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1. Bill declares half of N.J.’s 566 towns already meet affordable housing obligations
(N.J./State)

... mandates that housing developments in the other 50 percent set aside 20 percent of their houses and apartments as affordable housing. And that a zoning variance be granted for null housing developments, ...

2. Raymond Lesniak: New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) is beyond reform and repair
(Opinion/Commentary)

... view on how affordable housing is built in New Jersey. COAH is beyond reform and repair. It's currently producing far less affordable housing units than it mandates, and as a result, New Jersey's affordable ...

3. Christie declares New Jersey in ‘state of fiscal emergency’
(N.J./State)

... employee contracts, maintenance of funds to keep federal funding, debt service and constitutional mandates. He said consequently, his administration — to balance the budget, as required by the state Constitution ...

4. Legislation to reform affordable housing in New Jersery is a positive first step
(Opinion/Commentary)

... League of Municipalities ALSO BY WILLIAM G. DRESSEL, JR. Dressel: To deliver New Jersey property tax relief, Gov.-elect Christie must relieve us from unfunded mandates Relief from mandates equals ...

5. New Jerseyans could soon be able to shop across state lines for health insurance
(Health/Healthquest)

... federal insurance regulation and gives the average American family no relief from expensive mandates that drive up the cost of health insurance," said Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz. said. What do advocates ...

6. Budget expert gives legislators grim review of New Jersey's fiscal problems
(N.J./State)

... problems on them. Clifton Mayor James Anzaldi, the president of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, asked legislators to confront state mandates and binding arbitrations for municipal employee ...

7. Jeff Tittel: Executive Orders signed by Christie attack environmental protections
(Opinion/Commentary)

... are unfunded mandates to towns. We're concerned that mandates that are established for the protection of public health and safety will be subject to this EO. For example, if the standards for the amount ...

8. Hearing on bill to abolish N.J. Council on Affordable Housing set for Feb. 1
(N.J./State)

... process to comply with state Supreme Court mandates that require every city and town to provide their fair share of low- and moderate-income housing. "The purpose of this bill is to repeal COAH's top ...

9. Gov. Christie surprised to learn N.J. short another $1 billion
(N.J./State)

... to halt unfunded mandates to cities and towns, freeze new regulations on business and widen pay-to-play regulations. Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce (R-Morris) described Christie‘s action as ...

10. Gov. Chris Christie: The Advice
(N.J./State)

...  William G. Dressel, Jr. Governor-elect Christie should focus on cost-savings that are permanent in several priority areas. The most pressing issue is unfunded mandates — something Lieutenant Governor-elect ...

11. Carl Golden: Gov. Christie will force cost-cutting culture on all New Jersey governments
(Opinion/Commentary)

... not without ideas and suggestions, the principal one being the elimination of so-called unfunded mandates, directives from state government to local units to undertake new programs without financial assistance ...

12. Gov. Chris Christie: The Speech
(N.J./State)

...  The era of expensive and sometimes thoughtless mandates from Washington must end. After all, the States are supposed to be "laboratories of democracy", not guinea pigs for failed federal experiments. ...

13. Gov. Chris Christie: The new Governor of New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... era of expensive and sometimes thoughtless mandates from Washington must end. After all, the States are supposed to be "laboratories of democracy", not guinea pigs for failed federal experiments.'' He ...

14. Corzine signs restaurant calorie bill, and 53 others
(N.J./State)

... "creditable coverage" in individual, small employer and larger group insurance laws. A-3835/S-2853 — Mandates professional engineers to complete continuing professional competency requirements during ...

15. Corzine signs 10 bills, including revised 1-gun-per-month law
(N.J./State)

... Zone. Assembly members Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex) and Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer) sponsored the legislation that mandates the state budget include a detailed accounting of the various tax breaks allowed ...

16. In farewell and final State of the State address, Corzine wishes Christie only success
(N.J./State)

... of court mandates that assumed the vast majority of at-risk children lived in a limited number of urban districts. By the time I became governor, decades of population shifts had made this view obsolete ...

17. Steven Lonegan: A look at Trenton’s bipartisan approach to raising New Jersey’s taxes
(Opinion/Commentary)

... behind the state's COAH low-income housing mandates are forcing taxpayers to subsidize these projects, allegedly to provide "affordable" housing. This bill requires high union wages and benefits be paid ...

18. medical health reform
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

16 newspapers and blogs have published my medical reform proposal. an all volunteer program, no mandates program that will not bankrupt a nations economy. the only medical/health proposal where the federal ...

19. Two New Jersey doctors voice their opinions on heath care reform
(Health/Healthquest)

... the House and Senate health care reform bills might affect access because they propose reductions to Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, current law mandates cutting Medicare reimbursement to doctors, ...

20. Requiring Americans to get health insurance central to reform plan
(Health/Healthquest)

... policy last year when her business slumped. Both the House and Senate health care overhaul bills require most Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty. Yet government mandates don't necessarily ...