From the Record:
Popular magazine ranks West Milford among state’s worst places to live
According to a prominent monthly magazine, West Milford Township is among the worst places in the state to live.
West Milford Mayor Bettina Bieri is not a believer, however, calling the 80.4-square-mile expanse simply “wonderful.”
“It really all depends on your priorities,” said Bieri, now in her eighth year as mayor. “Many people prefer our scenic surroundings, wildlife, and tranquility over shopping malls and traffic congestion. They exhale and have instant stress relief upon entering West Milford.”
Scenic, soothing isolation was, however, not one of the criteria New Jersey Monthly considered in the recent iteration of its biennial “Best Places to Live” list.
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Ultimately, West Milford is the lowest rated town in Passaic County for 2015. Neighboring Ringwood and Vernon are more than 100 positions ahead on the list. West Milford was also out-ranked by towns like East Orange (486), Paterson (491), and Camden (488), where the violent crime rate is respectively six, 10, and 25 times that of West Milford, according to the report.
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The ranking also considered proximity to acute-care hospitals and performing-arts theaters. As far as providing more of those, however, Councilwoman Michele Dale said the township is encumbered by the Highlands Act and consequently unable to provide residents with the things towns like Madison (8), Pequannock (4), and Florham Park (1) have.
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Like Dale, 44-year resident and West Milford Township Environmental Commission Chairman Stephen Sangle said the natural splendor of the town – “encompassing lakes, mountains, and vistas” – protected by the development-stifling Highlands Act cannot be compared to any other area in New Jersey. He said West Milford has alternate value as a wooded oasis protected from the sprawl that consumed other towns. Deer, fox, and bear sightings are common, as are glimpses of hikers, cyclists, and fisherman.
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As for the high taxes, Dale said the current governing body is doing its upmost to streamline local government operations and reduce the taxpayer burden. She said progress has been made and the governing body continues to work hard to reduce operational expenses while maintaining municipal services. However, there are something things that the local government just cannot control – namely state, county, and school board edits, she added.
Disappointing to see the states urban core classified so low, completely unfair. Perhaps we should consider strip clubs “performing arts centers”, we would see a more accurate portrayal.
#74 Comrade – I have not argued anything with you regarding Obama or guns. Who are you having that argument with?
Always amusing how you attempt to assign positions to me whenever I have any comment about yours. If you would care to know my position it would be better to ask.
Politics in this country is nothing more than a low form of theater. For a fellow who considers himself quite highbrow you are down in the mud with the groundlings.
I fully agree with 30 year realtor
The Packanack area of Wayne is certainly the cesspool of all NJ…..think about that fact for a moment….it really means something….
You sound like Brokeback Mountain…
syncmaster says:
October 4, 2015 at 10:41 pm
I QUIT CHUBB! Glory, hallelujah.
On the mass shooting subject…clearly there is a problem with incidents of this type occurring with alarming regularity. A rational person would see this and begin to break down the possible contributing factors. How this country handles mental health care and availability of firearms would likely be at the top of the list.
Arguing that the president’s rhetoric on gun control is a contributing factor for mass shootings is not about mass shootings. Clearly Comrade has another agenda.
It has always been my policy to try to stick to real estate discussions in this forum. I may occasionally stray into other topics but it is not frequent. Every once in a while someone will write a comment that is particularly offensive. If anyone else finds blaming the president for being a contributing factor in the number of mass shooting in this country offensive, please say so.
I will not speculate why he made this comment or what is in his heart. You are all free to draw your own conclusions.
“A rational person”
Donald Trump is leading the polls, theres no rationality. many have gone mad
30 year realtor says:
October 5, 2015 at 8:28 am
On the mass shooting subject…clearly there is a problem with incidents of this type occurring with alarming regularity. A rational person would see this and begin to break down the possible contributing factors. How this country handles mental health care and availability of firearms would likely be at the top of the list.
7 – It doesn’t bother me at all.
