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A sampling of top news stories... Monday, May 8, 2006

NJ Politics

• Lynch PAC pays mayor's firm A political action committee controlled by Democratic
  Party boss John A. Lynch, whose Tinton Falls office was raided last year by federal agents,
  has paid more than $165,000 in consultation fees to a business run by the mayor of a
  Middlesex County town where one of Lynch's associates wants to build a major development
  AP Press  

• Governor defends gifts of cash to thank his staffers Says he did nothing unethical
  by giving up to $99,000 to nine campaign and Senate staff members just before he was
  sworn in as governor Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• Bear caught in Trenton is killed by DEP A 225-pound black bear captured Saturday
  near the state DEP offices in downtown Trenton became the first bruin killed under the
  agency's new no-tolerance rules for bears wandering NJ's urban streets; policy remains
  troublesome for animal rights groups, enviros and hunting organizations alike
  Trenton Times Trentonian

• Operations halted at nuclear plant Operations at Oyster Creek Generating Station in
  Ocean County were halted Saturday morning when problems with a key piece of equipment
  prevented the plant from operating safely AP Press

PA Politics 

• Perzel's absence puzzles Capitol Wednesday's was one of the most important sessions
  the state House has had in a long time - a day the chamber was expected to put the legislative
  final stamp on a property tax relief plan years in the making. So, where was House Speaker
  John Perzel? Inquirer

PA Environment

• Miners to be checked more often on use of emergency oxygen packs Coal mine
  inspectors across PA and the United States will begin checking this week to see if coal
  miners can successfully don and operate the emergency oxygen packs they carry
  underground every day Post-Gazette

• Something fishy at doomed pond There is an element of sadness to a decision that
  untold numbers of fish in Glenburn Pond will be left to die when the dam is breached and
  the pond is drained over the next two years Scranton Times
   

New York/Nation/World  

• 830,000 vehicles, 50 places to fill up Land-hungry Manhattan forcing gas stations
  out Washington Post
   

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