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1. Christie’s 'Comeback' increases child poverty 14 percent
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY SALVATORE PIZZURO COMMENTARY The recent Associated Press report about the growing number of New Jersey Children living in poverty has alarming implications for our State and for current Administrative ...

2. New Jersey's 'Crosswalk Law' needs to be enforced
(Opinion/Commentary)

... a hazardous activity. These pedestrians, including people with disabilities become prey to overzealous drivers who are rushing to keep appointments. The crosswalk law was created because of an alarming ...

3. Assemblyman Eustace: End oil speculation to lower N.J. gas prices
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in Congress are trying to find ways to help lower gas prices and reduce this excessive burden put on ordinary Americans. The remarks made during the hearing were alarming and eye-opening ...

4. Hearing on synthetic marijuana permanent ban in New Jersey set for May 10
(N.J./State)

... 146 cases of synthetic marijuana exposure reported to the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System in 2011, 92 percent resulted in symptoms alarming enough to require treatment in a healthcare ...

5. Alarming rate of melanoma?
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Is this new research from the Mayo Clinic...or the results of one study in one county (North Olmstead) Minnesota that is 90% white and has 15 times the amount of dermatologists per capita than any other ...

6. N.J. autism rate increase shows need for immediate planning
(Opinion/Commentary)

... alarming rate that will require school officials, pubic policy people, legislators, and medical practitioners to work together to engage in radical planning for the future. That planning must not only ...

7. Child autism rates skyrocket: N.J. second highest in nation
(Health/Healthquest)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The numbers of children with autism spectrum disorders has grown at an alarming rate over the past 10 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

8. Surprising leopard frog species discovered in N.J., N.Y. area
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... around its current image. Feinberg, co-author of the study, is working on his doctoral thesis in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He was doing research on the alarming decline of ...

9. 'Saving Face' war on women parallels new Texas abortion law
(Life/Style)

... It was a summary of the 2012 Oscar-winning short documentary film "Saving Face," about “an alarmingly common form of revenge” in Pakistan of “throwing acid on women to disfigure them often for rejected ...

10. Christie's Developmental Center Task Force member continues to speak out against governor's policies
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY SALVATORE PIZZURO COMMENTARY The outspoken member of the Governor’s Task Force on the closing of the State’s Developmental Centers continues to provide alarming information on the manner in which ...

11. Member of Christie's developmental center task force speaks out: Closing centers was pre-detemined
(Opinion/Commentary)

... is totally disregarded.” Perhaps most alarming, the Task Force member points out that: “…IT IS (happening) TOO FAST. In the Panel's fact gathering, every expert that testified sited a slow transition ...

12. State widens ban on sale, possession of synthetic marijuana in New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... 2010 and 2011 the number of synthetic marijuana exposures reported to poison control centers jumped by 139 percent nationwide, and by an alarming 711 percent in New Jersey alone. Of the 146 cases reported ...

13. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and sports spending: From Olympics to the WWF
(Sports/Professional)

... a licensed and treating physician. The use of masking agents and/or diuretics to conceal or obscure the use of prohibited drugs is also forbidden." Despite the policy, wrestlers are still dying in alarming ...

14. MSNBC makes Pat Buchanan pay the price for book
(U.S./Nation)

... “The ideas he put forth aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less on MSNBC,” Griffin said. “Pat is a good guy. Some of his ideas are alarming.” David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun says ...

15. N.J. Assembly committee to consider bills to improve Port Authority transparency
(N.J./State)

... S. Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), the committee chairman, said the hearing is necessary in light of what he described as an increasingly alarming series of news reports on the agency’s actions and operations. ...

16. State launches prescription drug monitoring program to halt abuse and diversion
(Health/Healthquest)

...  Chiesa said that prescription drug abuse is growing at an alarming rate. In 2010, New Jersey saw 7,238 admissions to substance abuse treatment programs as a result of prescription painkiller abuse. ...

17. Coyote hunting season in N.J follows bear hunt
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... rodents and rabbits, but can easily attack small pets, alarming many residents and pet owners. “There have been incidences of coyotes trying to take small dogs while their owners are walking them on ...

18. 'Sexting' is related to teen group sex trend, says study
(Health/Healthquest)

BY ADELE SAMMARCO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Teens having sex isn't new, but according to researchers, teenagers who engage in group sex is an alarming new trend. A new study released by Boston University’s ...

19. N.J. State Police charge Tamano Macalbe of Hazlet as weapons trafficker
(N.J./State)

... revealed he made several alarming statements. He indicated his willingness to initiate an armed conflict with law enforcement and the discovery of his propensity to carry firearms while operating a vehicle ...

20. The dangers of farm-raised tilapia from China
(Health/Healthquest)

BY DR. MICHAEL L. SMITH COMMENTARY Appeared originally on Studio V Health Wordpress As a proponent of healthy eating and educating the public on sound evidence based research, I find it very alarming ...