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                                        Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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                                                                                                                                                                          Dith Pran/NY Times

• State unions flex muscle in rally against possible benefit losses Nearly 7,000 unionized
  teachers, police, firefighters and state workers offered a simple message yesterday: Back off any
  plan to cut pensions, health insurance and the number of paid holidays or else get booted out in
  November Bergen Record  Star-Ledger  Gannett  Inquirer  NY Times  Cartoon  
   

• Burlco power broker says he's leaving politics J. Garfield DeMarco, a key player in Burlington
  County Republican politics for four decades, announces he’s stepping down as chairman of the
  Burlington County Bridge Commission and out of public life. His announcement comes 10 days
  after a guilty plea by a high-ranking bridge commission consultant Courier-Post

NJ Environment

• State sues over cleanup costs at polluted school site In an offensive aimed at recouping
  millions of dollars it spent to clean contaminated land purchased for school construction, the state
  fires its first shot by suing Getty Petroleum over pollution at the site of Elizabeth Public School
  No. 30 Star-Ledger  

• 'Energy guy' has one goal: Cut costs John Rhodes took over last week as NJ's first director
  of energy savings with a mandate to find ways to maximize the state's energy purchasing power,
  promote efficiencies and increase the use of renewable sources  Bergen Record

PA Politics

• Rendell wants more health care by nurse practitioners Nurse practitioners soon could play a bigger role in health care in Pennsylvania Post-Gazette  Patriot News

PA Environment    

• Specter, Kanjorski vow to seek flood project funds Standing on the Barney Street Bridge Monday, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter and U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, vow to continue their pursuit of $50M to control flooding at Solomon Creek Scranton Times Tribune  Citizens Voice
   

• Court takes up fight over wind farm A dispute over whether an energy company should be allowed to put 25 wind turbines in Bear Creek Township is now in the hands of Commonwealth Court Times Tribune

New York/Nation/World  
 

• NY sues feds over West Valley nuclear cleanup AP

• New park opened on Hudson River NY Post 

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