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1. 35 N.J. tourism promoters to share $400K in state aid
(Money/Economy)

... - $10,500 First Choice Marketing – $10,500 Cooper’s Ferry Development Association Inc. - $17,500 Bayshore Discovery Project - $14,000 Greater Hammonton Chamber of Commerce - $7,000 Warren County ...

2. N.J. State Museum announces 9/11 10th anniversary commemoration
(N.J./State)

... Remembrance Sponsorship level. In kind donations have been provided by the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, Capital Health and the Trenton Downtown Association’s Destination Trenton initiative. Gov. ...

3. Does N.J. stand to benefit from free trade deals with South Korea and Latin America?
(N.J./State)

... on the massive Panama Canal improvement project. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a principal mover behind the current pro-treaty campaigns, said the agreement with Panama "will level the playing field ...

4. State government's bad financial situation makes New Jersey the 20th worst state to do business in
(N.J./State)

... of Planning and Public Policy, the panel will include, Dennis Bone, president of Verizon and chairman of Choose NJ; Thomas A. Bracken, president and CEO of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce; Henry ...

5. N.J. legislature passes statewide ban on fracking
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... at a level 17 times higher than those near inactive ones. Earlier this year, the U.S. House and Energy Commerce Committee determined that 14 oil companies had injected 780 million gallons of fracking ...

6. N.J. does not have the highest taxes in the United States
(Opinion/Commentary)

... revenues are compared as a percentage of taxpayer's personal income, according to an analysis using data from the U.S. Census and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. It's the ...

7. Gov. Christie makes 9 appointments to state's Hispanic advisory committee
(N.J./State)

... Anira Sanchez Clericuzio of Cranford; attorney Daniel R. Guadalupe of Plainsboro; Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Founding President and CEO Daniel H. Jara of Hackensack; New Jersey City University ...

8. GOP Debate: Ron Paul and the Pandering 6
(U.S./Nation)

...  They claim to be in favor of the Tenth Amendment and other small government proposals. Ron should ask them if they want to eliminate most cabinet departments: agriculture, commerce, education, energy, ...

9. NOAA predicts another active hurricane season for 2011
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 3, 4 or 5) with winds of 111 mph or higher. “The United States was fortunate last year,” said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. “Winds ...

10. Gov. Christie needs to modulate his 'pedal to the metal' approach
(Opinion/Commentary)

... wages of working people they served to reduce income disparity in our nation. At one time even business viewed them in that manner. The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1954 made the following statement ...

11. Mark Zuckerberg wants children on Facebook
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... past year. At a congressional hearing about underage users earlier this month. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said it was "indefensible" Facebook had only 100 employees ...

12. $2 million HIV pharmaceutical drug bust in Fairview results in convictions
(N.J./State)

... in interstate commerce once the labels were removed and the bottles cleaned. None of the defendants had a license to distribute wholesale quantities of pharmaceuticals, as required by federal law. The ...

13. 8-year-old injected with Botox prompts legislation
(N.J./State)

... The meeting will be at 10 a.m. The Commerce and Economic Development Committee will meet at noon to hear testimony concerning the administration’s proposal to eliminate the Urban Enterprise Zone program ...

14. Republican FCC commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker lands job at Comcast
(U.S./Nation)

... also has served as acting assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information and acting administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. There, the Wall ...

15. Legislators seeking campaign contributions turn out for NEW JOBS PAC gathering
(Money/Economy)

... candidates for Legislature who share the goal of attempting to make New Jersey more business friendly. The gathering, which was done in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey, ...

16. Despite being GOP frontrunner, Christie not running for president; 'I got enough damn problems in NJ'
(N.J./State)

... Park Press, in the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce’s new Business Climate Survey, almost 63 percent of those polled said they would support Christie for president — but just 19 percent said they would ...

17. White House informs local officials of effect of federal government shutdown
(N.J./State)

... would not be able to conduct regular safety and health inspections. Only emergency passport services would be open; normal processing would not. Department of Commerce grant-making programs for economic ...

18. Growth in national personal income masks truth of dwindling middle class
(Money/Economy)

BY GERALD J. ROBINSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The good news masks the bad. Last week the Commerce Department reported a substantial increase in the nation’s personal income in February from a year ...

19. New Jersey names the six nonprofits that will grow medical marijuana
(N.J./State)

... onetime served on a White House staff and director of the state Commerce and Economic Growth Commission. He was also president of Frontier Airlines, founder of Princeton Aviation Corp. and senior director ...

20. Dutch disease is heading toward the United States
(Opinion/Commentary)

... others is not flowing into our coffers, the equivalent has been occurring by our right to print money and spend it on goods. The U.S. dollar is the unit of value in world commerce. When nation A sells ...