Fifty killed in a knife attack at a Chinese colliery
http://www.mining.com/fifty-killed-in-a-knife-attack-at-a-chinese-colliery/
9 muslim seperatists killed at least 50 people, and injured many more.
#gun control?
Before leaving for work, I saw comrade Hillary on the Today show flipping pancakes in a New Hampshire barn, as part of a lovingly crafted “Town Hall”.
Anyone know if Today is extending this same opportunity for every presidential candidate?
D-FENS,
Hard to tell who to root for there, radical muslims vs the Chinese communist party that tramples on individual rights and persecutes racial minorities in Xinxiang and Tibet.
My town beat Westfield on the list, scoring in the 50s, so that’s a plus. Came in 2nd amongst towns over 30,000 population. And with that Whole Foods moving in next year, it’s sure to climb the rankings.
In 2 years they’ll just change the ranking criteria to give the Realtors new talking points.
Camden realtors may already be preparing a sign saying “Welcome to Camden, rated among the top 500 towns in NJ”
re: West Milford.
Here is a real gem.
Yikes $13,260 in taxes? was $14,673.
Look at the price history…
http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/West-Milford-NJ/108632569_zpid/7852_rid/41.071327,-74.361864,41.018052,-74.438253_rect/13_zm/1_rs/1_fr/
Welcome to NJ, among top 51 States/Districts in USA!
Welcome to Camden, a better place to live than West Milford
FYI, Mil#ord will put you in mod
what’s the Today show?
you right wingers need it to decide who to vote into the most powerful job in the world?
no wonder you picked W
Ragnar says:
October 5, 2015 at 9:12 am
Before leaving for work, I saw comrade Hillary on the Today show flipping pancakes in a New Hampshire barn, as part of a lovingly crafted “Town Hall”.
Anyone know if Today is extending this same opportunity for every presidential candidate?
what’s the Today show?
you right wingers need it to decide who to vote into the most powerful job in the world?
no wonder you picked W
lol, and who did you pick to run against him?
My G-d imagine Kerry as president….and I voted for him too…..by default….
#7
I’m with 30 Year…
Grim,
Post apparently in moderation? Hopefully recoverable, if not, so be it.
With the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital this past weekend in Afghanistan, I expect the media to really go after President Bush. Declaring him an incompetent buffoon for this mishap. Oh wait…
From todays article, obviously West Milord scored low on the “walkability score” to your neighborhood dealer. This is why Paterson and Camden came in higher. Millenials don’t drive, and many errands can be done without use of a car.
I’m with “None of the above.”
Announcing the lofts at SoDoSoPa Camden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miXMWJyOdgw#t=11
“a place to mingle with people of all economic classes”
Homes As ATM It’s Starting Again
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/homes-atms-starting-again-145711369.html
unmodded everything in mod
once again clot in the news…..
TRENTON – It’s a story that smells to high heaven. A woman is suing her husband’s employer, who fired the guy for farting too much in the office. The Home News Tribune said the man worked for one of the state’s top pork roll makers – where there must be plenty of other intoxicating odors. The worker apparently had gastric bypass surgery, prompting extreme farting and uncontrollable diarrhea. The Trenton-based employer apparently wanted nothing to do with this, telling the guy to work from home so he could get some fresh air. Apparently, the relationship went south from there.
30 –
Unfortunate then that the internet ate my post. Guess I have my lunch break to write a better one.
