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                                        Monday, December 4, 2006
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 NJ Politics 

• As it paid, company became a player A PA company that has earned more than $4M
  handling high-finance deals for the state of NJ paid more than $1M to the top political fundraiser
  for former Gov. James E. McGreevey Star-Ledger
   
• State colleges hire politicians Florio earns $96K for teaching one day a week at Rutgers.
  Three other former state officials pull down more than $140,000 each, and McGreevey is helping
  Kean College open an institute in China, a nation where gayness until recently was considered
  a mental illness Gannett

NJ Environment       

• State gets poor marks on finding polluters New Jersey has just 42 inspectors to cover
  some 5,800 businesses that generate air pollution — a ratio that lets many major emitters go
  up to five years without a visit from the state, the liberal Center for American Progress warns
  Bergen Record
   

• The New Jersey lab that gave a global warning Cutting-edge climatologists at the
  formerly obscure Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Plainsboro are learning to weather
  the political head winds Star-Ledger

PA Politics

• Perzel fights to hold speaker's post The pay-raise issue may be GOP lawmaker’s undoing
  Inquirer

• In the House, a search for defectors Nearly even split makes each party eye the other's
  malcontents Morning Call

PA Environment    

• Court ruling jeopardizes recycling programs A state Supreme Court decision has put
  non-mandated recycling programs in the commonwealth in jeopardy. Ruling affirms lower court
  decision prohibiting municipalities from charging a  fee on garbage to help pay for non-mandated
  recycling programs Patriot-News
   

• Growth drives planners’ suggestions  State planners unveil a set of recommendations
  aimed at helping some municipalities deal with the impact of growth, while making it easier
  for others to go out of existence Daily Item

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Pataki's parting civil service gifts to his pals Times Union  

• Gateway to progress In recent months, the Herculean task of transforming Governor’s Island
  from federal outpost to city gateway has begun to show signs of progress Star-Ledger  
• Assessing threats to the LI’s pine barrens Newsday

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