jhummel@southjerseymedia.com Web: nj.com/ben Phone: 856-451-1000, ext. 556 Cellphone: 856-237-6645 FAX: 856-455-3098 U.S. Army: RA13815980 The column that says we're tired of hearing people say the Bridgeton City Council has no power, because not a penny of city money can be spent without its approval and, today, money is everything. — Good afternoon! — If Hurricane Patricia can show up...
jhummel@southjerseymedia.com
Web: nj.com/ben
Phone: 856-451-1000, ext. 556
Cellphone: 856-237-6645
FAX: 856-455-3098
U.S. Army: RA13815980
The column that says we're tired of hearing people say the Bridgeton City Council has no power, because not a penny of city money can be spent without its approval and, today, money is everything.
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Good afternoon!
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If Hurricane Patricia can show up in Mexico, it can show up in the Atlantic Ocean and dwarf the damage caused by Sandy, and equal Katrina.
Don't think we should be designing something other than relief sites and FEMA trailers to combat such a catastrophe?
Or is Cecily Tynan enough?
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"And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
"Don't settle.
"As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.''
-- Steve Jobs
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-- Melissa Helmbrecht
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If Melissa had the advertising budget of Geico, 100,000 people would have been helped by now.
What she does have is the support of the Pascale Sykes Foundation.
Pascale Sykes doesn't want you driving here and driving there wasting time searching for the right people to help you solve your family problem.
Melissa has the advocates to guide on the right path to a solution.
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Try this on for size:
"Residents living in neighborhoods with close social ties tend to watch out for each other and their property.
"Intervening can include things like calling the police, asking questions of strangers, notifying parents if children are misbehaving, forming community groups to address problems, or attending city council meetings to request assistant from government."
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And this ...
"Project Exile, a program developed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in coordination with the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office and the Richmond Police Department, was designed to incapacitate gun offenders and deter future gun crimes by prosecuting violent or drug crimes involving firearms in the federal, rather than state, system.
"Federal sentences for such crimes generally are longer than those in state courts, bail is denied more often, and sentences served in federal prisons are likely to be located out of state.
"The program also used an 'outreach' component, with heavy advertising of stricter penalties and lower tolerance for gun-related crimes."
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And one more ...
"Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) -- the core strategy of PSN is increased federal prosecution of illegal gun use and illegal gun possession, with the goal of incapacitating chronic violent offenders as well as deterring threat to potential gun offenders.''
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MY KIND OF TOWN: Where we wonder why all these programs have not been tried here, given all the summit meetings that have been called up and down the state.