EnviroPolitics
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A sampling of top news stories... Friday March 3, 2006
NJ Politics
NJ property tax bite rises 6%
NJ's average property tax bill in 2005
neared
$6,000, rising 6 percent from 2004 and ballooning nearly 40 percent over the
past
five years
Bergen Record
Cartoon
A costly lesson for NJ
The state Schools Construction Corp. paid
the family of
a reputed mob associate millions for a property despite questions about its
safety
Bergen Record
NJ Environment
PA Politics
A snub from
U.S. on war museum
U.S. government to
Governor Rendell: We are
keeping Valley Forge National Historical Park
Inquirer
PA Environment
State
shelves I-99 plan
Barely a month
after announcing a $40M plan to clean up the
acid-rock drainage hazard at Skytop Mountain, the state postpones it, citing
overwhelming
opposition in Indiana and Cambria counties
Centre Daily
I-99 timeline
Alternate
project gets renewed consideration
A plan to build a
landfill along the
Interstate 99 corridor in Worth Township, near I-99's Port Matilda bypass,
will likely come
back out of the closet now that PennDOT has decided to evaluate "all options"
for disposal
of a million tons of pyritic rocks
Centre Daily
New York/Nation/World
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