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           A sampling of top news stories... Wednesday September 13, 2006
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NJ Politics

• Lawmakers sign ethics complaint against Menendez Two Republican state lawmakers
  sign an ethics complaint  against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-Hoboken, claiming he tried
  to legislatively stop a merger of two Spanish-language broadcasting stations for personal profit
  Gannett    Newhouse                                                            

• He was no Cher, and Democrats were not sunny Look-alike’s scheduled transgender
  performance causes ruckus among image-conscious Democrats at convention Star-Ledger

Environment  

• Enviros say federal decision dooms red knots Decision by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  not to designate the migratory shorebird as an endangered species will likely doom the bird
  to extinction, conservationists say AC Press  AP Press  NJ Audubon
   
• 'First suburbs' are finding strength in numbers Most are fully developed and tax-stressed.
  Their school systems are financially strained, their housing, roads and sewers are aging, their
  business districts fading and their population is becoming increasingly diverse racially and
  economically Star-Ledger

PA Politics 

• Rep. Myers pleads for kidnapped son Visibly drained from a 17-day vigil, state Rep.
  John Myers makes an emotional plea for help to find his missing son, as friends and family
  pledge a $35,000 reward for information on the gang that abducted Shamari Taylor last month
  from a car in Philadelphia’s Overbrook Park Daily News

PA Environment

• I-99 cleanup under way The long arm of an excavator smoothed a steep slope above an
  already paved section of Interstate 99 at Skytop on Tuesday, as work began to clean up the
  acid rock exposed by construction of the road Centre Daily Times

• Controversial Washington County power plant gets OK Robinson Twp supervisors
  approve construction of a coal-fired power plant, but not before leveling criticism at officials
  of the company and state enviro regulators Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Spitzer and Clinton win in NY primary NY Times

• Hybrid power plant clears hurdle Fueled with solar power and natural gas, it’s the first
  of its kind in the world Daily Press

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