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                                        Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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 NJ Politics   

• Lynch gets 39 months for taxes, corruption Former Senate President and Democratic
  powerbroker John Lynch will begin serving his sentence on Jan. 15.  "There has got to be a
  point in time when public officials in this state get the picture," says U.S. Attorney Christopher
  Christie Inquirer Gannett  Editorial
   

• UMDNJ won’t seek legal review of monitor's charges The University of Medicine and
  Dentistry of New Jersey scraps plans to hire two of the state's premiere attorneys to review
  accusations against UMDNJ's interim president because federal officials viewed it as an act of
  defiance Star-Ledger

NJ Environment

• Editorial: EPA’s dangerous retreat Star-Ledger
   
• PSEG to take back management of nuclear plants Public Service Enterprise Group
  (PSEG) plans to take back from Exelon Corp. the direct management of the Salem and Hope
  Creek nuclear generating stations News release

PA Politics

• Casey reckons as Senate beckons As he prepares to depart the PA Capitol for the U.S.
  Congress, Bob Casey Jr. reflects on a decade-long career in state office, discusses several
  priorities in the Senate, and riffs on the lack of affordable apartments in Washington Inquirer

PA Environment    

• Dredge arrives under DEP watch The first loads of material dredged from the Delaware
  and Schuylkill Rivers have been deposited at Hazelton’s former landfill. The work is being
  carried out without a proper groundwater or surface water monitoring system, critics charge
  Standard Speaker 
   

• East Stroudsburg facing lawsuits over June flooding The borough could face at least
  three lawsuits from residents who lost their homes in June flooding Pocono Record  

New York/Nation/World  

• Hevesi may heave job as indictment looms Embattled State Controller Alan
  Hevesi maneuvers to stave off a felony charge arising from the “Chaffeurgate” scandal
  and is considering resigning, sources familiar with the probe say NY Daily News
   
• University lands $10M for ethanol facility The State University's College of
  Environmental Science and Forestry and three partners win $10M state grant to build
  the nation’s first commercial-scale, wood-to-ethanol facility Post-Standard

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