List of “drunkest” towns:
Here is the list:
1.Atlantic City
2.Belmar
3.Morristown
4.Red Bank
5.Highlands
6.Butler
7.Asbury Park
8.Wildwood
9.Hoboken
10.Hackettstown
11.Paulsboro
12.Keyport
13.Burlington
14.Newton
15.Margate
16.Phillipsburg
17.Matawan
18.Gloucester City
19.East Rutherford
20.Wharton
21.Edgewater
22.Penns Grove
23.Mount Arlington
24.Princeton
25.Kenilworth
26.Marlton
27.Clementon
28.Franklin
29.Hackensack
30.Amesburg
31.Palmyra
32.Dunellen
33.Caldwell
34.Raritan
35.Lacey Township (Forked River)
36.Long Branch
37.Madison
38.Manasquan
39.Carlstadt
40.Hammonton
41.Dover
42.Bound Brook
43.Eatontown
44.Morris Plains
45.Freehold
46.Keansburg
47.Harrison
48.Ocean City
49.Lodi
50.Hightstown
51.Berlin
52.Montvale
53.Manville
54.Middlesex
55.Bogota
56.Wallington
57.Absecon
58.Westwood
59.Bernardsville
60.Boonton
61.Summit
62.Jersey City
63.Woodbury
64.Clifton
65.Millville
66.Ramsey
67.Woodbridge
68.Pompton Lakes
69.Northfield
70.Maywood
71.Cliffside Park
72.Paramus
73.Hasbrouck Heights
74.Union Beach
75.Browns Mills
76.Bayonne
77.Newark
78.Milltown
79.Little Ferry
80.Guttenberg
81.Trenton
82.Rahway
83.Ventnor
84.Spotswood
85.Fort Lee
86.Linden
87.Garfield
88.Chatham
89.Mendham
90.Haledon
91.Lincoln Park
92.Barrington
93.New Brunswick
94.Fanwood
95.Vineland
96.North Arlington
97.Union City
98.Budd Lake
99.Elmwood Park
http://patch.com/new-jersey/verona/100-drunkest-towns-new-jersey-your-community-here?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=community%20corner&utm_campaign=alert
My list of drunkest towns in NJ is in mod…
Cross referencing both lists, looks like Madison is the place to be.
Sure Madison NJ where a cool 800k will get you a 1930s 3 BR POS.
http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Madison-NJ/2101156819_zpid/53105_rid/40.78522,-74.380403,40.731714,-74.456792_rect/13_zm/0_mmm/
Of course they did…
Essex board 1st in N.J. to call for $15 an hour minimum wage
Rags [11];
Before leaving for work, I saw comrade Hillary on the Today show flipping pancakes in a New Hampshire barn, as part of a lovingly crafted “Town Hall”.
Anyone know if Today is extending this same opportunity for every presidential candidate?
All part of the re-re-relaunch of Hillary’s “human” side. Part and parcel with the big wet kiss from SNL/Lorne Michaels and Immelt/GE.
Interesting stroy about how the MSM really can no longer hide how much they’re in the tank. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/05/snl-campaigns-hillary-clinton-citizens-united-column/73345554/
yep, imagine no Iraq war
chicagofinance says:
October 5, 2015 at 10:23 am
My G-d imagine Kerry as president….and I voted for him too…..by default….
‘incompetent buffoon’ for the Iraq war, thousands of deaths, trillions of dollars, doesn’t really cut it. way too nice
Alex says:
October 5, 2015 at 10:48 am
With the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital this past weekend in Afghanistan, I expect the media to really go after President Bush. Declaring him an incompetent buffoon
None [40];
You have a sickness. Whatever you type on any topic is correctly considering in this light. Seek professional help.
I have a little bit more respect for the French today…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-05/air-france-plans-almost-3-000-job-cuts-after-failed-pilot-talks
Amtrak derailment in VT?
re# 42 – tar and feathers next time?
I would agree that West Milford is bad. Along w/ my old area Lake Foreclosure, ohh I mean Stockholm. However there is plenty tranquility to shoot your dope and low level of stimulation for paranoid coke and crackheads.
41 – Moose
You forget Bush was a Sith Lord that dissolved the Imperial Senate and later formed the Obsidian Order.
Wait… I think I am confusing my fairy tales here.
Kerry was ’04
anon (the good one) says:
October 5, 2015 at 1:46 pm
yep, imagine no Iraq war
chicagofinance says:
October 5, 2015 at 10:23 am
My G-d imagine Kerry as president….and I voted for him too…..by default….
I didn’t think Sabathia lived in NJ?
1987 Condo says:
October 5, 2015 at 12:07 pm
List of “drunkest” towns:
In my days, the ‘real’ drinking towns were Manville and South Amboy.
