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  A sampling of top news stories... Monday October 30, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• New urgency for lawmakers to craft property tax cuts As the bid
  to chop the state's highest-in-the-nation property taxes races toward the
  Nov. 15 legislative deadline to recommend changes, state lawmakers are
  trying to polish their ideas AP
   
• Menendez has a narrow lead, but it's Kean NJ trusts Democrat
  Bob Menendez holds a six-point lead in the race for U.S. Senate even
  though more NJ voters like and trust Republican Tom Kean Jr., a poll
  reports Bergen Record   

NJ Environment  

Editorial: Don’t bar the bear hunt After reams of scientific
reports, policy debates and even a Supreme Court case, NJ
last year created a comprehensive policy to deal with the state's
growing bear population. Apparently that all wasn't good enough
for the papa bear of state government. Star-Ledger 
 

• State looks at how utilities buy juice The state is asking independent
  expert to examine how NJ's four utilities buy power for their customers
  to ensure fair ratepayer prices Star-Ledger 

PA Politics 

• John Grogan: Meet the GOP's main mudslinger Inquirer

• John Baer: Santorum leans on doomsday rhetoric Daily News

PA Environment                                                                   

• Recyclers stay alert for stolen metals Copper has been the target
  of thieves in recent months, as high prices have spurred thefts from
  construction sites and private properties Patriot-News
   

• Landfill wants to re-circulate leachate Pioneer Crossing Landfill is
  seeking a permit modification that would allow the landfill to re-run
  leachate through capped areas of the facility in an effort to extend the life
  of the landfill The Mercury 

New York/Nation/World  

• Spitzer sets to work assembling his cabinet NY Times
   
• When the barn is the battlefield A proposed demolition of a barn
  for a planned community angers residents of Patterson, N.Y., who feel
  it symbolizes the town's farming roots NY Times

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