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Newark after Booker: City faces takeover threat (NJ)
Associated Press ^
| Apr 5, 2014 11:59 AM EDT
| Samantha Henry
Posted on 04/05/2014 11:07:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:07:49 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Rats deserting the sinking ship.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:10:44 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: Olog-hai
In the national media, I have heard nothing but glowing reviews of Booker.
Go figure.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:11:04 AM PDT
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: Olog-hai
It is the fault of the extremist republicans who would not let the former mayor do what was good for the citizens.
To: Olog-hai
Evil Vlad Putin at work? He’ll give it back.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:11:51 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Redneck. Race: Daytona 500)
To: Olog-hai
another RATropolis circling the drain...
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:14:43 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Olog-hai
Booker booked it out of Newark and on to Washington DC
..He said, “See ya suckers.”. lol. The people of Newark get what they deserve.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:20:45 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
To: Olog-hai
Newark has been a ‘Rat hell-hole for at least a half a century.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:25:55 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Olog-hai
One of Hillary’s best VP candidates I believe.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:28:18 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Paladin2
That’s why the Wall Street Journal just did a piece in the Greater New York section on one of its most beautiful neighborhoods.
To: Olog-hai
One thing about Booker - he knows how to play the white liberals for the fools that they are.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:35:06 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: firebrand
Here's a NYT article quote from what appears to be a NYT initiative to talk up NYC's 'hoods.
"But when Mr. Franck learned of New Community Corporation's efforts to revitalize the Central Ward, he was "absolutely floored." Among other things, the 27-year-old agency has built 3,000 units of housing, a nursing home, an elementary school,seven day-care centers and the first new shopping center in the Central Ward in 30 years. New Community receives funds from a variety of sources, including Government, foundations and corporations. The executive director, Msgr. William J. Linder, said the sculptures are the agency's first project to focus on beauty instead of practical things."
Apparently the WSJ is on a similar mission.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:44:20 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Like Detroit, it was actually a good place for working and middle class people to live. After about 1960 it imploded in the same way.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:52:20 AM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: Paladin2
Well, the beautiful neighborhood described in the WSJ really exists. I grew up there.
To: Olog-hai
Newark after Booker Is the say while Booker was in charge. So we are being told he saved the world and now it's gone to sh##. This rat darling is cool young handsome and of coarse black so he's a shoo in, don't ask if he's qualified that would be insulting, don't ask about his record or experience that would be insulting all you have to know is he is an activist for the people, a fighter for the poor and a nice guy who cares about the “middle class”
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:54:29 AM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(Im missing a jumbo jet with 235 passengers has anyone seen it?)
To: firebrand
I read the article.
It's amazing that those houses weren't chopped up into apartments. Taxes are low too.
Detroit has at least three broadly similar 'hoods, but they still seem to be heading downhill.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:57:05 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Catmom
I had a frat bro who's fam lived there in the 60's.
Seemed to be a good place to always have situational awareness.
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posted on
04/05/2014 11:59:24 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
This neighborhood has not gone the way of Detroit. The mansions have been divided into smaller units, for the most part, but there are still many one-family homes.
To: firebrand
"The mansions have been divided into smaller units, for the most part,"
Bummer, but logical.
I can see where the 'hood could maintain sufficient demand being so close to the still crusin' economy of lower Manhattan as long as crime suppression is good.
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posted on
04/05/2014 12:09:06 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Olog-hai
Maybe when Sharpe James gets out of jail he can come back and really turn things around for Newark.
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posted on
04/05/2014 12:27:13 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
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