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                                        Thursday, December 14, 2006
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 NJ Politics   

• Bill now saves pensions after corruption Politicians convicted of corruption will be able
  to keep their pensions under proposed benefits changes up for a vote today, but lawmakers
  in both parties said comprehensive reforms are on track for approval early next year AP Press
   Inquirer Editorial  Cartoon
   
• Vladeck won't pursue presidency of UMDNJ Interim leader takes name off table amid
  U.S. monitor's allegations he didn't cooperate with probe into kickback scheme Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• Farm animals advocates say NJ guidelines are inhumane Under guidelines adopted
  two years ago by the state Agriculture Department, farmers are able to confine pigs to crates
  no wider than their bodies, tether veal calves and castrate animals without painkillers. A
  coalition of animal rights groups says the practices are inhumane and should be tossed out
  Star-Ledger  Trenton Times
   
• Housing activists turn on suburbs Amid continuing calls for more affordable housing in
  New Jersey, a debate is intensifying over whether suburban towns are adequately providing
  homes for low and moderate income families Star-Ledger

PA Politics

• Web site's sale could protect identity Plans to sell the PoliticsPA Web site to a group
  of bipartisan public affairs and lobbying executives in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,
  have stoked speculation about the identity of Sy Snyder, the site's anonymous author
  Patriot News

PA Environment    

• Tripped turbine shuts down TMI The reactor at Three Mile Island, site of the nation's
  worst nuclear accident, shuts down automatically yesterday without posing a safety hazard
  after a turbine is tripped, a federal nuclear regulatory spokeswoman said Inquirer
   

• Hazleton will use river dredge to fill in mines, plump up city’s finances The river
  dredge that the city will accept to fill a mine void near the former city landfill will also fill a
  void in city finances, according to the mayor Citizens Voice

New York/Nation/World  

• Private land conservation booms in US Owners protected 37M acres from development
  last year, a 54 percent jump from 2000 CS Monitor
   

• Is CA saving fish or picking on fishermen? CS Monitor
   
• Uranium’s a hot commodity; claims soar A fourfold increase in the price of uranium
  in the past three years has led to a rush of new claims by uranium companies NY Times

• Europe approves extensive chemical rules Some dangerous chemicals could be
  banned from the European market, and about 30,000 substances used in everyday products
  ranging from detergents to toys will have to be registered in a central European Union
  database under a new law NY Times

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