# montclair (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover montclair. Page: Feed: --- ## [Yes, and](https://www.davemoon.me/yes-and/) _2026-03-10 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ I’m voting yes / yes. I’m voting yes / yes because I believe that voting no on either or both measures will demand drastic and irrational cuts from our district.  Some variant of a no vote could initiate immediate cuts of $9.4m to more than $10m. ## [The New Jersey School Funding Formula is Broken](https://www.davemoon.me/the-new-jersey-school-funding-formula-is-broken/) _2026-02-09 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ Montclair receives 83% of state aid required by the New Jersey School Funding Reform Act (SFRA), according to the Education Law Center (ELC) – a two million dollar shortfall, this year alone. Is it surprising? New Jersey’s municipal finance is in a continuous state of low-grade financial ## [Fair Funding For Montclair](https://www.davemoon.me/fair-funding-for-montclair/) _2025-12-12 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ I recently compared the Montclair school district to Milburn and Cedar Grove. In each case, I found relative inequities in funding for Montclair. Friends suggested, if you want it to be meaningful, it needs to be broader.  So I compared Montclair and Essex County to every school district in ## [Montclair Schools - Fight for Funding](https://www.davemoon.me/montclair-schools-underfunded/) _2025-11-26 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ Financial mismanagement isn’t the only story in the Montclair School District. Yes, the district screwed up, and it’s hard to believe the business administrator received a performance bonus when she allegedly hid unpaid invoices in her desk drawers, so she could meet her targets. But the ## [Yes/Yes in Montclair](https://www.davemoon.me/yes-yes-in-montclair/) _2025-11-26 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ The desk-drawers were stuffed with unpaid bills. It's occupant, the business administrator, had left, and the new superintendent was left holding evidence of more than $12.6m in outstanding, unbudgeted obligations. The Montclair school district owes $12.6m in accumulated deficits and is facing a $7.6m ## [Hands Across New Jersey](https://www.davemoon.me/hands-across-new-jersey/) _2025-10-14 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ How a 1990 tax rebellion rewired the state’s finances and set the stage for decades of rising property taxes The phone rang. "Hi, my name is John Budzash,” the caller said , “and I want to talk to John and Ken about organizing a protest where ## [Camp Counselor (Web)](/software/camp-counselor-web/) _2025-10-05 · Home on Marcus Dillavou_ Camp Counselor Web is a port of the desktop Camp Counselor App to the web. Camp Counselor is a web application for managing your bandcamp.com wishlist. Camp Counselor automatically fetches your wish list (and purchases), and lets you comment, rate, listen to, and organize to help you keep track of your favorite artists and albums. Install Camp Counselor Web is meant to be self-hosted. Please see… ## [The Mudsills of Democracy](https://www.davemoon.me/an-unanswered-question-for-our-leaders/) _2025-09-08 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ Dear Senators Booker, Schumer and and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Hope you’re well. I recently wrote you a letter regarding Emil Bove. I was disappointed in your legalistic, procedural approach to resisting his appointment. It felt empty. I asked you to begin, instead, with our ideals, so ## [What Lesson Would We Teach Our Country?](https://www.davemoon.me/what-lesson-would-we-teach-our-country/) _2025-07-14 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ A letter to our elected representatives on the occasion of the government as a teacher Dear Senators Blumenthal, Booker, Hirono, Padilla, Schiff, Welch, and Whitehouse: I hope you’re well. I live in New Jersey, and I have been grateful for your contributions as Senators. Your oversight on the ## [Destruction of the Temple](https://www.davemoon.me/destruction-of-the-temple/) _2025-03-11 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pG4a2Pm09ZlM) _2025-03-11 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Tariff Tantrum](https://www.davemoon.me/tariff-tantrum/) _2025-03-11 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ In June 1931, Ohio Senator Simeon Fess took the stage at the Willard Hotel in Washington DC. President Hoover was running for reelection, and Assistant Secretary Snyder hoped to rile up the convention of Young Republicans. Senator Fess exclaimed from the podium, “When the American people realize what President ## [Ideas from Peter Thiel’s Breakfast Table](https://www.davemoon.me/774032846258143232/) _2025-01-29 · Dave · Notes from the margin of error_ Until this week it was never quite clear to a considerable body of intelligent citizens why a sufficient plurality of voters in the United States would flock to a reality television star whose casual relationship with the truth would frame a day of riot, rapine, and insurgency at the Capitol