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1. ESPN will get real competition from Comcast-NBC merger
(Sports/Professional)

... merger work because big media deals over the past 15 years including the AOL Time Warner agreement have been failures. Clear Channel bought out thousands of radio stations following the 1996 Tele Communication ...

2. State audit finds Rutgers conducts questionable contracting practices
(N.J./State)

... bidding process, or for, in some instances, failing to provide even the most basic kinds of oversight," Sweeney said. "Their failure to even implement their own nepotism policies would be comical if it ...

3. Gov. Christie announces Paterson education effort based on Harlem Children's Zone
(N.J./State)

... that protect failure at the expense of children," Christie said. "Over the coming weeks and months, we will work with Geoffrey and the Harlem Children's Zone to put in place a program in Paterson that ...

4. Gov. Christie will stay the course, but so will the NJEA
(Opinion/Commentary)

... learning experience equal to that of their more fortunate peers. The decades long practice of pouring ever increasing sums of money into these schools has been a costly failure, he declared, and it would ...

5. U.S. debt: Like watching a train wreck in slow motion
(Opinion/Commentary)

... job. Most of this money has ended up in bank vaults to prevent a banking failure of what must be the grossest mismanagement of banking since Bernie Madoff. Some was part of the GM gift package for the ...

6. Gov. Christie must touch real third rail to reform education in New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... tolerate educational failure at such a high cost to taxpayers? Will Gov. Christie risk career by spending billions on new Abbott schools? Alex DeCroce is right about N.J. unemployment benefits  ...

7. Numbers don't lie (Part 2)
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... of an Anesthesiologist. Independent nurse anesthetist practice without an Anesthesiologist involved in patient care is setting Americans up for failure and is giving them less than they deserve in this ...

8. Numbers don't lie (Part 1)
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... 12 live patient encounters. Step 3, 2 days: taken during Internship (first year of residency). Day one, 8 hours 336 questions. Day two, 4 hours 144 questions. In most cases, failure to pass Step 1 ...

9. Interesting
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... this world. What Doctors due on a daily basis in all specialties is not curing disease it is managing pathology. So is it any different when an anesthesiologist manages intra-operative heart failure, ...

10. CRNAs do not equate with Anesthesiologists
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... affiliated physicians due to their general lack of knowledge and skill in caring for the more difficult and challenging situations, eg., hypertension or heart failure for primary care, higher risk pregnancy ...

11. Grading Gov. Christie’s first year in office
(Opinion/Commentary)

... find a job. Between the Race to the Top and charter school grant funding debacles, the firing of education commissioner Bret Schundler, the failure to fill the position of Secretary of Higher Education ...

12. Nurses are an equal, if not superior choice, to administer anesthesia
(Health/Healthquest)

... of health care quality, where there are so many failures in this nation for which we should be ashamed, this is one to be admired. I will cite just one of the studies not only because it is the most ...

13. Gov. Christie is finding a way to reach across the aisle
(Opinion/Commentary)

... school grant funding debacles, the firing of education commissioner Bret Schundler, the failure to fill the position of secretary of higher education..." You get the idea. Lots of Dems are on the attack. ...

14. New Jersey must make investment in roads and bridges a high priority
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  The consequences of a failure to act are indisputable and there have been varying suggestions offered to produce the necessary funding on a stable basis, including an increase in the gasoline tax, a ...

15. A closer look at Gov. Christie’s State of the State address
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of his writings. ALSO BY MURRAY SABRIN: Arizona shooting: U.S. government provides role model for violence Why does New Jersey tolerate educational failure at such a high cost to taxpayers? Will ...

16. Arizona shooting: U.S. government provides role model for violence
(Opinion/Commentary)

... does New Jersey tolerate educational failure at such a high cost to taxpayers? Will Gov. Christie risk career by spending billions on new Abbott schools? Alex DeCroce is right about N.J. unemployment ...

17. Chris Christie shows his political genius in first State of the State address
(N.J./State)

... system for teachers. Education, he said, is the only profession in which there is no reward for excellence and no punishment for failure. Along with that, he called for an end to tenure. Christie even ...

18. Bill rolls back N.J. Turnpike, Parkway toll hikes intended to fund defunct ARC tunnel
(N.J./State)

... Drewniak said. "We also ramped up the pay-as-we-go portion of funding, and provided more than $670 million for New Jersey Transit. What is disingenuous is the failure of the sponsors and supporters of ...

19. NJEA president offers to meet with Gov. Christie on his education proposals
(N.J./State)

... said Christie failed to mention his administration's bungling the $400 million federal "Race to the Top" education aid application, and his failure to act quickly to obtain $268 million in federal jobs ...

20. Gov. Chris Christie 2011 State of the State Address
(N.J./State)

... you have no rewards for excellence and no consequences for failure to perform. Let New Jersey lead the way again. The time to eliminate teacher tenure is now. *** Now, let's be frank. The issues ...