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A sampling of top
news stories... Tuesday March 14, 2006
NJ Politics
- Hidden pay for school superintendents
A scathing report on school administrator
pay released by the SCI details what it calls widespread padding and
"manipulation" of
compensation, costing taxpayers millions in added, and often hidden, costs
Star-Ledger
NY Times
Gannett
Inquirer
Bergen Record
- Sales and income taxes going up?
Hiking the sales tax from 6
percent to 7 percent,
expanding the sales tax to cover more items, or placing a surcharge on
existing income
taxes are all being considered, say administration sources
Gannett
NJ Environment
- Enviros: Transit plan encourages sprawl
The governor’s plan
to borrow billions of
dollars to pay for transportation projects advances in Legislature after a
change is made
to lift spending limits on new construction. Angry enviros say that encourages
sprawl
Gannett
Bergen Record
Star-Ledger
Courier Post
Courier News
- Ford seeks to switch Ringwood suit to
federal court
Lawyers for the automaker
are seeking to have a suit brought by residents of the polluted area moved
from state to
federal court; DEP commissioner visits former dump site and pledges a closer
watch
over latest cleanup under EPA supervision
Bergen Record
PA Politics
-
Jailed for
2 years, Druce is freed
Former State Rep.
Thomas Druce walks out of
state prison with $15 in his checking account, $100,000 in debt, his
15-year-old marriage
nearly dissolved, and his career plans unclear
Inquirer
PA
Environment
-
NRC to
discuss Epsilon violations
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission staff will meet
with representatives of Epsilon Products Co., a company in Marcus Hook, on
March 15,
to discuss several apparent violations identified during an NRC inspection
PA-DEP
-
Bird
warfare
Forget the drama under the
Capitol Dome. Nothing much happens there
anyhow. Instead look atop the Rachel Carson State Office Building, where the
DEP resides.
There, a life-and-death turf war unfolds between a peregrine falcon and a
red-tailed hawk
Doylestown Intelligencer
New
York/Nation/World
-
City shifts policy on its upstate water system
NY Times
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