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A sampling of top news stories... Monday June 12, 2006

NJ Politics

• Pay-to-play ban working ... some say too well Analysis shows many once-generous
  companies have cut back on donations in NJ; contractors, engineers and others scale way
  back, prompting state Democratic chairman to ease limits; loopholes still remain that Corzine
  wants to plug Star-Ledger   

• NAACP assails Gov’s plan to audit poor school districts Group’s president questions
  whether the administration was engaging in "racial profiling" Star-Ledger

 NJ Environment     

• Chromium Fears The multi-million dollar Liberty National Golf course, set to open Wednesday
  on Jersey City’s waterfront, has spectacular views of Manhattan, a world-class chef, and an 18^th
  hole 1,000 yards from the Statue of Liberty. But there's one detail contractors left out: A thick
  plastic liner intended to separate rising ground water from cancer-causing chromium Jersey Journal   

• Sierra Club’s Tittel rips ex-DEP chief on cleanup But Bradley Campbell  fires back with:
  “I launched aggressive action at over 100 (cleanup) sites - all this when the Sierra Club was asleep
  at the switch" Jersey Journal  

PA Politics 

• Lawmakers ponder increasing sales tax Rendell issues a newsletter pounding the majority
  caucus for splitting its session time between a same-sex marriage ban and a charity golf outing
  while the property tax debate went nowhere Patriot-News

PA Environment

• Fishing: Water rights case spills into court  What is considered a landmark in PA water
  rights laws unfolds today in a Huntingdon County courtroom; public vs. private rights to fishing
  stream Post Gazette

• Retail proposed for dairy site A company that owns and operates nearly 400 shopping centers
  nationwide wants to buy the former Lehigh Valley Dairy and build a retail center on the Whitehall
  Township site Morning Call

New York/Nation/World  

• When there was water, water everywhere The Viele Map of NYC’s underground waterways
  was published in 1874 but it remains the bible for many of the city's structural engineers, as current
  as the foundations being poured across the island of Manhattan today NY Times

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