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           A sampling of top news stories... Thursday July 20, 2006
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NJ Politics

• NJ set to alter pension plan Prodded by a governor and a state treasurer who spent
  years on Wall Street, NJ is poised to adopt a plan that would shift about a quarter of the
  state’s $72B  pension fund from the control of state employees to private money managers
  within the next year NY Times

• Corzine proposes state borrow $7 billion Money would go as incentive to towns
  that lower property taxes Star-Ledger
  > GOP’s Wilson calls it a ‘terrible idea’ NJ-GOP

NJ Environment

• BPU’s approval of energy program draws fire State Senator Peter Inverso questions
  why the Board voted 5-0 yesterday to approve the $309M Clean Energy Program when the
  program is the focus of a still-secret AG’s audit Gannett

• M. Y. Kinney: A rotten deal molders away They deal with rotting food for a living, so I
  guess the folks who run Eastern Organic Resources are used to unpleasantness Inquirer

PA Politics 

• Children listed on gaming papers; father funds PACs Stephen R. Wojdak gave to
  PACs. He also has ties to a firm seeking to sell slots Inquirer

PA Environment

• Thousands sweating it out Thousands of people are expected to be sweltering in the dark
  through the weekend, as Peco struggles to restore power to the remaining homes whose
  electricity was knocked out Tuesday night by thunderstorms that cut an unprecedented swath
  of damage in counties surrounding Philadelphia Inquirer

• Relatives want swift mine safety action How long, they wonder, will it take for state and
  federal mining officials to implement safety and communications improvements recommended
  in new report Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World  

• NYC’s water supply may need filtering Turbidity—the condition that makes water cloudy
  and interferes with chlorination to eliminate contaminants—appears to be getting worse NY Times
   
•  Politics of global warming heats up hearing NPR Audio

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