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A sampling of top news stories... Thursday,  April 20, 2006

NJ Politics

• Senator Bryant's job at med school under question Critics have long questioned
  how the veteran senator, who chairs the finance committee, could be on UMDNJ’s payroll
  while at the same time parceling out its state funding. About a third of the university's
  $1.6B budget comes from state money Bergen Record
  > Editorial: Stand firm, governor Inquirer
   
• Retirement less golden for former Hoboken mayor A state panel strips Anthony
  Russo of his publicly funded medical benefits and cuts his retirement pay by almost
  $31,000 per year, ruling that he forfeited all pension credit for his two terms as mayor
   when he admitted taking kickbacks Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• DEP closes Barnegat Bay shellfish beds…Commissioner  orders immediate closure
  following sewage main rupture NJ-DEP
   …and opens Delaware Bay oyster site Commercial harvesting to be permitted after
  two-year freeze at site that was the focus of a $750,000 revitalization effort NJ-DEP
   
• Xanadu opening delayed 6 months The Meadowlands Xanadu entertainment and retail
  complex probably won't open until mid-2008, due to commercial re-design work Bergen Record

PA Politics 

• Philadelphia party’s finances probed U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, city Democratic Party
  chairman, is probing the party's finances, investigating the propriety of more than $200,000
  in checks authorized by 2007 mayoral aspirant John J. Dougherty, the party’s treasurer
  for five years Inquirer

PA Environment

• Lehigh Valley growth ’off the charts’ Population predictions miss the mark. What
  experts thought would take decade achieved in five Express-Times

• Rendell signs ‘eco-terror' bill It would increase penalties for property destruction
  designed to stop a lawful activity that involves animals, plants or natural resources
  AP  See full copy of bill

New York/Nation/World  

• In grand gesture, Trump donates parkland Journal News

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