Anyone know the connection?
Sorry, Grim. (that’s a hint, btw).
Unfortunately, it was true. They used bar density as the deciding factor.
List of Drunkest Towns- Grim you are not doing your brothers in Wallington proud, not even top 20 the list.
The End Is Nigh (ragnar Edition):
First Pacific Advisors LLC’s decision to change the investing strategy of its FPA Perennial Fund has walloped the mutual fund’s shareholders with a massive capital-gains distribution that could boost their taxes.
The Los Angeles-based money manager on Friday is paying a distribution of $39.67 a share, equal to 81.8% of the fund’s $48.48 net asset value on Wednesday. Last week, FPA estimated the distribution would be $38 a share. The payout will be potentially taxable, at long-term capital-gains rates, for investors who hold shares of the $273 million fund in taxable accounts. The fund was renamed FPA U.S. Value Fund on Sept. 1.
“It’s certainly a big, shocking distribution. It exceeded my expectations,” Dan Culloton, associate director of manager research for equity strategies at investment researcher Morningstar Inc., said earlier this week about the $38 estimate. For the existing investors, “it certainly creates some pain and tax decisions that they have to make in their own portfolios.”
First Pacific Advisors declined to comment on the fund’s distribution.
The fund’s makeover is an extreme example of how big changes in a fund’s approach, which sometimes accompany a change in the portfolio manager, can result in increased taxes for investors. It also shows why it is important for investors to be aware of embedded capital gains when purchasing fund shares.
First Pacific Advisors said in June that it planned to relaunch FPA Perennial to seek bargains among companies of all sizes rather than the previous focus on small- and midsize businesses. Effective Sept. 1, Gregory Nathan, who has worked for the money manager since 2007, replaced longtime portfolio manager Eric Ende. Mr. Ende plans to retire in 2016, the firm said. Co-manager Greg Herr also stepped down Sept. 1, and is staying with the firm.
When mutual funds sell securities in their portfolios, they are required to distribute the net gains to fund shareholders, who are then responsible for any taxes on those gains. Tax rates can be as high as 23.8% on long-term capital gains.
First Pacific Advisors closed FPA Perennial to purchases by new investors as of June 15, to avoid new buyers quickly being hit by big taxable gains. It plans to reopen the fund this month. But that doesn’t help existing investors.
Some of those investors may be able to sell other holdings at a loss to help offset the payout, Mr. Culloton says.
The FPA fund had a lot of embedded gains because Mr. Ende often stuck with stocks for many years if his thesis for buying them still held, Mr. Culloton said.
FPA’s decision to transform the fund, make the distribution and then begin anew is “a bit like ripping the Band-Aid off,” the analyst said, “giving Greg Nathan as a new manager and the new strategy a new start.” In June, Morningstar downgraded the fund’s analyst rating to neutral from silver, citing in part the “new, unproven manager.”
Mr. Nathan has been an analyst for FPA’s “contrarian value” strategy, including its FPA Crescent Fund.
…and Grim is completely correct about that NJMonthly mag. It is well known that their ‘top NJ doctors’ issue is based upon the $$$ that get funneled to them by the same named celebrities.
#37 lets say they raise the min. wage to 15 an hour. Would not not disqualify a lot of programs like low income free stuff so it would balance out? I understand it would hurt private business but how about the worker who gets food stamps, lower healthcare , all these little free bees would not knock them off due to higher income?
#5
Chubb was the WORST and cheapest company (salary and vacation was OK… those were it) I ever worked for. In addition there were more sociopaths there than I’ve encountered…anywhere!.
Once the last family member was forced out it only matter of time (short) until it was over. ACE has no idea what they bought…
The ‘lifers’ with five or less years to go to retirement are the ones that are really going to get screwed but I only feel sorry for one.
Glad I left when I did (had mixed feelings at the time). Gonna be a bloodbath over there, soon.
