One day, someone will look back online and find this very post

One day a smart editor of the one last surviving newspaper will look at what a wreck the long-term Jersey City finances have become and tell a young cub reporter, "Didn't anyone, anyone at all warn against this prolific spending over nothing?" The cub reporter will hopefully not only know how to use Google blog search but Google itself or LexisNexis or EMyth or Simmons or any one of a number of tools which will bring them to this place in time.

"Yes Mr. Editor, there was someone who stood up and made exacting pronouncements on not only when the collapse began but pointed out the seminal cracks along the way."

*Harp flashback music*

Then, the Beatles song "Fool on the Hill" will begin to play over the office Pandora and the crux of the article will become a "How did we not see this coming, the signs were all there" think-piece.

*End harp flashback music*

We mentioned briefly yesterday in the that News Roundup (That someone copied online thank you very little) former Governor and professional government employee Jim McGreevey, who while being a good guy was working on prisoner re-entry but just had a poor vision of how to do a vital job when it came to how residents would view it. However, after working four months for the Fulop Administration McGreevey will now get lifetime benefits from Hudson County. Privately some in the county offices are fuming but as you read yesterday a county spokesperson made a word salad about bullshit benefits to the county (after four months two of which were spent getting told to fuck off by taxpayers) and they left it at that. Spending friends. Spending is running amok because somebody wants to run for governor so we get a pile of people performing half-measures who are never held accountable because like McGreevey they didn't go through the normal hiring processes. They're just being paid top dollar to half-ass JC business but work hard on Fulop for governor is our analysis. Why else do corporate counsel show up at a huge citywide meeting on tax abatements where they wanted to ask for a 30 year abatement but dropped it to a 20 and when asked why refused to comment? The head of the Jersey City government is disengaged and it's showing. There are far too many people on payroll for the services we're being told we should be getting.

Giving away hundreds of millions of dollars that COULD be on the city books is no long-term planning. Raising taxes 4 percent one year and lowering them 2 percent the next year and claiming you're solving city tax issues when you're not is bait and switch. Did the state run schools get better in all that? Look says the administration, taxes have been kept low for the time being, life is good. What about in ten years when all the benefit is the developers' who write a small check to the city, far less that what they'd pay (all for as few as 10 going rate income units which as we know CAN be shifted elsewhere) in the long term. Who is going to cover the shortfall? Have we seen one great new anchor store go into a Fulop high-rise yet? Macy's? Target? A lot of the old units can't get businesses to stay. Any income projections from the city are just that, projections in their best interests.

Of course this is Steve Fulop, who made time to go give the glad hand at a Republican fundraiser so at this point going forward if this guy surprises you with his say one thing while doing another you need to get on that Google search or just keep your internet dial tuned right here Jersey City. When it comes to being the last outpost of reason on city business, if your internet it tuned here your internet is tuned RIGHT!

It's a News Roundup (As promised!)

* Mayor Steve Fulop and Hudson County have found a new way to separate you from your money, give James McGreevey LIFETIME benefits for working four moths in JC. Yes, lifetime benefits for four months on payroll getting told by residents to fuck off.

* Mayor Fulop and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka had a joint press conference where they excoriated Verizon for not serving low-income areas as they promised to do yet found a loophole to hide behind.

* The Feelies are playing a sold-out show Saturday in Jersey City's Monty Hall. Sorry, Johnny can't help you, he's tapped out of scalped tickets.

* A Jersey City professor of handguns ran outside waving his around and then ran back inside to protect his alleged marijuana, you know, like ya do, only somebody saw him waving it and involved authorities.

* In what should be a very get hype kind of week for Rutgers football facing Penn State on Saturday, yeah, not so much excitement at player arraignments.

* In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the art exhibit "Emergence" will be on display in the Brennan Gallery in the Justice William J. Brennan Court House until Oct. 15. An opening reception for the exhibit is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m.

This is exactly why a strong neighborhood association is a good thing

Because it's the only way you're going to stop city hall when they decide to impose something upon your neighborhood. Caitlin Mota at the Jersey Journal sure didn't bury the lead:

A controversial plan to locate a prisoner re-entry program next door to Sacred Heart School was scrapped Monday night after nearly 200 people showed up to voice their opinions on it.

This plan was pushed on the neighborhood by the Fulop Administration who have egg on their faces and most noticeably former Governor Jim McGreevey who was asked to leave a community meeting he decided to show up at to push the plan and the neighborhood association was having none of it. A former governor and a wannabe governor both shut down by the association. Well done and if your neighborhood doesn't have an association, put one together.

This plan really helped enforce the idea that the Fulop Administration doesn't care much for the predominantly African-American neighborhoods according to Earl Morgan. Click here to get his take on the issue.

Ye Olde News Roundup

Some breaking news, some odd news, some traffic related news, and of course feel free to chime in with "Teh Snark." (and yes we meant teh -- ed)

*On the breaking news front the mother of the baby found alive four days ago in a trash bag in JC has been arrested.

*Mayor Steve Fulop will go before a very friendly city council and ask for paid sick days for both full and part-time workers for businesses operating in the city. Zoltron and Kiki, both loyal to a fault, are still technically interns here and thus, no paid sick days. Interns for life.

*Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey should begin his job in Jersey City in, well, about now.

*Something being called an "adaptive traffic signal system" will be used on local traffic lights to help alleviate some of the expected massive traffic shifts when General Pulaski goes partially dark.

*The westbound lanes on 139 are back open after yesterdays game of dodge rubble.

*Disgraced losing city council wannabe Lori Serrano (Solomon Dwek) seemed awfully happy for someone who just got hit with a $1000 fine, 18 months probation and no ability to run for public office again. Yes we know it's nice she has seemingly gotten her house in order but you know what? One is supposed to not sink back into a life of crime. You're supposed to 'rehabilitate' yourself.

*Johnny can smell a nuisance motion in Hoboken a mile city away. Luis Zayas, who represents Angel Alicea, former Hoboken public safety director says Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer somehow perjured herself in a deposition. Zayas used a lot of legalese and lingo and fancy legal phrases you'll be sure to want to write down next time you play lawyer Bingo.

*Finally, the NFL kicks off tonight in an overhyped, overblown, overproduced season opening spectacular when the Los Angeles Rams visit the Houston Oilers.