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1. Hey Gabby Douglas: Your Olympic medal is subject to taxes
(Sports/Professional)

... TV personalities advances to the next round. Final Round: The Cash Grab Vote Buying. Contestants make backroom deals, filch money from other programs, accept lobbyists’ donations and solicit grass-roots ...

2. Attempts to rename U.S. Postal offices, but not reform
(U.S./Nation)

... News. 38 have passed the House and 26 have been voted into law. Reform legislation for the Postal Service itself? Not happening. And now Congress goes on recess for five weeks. But about a year ago, ...

3. Kyrillos abandoned his District 13 constituents
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... and will gladly vote for Menendez as Kyrillos is deliberatly throwing his Union Beach area constiuents under the bus. ...

4. Monmouth football picked to finish 5th, 3 make All-NEC preseason team
(Sports/Professional)

... Hawks open training camp on Monday and have their season opener at Lehigh on Sept. 1. The 2012 Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll (First place votes in parenthesis): 1. Albany (6) 2. Duquesne ...

5. Man's best friend? Animals considered property in N.J.
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Can you put a monetary value on the emotional distress caused by the loss of a pet? The New Jersey Supreme Court says you can’t. The state Supreme Court voted 5-0 ...

6. Springsteen & Swan
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... Multi billions of dollars have beeen wasted and even lives have been lost on stupid, ill considered schemes designed to buy votes. The Socialist coalition has even had an effect on our Olympic performance, ...

7. Voters to POTUS candidates: Create jobs and fix the government
(U.S./Nation)

... July 19 and July 22 with a sample of 1, 030 likely voters. The margin of error is 4 percent. Reducing corruption in the federal government came as the second highest priority chosen, with 87 percent ...

8. Lord Coe undercuts Michael Phelps' title of 'Greatest Olympian of All-Time'
(Sports/Professional)

... a Los Angeles Times poll, more than 65 percent of voters say Phelps in the greatest Olympian. Jesse Owens comes in at a distant second with just under 14 percent of the voters. And Carl Lewis, a 10-time ...

9. Miss. Baptist Church to wedding couple: No blacks allowed
(U.S./Nation)

... at another church or risk being voted out of the church. Ultimately the church got their way. The most shocking part of the story may be that the members that opposed the Wilsons marrying at the FBC were ...

10. POLL: Obama, Menendez, and Booker favored for N.J. win, Kyrillos has shot to advance
(N.J./State)

... said Krista Jenkins, Executive Director of PublicMind and professor of political science. “We have a Republican governor with strong approval, and yet registered voters are leaning heavily toward Democratic ...

11. OMG: Majority of Americans would support atheist president
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  Yet again, a Gallup poll shows that a sizeable majority of Americans would vote for an atheist for president. It seems that 54 percent of those questioned said they would vote a "well- qualified" atheist ...

12. Americans losing faith that Obama is Christian
(U.S./Nation)

... the majority of voters,55 percent, were confident that Obama was Christian. Only 12 percent at the time thought otherwise. So what happened between 2008 and 2012 that made people change their minds? A ...

13. Romney's Returns and his Tax Plan
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... people just dislike the President enough to vote for anyone else. ...

14. Obama's tax cut to better serve 95% of New Jerseyans
(Opinion/Commentary)

... timely because this week the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Republican plan to extend all the Bush tax cuts, including for the richest 2 percent of U.S. households, while ending improvements ...

15. Romney's refusal to release tax returns may cost him
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and I were losing it 19 years ago. Voter distrust of politicians runs deep and, propelled by heated campaign rhetoric, the “something to hide” argument finds a receptive audience, particularly when the ...

16. App
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You guys hear of the app from www.formvote.com ? It's pretty cool. for android and iphone i think. ...

17. Christie and Sweeney still at Atlantic City's tables
(N.J./State)

... gambling industry saw a 10 percent jump in 2011, according to Bloomberg. Democrat Assemblyman Ralph Caputo, Essex County, is sponsoring legislation asking voters in a statewide referendum to support ...

18. Barnegat Bay needs pollution reduction diet
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Bay has many devoted protectors who are monitoring conditions and demanding action, including the American Littoral Society, Save Barnegat Bay and the Trust for Public Land. If you love Barnegat Bay, support ...

19. N.J. Legislature must call a special session for property taxes
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of that house, within seven days of final passage of this concurrent resolution, which shall be devoted solely to consideration of the issue of property tax relief and reform in this State and which shall ...

20. N.J. reps opposed House offshore oil drilling bill
(U.S./Nation)

BY GINA G. SCALA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM To drill or not to drill; that is the question New Jersey legislators are facing in the wake of a Republican-dominated House of Representatives vote Wednesday. ...