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i went to archbishop molloy with nary a female in sight, my boys will never be forced to suffer the same fate
Most of the kids who apply to Chaminade aren't accepted.... and don't really want to go anyway..but the parents are the ones who push them to apply. Some take their second choice.. St Mary's.
LIPA taxes make up almost 62% of PJ school district budget and close to 30% of PJV. The utility grieved its taxes with PJV and was supposed to be reducing payments to the school district. SWR also got pretty fat on the LIPA gravy train without preparing for a rainy day.
With the 2% property tax increase cap won't that stop taxes increasing by $2-$12K overnight? I know there is some wacky forumla the state came up and it excludes goofy things and not other things.
LIPA taxes make up almost 62% of PJ school district budget and close to 30% of PJV. The utility grieved its taxes with PJV and was supposed to be reducing payments to the school district. SWR also got pretty fat on the LIPA gravy train without preparing for a rainy day.
I don't envy the taxpayers in Glen Head.
The NS SD went through a similar process a decade back when LIPA reduced the online time of the power plant and subsequently reduced their payments. At the time LIPA provided 50% of the school budget and in short order went down to the current ~10%.
Oddly no one has thought of the effects on the power grid of these two power plants closing. Yes Far Rockaway is also closing as well. Electricity demand here on the island continues to grow and they are closing two power plants in the Newbridge Interface (Nassau County), making us especially more reliant on power from surrounding utilities, via Con Ed, Neptune, and the Conn. Shoreham cable. I think that only gives us just a handful of plants, Island Park (the last remaining one in Nassau), Northport, and Port Jeff. In the event of another area-wide blackout, it will take even longer to get power restored. To think back in 1977, then LILCO had enough generation to split from the grid sparing LI the fate of NYC...but that's progress eh?
And then there's the loss of jobs, which I'm sure will be replaced by more day laborers building the next McMansion or retail development.
Oddly no one has thought of the effects on the power grid of these two power plants closing. Yes Far Rockaway is also closing as well. Electricity demand here on the island continues to grow and they are closing two power plants in the Newbridge Interface (Nassau County), making us especially more reliant on power from surrounding utilities, via Con Ed, Neptune, and the Conn. Shoreham cable. I think that only gives us just a handful of plants, Island Park (the last remaining one in Nassau), Northport, and Port Jeff. In the event of another area-wide blackout, it will take even longer to get power restored. To think back in 1977, then LILCO had enough generation to split from the grid sparing LI the fate of NYC...but that's progress eh?
And then there's the loss of jobs, which I'm sure will be replaced by more day laborers building the next McMansion or retail development.
We need to move into the future. That is solar and wind farms. Were paying for putting these fossil fuel power plants in the end with our health. heck we have hundreds of day laborers sitting in home depot parking lots. We should put the whole lot of them to work building state of the art solar and wind farms on the island.
We need to move into the future. That is solar and wind farms. Were paying for putting these fossil fuel power plants in the end with our health. heck we have hundreds of day laborers sitting in home depot parking lots. We should put the whole lot of them to work building state of the art solar and wind farms on the island.
And where on NIMBY Long Island do you plan to put them? In a park? In a schoolyard? Along somebody's street?
It's time for the renewables crowd to start telling us what parts of the real estate they plan on turning over to wind farms and solar panels. Get some guts.
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