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County Merger Proposed – Again

Once again, the issue of merging the Bergen County Police and the Bergen County Sheriff’s department is making headlines. ( Star Ledger and.or Bergen Record) While the other counties in New Jersey long ago sought to reduce such redundancy to achieve financial savings and lessen the tax burden – Bergen […]


Getting The Word Out

(find links to connect with your local officials at the bottom of article) The past two years have brought 3 major storms to the FLOW region, and the season of Halloween and scary masks has been replaced with concerns over storms. 2011 brought Hurricane Irene at the end of the […]


Gaining STEAM in Oakland

Oakland is gaining STEAM with a new semester of art, cultural and exercise classes being sponsored by the Sports Association of Oakland. Classes, which are now open for registration, include offerings in writing, photography, drama, pottery, as well as exercises classes – the 2013 fall semester also offers adult classes. […]


Back to School (& Farts)

It’s back to school, and what better way to celebrate this annual event then with talk about farts. There are still many people that think speaking about farts is not socially acceptable; they think it’s childish, it’s sophomoric, and it’s lowbrow, bathroom humor…those people are usually farts themselves. Farts are […]


Oakland Rated Number 1

People like lists: The Top Ten, The Top 100, The Top 20, and when the magazine NJ Monthly recently released their top 100 towns to live in New Jersey, Oakland made the top 15  overall, and the best for young families. Crunching the numbers on residential tax bills, property tax […]


NJ Increases Fine for “Idiots”

As a matter of safety, and to help fund state budget shortfalls with traffic tickets, idiots will face higher fines on NJ highways. The idiots, as George Carlin explains in the video below, are those people who are driving slower than you on the road; the maniacs are the ones […]