I wish Murphy the most negative possible outcome allowed by subreddit rules.

There's also a C.H. Martin on Newark, near the Grove Street PATH station.

The Forward runs many great articles from a wide range of perspectives, including by and about Palestinians.

Example: The op-eds here — https://forward.com/authors/muhammad-shehada/

Implying that The Forward never tries to present the Palestinian perspective is like implying that Haaretz doesn’t try to present the Palestinian perspective and that Al Jazeera doesn’t try to present the Jewish or Israeli perspectives.

Those are publications where people make heroic efforts to show the world how it is as well as they can. If folks want to look at how they fall short of their ideals and still end up being biased, great. But to imply that any of these three publications isn’t making an effort to present “the other side” reflects a lack of familiarity with those publications.

You’re an extreme ignoramus. The Forward runs stories about that kind of thing all the time.

One possibility: There is a G-d, or god equivalent, but our human understanding of G-d is based on our own wishful thinking, not on what G-d is actually like.

We may think of our Creator as being all-powerful, all-wise, and all-good, but maybe our Creator is really just an ordinary fallible bonehead in a universe that happens to be a trillion trillion times bigger than our universe. That fact that we want G-d to be perfect, and can conceive of G-d being perfect, does not actually mean that G-d is perfect.

Or, maybe G-d does exist and is all-powerful, all-knowing and perfectly good, but what we think of as life is simply an educational simulation. Maybe the anxiety and the terror are just part of the educational experience

Get a rake. Rake leaves in Hamilton Park in a pile. Jump on the pile.

The teachers at test schools like McNair should be more positive and more energetic.

If teachers at schools with difficult students burn out, OK.

But teachers at McNair have no excuse for phoning it in and acting oppressed.

But, at a more concrete level:

Make sure every grade school has at least a rooftop playground.

Stop calling art, music and gym “specials.” Recognize that those subjects are as core as math.

Move toward upgrading the office support staff. Tie some of those folks’ pay to performance.

Be a little stodgier. I think the Jersey City schools tend try a little too hard to innovate and make half-baked efforts to adopt faddish strategies that sound good on paper but don’t work.

Make sure teachers can send disruptive students out of the classroom. If teachers can be trained to manage disruptive kids, that’s great, but be realistic. For whatever reason, some kids seem to have more behavior problems than they used to. Deal with that.

Try to find and create measures of value-added other than standardized test scores. One reason for the idiotic idea that kids at P.S. 41 should have about the same test scores as kids at P.S. 16 is that the test scores are really the only quantitative indicators we have. We also need student satisfaction surveys; measures of how teachers and schools hurt or helped students’ learning trend (in other words: whatever the scores were at the start of the year, did the students move ahead at a good rate or fall behind?); and assessments by teachers or employers at the next level. How do Jersey City high school teachers assess the alumni of the grade schools? And how do Rutgers professors and various employers see the alumni of the Jersey City high schools?

Find ways to make it easier for community members to go into the schools from time to time and see what’s happening there. Have open houses that are really open to the community.

Pay students at Rutgers Newark, Seton Hall, etc. to come in, talk to some parents and students, and do school reviews that supplement the profiles in the official state school assessments.

F off completely with the idea that the school board members can’t go into the schools and can’t have a say about the small stuff.

Word, and emphasize to them and all commercial landlords that you know that they need a bigger space, or a second storefront near the current storefront.

Word is still a lovely store with a great selection of books, but the current space is just too small.

Word, and emphasize to them and all commercial landlords that you know that they need a bigger space, or a second storefront near the current storefront.

Word is still a lovely store with a great selection of books, but it's just too small.

Make sure every grade school has a real playground.

If that's not possible, create an honors class at each high school in the county, that has some protection provided by some kind of super independent board, where each student does a school or educational issues paper based on interviews with students, parents, teachers or support staff at the public or private pre-K-12 schools in the area around the high school.

So, each high school becomes an education information and transparency engine.

A. I don’t know much about this topic. I just know that it seems as if we have Nicole’s and El Sazon de las Americas, while the West Side has zillions of Caribbean food places.

B. Maybe start with Jerkin Chicken? Their Google entry looks great to me:

234 West Side Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Is that a retail shop or just an office?

Have you tried any in Greenville? Are you sure none of them are worthy?

Journal Square has great places, too.

People here just focus on downtown places because a lot of us are car-free people who live downtown. But Journal Square has all sorts of amazing shops, restaurants and historic sites of its own.

The film "Contagion" is also excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film)

It got almost everything weirdly right, down to a quack drug that seems like a placeholder for ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.

The only thing it got wrong is that it shows the CDC performing really well and continuing to enjoy a high level of respect.

In 2014.

Maybe these posts come from people who love the place and are trying to make the lines shorter?

What would be really helpful is if someone could create descriptions of what the menu items are and post them here, and maybe give the descriptions to the restaurant.

What kind of person downvotes a link to data?

So, Jersey City ranks about 35th out of 100 in terms of combined state and city spending per resident, and about 52nd in terms of city spending per resident:

https://ballotpedia.org/Analysis_of_spending_in_America%27s_largest_cities

Supposedly the plan has already gotten through the legislature and is a done deal.

I'm hoping the person who told me that is wrong and misunderstood what's going on.