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A sampling of top news stories... Wednesday June 14, 2006

NJ Politics

• Booker's six choices for council win runoffs Riding the coattails of Mayor-elect
  Cory Booker, six more of his running mates swept onto the Newark City Council
  yesterday, the largest turnover of the city's government in 36 years Star-Ledger NY Times

• Bayonne Mayor Doria triumphs in mayoral runoff Mayor and State Senator Joseph
  V. Doria Jr. will sit in City Hall for another four years after defeating challenger Patrick
  Conaghan in the city's mayoral runoff election Star-Ledger  Jersey Journal   
  > Conaghan raps Doria's 'filthy' campaign Jersey Journal               

 NJ Environment     

• Trust awards $80M to save open space and farmland With time and money running
  out, the Garden State Preservation Trust awards $80M to the state Green Acres Program for
  open space preservation statewide and $6.51M to six nonprofit organizations to save farmland
  in seven counties Star-Ledger  

• That sinking feeling is good news for NJ fishermen  DEP adds to the state’s 15 artificial
  reefs by ‘deploying’ 1300 tons of concrete off Barnegat Light; the fish love them and, so too, do
  sports fishermen Star-Ledger  AP Press

PA Politics 

• Candidates embrace a Bush visit As Republican candidates around the country avoid
  appearances with President Bush or Vice President Cheney, two in the Philadelphia area -
  U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum in PA and Senate challenger Thomas H. Kean Jr. in NJ - welcome
  visiting Laura Bush today with open war chests Inquirer

PA Environment

• PA Senate panel approves mercury reduction bill The state Senate’s environmental
  committee votes 10-1 to release a power plant mercury reduction bill that clashes with a
  proposal offered by the state DEP Pittsburgh Business Times

• PennFuture dismayed by Senate committee’s mercury vote Citizens for Pennsylvania’s
  Future (PennFuture) urge members of the state Senate to reject SB -1201, a bill that would block
  the DEP’s  proposed rules requiring coal-fired power plants to reduce their toxic mercury pollution
  by 90 percent by 2015 PA-DEP
   

New York/Nation/World  

• Giuliani says nation lacks energy policy Challenging fellow Republicans in Washington,
  former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani says that the Bush administration lacks an energy policy
  and that greater reliance on nuclear power, ethanol-based fuels and hybrid vehicles was more
  realistic than President Bush's goal of independence from foreign energy sources NY Times

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