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NJ Politics
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Assembly leader: Paid family leave will be a
NJ reality
Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts tells business leaders that the paid family
leave bill they fiercely
oppose won't advance in its current form, but a version will become law
eventually
Bergen Record
>Corzine
defends family leave before critics
Star-Ledger
- Poll finds Jerseyans
split on death penalty repeal One
day after the state
Senate voted to abolish the death penalty in New Jersey, a poll showed voters
oppose that move by a margin of 53 percent to 39 percent
Star-Ledger
NJ
Environment
- Natural gas terminal
is proposed off Jersey coast Exxon
Mobil says it wants
to build a $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal about 20 miles off the
state coast,
a project that it says will deliver new fuel to a region where rising demand
and
scarce supplies have led to spikes in heating and electric bills
Star-Ledger
NYT WSJ
- LNG group would block
NJ review of facility A group of
investors is appealing the U.S. Maritime Administration's decision to grant
the state review power on a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas storage
facility 19 miles off the coast
The Independent
PA Environment
- Cleanup fund’s
dry spell nearing end
House
lawmakers voted Tuesday to
break a logjam on financing the state’s hazardous waste cleanup fund, thus
averting threatened layoffs for almost 150 who oversee the program
Times Tribune
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Land
advocates push tax incentive
Land preservation
advocates are urging
Congress to extend a beefed-up federal tax break that gives property owners a
stronger incentive to set their land aside. With development pressures
steadily
increasing, some say it could be a crucial tool to slow the bulldozers
Morning Call
PA Politics
- Philly D.A.
mum about seeking A.G. job
District Attorney
Lynne Abraham
yesterday declined to dispel buzz in political circles that she'll resign her
post early
next year to run for state attorney general
Daily News
New York/Nation/World
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Gov. Spitzer ripped for state plane use
Daily New
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Report: LIPA fuel cell plagued by problems
Newsday
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Power corridor in PA, NJ,
NY to be re-examined
AP
- More farmers see wind
as cash crop
Chicago Tribune
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