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New Jersey acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan would not confirm that the state will appeal the Appellate Court's ruling in March(Lang lawsuit) regarding funding for the Lakewood Public School (Shlomo Schorr)
- A pilot for El on a flight from Tel Aviv to JFK today took to his plane’s public address system on Yom Hashoah, to express solidarity with anti-government protests in his country against judicial reforms.. In a statement on Tuesday, El Al condemned his remarks, and said that the airline does not permit “political statements of any kind, by any of its employees as part of their work, and certainly not on its planes, which cannot be a platform for this type of activity.”
-Dominion and Fox News have settled defamation case for $787.5 million
- Multiple people were trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said. A total of 1 killed 5 people were injured but that number was expected to increase.
- Undercover cops pulling over motorists on Cedarbridge Ave area
SOUTHWEST Airlines have resumed after lifting a brief nationwide stoppage caused by an internal technical issue.
grounded all flights across the US after experiencing a systemwide outage.
- Continued Tefillos for the Mashgiach shlita in need of Rachel shamayim
Adirei hatorah second event planned for Sunday after Shavuos at Philadelphia Wells fargo stadium
- N.J. no longer requires masks at all health care facilities to fight COVID-19, Murphy says
- Seared restaurant opening soon at The Avenue shopps off New Hampshire. Known in Brooklyn as the Loft Steakhouse
- Lakewood zoning board approves shopping center at future Eagle Ridge development Engineer said that they purposely used a pre-Covid traffic report as they assume that now, more people work from home and therefore there are less cars traveling the roads. see full recap at FAA
- Jackson Township's Zoning Board is set this Wednesday to face - what appears to be - their first ever Yeshiva dormitory application. The application was submitted by Yeshiva Tiferes Talmud FAAnews reports
- The Lakewood Township Committee and Industrial Commission have been quietly pushing forward a proposal to permit construction of 150 feet high rise buildings near airport road and the GSP. Township fire officials have warned the Township Committee that the proposal would increase our property taxes by $6 million due to the need to double the size of the career department, read the letter from fire commissioner Here
Fewer cars on Cross St. now than 2020? That doesn't pass the smell test as anyone who drives there daily will tell you.
ReplyDeleteWhat a chutzpah from the township committee and Planning and zoning boards to completely ruin thr quality of life for Lakewood residents who sit every hour of the day in parking lots on the Lakewood roads. People are wasting hours in traffic losing money missing appointments and going berserk because of it. Yet they IGNORE US and work only for the developers and special interests of powerful connected people while causing tzaar for everyone else on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteעתידין ליתן את הדין
Now you're whining?!
DeleteToo late
FYI, adirei hatorah event is June 4th, which is 2nd Sunday after shavuos
ReplyDeleteThat's same day as israel day parade
DeleteHow can the little guy fight this????? I have no idea who to call or what else to try. I have tried talking to township officials they ignore me or say it isn't their department.
ReplyDeleteI got it all under control. You need to trust me as your township leader when I tell you things keep on getting better.
DeleteEven though the little people cannot understand the behind-the-scenes of what's going on, they should be comforted that I do. What's a small sacrifice on your part when it's all for the greater good? You need to change your perspective and just accept things as they happen. The less you think about the problems in town, the quicker they will go away and the happier you will be. And that's a campaign promise!
Anon 1:41,
DeleteThe committeemen are famous for brushing off people's legitimate concerns by responding that it's not their department. But as everyone knows, the committee still pulls all the strings behind the scenes. They even order the planning & zoning board attorneys what to do without even making the planning board members aware of what's going on. Don't fall for the oldest lame excuse in the book.
Could someone please explain what adirei Torah is? What’s this event all about?
ReplyDeleteDoes the FAA have to approve highrise buildings so close to an airport?
ReplyDeleteElec cars much heavier . .
ReplyDeleteThe same people complaining here about all the traffic and developments, are the same people that complained when Jackson still outlawed developments. Remember when we called Jackson antisemitic for trying to stop developments?
ReplyDeleteNo shaychus at all Jackson is 4 times bigger in land than lakewood is. Jackson has infrastructure that can handle the growth for now and responsible boards.
DeleteLakewood has gone from bad to worse with a corrupt government across the board he ignores the will of the people and treats them like cattle. There is no accountability for developing without proper planning ,Traffic is out of control and hundreds of residents are injured in daily car accidents on dangerous roads with thousands of bochurim walking with no proper sidewalks for them.
