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metsurf t1_jd7ag8m wrote

Reply to comment by and_then___ in Apparently retirement communities are abusing ambulance services and decreasing availability for when other residents have emergencies by ShallowFreakingValue

Happened with my dad. His facility would call me and say they were going to transport him because he was altered or he fell . My immediate thought was always what are we paying you for. Your supposed to be the experts here. It was usually nothing.

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Reply to comment by Nexis4Jersey in Whale deaths exploited in 'cynical disinformation' campaign against offshore wind power, advocates say by hypoboxer

Or since whaling has largely been outlawed there are more of them. Look at seal populations on east coast. Seal hunts have been banned by marine mammal protection act and they are returning to beaches from NJ to Nova Scotia. Cleaner water in shore as well more food sources.

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metsurf t1_j936546 wrote

Reply to Seals at Sandy Hook by stevozac

The great whites should be not too far off the beach . Those beautiful seals are yummy fat balls to sharks.

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metsurf t1_j8nz0qh wrote

Reply to comment by Rude-Bison-2050 in Full Police Officers Salaries For The State of NJ. by vakr001

If you mean broken as overly generous you are correct my brother-in-law just turned 58 and has been retired for 10 years. About a third of his time on the force he was a middle school resource officer. Most of his days were totally uneventful a bomb scare once, and kids having fistfights. Only time he actually used his service weapon was to euthanize animals hit by cars. He gets $85K+ pension plus premium health benefits to do nothing. That is unsustainable across the entire sum of all the cops we have.

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Reply to comment by PracticableSolution in In light of Biden announcing funding for the Hudson tunnels, let’s not forget Chris Christie canceled the original project which would have been done by now and cost half as much. by Flashinglights0101

Under-designed and not funded fully at the federal level. State would have been on the hook for a lot of it. It was going to terminate in the vicinity of the PATH 33rd St station with no definitive plan or funding for the terminus.

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Reply to comment by jeanlucpikachu in About 60 former landfills, industrial waste sites and illegal toxic dumps in New Jersey have been transformed from poisonous eyesores to productive venues — like parks, museums, ball fields and solar farms by rollotomasi07071

In Boonton they tore down alll the buildings, then excavated down about twenty feet and removed all the soil from the old EF Drew Chemical plant. They then backfilled everything and built a Walmart.

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Reply to comment by rockmasterflex in If Governor Murphy is serious about equity in this state, he should push for improving public libraries. by Flashinglights0101

The thing that gets me is that even supervisory police officers get paid overtime. I mean for chrissakes in private industry you meet the criteria for being an exempt employee you are not getting OT. Highly compensated, supervisory personnel, with educational background requirements. It isn't like you're a shift leader at McDonald's making 45K that the owner is trying to screw out of OT by calling you an exempt employee.

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metsurf t1_j4vum2q wrote

Reply to comment by rockmasterflex in If Governor Murphy is serious about equity in this state, he should push for improving public libraries. by Flashinglights0101

It actually was an item of debate and was increased a little a couple of years back but when cutting it was proposed the motions failed. You know you can only push NJ taxpayers so far. Frankly, I could do with one less overpaid sergeant on the police force but that's me.

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