More money for Rutgers-Newark would be important and useful.

hjs,

I'd be happy to share it . . . just Email me at cr@exit109.com or call me this afternoon.

But I'd really like to share it with the Governor . . . I have sent it to him via Email but have had no response . . . so far.

Cheers!

charlie has the answer but won't share with the rest of us?!

I grew up in a middle class town in NJ where my mom is still a teacher. I hope that NJ eventually takes a look at the process for qualifying students for school lunches. The schools send the forms home and kids are expected to return them to their teachers, who turn them in to the office secretary and so on. It is a small town and there is no process for keeping the information on the forms confidential from the teachers or the office staff. There is no pressure from the superintendent to make sure all the forms are returned. In short, it is no surprise that none of the schools in my town qualify for school lunches even though you might think otherwise because there are a lot of struggling families.

Form completion should be mandatory and the forms should be kept confidential and the results compiled by an outside third party. This is a small issue but one that has an impact on a lot of children and I hope someone takes a look at it.

buy houses on flood plains and restore wetland so people don't have to live in flood prone areas any more.

cut property taxes by forcing small wasteful municipalities to consolidate

What about tax credits for solar power? My husband and I would LOVE to put solar panels on our roof but it's far too expensive at this point.

Also, in my town specifically (Bradley Beach) we have a project for a bulkhead at our Sylvan Lake.

In fact, our mayor, Julie Schreck, has written a great post on her blog about what Bradley Beach could use from the stimulus... She writes, "As our engineer observed months ago, if a stimulus package comes through from the Federal government, the Sylvan Lake bulkhead project would be an ideal fit. It’s “shovel-ready”, in that we have or shortly will have the most important permits in place, and design work that is scaleable."

Please see the complete post here -
http://bradleybeachtoday.com/2009/01/21/dear-congress-please-stimulate-bradley-beach/

Scott,

Call me this afternoon and we can chat.

Cheers!

There is no faster or more effective program to put people to work and save energy than geothermal heating/cooling systems for homes. Increase the rebates and installations will skyrocket! Saving fuel oil and natural gas. Just increase the rebate!

Another potential project:

(Not shovel-ready but doesn't need a shovel.)

Comprehensive mass transit maps for the entire state to facilitate use of existing mass transit.

For starters:
1. Revisit local government and school board budget caps to eliminate state handicapping local government use of Federal stimulus funds.
2. Cut state government waste by replacing 21 state liaison offices with north, south and middle posts - a 85% saving in some departmebts budgets.
3. Create a water plan for New Jersey so that we can continue to build new housing and encourage people to move to New Jersey.

Projects in Jersey City that could use funding effectively:

-- Journal Square Redevelopment.

-- Embankment Preservation.

Gov. Corzine- as a fellow taxpayer in Hoboken, we need property tax relief. as you know, municipal taxes are up 80-something percent and overall bills are up 47%. Is there anywhere in the NJ dstimulus $ dedicated to fiscal property tax relief? Or can we earmark some of the money for property re-evaluation procedures to more fairly spread the pain? ($16K in taxes for a 1300 square foot condo while $2.5M brownstones have tax bills half of that!). Thanks Gov! Keep fighting to turn around the budget process in NJ.

Increase the welfare grants! That is money that will be spent immediately and will help those that need it most. They haven't been increased in 20 years.

Charlie,

What is that plan? I grew up near Red Bank and am intrigued by your comments.

I love your show Brian, thank you very much

what are we going to do with TAXES?

There are properties for sale that cost 250,000 single regular family with $12,000 a year taxes? we want to help the economy but this does not help us when we want to buy!

Thanks

Fix the flooding in North Jersey

NJ Transit's buses are long overdue for an eco upgrade -- the buses are used and frequently brake down. NJ should use the funds to improve public bus transporation by purchasing a fleet of clean energy buses and upgrade the overcrowded local bus services to express routes.

Bobby Jindal, governor Louisiana, Republican - "Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!"

Isn't there a law against spreading outright lies and rumours? How can a prominent public official stoop to such low and bawdry tactics of difamation? I would have expected such behaviour from a known liar such as Rush Limbaugh, but an official responce by the GOP strikes me as one by some idiots whom are in denial; like When the boat springs a leak (which btw, they caused) instead of helping by grabbing a pale and bailing out water they instead retreat to the first class deck for tea and crumpets... just as the upper class brits of yesteryear whom did not want to accept the fact that their empire was crumbling all around them and refused to acknowledge that their class no lunger ruled the world. What burns me is that I know the rank and file right wing will tow the line and repeat Mr. Jindal misconceptions like parrakets from now to kingdom come because they are miffed at Barack Obama beighn the President of the USA.

Money for public transportation! NJ Transit trains do not work efficiently and need to be more frequent. Also, more money for buses to travel to nearby towns. Make New Jersey less car-dependent.

Hello Brian,
I disagree with your assessment that trust has shifted from Wall Street to Washington. Most people are of the mind to throw all the bums out and start over from scratch. Rather than shoveling dollars around, let's get people involved in their local communities.
Cheers!

Brian,

Please tell Governor Corzine that a renowned architect in Red Bank has a real plan that will creat 5000 new jobs in New Jersey in 30-60 days and 30,000 new jobs in 3 years.

Please have someone from his office contact me ASAP at (732) 935-1017.

Thank you very much!

are our representatives from NJ/NY doing enough to get our tax dollars back from washington?
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I used to work in Trenton. It is actually a beautiful city with many large industrial buildings and plenty of nice brooklyn-scaled neighborhoods/home. At that time, my architecture firm was trying to get the county/city involvement in revitalizing the city that utilizes these existing infrastructure. There were talks of converting a large factory warehouse into a Hollywood studio lot. But so much politics got into the way. The potential for Trenton not just as the seat of government, but actually be a cultural and economic hub makes so much sense (given the infrastructure already there), and, it is so strategically located between Philadelphia and NYC, so conveniently along the Accela N-E corridor train line. All the empty buildings lay waiting to be refurbish!