Thursday News Roundup

Assemblyman Herb Conaway (0.00 / 0)

is a doctor and a lawyer- now that's serious naches!

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by: Lacey Davenport @ Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 12:48:39 PM UTC

Other physicians (0.00 / 0)

Eric Munoz (R-21) is a trauma surgeon at University Hospital (and from what I've been told, not a very good one).

Jeff Van Drew (D-1), Jerry Cardinale (R-39), and Joe Pennachio (R-26) are all dentists.

And before anyone else suggests it, chiropractors are not physicians, so Frank Blee (R(ish)-2) does not make the cut.

 

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by: PocketAces @ Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 13:51:40 PM UTC

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Physicians (0.00 / 0)

Asm. Conaway is a physician and also has a jd.

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by: SouthJerseyBlue @ Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 14:07:15 PM UTC

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wow so many physicians! (0.00 / 0)

i didn't know there were so many physicians in state congress!  that's sweet! (not that i have any vested interest) :>

I don't know which way these physicians lean (i think i know about one of them) but we've gotta have the left leaning ones in, and restore some integrity to medicine in the process.  and hopefully there aren't any Tom Coburn, MD's in the house.

FDR never introduced a universal health care bill BECAUSE the day before he was going to introduce it, he had dinner with a physician (who was in some way a relative) who said boy don't do that.

Cure This! -- let's talk health and heatlh justice

Los Anjalis blog on LA, Newark NJ, beats, strategy

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by: los anjalis @ Fri Apr 06, 2007 at 05:14:34 AM UTC

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Whadda ya' know? (0.00 / 0)

Warren County is #1 in percentage of households paying more than 30% of monthly income on rent.

Warren County is finally #1 in something in NJ. Too bad we cannot celebrate that fact.

You can chalk that up to the real estate churn out here on rental properties. We have been inundated by people armed with money or creative financing and Carlton Sheet's 12 Tapes of Satan. Of course, the property tax and school funding problems exacerbate this greatly.

As far as the unemployment figures are concerned, there is something hinky about that one. The people at Warren County Temporary Assistance and at the state labor office are overwhelmed with new applications and caseloads. I would posit that there is something flawed in the computation of those figures. It might be added that jobs, in the county, are few and pay horribly, since most employers have the ingrained attitude that "it's cheaper to live in Warren County". Nothing could be farther from the truth.

One more point: it is evident, from the median income, that certain communities in the county are drastically skewing the median income figures. There is a ridiculous amount of poverty and the cocomittant social problems and stratification out here.

But, I suppose that is a sad nationwide trend, n'cest pas?


The nom de plume has a long and distinguished history.

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by: Tandalayo Scheisskopf @ Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 15:11:56 PM UTC

"cajon" (0.00 / 0)

a big box, and figuratively, a coffin.

I don't care if the legislature have cajones any more than I care which ones are doctors.

Actually, I don't care if they have testicles either, and I tend to favor the ones who don't.

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by: sayitaintso @ Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 18:49:18 PM UTC