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Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
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NJ Politics
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Opinion: A straight arrow
in a field of daggers
A few weeks ago, against
his wishes, Sen. Leonard Lance was unceremoniously dumped as the Republican
leader because he was not combative enough. Sen. Tom Kean, it turned out, had
been working for months behind the scenes to engineer this little coup. And
Lance
was the last to know
Tom Moran
NJ
Environment
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EnCap investigation nearly finished
An
11-month probe into the troubled EnCap project by state Inspector General Mary
Jane Cooper is nearly complete, and the f
indings will soon be released, according to a letter from Cooper's office
Bergen Record
- The marsh-eating
nutria is coming Envision a
20-pound furry rodent with sharp
orange teeth and a block-shaped head wading in the local park. That would be a
nutria,
a large South American creature labeled one of the world's worst invasive
species by
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. And it just reared its
ugly head
in New Jersey
Star-Ledger
PA Environment
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Stopgap
funding for hazard sites
With PA's hazardous-sites cleanup program
due to run out of funding in just 26 days, the House Appropriations Committee
yesterday passed a proposal that would ensure the continued remediation and
monitoring of contaminated properties - but only through June; Move triggers
frustration over lack of stable funding source
Inquirer
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Lansdale lab worker
pleads guilty to chemical attack
A former lab
technician
from Montgomery County has pleaded guilty to trying to sicken her husband's
alleged mistress by putting deadly chemicals on the door to the woman's house
and in her
car's tailpipe
The Reporter
PA Politics
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Black PA House members walk out of session in protest
Sixteen members
of the General Assembly's Black Caucus walked off the floor today, before a
vote on
a new open-records bill, to protest the lack of action on gun control bills
and other
anti-violence measures
Post-Gazette
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Former top
aide to Curt Weldon to plead guilty
The
chief of staff to former
U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Delco, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy
charges
for allegedly trying to help a consulting firm with ties to the former GOP
congressman
win federal contracts
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