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Friday, October 26, 2007
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NJ Politics
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Ex-Commerce chief of staff pleads guilty
Lesly Devereaux, the
former Commerce chief of staff, already facing a public corruption conviction,
pleads guilty to creating false documents as part of a plea agreement to avoid
a retrial on charges she funneled more than $11,000 in state contracts to her
sister and mother
Star-Ledger
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Princeton faces trial over use
of gift now worth $880M
A NJ judge
sends to trial a dispute between
Princeton University
and the heirs of a supermarket fortune, raising the possibility that the
university could lose the entire donation
Star-Ledger
NJ
Environment
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Groups battle for and
against open space referendum
An environmental
coalition urges a yes vote on a statewide ballot question, while a second
organization
is calling for a no vote to avoid adding to New Jersey's 'crippling debt'
AC Press
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Waste transfer site to meet rules
A company that
transfers construction debris
from trucks to railcars will comply with state environmental regulations as
part of a
legal settlement approved by the Meadowlands Commission
Bergen Record
PA Environment
- Environment
not ruled out in PA cancer cases
A federal
researcher said
Thursday he has not ruled out an environmental link to an elevated number of
cases
of a rare blood cancer in northeastern Pennsylvania, but that finding a cause
is
"somewhat of a fishing expedition"
Times Leader
- Casey loses bid to block
transmission line
One of Sen. Bob Casey's
attempts
to prevent the federal government from having the final say over state
decisions on where
to put electrical power transmission lines fails on a voice vote in the Senate
Agriculture
Committee
Post-Gazette
PA Politics
- House GOP counsel gives back
money, awaits ruling
A former lawmaker
has returned $79,000 he was paid to serve as litigator for House Republicans,
pending a decision by the state Ethics Commission on whether his contract
violated law
Inquirer
New York/Nation/World
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$30M Albany condo plan gains state approval
Times Union
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Enviros want limits on cement plant mercury
Times Union
- New
chairman: LIPA will aim to stabilize rates
Newsday
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Nassau County looks
to ban eco-unfriendly plants
D-News
- Activists oppose CN
wood-burning power plant
H-Courant
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Atlanta flexing muscles in war on a little bivalve
WSJ
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President Bush surveys
California wildfire damage
NPR
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