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1. Impact of NHL 2012 lockout: League is skating on thin ice
(Sports/Professional)

...  A big challenge for the NHL now is ironing out an agreement with Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players Association and the powerful former leader of the Major League Baseball Players Association ...

2. NHL lockout 2012: No shock to N.J. Devils' Bryce Salvador
(Sports/Professional)

... will end up eating the cost of whatever it takes to save the season from being iced. The two sides met again Wednesday, one day after Dennis Fehr, executive director of the players’ union told the Toronto ...

3. Lautenberg, Menendez send NHL lockout letter to Commissioner Bettman
(Sports/Professional)

... commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Association head Donald Fehr reminding them that the Senate has control over interstate commercial activities, including sports. According to The Score, the senators’ ...

4. N.J. Devils make presence in NHL lockout talks
(Sports/Professional)

... director Donald Fehr senses a danger, according to USA Today. Fehr says the players are willing to continue playing under the current contract while negotiations are taking place. Revenue sharing appears ...

5. Romney campaign needs Rob Portman as VP...now!
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Romney has turned a dilemma into a disaster. His spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom of Etch-a-Sketch fame has attained new heights of media incompetence. Romney is now locked into the untenable position of saying ...

6. Could Donald Trump's support hurt Mitt Romney's credibility?
(U.S./Nation)

... with Trump, a birther, would hurt Romney’s credibility. Trump again brought up his questions about President Barack Obama’s birthplace in an interview last week, but Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom ...

7. 4 major sports leagues handle player compensation, media contracts differently
(Sports/Professional)

... collective bargaining agreement. Negotiations are expected to start directly following the season. With Donald Fehr, the longtime head of the baseball players union, now serving as the executive director ...

8. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and sports spending: From Olympics to the WWF
(Sports/Professional)

... Baseball Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr. Not many professional sportswriters aside from Frank Deford, Phil Mushnick and some wrestling reporters nor the gadflies around wrestling have ...

9. Americans dote on sports celebrities like Joe Paterno
(Sports/Professional)

BY EVAN WEINER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS About 19 and a half years ago, Donald Fehr and I were sitting in the dugout at Chain of Lakes Stadium in Winter Haven, Florida ...

10. Rio and Sochi Olympic Games are about to drive up your cable TV bill
(Sports/Professional)

... his IOC delegates are mad at Major League baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, MLB owners and the former Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association Don Fehr for not seeing it the IOC's ...

11. Major league sports facing a turbulent 2011
(Sports/Professional)

... Director Don Fehr worked out an agreement with no work stoppage. Fehr has left the baseball players and is now trying to straighten out the mess at the National Hockey League Players Association. Fehr ...

12. The Great Recession: What’s in a name?
(U.S./Nation)

BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG SPEAKING OF STATES Popes choose their names. Hurricanes get theirs from the National Weather Service. But who decided we had to call our current economic downturn ...

13. Unlike some states, Vermont works with teacher’s union to solve pension problems
(U.S./Nation)

BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG Vermont officials have reached agreement on a teacher pension plan that could become a model for financially-strapped states seeking ways to reduce the rising cost ...

14. New York struggling with back-to-back failed governors
(U.S./Nation)

BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG SPEAKING OF STATES New York's governors have often left an imprint. DeWitt Clinton linked the East to the Midwest through the Erie Canal. Cousins Theodore and Franklin ...

15. Taxing wind
(U.S./Nation)

BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal shot ahead of the wind-state pack by becoming the first chief executive to back a tax on wind energy. Maybe he can take that risk ...

16. Nation’s governors appreciate stimulus more than most in Washington
(U.S./Nation)

BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG When President Obama hosted the nation's governors at a dinner last week, he gave a toast that captured the difference between a chief executive — state or federal ...

17. Rutgers Against Hunger community ‘adopts’ 200 families for holidays
(Life/Style)

... Fehrenbach. "While the families' anonymity is protected, we know the number of adults and ages of the children, and in many cases, the types of items they need most." RAH will continue to collect food ...

18. President McCormick’s State of Rutgers annual address
(Opinion/Commentary)

... months, through the generosity of students, faculty, and staff, led by Leslie Fehrenbach and Larry Katz, Rutgers has collected more than 45,000 pounds of food and contributed more than $100,000 for food ...

19. State lawmakers around the United States dread end of stimulus dollars
(U.S./Nation)

27% of N.J. budget gap covered by feds BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG STAFF WRITER Whether they welcomed or snubbed the federal economic stimulus package, state lawmakers took advantage of the ...

20. New Jersey not the only state dealing with plunging revenue
(U.S./Nation)

BY STEPHEN C. FEHR STATELINE.ORG A wave of states that had balanced budgets earlier this year are facing new or widening shortfalls as May and June tax revenue collections are declining more than expected. ...