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           A sampling of top news stories... Thursday September 28, 2006
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NJ Politics 

• Menendez dumps a close adviser caught seeking 'favors' U.S. Sen. Robert
  Menendez's closest political adviser was secretly recorded seven years ago boasting
  of political power and urging a Hudson County contractor to hire someone as a favor to
  Menendez, according to a transcript Star-Ledger  Bergen Record  
  > Tape adds to Menendez ethics debate An ally's recorded request was more a
  threat, informant says Inquirer
  > Menendez plays to his base in South Florida NY Times

Environment  

• Frustration grows on the spinach farm With harvest imminent, NJ farmers say
  they're frustrated: The California spinach scare is making it difficult -- even impossible
  -- for them to sell their product even though federal health officials have declared New
  Jersey spinach perfectly safe to eat Star-Ledger 
   
• Slim pickings in the pumpkin patch 
  
  Harry Vance has been farming pumpkins
  50 years and says he has never seen the
  likes of it  Bergen Record  

PA Politics 

• Gay history month sparks district debate The Philadelphia School District has
  received about 120 complaints - including one from a parent who said she would keep
  her child out of school for the entire month of October - because the district recognized
  Gay and Lesbian History Month on its school calendars Inquirer
   

PA Environment

• PennDOT’s pyritic rock project gets DEP water permit The DEP approves the
  Department of Transportation’s permit application for work that must be done to halt acidic
  water runoff from moveable pyritic rock at the I-99 construction site in Patton Twp, Centre
  County PA-DEP 

• DEP OKS Conestoga Landfill’s enviro assessment It’s the first step in the
  landfill’s proposal to expand its facility in New Morgan, Berks County PA-DEP

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Jeanine Pirro faces federal probe A bombshell federal probe into a plan to spy
  on her husband’s fidelity NY Journal News

• Great blues feather nests and leave a great mess in California AP

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