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1. Excessive Pensions & Benefits is the ROOT CAUSE
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... one’s career) of Public Sector Defined Benefit pensions (for a 30-year employee retiring at age 55) ranges from 29% to 58% depending on the richness of the benefit formula (with safety workers generally ...

2. NJ Taxes
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... pay a higher rate of tax than low income earners it naturally follows that high income states will pay a greater percentage of income as tax of one sort or another, from income tax, to property tax and ...

3. Doria is ruining Jerseylicious.
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... who gives all Americans a bad name. She's dogmatic, obnoxious, and generally has that face you just want to slap before she's even said anything. Honey, stop behaving like your years of experience and ...

4. N.J. Unemployment Insurance Task Force: Employers should pay less per worker for 2011-12
(Money/Economy)

... need to structurally reform our current unemployment insurance program — one that thousands of displaced workers depend upon,” Christie said. ‘We took action to prevent a massive tax increase on small ...

5. N.J. public unions stage Trenton protest in solidarity with Wisconsin workers
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... budget, fire Christie.” Other placards proclaimed, “Recall Chris Christie,” “Stand up: Rally to Support New Jersey families and communities,” and Negotiate, Don’t Dictate.” The demonstrators were sometimes ...

6. Unions expect large turnout at Trenton rally Friday in support of Wisconsin public workers
(N.J./State)

Two Wisconsin demonstrators set to address crowd BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The size of a labor rally outside the Statehouse in Trenton Friday in support of the unionized Wisconsin public ...

7. Public input sought on plan for New Jersey's Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area
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... Heritage Area would implement the management plan together over the next five to ten years. The federally required plan has not yet been approved by the Crossroads of the American Revolution Association ...

8. Excessive pensions are the Root Cause
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... on the richness of the benefit formula (with safety workers generally at the highest end). More specifically, for the noted formulas, the level annual %s of cash pay are as follows: 2% per year of ...

9. Democrats say they want more property tax relief in Chris Christie’s 2011-12 New Jersey state budget
(N.J./State)

...  “Our system is broken,” Greenwald said. “Structurally there’s a crack, yet the governor has proposed covering it up with window dressings. This will do absolutely nothing to fix the problem. “Throwing ...

10. With backing of commercial fishermen, company plans wind farm off Atlantic City coast
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... sites surged in Europe last year, with the British Isles and Denmark leading the way. But the EU's generally higher fuel prices make alternative power more cost-competitive. An analysis last week by Reuters ...

11. REVIEW: Geoffrey Rush delivers a Russian fruitcake
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... King's Speech," is a marvelous actor who can emote very naturally or eccentrically as required. A stage version of Gogol's "The Diary of a Madman" proves to be a splendid showcase for Rush's bravura side. ...

12. Excessive pensions are the Root Cause
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... retiring at age 55) ranges from 29% to 58% depending on the richness of the benefit formula (with safety workers generally at the highest end). More specifically, for the noted formulas, the level annual ...

13. Gov. Christie says Parsippany School Superintendent LeRoy Seitz has illegal salary
(N.J./State)

... to $175,000. The Daily Record reported Seitz said he was being paid his old $212,020 annual salary as the school board — in a lawsuit unilaterally implemented by board President Anthony Mancuso — argued ...

14. NJ Union (Marxist) Rally
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Is Trumka coming to NJ to receive an award from an American Communist Party, like he did in Conn. recently or is he just attending the rally? Don't you union rank and file understand your Marxist leadership ...

15. A much-needed Catskills getaway at just the right time
(Life/Style)

... about a young boy literally hiding underground, like a turnip, during the Holocaust. This time I choose Jules Verne's "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" and a catnap in the warm sun. As usual, the ...

16. N.J. union workers to demonstrate at Statehouse
(N.J./State)

Trenton rally is to show support for Wisconsin public employees and to send Christie a message BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The New Jersey State AFL-CIO on Friday will attempt to bring ...

17. Social Security
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I couldn't agree more with Carolyn. Gov Christie has never spent years kneeling on a 4 in. thick steel plate, pre-heated to 450 degrees, controlling a welding arc that is literally hotter than the sun, ...

18. more on Systemic risk
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... in the possibility of a prolonged downdraft (after this current spike upwards which might well be a sucker rally) such as Japan has known for decades, and you have a much more accurate picture of what ...

19. You know, kids these days ARE out of control.
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... teachers. Some of what she is saying ARE true, particularly the fact that some students are naturally smart BUT will never realize their potential because they're so immature. On the other hand, we ...

20. You know, kids these days ARE out of control.
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... teachers. Some of what she is saying ARE true, particularly the fact that some students are naturally smart BUT will never realize their potential because they're so immature. On the other hand, we ...