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1. Raising the N.J. minimum wage is a win-win
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the luxury of tucking away any new income. The impact can can be significant. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, every $1 in wage increase for a minimum wage worker results in $3,500 in ...

2. Republican agenda of hate and divide
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... descent to the priesthood. A ZIMBABWEAN man has been banned from a church in 2011 in the United States because he is BLACK. Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church (majority white) in Pike County, Kentucky, recently ...

3. 'This Means War' movie review, trailer: Witherspoon, Pine, Hardy don't shine in spy drama
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Chris Pine, apparently preparing for a another GQ cover. Meanwhile, his character is under not-very-much-cover. FDR's espionage skill is that he's very handsome. FDR's undercover inamorata is Tuck. ...

4. Sen. Ron Rice re-elected chairman of Legislative Black Caucus
(N.J./State)

... L. Grace Spencer (D-Essex), Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex), Assemblyman Gilbert “Whip” Wilson (D-Camden), and Assemblyman Benjie Wimberly (D-Passaic).  ...

5. Apple iPad 3 release update: 8-inch screen and 4G LTE capability
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 5.3 inch Galaxy Note. Amazon’s Kindle Fire is priced at $199, while the iPad's sells for $499. Apple has stuck to the iPad's current form. Apple’s late former CEO Steve Jobs once said the iPad's ...

6. Home Ownership hindered by school taxes and other issues
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

While its nice to think that home ownership is a goal most people support the reality is that only the builders, banks and realtors benefit by this bill and the rest of NJ taxpayers will likely get stuck ...

7. Adele belts out 'Rolling In The Deep,' like she never had surgery
(Entertainment/Movies)

... sold out tour of the United States. She needed surgery to end the recurrent bleeding of a vocal cord, which was caused by a benign polyp. Adele says she enjoyed being quiet. “I stuck to all the rules ...

8. N.J. Nets to take part in NBA's celebration of ABA rivals
(Sports/Professional)

... Minnesota Muskies not the 1968-69 Minnesota Pipers. After the original Muskies franchises headed to Florida, the ABA stuck the failing Pittsburgh Pipers franchise in Bloomington. That lasted one year as ...

9. Obama relieves New Jersey of No Child Left Behind education standards
(N.J./State)

... and to make sure that every child in New Jersey graduates from high school ready for college and career.” Besides New Jersey, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, ...

10. New Jerseyans affected by mortgage, foreclosure abuses to share $762M
(Money/Economy)

... dollars towards relief for families across the nation. They’ll provide refinancing for borrowers that are stuck in high interest rate mortgages. They’ll reduce loans for families who owe more on their ...

11. Christie’s Israel remarks: Is he thinking beyond N.J.?
(U.S./Nation)

... speakers are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D) of California. ...

12. Christie would have made George Carlin blink twice
(Opinion/Commentary)

... your mother would have stuck a bar of Ivory so far down your throat, you’d be singing Don Ho’s trademark song for days to come. Clearly standards have changed on all fronts in the last decade, spurred ...

13. Cami Anderson's plan to close Newark schools opposed by angry parents
(N.J./State)

... with catcalls and what amounted to counter speeches. “You’re not the community, this is the community,” said Tarrick Tucker in comments that voiced a widespread audience perception that Anderson is paving ...

14. 'The Innkeepers' movie review, trailer: The most haunted hotel in Connecticut
(Entertainment/Movies)

... is key to the movie's success. There are no annoying genre scenes where the characters either sound too dumb or too smart. Claire and Luke are a couple of small-town regulars stuck in the middle of a scary ...

15. With Mitt Romney in the lead, fiery-mouthed Christie may stay out of Nevada
(U.S./Nation)

... his comments, Democratic lawmakers told the Governor he needed a refresher course in history. Christie stuck back calling openly–gay Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D) of Mercer County, ‘numb-nuts’, after ...

16. N.Y. Giants vs. New England Patriots Super Bowl preview: Big Blue holds the cards
(Sports/Professional)

... a “I can’t believe I’m losing to these guys in two consecutive Super Bowls” face. Tuck, Umenyiora, and Pierre-Paul are disruptive, and the Patriots’ passing attack never finds a rhythm, but their offense ...

17. Ron Paul criticizes TSA searches after Rand Paul's refusal
(U.S./Nation)

... disagreed with the TSA's methods. But a week ago, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was forced to miss a flight by the TSA for refusing a full-body pat-down after he set off an alarm going through a scanner at Nashville ...

18. Nixon had Apollo 11 moon disaster speech ready
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... who later went on to become a columnist at the New York Times, penned the words Nixon would say to the world if the module failed to launch off the moon’s surface or the two men were otherwise stuck on ...

19. 'The Grey' movie review, trailer: An intense man vs. wild adventure
(Entertainment/Movies)

... suits him well, because he’s able to pull off the Ottway character with a believability that doesn’t come to every actor. If I were stuck in the expanse of the frozen tundra, Neeson would be on my short ...

20. Golf pros are slowing game for Everyday Joe
(Sports/Professional)

... Sony Open. His ball was in the rough, 187 yards to a flag tucked behind the bunker. Was the ball going to take off on him from that lie? How much? 6-iron or 7-iron? If it had been in the fairway, caddie ...