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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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NJ Politics
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Newark could get stuck with
ex-mayor's legal bill
Reimbursing the legal costs
of current and former officials who are sued or charged with crimes while
performing their official duties is standard in the state, says the New Jersey
League of Municipalities, but not so if the officials is convicted
Star-Ledger
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Editorial: James now in race for life, legacy
Herald News
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Editorial Cartoon: Corzine Turnpike plan
Bergen Record
NJ Environment
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Somerset parks
spending sparks subpoena from AG
The Somerset County
Parks Commission was served a subpoena late Monday by the state Attorney
General's Office in the wake of a report criticizing the commission for billing
tax payers for golf outings, dinners and luxury travel
Star-Ledger
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Editorial: Soaking Somerset taxpayers
Star-Ledger
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Top planner is brought in for Highlands
Charlie Siemon, a
veteran professional planner who decades ago was the lead consultant for
the creation of the Pinelands master plan in South Jersey and has worked on
major projects nationwide, has been enlisted to bring clarity to the mass of
data compiled by Highlands Council planners
and scientists
Star-Ledger Express-Times
PA
Environment
- Cleanup funding is shelved
for budget’s sake
A legislative
battle over a state Senate plan to shore up a hazardous-sites cleanup program
by taking more than
$40M from a land-preservation fund threatened the passage of Pennsylvania's
budget Monday. So lawmakers resorted to an old strategy: Put off the problem
Inquirer
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Plant's chemical release
probed
A Montgomery County
manufacturer that has been criticized for legal emissions of a suspected
carcinogen had an accidental release last week of what may have been many
times the permitted limit
Inquirer
> Superior Tube, DEP both
failed to notify public of TCE release
The Mercury
PA Politics
New
York/Nation/World
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Albany rebuffs city traffic
plan Lawmakers on Monday shelve Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to
charge a fee to drivers entering the busiest parts of Manhattan, dealing a
setback to the mayor as he tries to raise his national profile
NY Times
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Opinion: After
congestion pricing
City Limits
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National bill to help farmers
enters key stage Gannett
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