Right before I left three guys I knew died of heart attacks, two at their desks. One the cleaning people accidently pushed over while emptying a cubicle garbage can. Who knows how long he was sitting there…
Worse than the Matrix. Heh, I used to tell a co-worker “I’ve worked all over, this place isn’t real”. Figured they were going to be sold when the RIDICULOUS time management software was implemented. On that note – My VP asked what the 15 mins. of ‘miscellaneous time’ was about some mornings. Told him I was taking a dump and he could check it out if he wanted to.
No regrets leaving that hell.
(53) That’s hilarious, well, sort of. One of my tenants works at that location. Got to ask her about that.
I once had a boss, when I was doing a consultant gig, search for me in the potty room. I used to read an entire newspaper in one sitting.
#53. Can you please clarify for me about the lifers with less than 5 years to go are going to be screwed? I have a personal interest in this, for sure! Thanks.
@SpudSpringer:
#Yankees owe Sabathia, A-Rod and Teixeira $178mm for the next three years. That’s enough to build a hospital to rehab them at
Franks Chicken House?
xolepa says:
October 5, 2015 at 3:20 pm
In my days, the ‘real’ drinking towns were Manville and South Amboy.
Anyone know the connection?
I just mean lets say a person gets food stamps, or some type of assistance at a lower income of 8.35 an hour for 40 hours a week. Then they get this so called 15.00 an hour , they probably would lose the low income help? I don’t know but this may push some over the limit. So maybe get less of a subsidy? I know a guy who if he makes 40 more dollars a year he loses his food stamps. So just wondering. Don’t know enough to really give facts.
well, one option would be to increase the threshold so that people still can get food stamps with a higher minimum wage.
oh, wait, what?! no, no, no! No
never mind, we don’t want that. we have plenty of money for unnecessary WARs, but we shouldn’t feed people
Marilyn says:
October 5, 2015 at 5:31 pm
I just mean lets say a person gets food stamps, or some type of assistance at a lower income of 8.35 an hour for 40 hours a week. Then they get this so called 15.00 an hour , they probably would lose the low income help? I don’t know but this may push some over the limit. So maybe get less of a subsidy? I know a guy who if he makes 40 more dollars a year he loses his food stamps. So just wondering. Don’t know enough to really give facts.
Raising the minimum wage is supposed to get people off social assistance.
Raising minimum wage while simultaneously allowing higher income people to get social assistance? This makes no sense.
Thunder on the mountain, and there’s fires on the moon
A ruckus in the alley and the sun will be here soon
Today’s the day, where I’m gonna grab my trombone and blow
Well, there’s hot stuff here and it’s everywhere I go
I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn’t keep from crying
When she was born in Hell’s Kitchen, I was living down the line
I’m wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be
I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee
Feel like my soul is beginning to expand
Look into my heart and you will sort of understand
You brought me here, now you’re trying to turn me away
The writing on the wall, come read it, come see what it does say
Thunder on the mountain, rolling like a drum
Going to sleep over there, that’s where the music is coming from
I don’t need any guide, I already know the way
Remember this, I’m your servant both night and day
The pistols are popping and the power is down
I’d like to try something but I’m so far from town
The sun keeps shining and the North Wind keeps picking up speed
Gonna forget about myself for a while, gonna go out and see what others need
I’ve been sitting down studying the art of love
I think it will fit me like a glove
I want some real good woman to do just what I say
Everybody got to wonder what’s the matter with this cruel world today
Thunder on the mountain rolling to the ground
Gonna get up in the morning walk the hard road down
Some sweet day I’ll stand beside my King
I wouldn’t betray your love or any other thing
Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches
I’ll recruit my army from the orphanages
I been to St. Herman’s church, said my religious vows
As I’ve sucked the milk out of a thousand cows
I’ve got the pork chops, she’s got the pie
She ain’t no angel and neither am I
Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes
I’ll say this, I don’t give a damn about your dreams
Thunder on the mountain heavy as can be
Mean old twister bearing down on me
All the ladies in Washington scrambling to get out of town
Looks like something bad is going to happen, better roll your airplane down
Everybody going and I want to go too
Don’t wanna take a chance with somebody new
I did all I could, I did it right there and then
I’ve already confessed, no need to confess again
Gonna make a lot of money, gonna go up North
I’ll plant and I’ll harvest what the earth brings forth
The hammer’s on the table, the pitchfork’s on the shelf
For the love of God, you ought to take pity on yourself.
