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1. Tea Party starting Civil War all over again
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the disputes and ultimately the agency's rules. Public oversight and transparency are lost in the process and agencies promoting development can challenge rules that protect our environment from more ...

2. State comptroller report finds 587 local authorities and commissions far less than open with public
(N.J./State)

... and often overlapping system of government, the OSC report catalogues the authorities and commissions and analyzes the level of on-line transparency they offer. The report estimates that the authorities ...

3. Higher Education Task Force offers hope for New Jersey amid economic challenges
(Opinion/Commentary)

... these decisions, not primarily to Trenton, but to their nonpartisan, volunteer boards of trustees following Sarbanes-Oxley financial transparency best practices. Student financial aid is another key ...

4. Census finds Hispanics now New Jersey's largest minority
(N.J./State)

... feedback from the public as possible," Sweeney said. "A completely open process is one in which all the players are known, transparency is the norm — not the exception — and which places absolute fairness ...

5. N.J. Republicans under pressure to disclose donors funding their redistricting effort
(N.J./State)

... amounts to the Center for a Better New Jersey." "We need to pause for a moment to have a candid conversation about transparency," Watson Coleman said. "Quite simply, this group is an affront to our laws ...

6. NJ town clerks say state open public records law has increased transparency and workload
(N.J./State)

... government transparency, according to Monmouth University survey made public Monday. But only 44 percent of the clerks say that the OPRA law has really been successful in its overall goal to promote ...

7. Tea Party trashing New Jersey with anti-environmental agenda used by Gov. Christie
(Opinion/Commentary)

... over the disputes and ultimately the agency's rules. Public oversight and transparency are lost in the process and agencies promoting development can challenge rules that protect our environment from ...

8. Christie signs 9 bills into law, including measure to improve fire safety at New Jersey colleges
(N.J./State)

... other. It's important to provide them with this life-saving information that they can refer to." Christie also signed a measure sponsored by four Assembly Democrats to improve public transparency by making ...

9. Top paint color trends for 2011
(Life/Style)

... wishes are nurtured with soft textures, transparency and a color palette with hues that are pale, frosted and opalescent — grey, porcelain and whites. For help in choosing your new colors, Benjamin Moore ...

10. Funding for New Jersey’s legislative campaigns will continue to stutter without outside help
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in New Jersey Citizens United not all to blame for growth of outside groups involved in political campaigns An iPhone democracy is not far off Enhance transparency by changing N.J. PAC requirements ...

11. NJ Pensions, Benefits and Bankruptcy
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... combination. Hopefully the new Republican House of Reps. in Congress will (a) pass the Pension transparency bill, (b)pass a bill allowing Bankruptcy for States, and (c) make it clear that there will ...

12. Citizens’ United decision influencing late campaign spending
(Opinion/Commentary)

... off Enhance transparency by changing N.J. PAC requirements New Jerseyans should know county and municipal dollars spent on lobbying We could see unions and corporations dominate campaigns because ...

13. Bruno Tedeschi's response
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... conducting an internal review as to how much information we have to give out." When you're paying your founder almost $200,000 a year, I think you owe everyone a bit more transparency than the legal minimum, ...

14. Inaccuracies in this article
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... and work. NCSF is committed to accountability, transparency, and collaboration with partners. The writer mischaracterized how the fund spent its money and provided a number of factually incorrect statements. Specifically, ...

15. Gov. Christie attacked New Jersey’s environment as much as NJEA
(Opinion/Commentary)

... bill eliminates subjective oversight, transparency, and will greatly impact the environment, public health, and safety. The Governor's appointments made to Highlands Council were clearly a message that ...

16. Newark Charter School Fund spending more on itself than it's giving out
(N.J./State)

... dependent on one or a few large donors, Miniutti said. "We're also starting to look more closely at accountability and transparency, those good governance issues," she said. "Whether or not a non-profit ...

17. Top 11 financial moves investors should make in 2011
(Money/Economy)

... funds. They use the same strategies as hedge funds, but offer greater transparency, third-party custodians, daily liquidity, and lower costs. This trend will bring the "chasing alpha"-type investment style ...

18. New era of campaign financing is upon us
(Opinion/Commentary)

... bow to transparency, however, the decision strongly favors disclosure, a position the Court would again defend in refusing to hear an appeal of SpeechNow v. FEC later in the year. The Ninth District ...

19. True confessions – I got bailed out by Fed’s Ben Bernanke!
(Life/Style)

BY PAM LOBLEY NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM NOW THAT'S FUNNY Now that Wiki is leaking all over the place, and a new regulatory bill requires Wall Street to have increased transparency and disclosure about ...

20. State Dept. of Education spending $174,225 for long-delayed study on special ed funding
(Life/Style)

... now that the study has been commissioned, but remain concerned about the department's lack of transparency in communicating this information to the public, and about the lack of a firm deadline for completion ...