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• On the article Sequestration Cuts May Force Morris Head Start to Turn Away Kids

  Michael Daigle

  10:40 pm on Monday, March 25, 2013

  Theses kids are not illegals, they are just poor. Put down th mirror and volunteer at one of these servies and see the world as it is.e

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• On the article Bears, 'Mountain Lion' Spotted in Area

  Michael Daigle

  10:27 am on Friday, October 12, 2012

  We'll see... the Eastern Mountain Lion has been extinct east of the Mississippi River since the 1930s, according to the National Wildlife Service...but migration due to climate and habitat change could be possible

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• On the article Pocket Park's 'Architectural Feature:' Yay or Nay?

  Michael Daigle

  10:36 pm on Friday, January 6, 2012

  It's January..Don't plant a lot of grass in the winter.

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• On the article Morris Lights Up New Solar Project

  Michael Daigle

  12:36 pm on Monday, January 2, 2012

  So what? in the entire U.S. history every industrial, technological or communications change has been subsidied by hidden taxes: canals, roads, airports, railroads, autos oil, nuclear power, the electrical power grid, and over all the public benefit and financial windfall for the governments outweighed the tax breaks;
  As for the government support for solar, how much does it actually cost a single taxpayer? $10? $50? Is that amount going to change your life?
  This is what I know based on reporting I have done:. The Shop Rite in Wharton 5 years ago installed solar and saves $25,000 a month on its electric bill; that is $300,000 a year, more than any tax break that coule be offered; Howmet Inc. a heavy industry company in Dover. Along with revamping all its manufacturing processes, it is installing a large solar array to supports it plant. The question for theses two examples is this: Does the including of gov't subsidies for solar outweight the economic ability of these companies to function, keep their 100s off employees working, and their off-site purchases thru local stores or other suppliers, and pay local taxes to support local and state government functions? No, simply no. The other example is Wyndham Worldwide the giant hotel and resort operator. Its CEO said the company has a golbal green energy and sustainabilty plan. When CEOs are talking about reducing their company's "carbon footprint", the argument is close to ending.

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• On the article Morris Lights Up New Solar Project

  Michael Daigle

  10:17 am on Monday, January 2, 2012

  Mark, read the documents available on the Morris County Improvement Authority website. They detail the cost factors here. This is a program that has been in place for 3 years, In the first round the company that secured the contract secured a bid price of roughly 10 cents per KwH, which wat the time was 5 cents less than was available for the commercial rate on the open market. NJ has deregulated the electric market, thus the bidding process produces lower rates. Further, these are no giant fields, but site specific solar installations built at the designated locations. While the overall project has a large electric goal of many megawatts of power, the power use at specific sites is the real key. The "Morris Model" of a public-private partnership has been touted in national press for three years and is being copied across the country. This type of small site specific solar installations does work. I've been writing about the solar industry in NJ for nearly 8 years. There are numerous examples of why these programs work, national politics or the failure of one company notwithstanding. Progress of new technologies is not a straight line. For the details on the Morris program read the pubic documents on their website, It details the entire narrative, or call them.

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