– Thunder on the Mountain, Bob Dylan
#60 grim
They are not mutually exclusive. Looks like you need to reassess the issue.
It’s all a big fcuking grift.
Get yours, and get out.
No one escapes alive, though.
Yankees shoulda scored CC a couple of 8-balls to get him thru the next few days.
Great. Douchemouth gluteus decides to drop in for the late night happy hour.
I’d give my molars and eye teeth to have a job where I can get hammered every night and work every fifth day.
#2 30 Year
No change there. Eddie Ray using sweeping generalizations to paint you “and your ilk” in what ever light suits his current agenda. He may never have met you, talked to you , but can still label you a commie from 50 feet, based on you daring to question him.
A modern day Tinpot McCarthy. I might use that as his new name.
Hey gluteus, you genius:
Setting an artificial and arbitrary minimum wage only guarantees that those whose skills do not merit that level of pay are permanently locked out of the job market.
Oh, how it will pain your soul to hear ‘want fries with that?’ coming from a canned, computerized voice.
My burger-flipping robot can beat your barely-educated, overweight, 89 IQ bag of blood.
#65 Clot
You talking football?
Latest chant from Selherst Park!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2p_rzKw15o
I won’t be happy with my personal armaments collection until I own a Thompson gun.
flab (70)-
A result like Olympiakos last week would get a manager fired…by a club more focused on winning than on fleecing its rich, stupid fans.
gluteus (70)-
We need to go down. Maybe that will get Ashley to sell and walk away.
#7 30 year.
I’m with you, no one can lay this at O’s door. If anyone wants to lay blame, it goes to the NRA and those (including a few in here) that bang on with the second amendment.
It not that they hold those views, I can fully support that, it is the shutting down of any rational discourse or discussion on the topic that is the big discrace. From “too soon”, to swimming pools.
My own message to the 2nd amendment Charlton Hestons out there, you have a few more “cold dead hands” you own tonight.
Well, I’ve proven that 30 year doesn’t read very closely. Anon and Rory Martin, we already knew about. 30, I threw you a softball and you proceeded to start kicking the bench. Anon and Fabius punked themselves but that’s hardly news. God, as easy as that was, you went right for the outrage rather than examine what was said. Not a lot of depth to the thought on this issue, and you wonder why it doesn’t get solved. Not to worry, I won’t rap on your silo door any longer.
And Moose, did I not tell you we’d have an insufferable d1ck sighting today? Right on cue, he was.
[70] Rory
I bet you’re a Yankees fan too. Cheaper than Xanax, I suppose.
#73 clot
How far you’ve fallen! From you calling champion’s League glory under Mikey and the Gunners fall to relegation, to that?
League is now a two way fight, us and city!
#75 Tinpot McCarthy
The lady doth protest too much, methinks!
#68 Clot
Here is the other side of that argument. Why aren’t they all earning $300K?
http://tinyurl.com/pqmmqrl
30, anon, et. al.
Guys, stop. You are proving Nom correct.
While discussing the sh00ting his topic was the lack of intellectual rigor on the left that allows them to make the highly erroneous assumption that “correlation=causation”.
*If* that were the case *then* one should blame O. Obviously the underlying assumption is wrong, so therefore the conclusion that O is to blame is likewise incorrect (as would be the same conclusion regarding the ending of the AWB).
You read right through the point and irony and went straight to the O bait, thereby demonstrating his point of the lack of intellectual rigor on the topic by the left.
He was showing your agenda, not his, and with every reply you prove him correct.
I actually had a few layers of that going on, but you are correct
But then what does one expect from a generation that got all their information from Jon Stewart?