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1. 35 indicted for smuggling at Northern State Prison
(N.J./State)

... 47, of the Avenel section of Woodbridge , allegedly made thousands of dollars by using a network of inmates to solicit customers and distribute the contraband he smuggled into the prison. The inmates ...

2. Christie succeeds at keeping New Jersey’s school employees on unemployment rolls
(Opinion/Commentary)

... his application for $268 million that New Jersey is entitled to under the Education Jobs Fund, Christie is now seeking to ensure that thousands of teachers and other school employees laid off as a result ...

3. Christie needs to understand that job creation is main issue facing New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... estate market in a deep freeze. As if this wasn't enough, the governor's slowing down of school construction and road projects are literally keeping thousands of construction workers home that should ...

4. Dead fish mystery in South Jersey solved by state
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

Broken net caused stinky situation at Hereford Inlet and North Wildwood beaches A broken net on a fishing vessel caused the wash-up of thousands of dead menhaden on the Hereford Inlet and North Wildwood ...

5. New Jersey school buses may feature ads
(Life/Style)

... likely, they'll be ads for junk food, TV shows and jeans that make your daughter look way too grown up and sexy. But your kids are going to see thousands of ads a year. What's a few more? Especially ...

6. Christie vetoes a state authority's hiring and paying of Hackensack law firm Pashman Stein P.C.
(N.J./State)

... it had expended thousands of dollars for the firm's services. Christie vetoed the minutes of HESAA Sept. 8 meeting, during which it approved a resolution engaging the services of Pashman Stein P.C, and ...

7. Family health care rally set for Trenton
(N.J./State)

... tens of thousands poor working New Jerseyans with children. Although the Family Health Care bill passed with a veto-proof majority, the Governor vetoed it anyway, and now six of the seven Republicans ...

8. 267,000 low-income N.J. families could lose tax relief
(Money/Economy)

... reach hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents, and are worth approximately $235.5 million to lower income working parents in New Jersey. "There is no way to overstate how important these tax ...

9. Christie adopts bad Corzine rules for solar and wind
(Opinion/Commentary)

... when the biggest threat to our coast is climate change and sea level rise, we must generate renewable energy to protect our coasts. Instead, these rules block renewable energy and will cost us thousands ...

10. Supernovae explosion simulated by Princeton scientists
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... in three dimensions, which may lead to new scientific insights. Even though these mammoth explosions have been observed for thousands of years, for the past 50 years researchers have struggled to mimic ...

11. Battle over women's health funding playing out in N.J. senate
(N.J./State)

... care funds. Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (D-Camden) a prime sponsor of the health care legislation, said, "The governor's veto leaves thousands upon thousands of New Jersey women out in the cold. Allowing ...

12. NJEA criticizes Christie for not funding pension system
(N.J./State)

... health benefits, combined with what she described as much higher costs taken out of the pockets of public employees, will hurt thousands of working families. "And, in typical fashion, he is pointing ...

13. Christie should fix state’s public employee compensation structure
(Opinion/Commentary)

... New Jersey will have received 13% COLAs, while career managers received 0%. The fact of the matter is, by 2011, the majority of career managers in State government will be earning thousands of dollars ...

14. Sick leave and unused vacation time targeted in Trenton
(N.J./State)

... thousands of dollars for themselves, much of it questionable. "One of the fastest growing fiscal concerns for towns is the enormous payouts that need to be given to some retiring employees for unused ...

15. Nuclear Waste
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... pollution to worry about for hundreds and thousands of years. Yes, maybe on most days everything is just hunky dory, but there are ventings and leaks and crackings of aged plants too-long-running. And ...

16. Reverse mortgage scams continue to heat up: Brokers tell BIG lies
(Money/Economy)

... and sandwich generationers. The scam is that a RM very quickly depletes the equity in a home and leaves heirs with little or nothing. In all cases, the amount of money owed at the end is thousands of ...

17. Camden was once a hub of music
(Life/Style)

... since. At its height it employed thousands and featured an exhibition place the most prestigious collection of soup tureens in the world. Its factory was famous for "soup can" water tanks that adorned ...

18. Revelation Generation music festival attracts thousands
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY JEFF LEVY NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Revelation Generation spread love, life and inspiration across the Labor Day weekend. The Christian music festival brought thousands of youth and families together ...

19. N.J.’s Salem nuclear power plants showing their age
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... and the sudden vaporizing of hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive steam. They are not foolproof, however and the NRC estimates they have a 15 percent chance of failing under the pressure load. ...

20. Job training is creating real progress in New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... focus on transitioning to a clean energy economy will make the U.S. a world leader in clean energy, reduce our foreign dependence on oil, and create thousands of new jobs. As part of this, the Department ...