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1. Good bet a Republican will be next governor of Pennsylvania
(U.S./Nation)

... Dick Thornburgh was elected to a second term as governor while Ronald Reagan was president, did Pennsylvania voters choose not to separate their state and federal chief executives by party. "The ...

2. Flood, storm victims in 12 N.J. counties get tax extension from IRS
(Money/Economy)

... from Uncle Sam on filing income tax returns after officials deemed the counties Federal Disaster Areas as a result of the recent severe storms and flooding. The Internal Revenue Service has extended ...

3. New artist-members to be featured at Lawrenceville gallery
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM It's happening at farms everywhere this month — "new faces day," when baby animals are held, displayed, petted, clucked over, fed. This weekend, it will happen ...

4. Governor Christie's parent-teacher conference
(Opinion/Commentary)

... into my benefits. I'm trying. You need to stop making teachers the enemy. GC: I'm not the enemy either! We had $1 billion in federal stimulus money cut and no one's mad at Obama. That guy gets a ...

5. Time has come to place a salary cap on N.J. school administrators
(Opinion/Commentary)

... represented the 11th District since 2008 ALSO BY DAVE RIBLE If Census responses are low in our area, we may not get a fair share of federal aid Stand up for 33,000 Ground Zero responders who are ...

6. Grade inflation equals consumer fraud
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... on in the Leaving Cert. Quoting from an article I read a couple years ago..."Grade inflation has wider implications too. Without high standards in education, how will the bottle-fed brats of the Bebo ...

7. hummm
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... that if marijuana becomes decriminalized at the federal level the state will not know what to do with it, hmm, here is a thought, lets take the taxes and fix our roads, or offer them as grants to students ...

8. Sharpe James coming home to a halfway house in Newark
(N.J./State)

Former mayor still appealing his conviction BY ANGELA DAIDONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James said he is heading back home following his release from a federal prison camp ...

9. History
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... am fearful of the feds taking all I have worked for if I grow my own. Doesn't seem to sensible to me and being retired, if that happened, I would not have a chance to work and recover. ...

10. Bill cuts N.J. unemployment benefits by $50
(Money/Economy)

... should not be rewarded. This would save the fund $189 million dollars annually.'' The legislation would also mandate that any federal benefits that Washington chooses to extend would have to be wholly ...

11. Empower the Parents
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... franchise the Federal Trade Commission makes franchisers tell the truth in their franchise disclosure documents. Don't parents deserve the same kind of protection from the educational establishment?  ...

12. Tax tips for last-minute filers
(Money/Economy)

With the April 15 tax filing deadline right around the corner, the IRS offers taxpayers who have not yet filed a few last-minute tips. In New Jersey, approximately 35 percent of all federal income tax ...

13. Marijuana starting to look like a new revenue source for states
(U.S./Nation)

... growers and that distributors would accurately disclose their sales, if at all. And since marijuana is still illegal under federal law, it's unclear how the Obama administration would ultimately react ...

14. He had that jail in great shape
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When Garcia was warden he had all the Federal and Marshall inmates in that jail. Speziale doesn't care for his officers he acts like he does there was an article that said "Speziale told the freeholders ...

15. N.J. education commissioner says all districts will share equally if school aid ever increased
(N.J./State)

... the loss of education aid is expected to boost property taxes statewide by an average of $250. Schundler said one reason for the reduction in education aid is the loss of $1 billion in federal economic ...

16. State audit finds $118.8 million weatherization program lacks oversight
(N.J./State)

A review of the state government's federally-funded $118.8 million weatherization assistance program has found it lacks sufficient controls and guidelines to make sure grants are reaching low-income households, ...

17. Sheriff's Department needs a change
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As a Democrat I voted for President Reagan and President Clinton. I am fed up with the continuous spending of the left wing democrats. I see things from both sides and Speziale is a spender that likes ...

18. 4 teenagers arrested for rape of 7 year-old in Trenton
(N.J./State)

... he gave the little girl a stuffed rabbit for Easter. He encouraged the community to embrace the victim's family, who Palmer says are undergoing therapy and may be permanently relocated away from the area. ...

19. Open letter to Barbara Kennelly, president of NCPSSM
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... total expenditures. If you do so, you will find that in each year, except for 1999 and 2000, total government expenditures exceeded the total revenue of the federal government, including Social Security ...

20. Social Security Trust Fund
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... and total ransacking of the Social Security trust fund ..in the next century…the American people will wake up to the reality that those IOUs in the trust fund vault are a 21st century version of Confederate ...