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1. Penn Station Expansion
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... of the City Water Tunnel No. 3 slated for completion in 2020, with prior phases in service before then, is it reasonable to expect a plan for linking The ARC Tunnel and the MTA's East Side Access in a ...

2. Longshoremen continue wildcat strikes at New York/New Jersey ports
(N.J./State)

... refrigerated warehouse, enabling fresh fruit imports to grow to more than 520,000 tons a year. Although the company's lease with the South Jersey Port Corp. runs through 2020, its contract with ...

3. Clinton Global Initiative raises $6 billion in four days
(World/International)

... cancer rates, and demand on natural resources while creating local jobs to build them. The goal is to provide 100,000,000 clean cookstoves by 2020. The United States, in partnership with the UN Foundation, ...

4. Newark, Essex County embark on 10-year program to end homelessness
(N.J./State)

... report, "The Road Home," proposing a 10-year plan to fight homelessness through 2020. It concludes more affordable housing units, as well as supporting social services, are needed in the city and county. ...

5. What is the Part D Medicare doughnut hole?
(Health/Healthquest)

... care reform law also known, informally, as Obama's Health Care Reform, will close the coverage gap (the doughnut hole) by 2020. This law also requires that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...

6. NASA gets new marching orders from White House
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Space Station from 2015 to 2020. It recognizes the importance of the space industry to maintaining a strong and competitive U.S. industrial base and it seeks to encourage public-private partnerships for ...

7. Senate committee approves bipartisan bill to spur offshore wind energy
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... mandate of the Energy Master Plan that calls for the development of 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2020 – a target that will require a comprehensive offshore wind program. Much like the solar renewable ...

8. N.J. seniors to start receiving $250 Medicare prescription drug rebate checks
(Health/Healthquest)

... in January, seniors in the donut hole will receive a 50 percent discount on brand name drugs. By 2020, the donut hole is expected to be closed. "This is the first example of how the health care reform ...

9. N.J. DEP offering dry cleaners money to reduce harmful chemical air pollutant
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... machines that use PCE from residential or day care settings by 2014. A federal rule would outlaw those machines in residential and day care settings by 2020. California has approved a ban on the use of ...

10. Times Square goes green with Ricoh’s solar billboard
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... CO2 output 30 percent by 2020, albeit from 2000 levels, and 87.5 percent by 2050. Whether that program will include more solar billboards is yet to be determined, but Ricoh is studying workable options, ...

11. The Pill that changed the world turns 50
(Life/Style)

... falling fertility rates in many parts of the world, global population is still increasing by 78 million people a year," and it will add a number close to this one through 2020 if no interventions are planned. ...

12. New health law: An explanation of benefits
(Health/Healthquest)

... drugs and federal subsidies and discounts for all drugs will gradually reduce the gap, eliminating it by 2020. Meanwhile, government payments to Medicare Advantage, the private-plan part of Medicare, ...

13. N.J. among states leading offshore wind farm development
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... goal is to generate 3000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2020 — an amount that could power about 800,000 homes. Former Gov. Jon Corzine was an outspoken advocate of wind energy, and backers were worried ...

14. N.J. treasury saves $679M through 2013 by restructuring bond debt
(N.J./State)

But move will cost state $856 million between 2014 and 2020 BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A move by the New Jersey Treasury Department to save $679 million through 2013 by restructuring ...

15. Understanding health insurance reform
(Health/Healthquest)

... hole) when your actual expenses (co-payment plus what the insurance carrier pays the pharmacy) hits $2,830. The coverage gap will be completely eliminated by the year 2020. Also in 2010, effectively ...

16. Cape May-based wind farm developer places research buoy off Atlantic City
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... megawatts offshore, that is enough wind to power New Jersey into the 21st Century,'' Tittel said. "If we implement our energy master plan, by 2020 New Jersey will have the largest off shore wind farms ...

17. Approval of nation’s first offshore wind farm could lend momentum to N.J. alternative energy plans
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... through on its energy master plan, New Jersey "will have the largest offshore wind farms in the U.S. by 2020," producing as much as 3,000 megawatts of power, he said. PSEG and DeepWater Wind have partnered ...

18. Rutgers economist foresees slow turn around for New Jersey's battered economy
(Money/Economy)

... nonagricultural employment gain of 0.2 percent in 2010 and 0.9 percent in 2011. For the forecast period ending in 2020, she estimated an average annual growth rate of 0.7 percent. She anticipates that ...

19. Guide to health care reform changes
(Health/Healthquest)

... drugs will gradually reduce the gap, eliminating it by 2020. That means that seniors, who now pay 100 percent of their drug costs once they hit the doughnut hole, will pay 25 percent. Beginning in 2011, ...

20. Report: 8 reasons why health care reform is better for N.J. than most states
(Health/Healthquest)

... completely closed by 2020 and enrollees this year will receive a $250 rebate. This will provide about $57 million in relief for 227,000 beneficiaries in New Jersey. New Jersey's state budget also benefits ...