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                                                 Monday, May 21, 2007
            
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NJ Politics  

• Hispanic surge has NJ still growing Immigrants attracted by the state’s robust economy
  and a surge in minorities — Hispanics in particular — boosted the Garden State's population to
  just over 8.7 million in 2006, up from 8.4 million six years earlier Gannett
   

• NJ's federal prosecutor was target for firing Christopher J. Christie, the U.S. attorney for
  New Jersey, says he was "completely shocked" when he found out that the Justice Department
  had targeted him for firing last year Bergen Record                

NJ Environment 

• Editorial: Don’t tie open space funds to privatization  Gov. Jon Corzine is recuperating
  quickly enough from his parkway crash to practice some hardball politics Express-Times
   
• Senator raises stir with list of clients Bob Smith, the NJ Senate’s Environment Committee chairman, regularly represents private clients -- mostly in land-use cases -- before planning and
  zoning boards in his district Star-Ledger  
   

PA Environment

• Development opponents target energy company Opponents of the 1,200-home Marshfield
  Village development are taking their message to Reliant Energy which owns the land Express-Times
   

• Editorial: Gas cleanup a priority An estimated 25,000 gallons of high-octane gasoline has
  gone missing Daily Item
  > Editorial: After Coal Twp gas leak In the wake of Wednesday’s gasoline pipeline rupture,
  one question looms large: Who knew the pipeline even existed? News Item

PA Politics 

• Court upholds vets' edge for public jobs A state appeals court yesterday threw out a decades-
  old state employment policy, saying military veterans should receive a civil-service advantage every
  time they seek a new government position, not just the first time they are hired AP

• Congressmen warn Rendell on turnpike lease to private firms Top congressional transpor-
  tation leaders have expressed concern to Gov. Ed Rendell and other state leaders about leasing toll facilities like the Pennsylvania Turnpike to private investment firms Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World

• In search for a new sheriff, one stands out NY Times
• Whitman reverses, agrees to testify on 9/11 air J. Journal
• Another green activist named to DEC Times Union
   

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