Friday, June 14, 2013
Representatives from New Jersey Food and Water Watch want state legislators to support a ban on fracking and storing fracking waste in New Jersey.
Several North Jersey residents rallied on Route 46 this week to gain legislative support for a ban on storing fracking waste in New Jersey. The group is trying to gain support so the state Legislature will overturn Governor Christie’s veto of a bill that bans disposing of hydraulic fracking waste in New Jersey. State legislators approved the bill last year but Governor Christie vetoed it. Residents held signs with “ban fracking now,” “frack waste is toxic,” and “Garden State not Garbage State” outside of Assemblyman Scott Rumana’s office (District 40). A similar rally was held at the same location last year. “We want a ban on fracking waste and a ban on fracking in the Garden State,” said Matthew Smith, an organizer with New Jersey Food …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
William Paterson University will use state grant to help nurses and medical assistants update their skills.
The state has awarded a $314,000 grant to William Paterson University to help fund training programs for workers in the healthcare industry. State and university officials announced the distribution of the grant Tuesday afternoon. The university will use the grant to help train 375 nursing assistants, medical assistants, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals who want to upgrade their skills and earn certifications to advance their careers. “In so many professions things change so rapidly, even every five years, it is important to stay current and keep one’s skills updated,” said Bernadette Tiernan, executive director of the Center for Continuing and Professional Education at William Paterson. “In a down economy everything changes …
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Towns purchased homes in flood-prone areas would be exempt from county and school taxes for the following tax year. Assemblyman Scott Rumana is co-sponsoring the legislation.
Bipartisan legislation that would exempt flood-prone properties acquired by municipalities from county and school taxes was approved by the state Assembly earlier this week. The legislation would exempt from county and school taxes for the following tax year. Currently, if a municipality acquires a flood-prone property after Oct. 1 it must pay county and school taxes owed on the property for all of the remainder of the following tax year. Wayne is in the process of purchasing dozens of homes in areas that flood regularly. Once acquired, the homes are knocked down and the properties left to nature. Assemblyman Scott Rumana (District 40) is one of the legislation’s sponsors. “This legislation will encourage towns that chronically deal with …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
At-large councilwoman will appear on the Wayne Regular Republican Organization's ticket in the June primary. It was rumored she might have been dropped from the ticket.
Councilwoman at-large Lonni Miller Ryan will be on the Wayne regular Republican Organization’s (WRRO) ticket for the primary election in June. Miller Ryan received 43 votes from the WRRO’s committee at a meeting Tuesday night at the Grand Chalet, the third most votes cast. There was speculation that Deborah Ciambrone would replace Miller Ryan on the ticket. “Lonni Miller Ryan has done a fantastic job for the town,” said Michael Marotta, municipal chairman of the WRRO. “How could you want to remove her?” Miller Ryan’s local political future seemed to be in doubt recently when rumors swirled that she might not receive enough votes to run for re-election on the WRRO’s ticket. “I’m thankful for the support of the county committee,” Miller …
Friday, January 11, 2013
Wayne gadfly Bill Brennan files suit against the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards.
Arguments in a Wayne gadfly and former Assembly candidate's case against a state legislative committee will begin next month in state Superior Court. Bill Brennan is suing the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards for what he claims was an illegal vote in the matter of whether or not to bring charges against Assemblyman Scott Rumana (D-40). Oral arguments begin Feb. 4. The committee voted to bring charges against Rumana in connection with his attempt to appear before the state Board of Public Utilities to advocate on behalf of a non-profit energy company he founded. Brennan filed the charges. However, the committee cleared Rumana of six of the charges in April 2011 and a seventh in September of that year. Brennan claims Daniel …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
'Toxic' GOP House Politics to Blame for Sandy Aid Delay, Gov. Christie says.
Local officials and Gov. Chris Christie are placing blame for the lengthy delay in approval of a Hurricane Sandy Relief bill squarely on the shoulders of combative U.S. House of Representative Republicans, specifically Speaker John Boehner. Christie offered a scathing rebuke of Boehner and waffling Republicans during a press conference in Trenton Wednesday afternoon, saying Congress has failed in its primary purpose, to protect its own citizens. Residents of New York and New Jersey are being used as pawns in a game of politics, he said, and that's why this country's citizens "hate" Washington D.C. "Last night, politics was placed before help for our citizens," Christie said. "For me, it was disappointing and disgusting to watch." State …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Officials will meet with residents on Monday to discuss their experiences with the utility company in the days following Superstorm Sandy.
Local officials blasted Jersey Central Power & Light at a town hall meeting earlier this week for their response, or lack of response, to re-establishing power after Superstorm Sandy earlier this year. While there are only about 3,000 JCP&L customers in Wayne, most of those people were without power for more than a week during in the days following what some called was the worst storm in the history of the state. Most of Wayne is serviced by Public Service Electric & Gas. Some JCP&L customers were without power, and heat, for 12 or 13 days. Officials want a strong response from the Board of Public Utilities and fines and penalties levied against the company. “In this day and age it is incomprehensible how JCP&L treated its customers after …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Poor communication, infrastructure and equipment problems after storm among primary complaints to utility company president, BPU.
If there was one thing the state Board of Public Utilities, JCP&L's president Don Lynch, officials and the public agreed upon Monday night, it was the severity of the storm named Sandy that howled though New Jersey on Oct. 29, not only lashing the shore but bringing power outages that lasted two weeks or more to parts of central and northern New Jersey. But nearly all of the dozens of officials and residents from the inland counties of Somerset, Morris, Passaic and Sussex, who spoke at a public input meeting held by the BPU in Basking Ridge, refused to let Jersey Central Power & Light off the hook anyway. The state Board of Public Utilities had scheduled Monday's meeting, which began at 4 p.m. at the William Annin Middle School, as the …
Law also mandates school officials to contact parents if a student is absent without prior notification.
Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation into law on Friday requiring parents to notify officials when their child will be absent from school. The law also stipulates that school officials must contact a parent if a student is absent without prior notification to the school. The bill, known as Tabitha’s Law, is named for a Tennessee teenager, Tabitha Tudor, whose parents were not aware she did not attend school one day in 2003. The school did not contact Tudor’s parents to tell them she was absent. They did not know she was missing until almost 5 p.m. that day. She remains missing. State 40th District Assemblyman Scott Rumana is the primary sponsor of the bill Christie signed. “Unanticipated absences can be a sign of a bigger problem, which …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Five feet of water drained from behind Pompton Lake dam, officials confirm.
The floodgates on the Pompton Lake dam have again been raised in anticipation of a nor’easter forecast to bring rain to North Jersey. Mayor Chris Vergano and Assemblyman Scott Rumana confirmed the gates were opened and five feet of water drained out from the lake. The gates will remain open to allow additional water to drain from the lake and maintain the amount of water behind the dam, Rumana said. The gates are controlled by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The same procedure was done before Hurricane Sandy struck North Jersey last week to mitigate any potential flooding threat that storm posed. “Hopefully, this is how it will be before major storms from now on,” Rumana said. “The procedure we now see development …
Scondo
1:57 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Correct, but the reality is that politicians use public funds to advance their own political agenda. We refer to that as stank, worse than stink. Everyone sits there and says how wonderful what the politician has done, when in actuality every tax payer of the State of NJ who paying for that should be thanked. This is not a one party fault, they both do it and it is time they got castigated for … more ›