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1. Turning Meadowlands into a racino is common sense
(Opinion/Commentary)

... office has failed to grasp it. But it doesn't have to be this way. We both have the honor of participating in the gaming summit called by Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver and Senate President Stephen ...

2. New Jersey has first state government to be charged with securities fraud
(Money/Economy)

... and omissions: The SEC's order further finds that New Jersey failed to provide certain present and historical financial information regarding its pension funding in bond disclosure documents. The state ...

3. Pampering has led to generational changes in the U.S.
(Opinion/Commentary)

... is OK to buy, even when you do not have the means to afford it. Perhaps it is this type of education that has made us accept the concept of bailing out a company when they should have failed, supporting ...

4. Environmentalists urge approval of bills to save Barnegat Bay, clean up Passaic River
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... public health assets. They said Barnegat Bay needs to be protected from further harm, but charge decision-makers have failed to act. "We are urging the committee members to take strong, decisive ...

5. Merrill Lynch agrees to pay penalty for using unregistered agents
(Money/Economy)

...  The order also sets forth that the state Bureau of Securities found that Merrill Lynch failed to adequately supervise Client Associates and enforce its own established, written procedures. "The Bureau ...

6. Xanadu effectively foreclosed on by lenders
(N.J./State)

... promise of this project as a world-class facility and economic driver for Bergen County and the entire state." After initially deriding the project as "a failed business model," the Christie Administration ...

7. Christie putting squeeze on home rule in N.J.
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  There exists, after all, a considerable body of evidence to support criticisms that local officials have failed to keep spending under control, from agreeing to salary increases in excess of the rate ...

8. Sen. Lesniak proposed two plans to save Atlantic City casinos, horse racing
(N.J./State)

... and Entertainment Commission: Revitalizing Atlantic City." "It is not clear from the Hanson report whether the commission members just never read the McKinsey document, failed to understand what was ...

9. Vice President Chris Christie could be the ticket for 2012
(Opinion/Commentary)

... for the Presidency. Ronald Reagan learned this in 1968 when his convention week candidacy for the Republican nomination failed to stop Richard Nixon, the GOP nominee at that year's Miami Beach Republican ...

10. Christie's office wants Anne Patterson considered in fall
(N.J./State)

... Committee will consider Patterson nomination in March 2012 when the now-former Justice John E. Wallace would have faced mandatory retirement. Senate Democrats were angered when Christie failed to follow ...

11. Xanadu on a roll with court victory involving liquor license
(N.J./State)

... have dropped out, lenders have failed, and announced tenants and features of the property have gotten cold feet or been dropped from the plans. In January, a report released by Gov. Chris Christie's ...

12. Church janitor accused of murder says he had four-year affair with Chatham Catholic priest
(N.J./State)

... held by local police at the church in which they fingerprinted and photographed young children the night before his murder. That was the last time anyone saw him alive. When the priest failed to show ...

13. PSEG granted review for new nuclear plant in N.J.
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... given the nation's lack of a long-term energy plan. The U.S. Senate last month failed to adopt a policy. On July 30, PSEG Chairman Ralph Izzo told a Somerset County that his company needs a more reliable ...

14. N.J. lawmakers start $10.5B budget deficit blame game
(N.J./State)

... show. He said the Democrats, instead, should "shine a light on Democratic budget crisis, deficits (and) failed leadership.'' Drewniak said Christie "closed a $13 billion in budget deficits without tax ...

15. Trenton Mayor Tony Mack's home in pending foreclosure
(N.J./State)

... delays, that effort has failed. The President unveiled the Home Affordable Modification Program last year with a promise it would help "three to four million homeowners to modify the terms of their mortgages ...

16. NFL’s concussion warning poster a small step for football
(Sports/Professional)

... of 1982 and getting back on the field. An effort to include players who played before 1959 in a benefits package failed in 1982. These were the same players who formed the NFLPA back in 1956. The players ...

17. Balancing budget on backs of suburban taxpayers hurt Chris Christie’s grade for first six months as governor
(Opinion/Commentary)

... has failed to provide tax relief. But more importantly, state and local spending has increased well above the inflation rate during this period, while state debt has exploded. The only way to provide ...

18. This Christie veto threatens New Jersey’s economy
(Opinion/Commentary)

... person failed to understand the value of this program, and unfortunately that person was Gov. Chris Christie, who vetoed the bill on July 23. This veto showed an alarming lack of understanding by Gov. ...

19. Richard Pisacane of Wayne pleads guilty to stealing insurance premiums
(Money/Economy)

... who were purchasing commercial insurance, yet he failed to the remit the premiums to Lincoln General. Pisacane admitted that he kept the funds for his personal use, including paying for his children's ...

20. The American Dream of home ownership is still alive today ... sort of
(Life/Style)

... they move, like organizing their possessions in boxes to form some sort of order. These people are currently living in cardboard boxes at their nearby landfill, because they failed to use mind altering ...