elementary schools start this coming wednesday
- A 52-year-old Israeli woman was hospitalized in serious condition after receiving a third shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. The Ziv Medical Center in Tzfas said the woman has likely suffered an allergic reaction to the booster shot.
The scene at the Airport in Kabul
Shaar Shechem today
Lakewood taxpayers should take note of the Jersey City T & E case, the hot issue today in educational funding.
ReplyDeleteI think Jersey City is the model for that which will happen to us soon unless we win in Alcantara.
The state removed the 2% tax cap and authorized a payroll tax because Jersey City was not taxing up to it local fair share.
In our case, since we will have a monitor, with authority to raise taxes to the fullest extent of the law, until ten years after the last loan, should the state authorize removal of the tax cap, the monitor will have no choice but to impose the increases. At that point, I can try, but likely, we will no longer have a T & E claim and will not be able to go to court since the kids will have the funding from local dollars. The Court does not care if the money comes from state or local.
In fact, even now the state is arguing we do not have a T & E claim since we are getting the money through loans. We are arguing that the kids are not getting T & E despite the loans (and a secondary argument that loans per se are not T & E).
Jersey City city brought a T & E claim since they cannot raise all the money at once and their schools are going to be hundreds of millions short.
See the excerpts from Donna Arons' motion to dismiss the T & E claim, which Judge Jacobson denied.
"And certain SDA districts -including JCBOE - are provided an adjustment to the levy cap that allows those districts to increase their levy up to LFS. L. 2018,
c. 67, §6 (amending C.18A:7F-38(a)-(d)." page 26
"In addition to these tools, the Legislature also amended the Local Tax Authorization Act (“LTAA”), N.J.S.A. 40:48C-1 to -42, which authorizes municipalities to collect a variety of local taxes, with L. 2018, c. 68 (“Chapter 68”). Specifically, Chapter 68 amended the LTAA to make population the lone qualification requirement for imposition of a payroll tax. L. 2018, c. 68, §1." p. 28
Jersey City is far below their local fair share. The state cut adjustment aid that formerly filled in the gap. So to catch them up, the state removed the 2% cap on tax increases and also approved a payroll tax.
We too are far below T & E, not so much below the local share, about $18 million, but our taxes are way below what the state wants us to pay.
The main defense the state put up in our case is that we did not raise enough taxes. They said we could have had referendums (yea, sure) and could have increased taxes during 2011-14 (even though we were then taxing at our local fair share).
Although no court would likely buy the incoherent arguments of the Lakewood BOE opposing our T & E claim, still, the very idea that it opposes us will raise eyebrows in the Appellate Division and Supreme Court. The BOE, and the township committee for not asserting its influence and de facto authority, if not de jure, must be held accountable.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/04/funding-crisis-continues-to-loom-large-for-jersey-city-schools-opinion.html]
Aaron Lang
The amim don't daven s'e. Don't help them think.
DeleteI have already turned down two prominent authors who wanted to write a book about Lakewood and my case. A NY Times contributor just contacted me less than an hour ago. I have nothing good to say. Better to say nothing at all.
DeleteIt boggles the mind what is happening and nobody takes a stand. I originally filed in 2014 thinking I would finally get a promotion in the district but instead was demoted. The whole state except Lakewood is rooting for us and everyone who is anyone in this town is too cowardly to take a stand.
The put-downs certainly don't help.
DeleteI know put-downs don't help. Just letting off steam before getting to the real work.
DeleteSo one lady had an alergic reaction.... Thousands didnt . There is always some minor risk with vaccinations.
ReplyDeleteThousands? Try a million people so far.
DeleteI thought Trump was in charge? I thought he won the election? Has he finally conceded? What a moron! And to think most of this town voted for him...........
ReplyDeleteApparently our resident Hefkervelt Trump hater is back. And as usual, with his completey nonsensical ravings ( see above for illustration ).
DeleteIm not sure who took our stop sign down, but whoever it was you better replace it
ReplyDeleteHe's on camera, it's no secret.
DeleteSince the American armed forces have gotten so woke female in the military hierarchy and feministic oriented
ReplyDeletea. Even backward men with a will and spirit are able to beat them
b. Let the women therefore fight the battles without the men giving their blood
Huh? How did this fit in here
DeleteWho remembers Trump's deal with the Taliban? It is of course scrubbed from his website, but he freed 5000 Taliban fighters in exchange for nothing, and promised to leave Afghanistan. Now the deed is done, but Trump has no business complaining, when he put this into place, and it is his releasees that are committing the carnage now.
ReplyDeleteThe Trump Afghanistan crisis is just a follow-up to the Trump pandemic
The notion that because Trump supported leaving Afghanistan, that Biden's catastrophically failed retreat is merely a fulfillment of that promise is; at best foolish, and probably a lot closer to disingenuous.
DeleteA military can leave a country, while simultaneously installing a proper structure so as not to leave a vacuum.
A military can also beat a hasty exit without the aforementioned plan in place, so as to merely satisfy a "woke" contingent that has no working understanding of the particular region, and its people.
It seems more than likely that the current administration is the latter group.
Woke, and inept.
I'm not deluding myself. Trump was - and still is - an arrogant blowhard, a buffoon, a womanizer, and something of a sociopath. But in a region of the world where "might makes right", and fear is the only thing keeping these despicable animals at bay, it's more than likely that he would would have done a far better job with keeping some of the structural integrity of the government in place: even if he had ultimately pulled the troops out.
This region of the world, in particular, abhors a vacuum.
We're now seeing what that vacuum engenders.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE WERE THERE 20 YEARS, INCLUDING MY SON, AND DID NOT KNOW THESE GUYS WOULD NOT FIGHT?!?! THE WILL TO FIGHT IS THE MOST BASIC ELEMENT OF WAR.
ReplyDeleteI WAS BORN WITH MY COUNTRY(BESIDES APPOMATTOX) NEVER LOSING A WAR. NOW I HAVE SEEN TWO.
THIS IS A MAJOR, MAJOR, FAILURE OF AMERICA.
KELLOGG BROWN AND ROOT (HALLIBURTON) WAS THE ONLY WINNER IN THIS WAS. WE NEED TO REMEMBER WHAT EISENHOWER WARNED WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT ANSWERS.
'Your country' America lost in Vietnam too. You backed a losing horse
Deleteרק משיח!
ReplyDeleteThis collapse was a debacle with grave ripple effects
There are ways to lower , deescalate, and massage down a conflict – America has been rather less than Stellar at that though
step by step without being disgraced and without betraying those who relied on you or risked life to help you