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1. Is Christie selling gimmicks in his ‘no gimmicks’ budget?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... marriage not likely to get voters up in arms Change without hope doesn't work for Chris Christie More going on with New Jersey voters than Christie supporters shifting to Daggett Campaign review: ...

2. Oyster Creek: Putting profits first, but at what cost?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... harms it causes. In addition, the cooling towers would cost about a quarter of the inflated figure quoted. How could the "New Jersey Energy Coalition" make such a mistake? Easy. Exelon is the ...

3. Plowing through red tape for New Jersey farmers
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY CHARLES KUPERUS COMMENTARY Two years ago, on April first, Garden State farmers gave up precious time by leaving their farms and taking their tractors to protest the elimination of the state's Department ...

4. Alleged mountain lion playing hard to get in Manalapan
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of a large feline with a long tail, according to police reports, but no animal was found. Police responded after a passing motorist reported seeing the animal near Carchesio Farms on Tennent Road around ...

5. Financial crisis hasn’t stopped countries from investing in arms
(World/International)

... new weapons systems, including sophisticated fighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armored vehicles and air defense systems. The five largest arms purchasers during 2005-2009 were China, India, ...

6. New Jersey’s lack of action makes flooding worse
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and the Passaic. We should have applied the same lessons there: remove people from harms way, restore the flood plane, and limit development in upstream and headwater areas. In 1999, the Sierra Club estimated ...

7. New Yorkers watch in horror as N.J. native is killed by NYC Subway’s No. 6 train
(N.J./State)

...  "You could see some woman with her head stuck in between the train [and the platform] and her arms sticking out. Some guy was screaming, 'is this real? Is this real?' It looked like a mannequin," said ...

8. Fairfield police officer Gerald Veneziano identifies Nutley’s Preye Roberts as the man who shot him
(N.J./State)

... Roberts allegedly fired a weapon on Route 22 and when Union Township Firearms Identification Unit entered the ammunition into the Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS), they got a hit. Markings ...

9. Helping New Jersey’s environment through EarthShare
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... program is EarthShare New Jersey. Its motto is "One environment. One simple way to care for it," and simplicity is indeed one of its charms. Paula Aldarelli, EarthShare New Jersey's executive director, ...

10. Willie Mays, The Life, The Legend: Book honors most complete baseball player ever to play the game
(Sports/Professional)

... throwing arms, they could hit for a high batting average and most of all, they could populate ballparks at home and on the road, with millions of paying customers by nature of their incredible home run ...

11. New Jersey’s tale of the two Red Banks
(Life/Style)

... county park that now occupies the site. Nearby, and also part of the park, the James Whitall, Sr., house is a 1748 brick building that served as a hospital during the battle. The site was the farmstead ...

12. NJEA takes its fight with Christie to Facebook
(N.J./State)

BY JEN CALANTONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Some New Jerseyans are up in arms after Gov. Chris Christie called for a pay freeze for the state's public workers – namely teachers – and they've taken their ...

13. N.J. youth baseball league rejects gun dealer's sponsorship
(N.J./State)

One youth baseball team will have to find another sponsor this season despite the efforts of a local businessman who offered to put up the cash. Matt Carmel, who owns Constitution Arms, offered $300 ...

14. Pharmacy of America technicians Muid, Stephens and Diacy guilty of Medicaid fraud
(N.J./State)

... completes all terms of his criminal sentence. Deputy Attorney General Sherry Wilson prosecuted the cases. The defendants were charged as a result of Operation PharmScam, an ongoing investigation targeting ...

15. N.J. win-win solution: Fighting childhood obesity and supporting local farmers
(Health/Healthquest)

... to increase the use of local foods from small and medium sized farms in schools. The grant funds also would improve the relationships between schools and local food providers. The legislation would provide ...

16. Hamady N’diaye era comes to an end at Rutgers
(Sports/Professional)

... was defeated, N'diaye still walked over to the remaining students; the one's holding the flag of his native Senegal and saluted them. He was joined by teammate Mike Rosario who put his arms around N'diaye. ...

17. Electronic devices like iPod fuel demand for conflict minerals in Congo
(World/International)

... violations in eastern DRC since the start of the war. Human rights activists have long called attention to how "conflict minerals" are sold to purchase arms by rebel groups that regularly commit horrific ...

18. Rutgers' Dane Miller looking like the next John Wallace
(Sports/Professional)

... one. He is a point guard stuck in a small forward's body, a passer recruited to score. Miller is a lithe 6-foot-7, all spindly arms and legs, an unlikely highlight reel with a smooth handle and flow. ...

19. What Regan Hofmann can tell us about HIV, AIDS ... and life
(Life/Style)

... boat, with his arms wrapped protectively around my shoulders, when we went waterskiing," she said. He was the kind of man she'd bring home to her family. She didn't know that he had a sore on his leg ...

20. Russia lags behind China, India in the exploitation of Africa
(World/International)

... primarily focused on these sectors," she added. Russia is strongly interested in Africa's growing demand for manufactured goods, although the focus has been mainly on arms sales. "Importantly, the financial ...