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A sampling of top news stories... Friday March 31, 2006

NJ Politics

• Governor freezes grants for legislators' pet causes  Just ahead of a lawsuit
  challenging the way state money is awarded to legislators' favored projects, Corzine
  freezes the remaining $25M  in the grant program and orders a review of how the funds
  are distributed Star-Ledger                                                                                  

• Two top UMDNJ execs quit as probe widens Two top administrators of the
  University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ abruptly resign, in advance of a scathing
  new report  detailing the abuse of travel and expense accounts -- including sponsorship
  of a country club membership, unexplained hotel stays Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• Editorial: On the wrong side DEP Commissioner should rescind Wittenberg
  appointment AP Press

• Jets decide to make camp in Florham Park The Jets will move their corporate
  headquarters and training facility to a 20-acre portion of the former Exxon site, overall
  a 485-acre tract of pristine woodlands, wetlands and a few buildings. The complex,
  which will consist of three outdoor fields, an indoor field and corporate space for
  100 employees Star-Ledger   

PA Politics 

• Rendell floats Pittsburgh arena plan Money would come from various sources.
  GOP rival Lynn Swann called it "a lose, lose, lose" proposal AP

PA Environment

• I-99 cleanup plan revised State road builders give environmental regulators a
  revised application for a permanent Skytop cleanup that calls for piping acidic
  drainage from the Buffalo Run side of Bald Eagle Mountain to a treatment site on
  the North Bald Eagle Creek side Centre Daily Times   

• Philly’s big pols join to push waterless urinals State Senator Vincent Fumo
  and Mayor John Street say they’re determined to clear the blockage from the city's
  waterless-urinals imbroglio so the Comcast Center tower can compete for the title
  of America's tallest green building Inquirer

 New York/Nation/World   

• New York approves Ford cleanup plan in Ramapo A cleanup plan proposed
  by Ford Motor Co. for a toxic paint sludge dump site has been approved, with the work
  expected to be completed this year Journal News   

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