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1. Hunts Point Market: A little bit of Bronx in New Jersey?
(N.J./State)

... to staying in the Bronx after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo awarded it $29.5 million to overhaul its aging facilities. However, the Empire State still needs to come up with another $20 million to ...

2. State HMFA offering 3.75% mortgage rate: 30-year record low
(Money/Economy)

... offering affordable home mortgages for first-time home buyers and encouraging owner-occupied housing growth as a means to stabilize urban neighborhoods. This new, low interest rate achieves both goals.” ...

3. N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin and NASCAR's Danica Patrick: How they are similar
(Sports/Professional)

... of the storied franchises in the NBA. Since he first got significant minutes on Feb. 4 against the New Jersey Nets, he has been averaging 22.6 points, 8.7 assists and a 9-3 record. Some have seen “Linsanity” ...

4. Rutgers' Jerome Seagears emerges after early struggles
(Sports/Professional)

... in the last two games. In those outings he’s averaging 15 points including the game-winning three-pointer in the waning moments of overtime against Seton Hall. It wasn’t how Rice drew it up with Seagears ...

5. Troy Aikman on football's future: Concussions, limited TV viewing will hurt sport
(Sports/Professional)

... If he wanted to, I would say ‘OK, great.’ But I don’t know if I would be encouraging him to play. Whereas, with the other sports, you want your kids to be active and doing those types of things.” Aikman ...

6. Apps for Android vs. iPhone apps: Prices may surprise you
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... were that price. According to Yahoo! News, the top ten apps among Androids were more expensive, averaging $3.47 per app compared to $0.99 for Apple. The top 20 apps show an average price of $1.04 for iPhone ...

7. 'Remove' Android app edits photos for unwanted objects
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 'Remove,' and it allows users to eliminate unwanted objects from photographs, as they are taken, according to techworld.com. Scalado, a company that develops high-performance imaging solutions, will ...

8. REVIEW: ‘Galileo’ keeps it cool
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... staging in 1947. Set in Italy during the early decades of the 1600s, this absorbing character study sees Galileo trying to make ends meet as an inventor until his radical assertion that the earth and ...

9. Christie's proposed budget offers tax cut 'gift' with twists
(Opinion/Commentary)

... President of the New York Mercantile Exchange and subsequently a Managing Director at Dillon Read & Co., Inc., and investment banking firm. He served as the State Treasurer (chief budget and financial ...

10. Oscar Roundtable 2012: Academy Award picks from the experts
(Entertainment/Movies)

... needed a crash course in John LeCarré. (I haven’t seen “A Better Life.”) Brad Pitt did a great job in “Moneyball,” but I’m voting for the matinée idol played so engagingly by Jean Dujardin in “The ...

11. Pantone Tangerine Tango turns up the heat
(Life/Style)

... decisions in multiple industries, including fashion, home and industrial design, as well as product packaging and graphic design. For more information about Tangerine Tango or how to dress up your home ...

12. Drinking raw milk sickens Burlington, Gloucester County residents
(Health/Healthquest)

... bacteria can be especially problematic for infants, young children, the elderly, and the immune compromised. Anyone with knowledge of persons engaging in the sale or distribution of raw milk in New Jersey ...

13. N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin takes his talents to South Beach and Miami Heat
(Sports/Professional)

... Lin’s breakout performance against the Nets on Feb. 4 and during that span, Lin is averaging 23.9 points and 9.2 assists per game. Lin’s story is one that has turned the sports world upside down. Undrafted ...

14. Black rail, golden-winged warbler, and red knot birds named to N.J.'s endangered species list
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... science in managing the state's resources, the DEP has also released the newest version of its Landscape Project, an interactive ecosystem-based mapping tool that assists government agencies, planners, ...

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16. President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities responds to deinstitutionalization controversy
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and you find them engaging in using clients to extort care-providers, blacklist those who speak up, give excessive benefits to their contributors while ignoring some of the most needy, blackmail some, ...

17. Political consultant Kevin Collins pleads guilty to dirty tricks in 2009 N.J. Assembly GOP primary
(N.J./State)

... from her. The robocall went to over 12,000 residents of the 40th District on the day of the primary, June 2, 2009. The call made disparaging remarks about the incumbents and encouraged recipients to ...

18. Christie proposes a record $8.8 billion in school aid in 2012-13 state budget
(Money/Economy)

... for our most vulnerable." Christie also proposed the creation of a state Division of Aging Services that would be part of the Department of Human Services and would be the single point of access for ...

19. Full text of Gov. Christie’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Address
(Money/Economy)

... this budget, I am proposing the creation of a Division of Aging Services. This division, to be housed in the Department of Human Services, will also be the single point of access for all of our services ...

20. How to win an Oscar: Be white, male and aging
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JOE TYRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Among Oscar voters, if you're white, it's all right, provided you're also male and aging. A new survey by the Los Angeles Times on the eve of this year's Oscar ...