We no longer value human life but only the almighty dollar.
Perhaps.but if anybody who disagrees even if they use rough language an antisemite
DeleteWas Bill Hobday an antisemite?
Huh? You are comparing Jackson not allowing any shuls or eruv etc to Lakewood township which has insane traffic already just keep on building more and more without any cheshbon whatsoever?? Seriously?
ReplyDeleteFor sure. That is how it begins usually
DeleteEg Monsey
Jackson was doing everything to make it impossible for frum people to live there. Everyone in Lakewood could fargin more houses and more shuls but things have to be done with a cheshbon. Asking for a shul, school or hall to have enough parking or how a road that is already complete gridlock will handle another 1000 cars is not crazy and doesn’t take rocket science to understand.
ReplyDeleteBecause of what happened in the next town over
DeleteThe El Al pilot should be fired for it.
ReplyDeleteBut he won't be. Although he is absolutely forbidden to make politcal statements.
Goes to show even more who controls the show,
& how little democracy matters to those have preached incessantly it in our faces from before we were born
Maybe NK was right all along
Fired at very least
DeleteIs this PM up to making an Altalena moment in reverse ?
Does he care?
Doubtful
All those who claim that building is an all or nothing proposal, are basically dooming their own argument.
ReplyDeleteIf we had a responsible planning board, we could have the housing that we have, without the gridlock. Imagine Stirling Forest would not have been built as it is, and would have had to open up to Massachusetts Avenue. All subsequent developments on Route 9 would have had to follow this model. The traffic on Route 9 would be cut in half, shared with the relatively empty Massachusetts Avenue.
But even after our experience with Route 9, they did not learn their lesson, and continued approving cul-de-sacs and developments on Prospect Avenue, ignoring the gridlock that would cause. If no cul-de-sacs or circular roads would be permitted, we would have the same amount of housing, without the gridlock. But the developers make more money of cul-de-sacs, so who cares about anything else?
All Jackson, Howell, Tom's River and Manchester need to do is to ban cul-de-sacs. They then need to have independent traffic audits, forcing developers to pay for any infrastructure upgrades before breaking ground on any development or building project. They also need to join Lang's lawsuit and have the funding formula changed. If they do so, they will realize that each house built in town lowers their overall tax obligations, with the economy of scale that a population increase brings.
Anon 4:25,
DeleteI am in full agreement with everything you stated. Our planning and zoning boards are missing just one key component, which can be summed up in just one word. That word is "smart". A smart person sees the future consequence of an action. These Boards clearly fail at that.
But what's even more concerning in Lakewood's case is that you don't even have to see what's going to happen down the road, because the dreadful consequences are already being exhibited for all to see. Congestion and gridlock have fast become the standard operation of our town thanks to the very unwise decisions by our very un-smart board members.
Though ultimately, the greatest blame is on the 5 bosses that appointed these people. Their names are Menashe Miller, Meir Lichtenstein, Ray Coles, Albert Akerman and in case anyone forgot about the last committeeman since nobody has seen him in years (even on zoom) - his name is Mike D'Elia. They will go down in infamy for the harm they've allowed the greedy investors to do to us.
While a couple of them likely may have been naive,the others beforehand were fully aware but defend themselves claiming the public support(ed) it
DeleteHave proof to the contrary?
Don't forget our buddy Steve langert
DeleteDominion seems to have made out like bandits. Since 2020, they have added 700 districts to their previous 1100 (approx), not having lost any money in the process. They claimed that they stood to lose $600m from Fox's lies, but they did not lose at all.
ReplyDeleteBut it's good that Fox were punished. Although all media distorts the truth, Fox set a new standard in outright bald-faced lies, without any apology at all.
heh,Give other examples
DeleteWhy should they apologize? It was all true.
ReplyDeleteYou and the rest of their target audience might have been fooled into believing it was all true, but no one at fox believed it, according to their own internal messages.
DeleteI wasn’t fooled. I did my own investigation and know it was true. Nobody cares what leftist lunatics like you say.
ReplyDeleteYou did your own investigation and determined that Dominion was flipping votes? Wow. Can you please share your personal evidence?
DeleteNo why would I share it with you?
ReplyDeleteAh, that kind of "evidence." I gotcha.
DeleteIt’s ok if you don’t believe me. You keep voting for senile nursing home patients to destroy the country.
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