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when does it stop (0.00 / 0)

Maybe he didn't read the new anti bullying law.

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by: bluescat1 @ Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 12:51:49 PM UTC

That's terrible news. (0.00 / 0)

Folks won't pollute where they live.  It really matters who gets representation. This reminds me of when Ferriero tried to have folks outside District 37 vote on who our State Senate candidate would be.  

One Vote.  Yours.  It really does matter.

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by: carolh @ Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 18:41:31 PM UTC

Why shouldn't we... (0.00 / 0)

...develop the hell out of the Highlands (aside from the fact that the housing market is crappy enough as is without putting more unoccupied homes on the market)?

How about we build tons of affordable housing in some of the most beautiful parts of the state, fill them with urban populations, looking for a better life, depopulate the most blighted parts of our cities, raze all of the most decrepit buildings that have no historical value, rebuild and revitalize the razed neighborhoods, and repopulate them with expatriates from New York City and Philadelphia.

This should spread our state's population more equitably throughout the state rather than congesting most of it along the New Jersey Turnpike, enabling our counties and municipalities, urban, suburban, and rural to become far more diverse and our political dynamics more competitive for both Democrats and Republicans.

I have always found that the only flaw of our state's open space policies is that it ensures that our state's most beautiful areas are also remain its whitest and most Republican, which is simply not fair.  There should be a mechanism that enables urban populations to migrate westward into suburban and rural areas in such a way that does not promote sprawl.

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by: Bertin Lefkovic @ Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 20:13:49 PM UTC

Regardless of environmental... (0.00 / 0)

policies. Doesn't anyone feel for those owners who had the value of their land erased with a stroke of the pen with only the promise of future compensation...

And then that compensation plan was so long in planning (it still isnt' done, is it?) that in the meantime the real estate bubble burst and their properties which they were effectively forced to hold to at the time are now worth almost half.

Again, not talking about the environment, but doesn't the whole thing seem wildly unfair?

"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

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by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Fri Nov 26, 2010 at 12:59:37 PM UTC

NO n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: SmartyJones @ Fri Nov 26, 2010 at 17:03:54 PM UTC

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