I would recommend not taking the road test in Newark.

You'll have to actually drive on the road in live traffic there -- which is something that you should obviously be comfortable doing before getting your license, but makes it way more likely that you'll make a mistake and fail.

Rahway is not much further, and if you take it there instead you'll be on a closed course with no other cars.

Hudson Hall will probably have it on.

P.S. Fuck the Rangers

I had Plymouth Rock for a year and they were great, then they tried to raise the price by an absolutely silly amount. I guess the plan is to lure people in with a steep discount, then hope they'll be too lazy to switch? They were very responsive when I got rear ended, though.

I'm on State Farm now fwiw, it seems fine.

In my experience they have good quality control. You're not going to buy an heirloom tomato that changes your life there, but you're also not going to buy tomatoes that taste like cardboard or rot after 3 minutes. It's a safe choice.

(I also haven't regularly shopped at Walmart in NJ for what it's worth, and the experience probably varies location-to-location.)

The best place to access cheap high-quality produce is actually Walmart, but nobody wants to hear that so ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

I have no earthly idea what this is all about, but in my experience you should never trust someone whose pitch is literally "so you're just going to have to trust me on this."

Sandra Cunningham is also not running for reelection (not that it should stop you from lobbying her office if that's what you want to do.)

The 2021 political environment (post Biden, pre Dobbs) was very challenging for Democrats. It's also way different than 2025 might look.

If this election happens one year into a second Trump term, for example, then there's zero chance that any Democrat -- Fulop, Sweeney, Gottheimer, Baraka, that weird AOC wannabe who had a meltdown in the comments about white people the other day, anyone -- would lose a statewide election in NJ. It's just too soon to tell.

My heart goes out to Mr. Seabrooks and his family, and I understand where these advocates are coming from, but I'd love to hear a more concrete suggestion than "de-escalation" and "connecting people with the support they need." Those are empty platitudes, not solutions for handling violent episodes.

Sending social workers into a situation where a man armed with a knife is threatening to harm himself and others is not viable. The police are always going to be involved in incidents like this. So what, specifically, should they do differently to prevent tragedies like this from happening in the future?

I strongly second this advice, I have been able to negotiate rent increases down on multiple occasions. If you're a good tenant who pays on time and doesn't cause any problems, the value of keeping you in place might outweigh the extra thousand per year or whatever for your landlord.

The worst that can happen is they say no.

The fact that white people make up something like 30% of the population in Jersey City but 99% of the attendance at this rally pretty neatly underscores the political challenge here.

"Whitman said that the Forward Party was, unlike the Democratic and Republican Parties, not necessarily fixed to a specific platform"

Imagine interviewing for any other job like "I have no particular plans or ideas for what to do, I just want the title."

The good news is, as dumb as American voters may be, we're not dumb enough to fall for this scam.

Oh good looking out, thanks for the correction!

I would try James Solomon's office, in my experience they're pretty responsive and should be able to route this to whoever needs to see it

I am very much not a lawyer, but I don't see how any of this would make the city liable for $1 million in damages? Aside from the unanswered question of whether she communicated with police, these are all Degise problems not JC problems.

The "how" here is pretty simple: either collect 42,000 signatures and recall her, or run a serious candidate (someone with governing experience, not a professional activist) against her when she comes up for re-election.

"Demanding" that she resign is not going to do anything, she clearly has no shame.

Complaining to Fulop and Murphy is not going to do anything, they have zero incentive to take on a brutal fight against HCDO.

There is not a shortcut here, if you want to get rid of DeGise you have to beat her.

I understand New Jerseyans who support this congestion pricing plan because they think the environmental benefits will outweigh the economic costs.

I also understand the ones who are just broadly anti-car, and happy to support anything that will make driving more difficult.

What I cannot wrap my head around are the people who seem to genuinely believe that the MTA will spend this money in a way that makes any kind of positive impact on their lives. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me annually since 1965...

Just think, if one idiot on a bike had followed traffic laws, we'd be staring into the grill of an Amy Degise mayoralty.

Truly the hero we needed in 2022.

I'm surprised, usually they go with the "don't worry we'll put the money into mass transit...eventually..." excuse.

I'm assuming that you're referring to John Wisniewski, who is out of office because he ran for governor and lost (without Bernie Sanders' endorsement, I'd add.) Hardly a massive conspiracy there.

I also don't see how that 2016 lawsuit -- which was dismissed with prejudice -- proves any kind of party-wide attack against Bernie's 2020 campaign.

I get that you oppose the Democratic party, which is fair enough, but this is a pretty thin case. The majority rules.

Even if you don't believe Elizabeth Warren's claim, that hardly equates to "the Democratic Party as a whole" mistreating Bernie Sanders, much less a "mafia mentality." That's just a candidate lying about a rival's position, aka the thing that happens over and over again in every election ever.

Frankly, if the party really wanted to play dirty they just wouldn't have let Sanders run for the Democratic nomination in the first place, since he's not a member.

I am trying to keep an open mind about Menendez Jr. My parents are deeply flawed people, and I wouldn't want to be personally judged based on their mistakes. I think it's possible to take advantage of nepotism and do genuinely good things by playing the hand you're dealt, and I hope that the son does exactly that.

But I have to say, it's hard not to be deeply skeptical considering what a stain on the party, the county, the state, and the country Menendez Sr. has been.

If they had a Wins Above Replacement stat for senators like they do for baseball players, Menendez would be Robinson Chirinos.

What did Democrats do wrong to Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries?

Call me cynical, but I don't think that tweeting at Albio Sires to make him talk about the PATH if he ever bumps into Murphy is a very effective theory of change.

Especially with control of Congress likely about to flip to Republicans, the amount of leverage that the feds have over the governors is negligible (even if you assume that you could convince them to use it on improving municipal transportation.)

I would strongly recommend directing our complaints to people who might actually be able to do something about them.