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A sampling of top news stories... Tuesday June 20, 2006

NJ Politics

• Budget standoff in Trenton Facing an impasse with Assembly Democrats over his proposed
  sales tax increase, Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday refused to budge and ordered his Cabinet to prepare
  for a government shutdown Star-Ledger                         

• Bruised mayor going after cop Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy vowed yesterday to take action
  against a Bradley Beach police officer he says assaulted him early Saturday when he was arrested outside
  a Shore watering hole on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest Jersey Journal  Story 2  Story 3

NJ Environment

• Assembly panel OKs bill to reform eminent domain After much change in the two weeks since Assemblyman John Burzichelli introduced a measure aimed at giving residents more protection from government taking people's land for private redevelopment, the Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee votes 6-1, sending the measure to the full Assembly for a vote on Thursday
  Gannett   Inquirer  J. Journal
   

• Newark City Council focuses on land deals The lame-duck body has filled its agenda for its final
  regular meeting tomorrow evening with more discounted land deals, even as those sales are being scrutinized
  in court today Star-Ledger 

PA Politics 

• Dispute may cut aid to counties PA counties are facing deficits for juvenile programs because
  the federal government is withholding millions Morning Call

PA Environment

• Limerick planners nix Exelon’s bid to store fuel rods A proposal to stockpile spent nuclear fuel
  outdoors fails its first hurdle as township planners reject Exelon’s Limerick Nuclear Generating Station’s
  bid for storage facility The Mercury

• DEP issues transfer station permit Boyd Roll Off Services Inc. approved to operate a construction
  and waste transfer station in Stowe Township, Allegheny County PA-DEP

New York/Nation/World  

• NY, NJ joining 14 states in mercury rules challenge 15 states plan to file a petition in
  federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new mercury pollution
  rules Associated Press

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