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1. Will Gov. Christie risk career by spending billions on new Abbott schools?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of government programs, and there will probably have to be cuts, not just reductions in increases, but actually decreases in school and municipality aid and other state expenditures in the next fiscal ...

2. Dispute over recording of township meeting costs Bridgewater Twp. more than $17,000
(N.J./State)

... that Coulter's claim was "frivolous," the GRC found the municipality had admitted charging five times its cost of making the copy. But the council deferred a decision on whether Coulter was entitled ...

3. Middlesex County announces DWI checkpoints for holiday season
(N.J./State)

... any municipality, and on any road, to deter motorists from becoming impaired and then driving in Middlesex County. The effort is being financed with a portion of a $43,000 grant from the New Jersey Division ...

4. 13 New Jerseyans, towns, organizations and companies honored for environmental efforts
(N.J./State)

... WATER NEW JERSEY AWARDS Tier A Municipality -- Andover Township Andover is being recognized as a leader in stormwater management for implementing innovative solutions, comprehensive maintenance and ...

5. Somerset County could be first to combine police forces
(N.J./State)

... Thomas Banker was asked to fully populate the report with 2009 data — to provide more detailed information on attrition in shaping the best work force, and calculate savings on the whole and for each municipality, ...

6. Bill to exempting disabled veterans from fees for handicap-related home improvements approved by Senate panel
(N.J./State)

... that a municipality completely disabled veterans, or their caretakers, from the payment of any construction permit surcharge fee or enforcing agency fee for any construction, reconstruction, alteration, ...

7. Bolstering shared public services to keep property taxes down highlight of Monday Assembly agendas
(N.J./State)

... the statutorily required reserve for uncollected taxes will have on a municipality's ability to meet the new 2 percent property tax levy cap. The Health and Senior Services Committee will consider legislation ...

8. 535 New Jersey cities and towns tell state how they are attempting to improve local government
(N.J./State)

... adherence to the Best Practices or commitment to implement them within the next year, state Community Affairs Commissioner Lori Grifa said. To view a score sheet of each municipality and its Best Practices ...

9. Newark police don’t care for their own like Atlantic City
(Opinion/Commentary)

... its chest in Newark or any other municipality where they say no way, no how, no give backs — no compromise, no furloughs, no nothing — they can be proud of themselves while their fellow police officers ...

10. Vince Lombardi's players don't have a seat at the NFL lockout talks
(Sports/Professional)

... municipality's ability to take revenues out of a facility at eight percent. There are some variants to that law based on the lease agreements signed by an NFL owner and a municipality. There is also this. ...

11. How to understand New Jersey crime statistics
(N.J./State)

An ACLU of New Jersey primer BY FLAVIO KOMUVES Understandably, and often laudably, mayors and police chiefs publicly tout decreases in crime in their municipality. Unfortunately, however, officials ...

12. PURGEN Project
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

City Council's Resolution #809 to oppose the PurGen project from Linden, NJ to pump CO2 into the water off of Atlantic City was the first municipality in New Jersey to oppose this project. The project ...

13. Atlantic City opposes proposed PurGen coal plant in Linden
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Diamond, was instrumental in getting the resolution on the council's agenda. Atlantic City is the first municipality to pass a resolution opposing the PurGen coal plant. "The Sierra Club applauds the ...

14. A cautionary cat tale: Good intentions don’t suffice
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... ACOs in Lawrence, Hopewell and West Windsor.) In short, cat in trouble? Contact the local police, who in turn bring in animal control. (State law requires every municipality to have a certified ACO, ...

15. New Jersey affordable housing standards bill approved by Assembly panel
(N.J./State)

... for all new residential developments in any municipality. However, exempt from this requirement are predominantly poor cities and towns where 50 percent or more of the student population is receiving ...

16. What is wrong with New Jersey's property taxes? Plenty
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY MURRAY SABRIN COMMENTARY In Fort Lee, New Jersey — a municipality with one of the greatest concentrations of co-ops and condominiums in the state — a co-op wants to convert its building to a condominium ...

17. New Jersey cities and towns awarded $18M in state aid
(N.J./State)

... "They must rigorously work to get their financial house in order." The MOU also requires a municipality to: Submit a transition plan on or before Dec. 31, detailing how it intends to eliminate its ...

18. Appeals court tosses out Fort Monmouth affordable housing plan
(N.J./State)

... housing needs resides with the municipality to which the housing obligation would be assigned or within which growth occurs.' Merely stating that it will be the municipality's obligation to meet affordable ...

19. Local politicians drop ball in Cablevision-FOX dispute
(Sports/Professional)

... Cablevision-name the municipality where Cablevision operates agreement is available to the public and municipalities have cable TV boards which hold public meetings. It is at that level, that someone can ...

20. Bill to limit N.J. public employee unused sick leave payouts clears Legislature, moves to Christie's desk
(N.J./State)

... at all levels. Today's economic reality is that property taxpayers simply cannot afford to sustain these benefits." Casagrande said that capping a municipality's exposure for these payments will assist ...