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NJ Politics

• Farber hires high-profile lawyer in traffic stop probe State Attorney General Zulima Farber
  has hired a high-powered criminal attorney, Gerald Krovatin, to represent her during a probe into
  whether she intervened at a Fairview traffic stop involving her boyfriend. Krovatin had represented McGreevey’s chief of staff in a federal billboards investigation Bergen Record
   
• Monitor asks U.S. attorney to motivate UMDNJ board For months, the federal monitor
  overseeing the state's troubled medical university has been pressing its trustees to begin looking
  for a permanent president. Now, he’s asking the U.S. Attorney's Office to intercede Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• NJ Affordable Homes was no bargain During its years of existence, authorities say NJ Affordable Homes raked in more than $40M from investors, but much of it went into the pockets of the owner, his brother, lawyers and a realty company Star-Ledger 
   

• High Bridge housing plan will proceed after ruling After two stinging setbacks in major lawsuits, town officials decide not to appeal an affordable housing ruling that cleared the way for a long-proposed
  170-unit development Star-Ledger  

PA Politics 

• Slots opponents renew efforts to repeal law Social and religious conservatives who oppose slot machine gambling lost a big battle in July 2004, as the Legislature approved Act 71, the law authorizing
  14 casinos Post-Gazette

PA Environment

• Flooded with questions Fed up with the Delaware River spilling over its banks, some 200 residents
  and business owners from Yardley to Riegelsville turn out for a hearing to see if they could get some answers as to why the river has flooded three times in less than two years Intelligencer 

New York/Nation/World  

• Turning off the light bulb The government is pushing scientists and engineers to get rid of one of the world's worst energy-wasters - the ordinary light bulb Inquirer

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