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1. Wells Fargo agrees to $67M in home loan modifications for nearly 900 N.J. families
(Money/Economy)

... Wells Fargo also has agreed to make a number of servicing commitments to its "Pick-A-Payment" borrowers, including: Ensuring adequately staffed help lines to serve consumers, including Spanish-speaking ...

2. Don Bosco vs. Bergen Catholic: Big game has value
(Sports/Professional)

... to broadcast can help so many more than those just playing under the bright lights. Yes there are egos involved, and there is no doubt that the schools that actually are successful have made large commitments ...

3. New Jersey's charter school experiment: Money doesn't guarantee success
(N.J./State)

... and shared commitments will be as important as money and educational theories. And money, no matter what the amount, does not guarantee success. If there is consensus among education gurus and entrepreneurs ...

4. N.J. police officers saving their own by retiring
(N.J./State)

... and retirement commitments not been reached, Zimmer said she planned to demote 19 officers in an effort to save the city about $800,000 in total savings, including salaries and health insurance savings. ...

5. Newark schools will receive Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million gift over five years
(N.J./State)

... is prepared to make bold commitments that will make Newark a symbol of education reform. Their personal commitments --- and their willingness to cut through the politics and red tape to collaborate --- ...

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

1,950 private/public commitments will help 300 million people over ten years BY JEANETTE FRIEDMAN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM While STAR magazine and other tabloids touted the confessions of a bimbo who ...

7. Christie supports $1 billion Bayonne Bridge improvement project
(N.J./State)

... Hook Marine Terminal. Approximately 7 million vehicles cross the bridge annually. In addition to the bridge project, officials maintain that a series of recent acquisitions and commitments made by the ...

8. Dramatic changes to N.J. pension and health benefits proposed by Christie
(N.J./State)

... how the Democratic majority that controls the Legislature may react to Christie's proposals. He said the governor needs to live up to his commitments and re-pay money he borrowed from the pension system ...

9. Eminem and Jay-Z tickets at Yankee Stadium going for a bundle
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and though producers of the new ABC police drama "Detroit 1-8-7" have made some public overtures toward him, there are no commitments to anything yet. Jay-Z's connection to the Yankees has always been ...

10. New Jersey’s pension obligation on Christie’s hit list
(Opinion/Commentary)

... 2009. Those spending commitments were frankly unsustainable and out of control." The treasurer added that all parties "need to come to terms with the fact that fiscal '11, the budget plan that we just ...

11. Christie and Senate Democrats reach agreement on 2 percent N.J. property tax cap
(N.J./State)

... or county government or school district could exceed the cap. The agreement also includes commitments from Senate Democrats to quickly review the additional 33 bills Christie has proposed to attempt ...

12. Christie wants N.J. affordable housing bill approved by end of June
(N.J./State)

... Walsh said. "Organizations with longtime and unquestioned commitments to social justice, such as the Catholic Conference and the NAACP, have opposed S-1 because it would undermine the Mount Laurel doctrine ...

13. Will the World Series of Boxing stem diminishing interest in the sport?
(Sports/Professional)

... and Anaheim in an effort to get arena commitments in the US. The season will start on the weekend of November 19-20 and end sometime in March or April with the team and individual champions taking place ...

14. What Gov. Christie should consider doing next to better manage state government
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and staff. Change the state's pension and retirement health-care commitments. This is the largest albatross. Unless the existing structure is changed, the future will not be a welcoming one for state, ...

15. Obama makes solemn pledge to clean up Gulf
(U.S./Nation)

... the company fulfills its commitments. In testimony to congressional committees this week, BP America chief Lamar McKay pointed to what he called the failure of a number of processes, systems and equipment. ...

16. ‘Millionaire’s tax’ vetoed by Christie
(N.J./State)

... additional spending commitments in the current fiscal and economic climate. Democrats said $563 million of the $635 million would have gone for rebates and $72 million to head off prescription increases. ...

17. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski challenges NCAA to do something for 'student-athletes'
(Sports/Professional)

... with what we do for the student athletes. I think we should do more for the student athlete, especially the student-athlete in revenue sports. "They have more asked of them. They have more commitments ...

18. Working towards a nuclear-free world
(World/International)

BY MATTHEW BERGER AND ELI CLIFTON IPS NEWS AGENCY WASHINGTON — On the second and last day of the largest gathering of world leaders ever in Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama connected the commitments ...

19. Saving the environment one tree at a time
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... from human activities is one of the main gases that produce the greenhouse effect. They wealth countries would be granted "carbon credits" towards achieving their carbon reduction commitments to combat ...

20. N.J. budget experts says state government in midst of "extraordinary and unprecedented'' fiscal nightmare
(N.J./State)

... high of $33 billion in 2007-08 -- the truth is that New Jersey has a spending problem,’’ he said. “Specifically, New Jersey‘s state and local governments have built up unsustainable spending commitments ...