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A sampling of top news stories... Thursday, May 11, 2006

NJ Politics

• Assembly leader Roberts takes on property taxes Speaker Joseph Roberts
  (D- Camden) says he will push bills to tighten state controls on local school spending,
  prod cities and towns into money-saving moves and make it easier for them to share
  services Star-Ledger Inquirer Gannett 
  > Senators unmake Corzine’s hospital bed tax Star-Ledger

• In victory laps, Booker greets  hopeful and doubtful He urged voters to elect
  his Municipal Council candidates in a runoff next month and says the first thing he will
  do after taking over from Mayor Sharpe James on July 1 will be to reorganize the Police
  Department NY Times  Star-Ledger 
   > Booker borrows idea to cut city's red tape Star-Ledger                                                                     

NJ Environment

• Corzine buys the ticket for Trans-Hudson rail tunnel Promising to help North
  Jersey commuters, governor and top members of his administration say groundbreaking
  for a railroad tunnel linking NJ and Manhattan will happen in 2009 Star-Ledger

• State fines 4 over bad drinking water data NJ enviro  officials fined four employees
  at three private water companies for skipping required tests, falsifying results and, in one
  instance, fudging a radiological test Star-Ledger                                                     

PA Politics 

• Rendell, Casey hold on in polls Two different polls released yesterday gave Gov.
  Ed Rendell and his Republican challenger, Lynn Swann, a reason to sweat and a reason
  to cheer. Neither poll had good news for the state Legislature; 60% disapprove of its
  performance Post-Gazette  

PA Environment

• PA pumped over ethanol The roads in the mid-state borough of Littitz are lined
  with cornstalks and soy plants--ingredients for cleaner-burning fuels Post-Gazette

• Rendell pushes alternative fuel Gov. says he wants to require transportation fuels
  sold in PA to be blended with cleaner-burning alternative fuels produced domestically
  Centre Daily Times

New York/Nation/World  

• From Albany, a move to cut gasoline taxes Legislative leaders agreed to cut
  4 to 9 cents a gallon from the state gasoline tax, even as the oil industry says there
  is no guarantee the savings will actually reach the public NY Times
   

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