July 24
...serving up your daily dish.
The Glen Ridge Voice reported this week that Glen Ridge will receive a $50,000 homeland security grant from the State of New Jersey.
Glen Ridge, as everyone knows, is a prime target for terrorists everywhere who envy its stately homes, quaint gas lamps and tasteful Christmas decorations. "We spit on their little dried flower wreaths," Osama bin Laden recently told the Voice.
Here, members of the town's Kiwanis Club assemble a cannon in front of the town's new (but architecturally appropriate) gazebo, all part of recent efforts to fortify Toney's Brook.
July 24, 2004 in In Your Dreams | Permalink
Read the fine print.
Here in Pavement Narrows we received our share ($59.95) but the accompanying letter stated that we had to use the money to offset taxes already spent on anti-terrorism.
In other words, no using the money to buy NEW stuff, just lower the '04 tax rate by 1/100 of a cent. So rather than the police getting to buy radiation detectors or bug sniffers or hiring an Emergency Coordinator, everyone had their property taxes lowered by $4.50.
Posted by: The Proprietor | Jul 24, 2004 9:01:15 AM
