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1. COBRA health insurance for unemployed starting to run out for some
(Health/Healthquest)

BY ANDREW VILLEGAS KAISER HEALTH NEWS Howard Kornblum has been watching every penny for the past 15 months and it's about to get worse. After being laid off from his job as a consulting director in ...

2. Princeton Information Ltd. moves from NYC to Jersey City
(Money/Economy)

... company, one of the nation's largest privately-held IT consulting firms, has been continuously operated by the same founder and chairman since its inception in 1985 and primarily serves Fortune 500 pharmaceutical, ...

3. Intrasphere Technologies bringing 300 jobs to Jersey City
(Money/Economy)

$12.4 million in state aid helps lures firm from New York TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Intrasphere Technologies Inc. a life sciences consulting firm, will relocate to Jersey City's Harborside ...

4. State support of $500,000 credit line helping tech company expand in Middlesex County
(Money/Economy)

... consulting for the life sciences health care industry; strategic IT consulting staffing; and, web-based work flow automation applications for small businesses. NexAge has been honored with numerous awards ...

5. Weak oversight of site remediation helps N.J. stay polluted
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and RCRA sites would not fall under the LSRP program and would still be under DEP direct supervision and jurisdiction. There would be no private consulting on federally regulated sites. What this means ...

6. Women and alcoholism: Is couples therapy the best treatment choice
(Health/Healthquest)

... in addition to alcohol-dependence did better in couples therapy. Their paper appeared recently in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Epstein is an associate research professor at Rutgers ...

7. Disclosure of payments to doctors part of health care reform
(Health/Healthquest)

... options, research grants, knickknacks, consulting fees and travel to medical conferences at chi-chi hotels. The details will be posted in a searchable database starting Sept. 30, 2013. The measure is ...

8. Bob Martin moves to reorganize N.J. DEP, names high-ranking staff
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... as an assistant commissioner and head the new Office of Ecological Restoration. Marilyn Lennon, who a planner with almost 30 years in environmental consulting, is the new assistant commissioner for Land ...

9. Study shows Hudson, Essex counties have most Twitter users in N.J.
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... consulting and publishing firm that specializes in social networking. The report also looked at municipalities in New Jersey with the highest concentration of Twitter users. Milford Borough in Hunterdon ...

10. Retired Superintendents and Principals Drain Budgets
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... they don't even have to pay into the pension system when earning their "consulting fees" nor do they get a reduction in their pension payment. A teacher who retires and returns to a district to substitute ...

11. New Jersey's ‘Pay-to-Play' law causes 29 percent drop in political contributions by government contractors
(N.J./State)

... -- $499,370 Remington & Vernick Engineers Inc. -- $356,325 Maser Consulting P.A. -- $227,711 Pennoni Associates Inc. -- $210,079 Parker McCay P.A. -- $207,030 Richard A. Alaimo Assoc. -- ...

12. Chris Daggett named president, CEO of Dodge Foundation
(N.J./State)

... (JMS), a full service environmental consulting and management firm providing assessment, investigation and remediation services to government and the private sector. While at JMS, Daggett assisted in the ...

13. William J. Marino: For affordable health insurance, focus on the underlying costs
(Opinion/Commentary)

... consulting firm Milliman, Inc.: "Simplistically limiting premium rate increases to some predetermined inflation index fails to recognize the fundamental elements involved in setting health insurance rates, ...

14. New Jersey can’t afford to lose Oyster Creek
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of cooling towers at Oyster Creek would cost $700-$800 million to install, more than the value of the facility. In 2007, an independent report conducted by the Bates Whites consulting firm detailed the ...

15. Ex-Irvington Mayor Michael Steele gets 7 years for taking $120,000 in kickbacks
(N.J./State)

... contractor who owned Lone Star Consulting, a construction company, and BMG Security, a security camera installation company. Steele rigged bids on at least 29 school contracts involving those companies ...

16. N.J. environmental coalition urges Oyster Creek nuclear plant to stop damaging Barnegat Bay
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to the Jeffries Consulting Company, a small fraction of the company's annual profits (less than 2%). Exelon earned over $4.43 billion in profit in the last quarter of last year alone. Over the 10 years ...

17. pot calling the kettle black
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... salary for a Bronx or Newark cop, not Bergen County donut eater) with a side business consulting? How about you have some decency & convert your portion of the plan to a cash plan & switch it to a TIAA-Cref ...

18. Christie's transition team issues 19 reports to reshape state government
(N.J./State)

... group of individuals from the private and public sectors,'' Christie said in a statement. "In the coming weeks, my cabinet and I will be consulting with subcommittee members, reviewing each of the reports, ...

19. Christie makes five hires to complete his senior staff
(N.J./State)

... and a law degree from Seton Hall Law School in 1984. Goetting is currently the principal and founder of Goetting Ahead, which offers public policy consulting to both private and public clients. Previously, ...

20. Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff (treasurer), Bob Grady (CEA) and Al Koeppe (EDA) join Christie’s financial team
(N.J./State)

... the end of 2006 and the end of 2008, Sidamon-Eristoff performed a series of short-term consulting assignments for Chemonics International, an international development consulting firm, then executing a ...