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1. N.J. officials to attend housing conference at Harvard University
(N.J./State)

... Irvington's problem property challenges," Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith, president of the New Jersey Urban Mayors Association, said. "The plight of abandoned properties is urban America's greatest challenge." ...

2. N.J. flood watch: State’s rivers crest
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the greatest potential path of the rising waters. * Photo of electrical fuse box. Take only essential items with you. * If you have time, turn off the gas, electricity, and water. * Unplug appliances ...

3. Dutch disease is heading toward the United States
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of Spanish Armada fame ruled when the Spanish Empire was the greatest empire in the world. The resource was an influx of gold and silver from the New World. Spanish manufacturers, already overburdened ...

4. Ali-Frazier I: My memory of forty years ago today
(Sports/Professional)

... battle. Yet it was not as great a fight in boxing terms as the “Thrilla in Manila” fought between Ali and Frazier on October 1, 1975. That latter fight was perhaps history’s greatest heavyweight championship ...

5. Health care costs.
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... Retirees who are receiving health benefits hit 65 the greatest cost of the health benefit is transferred Medicare. A small coverage is handled by NJ but vast cost goes to Medicare and the longer one ...

6. NJEA, EQuATE question value of tying student test scores to teacher evaluations
(N.J./State)

... not really different from the average,” Braun said. “VAM can only identify those teachers at the extremes, but that’s where the statistical uncertainty is the greatest.” “The best VAM can currently do ...

7. She made it!!!
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I really am happy for Whitney and all she has been through. Her life as one of the greatest muscians ever, her inspiring songs, her commitment ro her marriage when it lasted, her failures, her come back, ...

8. ‘The Five Greatest Movies Ever Made’
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM On April 2, Marc Lapadula, a film professor at Yale, will lecture on “The Five Greatest Movies Ever Made.” It will be at the AMC Theatre, 570 Second Avenue, ...

9. N.J. Health Commissioner: Foreign-born population is healthier than native-born
(Health/Healthquest)

... advantages and health challenges which can change the longer they live here. “The foreign-born have been New Jersey’s greatest source of population growth since 2000, and as the report notes, their health ...

10. George Soros: Euro debt crisis is spreading
(Money/Economy)

... in social upheaval, as people react to austere fiscal policies and no apparent solution is visible. The greatest challenge right now is to get the European economy back on its feet again and try to bring ...

11. Goodbye, Duke Snider
(Sports/Professional)

... “Talkin’ Baseball — Willie, Mickey, and ‘The Duke’ ”. Within minutes, my eyes were filled with tears. My first year as a baseball fan was 1955. This was near the end of New York’s greatest baseball ...

12. Gov. Christie’s budget leaves much to be desired
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and that means no more “trickle down” funding from the State that soaks suburban taxpayers to pay for the greatest failed social experiment in New Jersey ---- public urban education. Increasing state ...

13. Neighbor Against Neighbor
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... for letting this public sector union problem happen. This union problem is the sort of thing that happens when the people living in the greatest country on Earth let the country deteriorate to an "apathy ...

14. Health benefits are a greater fiscal challenge than New Jersey’s unfunded pensions
(Opinion/Commentary)

... stressed. Retirement pensions, and especially health benefits, are state and local government finances' greatest albatrosses. In a difficult fiscal climate where the total unfunded liability of retirement ...

15. Gov. Christie’s N.J. budget address of 2011 (TEXT)
(N.J./State)

... on the budget and the taxpayer will be unsustainable. The annual state contribution – the annual contribution – would grow to $13 billion per year.   The greatest risk of inaction is to our public ...

16. Carmelo Anthony to N.Y. Knicks: A matter of presidential proportions
(Sports/Professional)

... as the greatest womanizer of all time, can be summed up in nine simple words. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” I repeat… “I did not have sexual relations with that woman…” Let’s ...

17. Patients are released from hospital too soon and still sick
(Health/Healthquest)

... doctor. However, a National Institute on Aging study tracked men over a 20 year period and found that those with a mid-life blood pressure over 140 mmHG and were never treated have the greatest risk for ...

18. The Statehouse's greatest day: The visit of Abraham Lincoln
(N.J./State)

... tipped his hat in response. It was a cloudy Thursday, Feb. 21, 1861 - 150 years ago Monday — and Lincoln was about to create the greatest day in the over 200-year history of the Statehouse. Lincoln ...

19. Steve Jobs’ health has Apple followers uneasy about future
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the company to deal with continuing health issues. According to the Hindustan Times, Jeffery Young, who co-authored the book "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act the History of Business,'' believes ...

20. R.I.P. Gino Cimoli – you were a wonderful part of baseball history
(Sports/Professional)

... Pittsburgh Pirates – and for his key moment in baseball history in the seventh game of the 1960 World Series – in my opinion, the greatest World Series game ever played. I grew up in Pittsburgh, and ...