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1. Should you be buying stocks now?
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY If your asset allocation model is 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds plus cash, is it time to march boldly into stocks—to bring your holdings ...

2. Hurricane Irene relief: Christie, U.S. senators, ask Obama for federal disaster aid for New Jersey
(U.S./Nation)

... Obama asking for the quick allocation of federal disaster aid to help New Jersey recover from Hurricane Irene. A designation as a major disaster area by the president for the entire state would make ...

3. Smart investments can help small businesses and the economy
(Money/Economy)

... funds, which are expected to generate $10 in “bang for the buck” for every $1 in federal funding. Thus, this $360 million allocation is expected to support more than $3.6 billion in new private lending ...

4. Congress can create jobs with the Federal Highway and Transit Investment Act
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of investment in transportation is enormous. According to the internationally respected Global Insight, for each additional $1 billion in Federal allocation for highway and transit projects, the nation’s ...

5. Where is a good place to put money right now?
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY Is it time to rebalance? To buy more stocks and bring your asset-allocation model back to where it was before the “recent unpleasantness?” ...

6. Gov. Christie signs bipartisan legislation providing $90.6 million for farmland preservation
(N.J./State)

... organizations to preserve farmland -- the largest allocation to nonprofits to date. At a bill-signing ceremony in Princeton, the governor also approved bill (A-2342) which is designed to enhance the ...

7. Christie and Sweeney have private meeting
(N.J./State)

... apologize. When cooler heads prevailed, Christie announced, among other things, that he would support a $139 million increase in state aid to cities and towns, an allocation that would enable cities ...

8. Remembering Channel 13 — New Jersey’s first television station
(Entertainment/Movies)

... programming specific to New Jersey, and fearing the FCC would move the Channel 13 allocation to New York City, petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals on September 6, 1961, to block the sale of WNTA-TV. The ...

9. Christie signs bipartisan bills allocating $157 million for land preservation, park improvements
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Acres funding leverages many millions of additional preservation dollars through matching federal, state, county, local and nonprofit money. The allocation of the funding gained a mixed reaction from ...

10. N.J. Assembly panel to examine Christie's decision to cut $10.4 million in legal services for the poor
(N.J./State)

... to cut from the 2011-12 state budget a $10 million Democratic proposed allocation for Legal Services of New Jersey and other legal assistance programs for the poor. Legal Services of New Jersey provides ...

11. Christie and Democrats each insist they care for N.J. seniors the most
(N.J./State)

... learn what Democrats describe as the ramifications of Christie’s decision to cut $53.6 million in Democratic-proposed allocations for senior citizen programs from the 2011-12 state budget, the governor ...

12. N.J. Assembly to consider potential damage from budget cuts to senior-related services
(N.J./State)

... cut $53.6 million in Democratic-proposed allocations for senior citizen programs from the 2011-12 state budget. The cuts included $25 million for nursing homes, $4.65 million for specialty care nursing ...

13. N.J. medical marijuana gets green light by Gov. Christie
(Health/Healthquest)

... care to the people who need it the most and not to play politics with this issue." With Democrats who control the Legislature criticizing him daily for cutting nearly $1 billion in state budget allocations ...

14. Christie using $500,00 in federal aid to keep Newark child abuse center operating
(N.J./State)

... a $500,000 federal grant to Wynona’s House, a Newark treatment center for child abuse victims that saw its funding slashed when he cut nearly $1 billion in Democratic-proposed allocations from the 2011-12 ...

15. Gov. Christie moves to restore $149 million in state aid to cities and towns
(N.J./State)

... million in so-called transitional state aid to cities and towns that he vetoed from the 2011-12 state budget on June 30 as he cut nearly $1 billion in allocations proposed by the Democratic-controlled ...

16. Thanks to Gov. Christie, New Jersey’s suburban school districts are getting $492 million less
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOHN F. McKEON COMMENTARY Some recent discussion on Gov. Chris Christie’s school aid allocation would have received an “incomplete” from New Jersey’s many fine teachers. Many articles note the ...

17. Christie administration allocates $850M in additional school aid
(N.J./State)

... Tuesday announced the allocation plan for $850 million in new aid New Jersey schools. The allocation includes the governor’s initial $250 million increase for all school districts, as well as an additional ...

18. Black swan funds: Do they make sense?
(Money/Economy)

... the gospel of financial counselors that the secret of wealth preservation in sharply declining markets was diversification. The idea was that allocation of assets among different categories of stocks as ...

19. N.J. Senate Democrats fail to override $1 billion in Christie budget vetoes
(N.J./State)

... legislative election campaign to charge they refused to support a $1 billion increase in allocations for social programs, education, public safety and property tax relief. Kevin Roberts, Christie’s assistant ...

20. N.J. Senate to vote on 38 bills to override $1 billion in Christie budget cuts
(N.J./State)

... designed to override the over $1 billion in line-item vetoes Gov. Chris Christie made to Democratic-sponsored allocations before signing the $29.7 billion 2011-12 state budget. There are 24 Democrats ...