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1. Big name athlete spending, Jason Bay, Bobby Holik, Stephon Marbury, does not guarantee wins
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY The quandary every sports team faces is creating a formula that will ultimately build a championship team.  Many organizations fall victim to “winning the press conference” ...

2. PAC campaign financing can be revised, not abolished
(Opinion/Commentary)

... bans would do well to spend as much time examining the forces driving the escalating cost of campaigns. Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy ...

3. Professional athletes like Mariano Rivera and Eli Manning thrive in high pressure situations
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JED HUGHES  COMMENTARY What separates champions from their competitors? Elite athletes are rarely defined based on their skill sets alone, but rather by the combination of physical and mental ...

4. Obama's Buffett Rule hurts all Americans
(Money/Economy)

... popular in the short term, in the long term it is counter-productive for all Americans. Michael Busler is an Associate Professor and a Fellow at the William J. Hughes center for Public Policy at Richard ...

5. Carpenters Local Union 255 and Habitat for Humanity build dream home
(N.J./State)

... from Local Union 255 answered the call. Brandon Hughes, 25, a single father of Brandon Jr., 6, had received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer information systems from Bloomfield College, found ...

6. Qatar to host FIFA World Cup: An unlikely 21st century sports powerhouse
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY The 22nd FIFA World Cup in 2022 will take place in Qatar, the smallest, least populous, and the first Middle Eastern country to host the global football tournament.  The ...

7. Sweeney, Norcross attack on Lautenberg over Rutgers-Rowan merger was calculated
(Opinion/Commentary)

... put to the torch as well. Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Richard Stockton College. RECENT COLUMNS BY CARL GOLDEN Christie and ...

8. The N.Y. Yankees the N.J. Yankees? What could have been
(Sports/Professional)

... a bill that was signed into law by Governor Richard Hughes that would change the area. Eventually the state would build a football stadium, a racetrack and an arena off of Route 4, but it is possible that ...

9. N.Y. Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Yanks' new big 3 ready for 2012
(Sports/Professional)

... tears up his ankle on the trampoline (Joba Chamberlain). Hiroki Kuroda, Phil Hughes, Ivan Nova and Freddie Garcia fill in behind Sabathia, making for a capable, if not outstanding, starting rotation. ...

10. Sports head and heart injuries can be underestimated
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY We have so many clichés in sports about head and heart. "Get your head in the game… Keep your head up… You gotta have heart…They played with a lot of heart today…" However, ...

11. Tebow is NFL distraction: Goodell punishes New Orleans Saints sinners
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY Not all the sinners are Saints, so NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has put the team owners on notice that their squads better not offer bounties in which players are rewarded ...

12. Christie and Sweeney's plan for property tax relief: A bipartisan choice of aisle over plank
(Opinion/Commentary)

... be a shotgun wedding, but both realize that walking down the aisle together is preferable to walking the plank together. Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center ...

13. For Newt Gingrich, the party is over
(Opinion/Commentary)

... J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Richard Stockton College. RECENT COLUMNS BY CARL GOLDEN Commend Sweeney for shared municipal services mandate Christie responds to Newark woman's plea for help ...

14. NCAA March Madness, office pools, and the coaching merry-go-round
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY Selection Sunday brings the unveiling of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament bracket. It's an exciting time for major college basketball power houses, such as Kentucky, ...

15. Commend Sweeney for shared municipal services mandate
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Richard Stockton College. RECENT COLUMNS BY CARL GOLDEN Christie responds to Newark woman's plea ...

16. N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin: Not just 'Lin-sanity,' but a true leader
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY The emergence of New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin onto the NBA scene is refreshing. In just a few weeks, he has gone from bench warmer on a sub-.500 team to a bona fide star ...

17. NFL Combine tests at Lucas Oil Stadium: NFL draft Olympics
(Sports/Professional)

BY JED HUGHES COMMENTARY More than 300 of the top college prospects in the country will participate at the NFL Combine in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the next week. This event ...

18. With A.J. Burnett gone, how does the 2012 Yankee rotation shape up?
(Sports/Professional)

... starts up? Let’s first take a lot at the possible starters and then how the rotation may shake out. Starting Candidates: CC Sabathia, Ivan Nova, Michael Pineda, Phil Hughes, Freddy Garcia, Hiroki Kuroda. ...

19. A study of rhetoric: John Mercer Langston and African-American politicians in postbellum south
(U.S./Nation)

... to secure his seat in the 51st Congress. During his brief term, Langston, whose great nephew was renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, proposed a 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ...

20. Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett could be a Pittsburgh Pirate
(Sports/Professional)

... Ivan Nova, plus just-acquired Michael Pineda and Hiroki Kuroda. That leaves one spot and, besides Burnett, the Yanks have Phil Hughes and Freddy Garcia ready to battle for it. They also have some minor ...