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           A sampling of top news stories... Thursday October 19, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• New mayor tests his promises on Newark’s reality After 100 days,
  Cory Booker has found running NJ’s largest city more challenging than he
  ever expected NY Times  Slide Show  
  > Booker to ban some contributions Star-Ledger 
   
• Opinion: It's unions vs. Gormley in a battle over taxes  Call it Round 1
  in the fight to control property taxes. After months of talk, Bill Gormley this week
  was the first legislator out of the foxhole with a realistic reform Star-Ledger         

NJ Environment  

• DEP chief: Kiddie Kollege owners knew about mercury Building owner’s
  representatives had reviewed documents at the DEP’s offices indicating that the
  site had never been cleaned up after use as thermometer factory, Jackson says.
  New legislation  would double penalties, to $50,000 a day, for contaminated site
  owners who fail to obey cleanup orders Inquirer 
  > Tempers flare at hearing on mercury contamination Families with children
  who attend Kiddie Kollege lash out  at state regulators during a hearing on mercury
  contamination at the now-  shuttered day-care center AC Press
   
• State upgrades standards for surface water The newly adopted rules establish
  more stringent standards for more than 100 toxic pollutants and upgrade—restrictions
  on activity near five additional Category 1 streams NJ-DEP
  Comment response and new rules

PA Politics 

• PA legislators stall on slots and other bills Besides the slot-machine gambling
  law, progress has been slow on two other bills that would expand state subsidies for
  children's health insurance and require lobbyists to report what they spend to influence
  policymakers AP

PA Environment                                                                   

• Coal company will not use river dredge in Springdale The management team
  for a Pottsville mining company said it will no longer pursue a permit to place dredge
  material in the borough’s Springdale stripping pit and a local environmental group
  fighting the project believes the decision spells the end of a controversial plan they
  fear would have threatened public health Schuylkill.com  Standard Speaker   
   

• Biomass energy center created at PSU In an effort to enhance collaboration
  among the many and varied green energy research projects under way and planned
  across the university, Penn State creates the Biomass Energy Center Gant Daily

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Who paid for Congressman’s Pacific trip? Upstate Republican Sweeney
  facing questions about a trip he took to a Pacific island with an associate of
  Jack Abramoff  NY Times
• Buffalo snowstorm cleanup to cost over $30M AP
• LIPA backs down on massive gas pipeline Newsday

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