Edison Friends of the Library - 5K Run - October 11, 2026 at Roosevelt Park at 8:30AM

Well, A Literary Themed 5k Run. Benefitting the Edison Public Library.

Run, Walk, Read - All Activities Welcome!

Sign up at www.FotEPL.org

Get Out and Help Out!

Run for a Cause!

Edison Township Education Foundation - Applications for Executive Board due by Friday, October 16th

 Well, here's the link for the application for the Executive Board. Please consider joining if you can.

Anyhoo, some things are worthy of your time, even in this town.

Final 2026 Edison Property Tax Bill is Out - and 'Bubble-boy's' letter is Sticking it to the BOE Again

 Well, the total Edison Property tax comes in at 6.233, which is up 28.2-Cents over last year's 5.951 or 4.74%. Here you can see what the individual taxing rates are and the increase over last year.

Looks like 'Bubble-boys' budget increase % numbers and the % of the total in his 'Message from the Mayor' don't match up to the tax bill - but hey, stick it to the BoE.

Here is the increases and %'s of taxes by taxing entity according to the tax bills:

Anyhoo, don't you just love that you live in a town that can't even get your taxes right?

Edison Township Education Association (ETEA) Candidates Night 2026

Here'a the link for the September 23, 2026 ETEA's Candidates Night. 

 

It includes:

• Candidates Night Video
• Interview Questionnaires
• Individual Videos
• Side by Side Comparison of Candidates and 
• Candidates Bios Program

Kudos to the ETEA for doing this once again this year. Nice job.

Anyhoo, worth a look before you vote.

Edison Board of Mythomania Election Nov. 3rd - Column 1 or Column 2 - Blah, Blah, Blah

 Seriously, how many times are we going to go through this political cesspool election? Shi vs. Joshi tickets on who can misspend or waste the money the best? Tickets with people who come out of nowhere and probably have never or rarely have been to a Board of Mythomania meeting. Not a necessity but should tell you something. But each has all the answers, albeit mostly in AI.

Be that as it may, No doubt Shi's decade long tenure has kept the school district moving forward with his dictatorial and inept leadership.

With the inability to control Out-of-Control $pending while pissing away all that State Aid money and nonsense piecemeal plans while still not properly addressing the Overcrowding - look to the incompetence of Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi, aka Mr. Shi-shed, Mr. Pac-Man and his band of P's in a Pod for bringing us to this point.

They need to go if you want to get some proper Oversight on monies now approaching $400 million.

Seriously, as someone who has been following this dysfunctional school board for decades, I've had enough of watching nothing change but the political makeup of the board and all that money being misspent and wasted. So, I'll give this one try.

Do yourselves a favor if you really want to get back control of all that money and make sure the money is Spent in the Best interests of the Kids, then simply write me in on Nov. 3rd. One person can make a difference especially one who's been following this dysfunctional political cesspool of a board for years and knows the numbers better than anyone.

Just a thought - your choice.

Looks like Final 2026 Edison Property Tax Rate of 6.233 is up 28.2-Cents or 4.7% over Last Year's 5.951

 Well, looks like the Final 2026 Property Tax Rate will be 6.233, which is up 4.5-Cents over the 3rd Qtr. Estimate of 6.188. If you live in that imaginary home assessed at $186,900, then your total property taxes will be $11,658.96 for an increase of $526.54 over last year's $11,122.42 and an additional increase of $83.59 over the 3rd Qtr. estimate.

If you don't know how this budgeting nonsense works - they use an Estimate in the 3rd Qtr if they don't have all the budgets done (and it's usually the Muni-budget that take 8 months into the budget year to come up with one) and any adjustment will be put into the 4th Qtr.

Here's the breakdown for that imaginary home assessed at $186,900:

If you don't live in that imaginary home assessed at $186,900, then take your homes assessed value divided by 100 and multiply that number by 6.233 and that will give you your total 2026 taxes and by .282 to get your tax increase.

Anyhoo, you live in a politically-corrupt town so you get the type of governance and unexplained, unjustified or supported tax increases that you deserve.

Some More about the Latest Edison School District Salary File

 Well, the latest Edison School District Salary File (August 18, 2026) had 2,236 employees for a total of $190,032,221. Interesting stat - some 935 employees out of the total 2,236 or 42% make a $100,000 or more and represent 60% or $113,927,538 of the total dollars of $190,032,221.

Here's how the employees and dollars fall by location:

Anyhoo, you should pay attention to the number of employees by title and department in this file since they won't show you that information in their annual school budgets. And lets not forget the 'Staffing Shell Game' they play and don't bother disclosing to you and lets not forget about 'Breakage' that all adds to the Bloat in the largest expenditure in the school budgets.