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A sampling of top news stories... Wednesday, May 10, 2006

NJ Politics

• Booker glides in as Newark's next mayor Cory Booker, the Ivy League-
  educated lawyer who fought an unsuccessful battle four years ago against
  Newark’s powerful incumbent Sharpe James, was elected mayor yesterday,
  marking the start of a new political era in New Jersey's largest city NY Times
   Star-Ledger  S-L2   Bergen Record

• ‘Congress has so little relevance to daily life’ So says NJ citizen
  (and former congressman) Robert Torricelli The Hill

NJ Environment

• Drought watch could end soon A storm could bring several inches of rain
  to Northern NJ by Thursday or Friday NJ Herald

• Black bear roams streets of Newark The Newark Bears have been here
  since 1999, when minor league baseball came to New Jersey's largest city.
  But yesterday, there was a real Newark bear - a 250-pound black bear, to be
  precise Courier News Star-Ledger

PA Politics 

• A game of chicken over a city budget Philadelphia’s Council and mayor
  at odds over their versions as a vote nears. A watchdog group has threatened
  a funding freeze Inquirer

PA Environment

• Brewing biofuel gains in popularity The 55-gallon drums -- connected by
  pipes and filters in Frank Zimmerman's Lawrence County shed -- look like a
  hobbyist's beer-making contraption, but he's making a different kind of homebrew
  Tribune Review

• Task force preparing quarry report A residents' group is agitating again
  to get Wrightstown's four quarries to ship their stone via rail instead of truck
  Courier Times

New York/Nation/World  

• LI Sound health progress report mixed Journal News

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