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1. Reduce the EXCESSIVE pensions for CURRENT workers
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Let’s cut to the chase ….... Private sector employers typically contribute 3%-8% of an employee’s cash pay towards retirement, yet the total cost (expressed as a level annual % of cash pay throughout ...

2. Gun lobby has friend on way to N.J. Supreme Court
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... law with Patterson to see if it remains valid. Bryan Miller of Ceasefire NJ, has expressed concern that the gun lobby may sense a more friendly Supreme Court with Patterson, and might try to overturn ...

3. Philadelphia Eagles look like next stop for Plaxico Burress after prison
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... devastating our offense was.” Burress caught the winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning in Super Bowl XLII. The Giants have expressed no interest in resigning him, but they have not ruled it out, either. ...

4. New Jersey Ostrich Party founded by entrepreneurs
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... egos, exclusionary philosophy and extreme views expressed in sound bites,” says Mongeluzo, the president of Marlton, N.J-based Pro Computer Service, and a party founder. “There has to be a platform that ...

5. Memorial Day quotes remind us of cost of freedom
(U.S./Nation)

... of different people have expressed their appreciation and have been quoted through the years. According to the Huffington Post, Benjamin Disraeli said: “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great ...

6. Survey finds N.J. CEOs more optimistic about state's economy
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... percent of those surveyed expressed the sentiment when the survey was last conducted in the fall of 2009. Sixty-seven percent said New Jersey is fair-to-good as a place to do business, up from 51 percent ...

7. Camden police concerned after mysterious document surfaces
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... for the city and the department, but FOP Lodge 1 President John Williamson expressed apprehension after receiving a scanned document outlining the decimation of the force. Williams told the Courier Post, ...

8. How many abortions caused by closed adoption?
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... (by her mother) into giving up her first baby for adoption, a grief she felt until her death at age 63. I believe it was her unexpressed and uncompleted grieving over the loss of that baby that prevented ...

9. N.J. mayors want $275 million of Gov. Christie's newfound $511 million to lower property taxes
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...  “When presenting our testimony on the governor’s original budget proposal we expressed to the Legislature our support for level municipal revenue replacement funding,” Chiarello said. “At that time, ...

10. Study of Bergen County law enforcement suggests reduction, elimination key to saving
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... a consolidation study conducted during the 1990s. Driscoll expressed disappointment in the study, which he said should have illustrated a more definitive answer for money it discussed. Freeholder David ...

11. Expanding 'learned helplessness' in N.J.: Christie Administration's solution to economic crisis
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BY SALVATORE PIZZURO COMMENTARY The chair and vice-chair of a State Senate committee on health issues have expressed concerns about Governor Chris Christie’s policies and the impact that they will ...

12. Cop killer lyrics cause of N.J. State Police reps' outrage over Common's invitation to White House
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BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Union officials representing New Jersey State Police expressed outrage after learning of an invitation extended to entertainer, Common, from the White House for ...

13. Christie Administration has misinterpreted a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court
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... issues. State Senator Loretta Weinberg has expressed concerns that the Department of Health and Senior Services has proposed plans that do not meet the needs of the State’s most vulnerable citizens. Senator ...

14. Susan N. Wilson receives Planned Parenthood/Mercer’s Sanger Circle award
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... of Planned Parenthood as an organization this momentous year.” Predicting it will remain a “hot button issue” in the 2012 campaign, she expressed “particular pride” at receiving the award. Sanger’s opponents, ...

15. Nicolas Cage arrested after argument with wife Alice Kim in New Orleans
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... movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in March 2009, Cage expressed his fondness for New Jersey via Twitter saying, “In New Jersey shooting. Why does this place always get a bum rap. One of the top ten states ...

16. New Jersey prepares for latest battle in decades-old Abbott v. Burke war
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... significant improvement. The Governor has expressed the same sentiment, suggesting the only way to change the Court’s approach was to change the Court’s composition. The Court has a great deal at stake ...

17. Curtis Shearer is fourth guilty plea in New Jersey City University theft
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... affairs, expressed shock and disappointment, saying Ruffin-Moody, employed by the University for eight years, was trusted, the Jersey Journal reported. She will be sentenced sometime this month, and faces ...

18. Not LOLing
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... every article. I understand letting everyone have their say and being an open forum, but this is not beneficial. There are other venues where these ignorant viewpoints can be expressed. It really does ...

19. The ROOT CAUSE is Excessive pensions
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... 3%-8% of an employee’s cash pay towards retirement, yet the total cost (expressed as a level annual % of cash pay throughout one’s career) of Public Sector Defined Benefit pensions (for a 30-year employee ...

20. NJ League of Municipalities says proposed public employee health coverage bill could cause problems for local governments
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... approval of the state Division of Pensions and Benefits. In the meeting with Sweeney, Dressel expressed concern over a provision that would prohibit new employees from benefiting from the state health ...