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A sampling of top news stories... Thursday,  April 13, 2006

NJ Politics

• Trenton Democrats rebuke Corzine on budget In an apparent break with the
  governor, some Democrats in the Legislature are looking to scrap the proposed $1.1B
  sales tax increase in his proposed $30.9B budget Express-Times 

• State tries to get savings past ban on budget borrowing Corzine asks state
  judges to allow the use of more than $150M in savings from refinanced bonds to help
  him balance the state budget Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• Court decision bolsters water protection rules A state appeals court upholds
  the state's water protection regulations -- the toughest in the nation -- against a
  challenge by the builders association, which claimed lawmakers never empowered the
  DEP to establish 300-foot "no-build zones" around the state's most pristine waterways,
  effectively putting up to 300,000 acres off limits to building Star-Ledger  Daily Record
  Daily Journal   Gannett

• Ford’s Ringwood dump pub back on Superfund list EPA takes the unusual action
  after several years of intense pressure from residents who claimed the area has never been
  properly cleaned and that  material left over from the assembly of millions of automobiles
  endangers their health NY Times  Bergen Record

PA Politics 

• A spoiler joins race for Governor In what was already proving a surprisingly tight
  contest, the race for governor of PA has grown more complicated with the entry of an
  independent candidate who helped spearhead a grass-roots insurgency last year against
  the state legislature NY Times

PA Environment

• Ordinance would limit waterway development In a classic case of property rights
  versus environmental protection, Northampton next month will consider an ordinance that
  would limit development immediately around the township's streams and creeks Courier Times

 New York/Nation/World 

•  Big Easy cleanup: Recycling headache 'Green dream' being wasted, ecologists say AP

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