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                                             Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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NJ Politics

Corzine’s ‘State of the State’: Fiscal pain, and relief Gov. Jon Corzine has a to-do list
a mile long. He wants to make health insurance available to all New Jerseyans, turn state's
universities into leaders in academic excellence, protect tens of thousands of acres of open
space from development, reduce gang violence, increase affordable housing and offer all-day
kindergarten in schools Star-Ledger B. Record NY Times Inquirer Gannett

UMDNJ extricates itself from senior housing site An ill-fated foray by the state’s medical
school into the assisted-living housing business ends as state officials approved a complex
refinancing scheme for a Gloucester retirement center Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

Highlands hearing draws crowd The only thing that the more than 220 people who turned
out for the first public hearing on the Highlands draft regional master plan agreed on was the
need for more data, maps and information before the plan can be deemed complete Daily Record
Bergen Record
Rutgers robot craft springs leak in icy Antarctic waters Things were going swimmingly
for a Rutgers University robotic glider cruising through the frigid waters off Antarctica when,
suddenly, its data-gathering mission was aborted Inquirer

PA Politics

Perzel named 'speaker emeritus' State Rep. John Perzel, who helped engineer the legislative
pay grab in 2005 and lost the top post of House speaker last week, will serve as "speaker emeritus"
with an office and staff Tribune Review

PA Environment

Activists say company should have been fined more for 'black rain' A Beaver County
activist says the $25,000 fine that the owner of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant in Shippingport
paid for spewing black rain from its smokestack July 22 is "a drop in the bucket" Post-Gazette
Radioactive dust worries parents The planned demolition of seven contaminated buildings
at the Safety Light Superfund site has some parents worried that radioactive dust will blow to the
nearby Central Columbia schools Press-Enterprise

New York/Nation/World

A rotten smell raises alarms and questions An odor that lingered in Manhattan left
officials with a mystery and a few conspiracy theories to sort through NY Times Jersey Journal

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