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Severino impressed the hell out of me.  A rough start against a good team and he did not fold.  

imo, Vance could get most anybody's goat, but i have confidence that Walz's long experience with adolescents will stand him in good stead.

I would just like to say that I do not need advice on how to feel old at this time. I'm doing quite well on my own.

joanne said:

And now - Kris Kristofferson!! He was 88years old, just a year younger than Maggie Smith….

I didn’t see your post, Joanne, until after I posted about Nick Gravenites. The ghost of Janis Joplin must have been looking over both our shoulders.

I'm not aware of any free speech principle that requires engaging pointless inane arguments. 

Sounds like she’s in loving hands - that means a lot while in recovery ❤️‍ Like  4 Likes

Give her our best wishes for continued recovery!  She helped us find our house, and pointed us to MOL when we moved here.  

mrincredible said:

He’s certainly better at spinning lies and revising history. 

In all seriousness, I feel like Vance came across more polished. I do think that governor Walz at times seemed a bit on his heels. Some of that I will attribute to having to debate someone who was so blatantly dishonest about so many things. And I do think that the governor projected more emotional weight, and to me seems perhaps more relatable. But that’s not for me to decide.

Vance wasn't "wiping the floor" so much as "throwing out a lot of bullsh*t".

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Interesting... the number of kids pouring out of that building --- only 5th grade?

Also interesting - the neighborhood from Mechanic Street to Duncan (Shop Rite area) was mostly working class -- town employees, mail men (they were only men at that time) cops and such. There are now a large population of Asian people moving in so as to get their kids into the Millburn school system.My mother's house sold in 2017 for $00k.

I am amazed to see neighborhood houses listed in the Sunday Ledger that sold for over $1m. 

The developers have long been tearing down the old houses and building those two house attached things, which I find to be kind of garish.  Some of the houses in that neighborhood are/were post-war ticky tacky but some of the older ones are/were quaintly charming and I'm sorry to see them go.

mrincredible said:

joan_crystal said:

Town makes out well with a PILOT.  It is the school district that loses funding.  Since the school district gets the largest share of our real property taxes, it is the rest of real property owners who make up the difference.  

And so the school district ends up cutting staff and programs.  And can’t afford to offer decent raises to get our district in line with neighboring towns in terms of faculty salary. 

no, that's not how it works.  The school system sets the budget and sends the "bill" to each town.  The district does not care how each town raises the money.  So if a pilot gives the town budget a big boost, they can hopefully avoid town budget increases.  The school budget becomes a larger percentage of our tax bill, but the residents can actually benefit.  What screws our schools is the asinine 2% budget increase cap that the state passed years ago.  Another disastrous policy to kick the can down the road.