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1. Repeal Bergen County’s blue laws, but Christie shouldn’t expect to raise a single dollar for New Jersey
(Opinion/Commentary)

... for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and 2008. Check www.MurraySabrin.com for more of his writings. ALSO BY MURRAY SABRIN: Gov. Christie gets a B+ for his N.J. budget address Murray Sabrin: N.J. privatization ...

2. Thousands of New Jersey’s CWA workers will picket state offices in protest of budget cuts
(N.J./State)

... will be holding signs saying: "Christie's cuts hurt NJ" "Christie's Budget Hurts the Vulnerable; Protects the Millionaires" "Privatization = Bad Services, No Savings" Hetty Rosenstein, state director ...

3. Gov. Christie targets New Jersey teachers on media tour
(N.J./State)

... be able to control more, pull back a little bit more. Are you going to be privatizing some positions there? CHRISTIE: Some of that will be as the result of privatization. Some of it will be pure layoffs. ...

4. Gov. Christie gets a B+ for his N.J. budget address
(Opinion/Commentary)

... for more of his writings. ALSO BY MURRAY SABRIN: Murray Sabrin: N.J. privatization task force should recommend nonprofit, tuition-based public schools Murray Sabrin: End-of-life care needs a national ...

5. The full text of Gov. Chris Christie's 2010 budget address
(N.J./State)

... not need its own television network - New Jersey network can and will succeed as an independent not‐for‐profit, and we should free it to pursue that path. Last week, I established a privatization advisory ...

6. Murray Sabrin: N.J. privatization task force should recommend nonprofit, tuition-based public schools
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY MURRAY SABRIN COMMENTARY Governor Christie has created a privatization task force headed by former congressman Dick Zimmer. The task force will make recommendations to the governor that ostensibly ...

7. Chris Christie on N.J.’s budget crisis, bringing an NBA team to Newark
(N.J./State)

... Executive Order 17 which creates a task force to develop a comprehensive approach to workforce privatization, the New Jersey Nets, and much more. To listen to the audio of the interview click HERE. FULL ...

8. N.J. Privatization Task Force signals cuts to government
(N.J./State)

... to privatize the work of some state agencies or the jobs of state employees beginning in January. The "New Jersey Privatization Task Force'' is directed to determine how to cut the size and cost of the ...

9. Christie moves to privatize as many as 2,000 state jobs
(N.J./State)

...  In the past, the state government has had problems with private contractors, including the Parsons Motor Vehicle Inspections debacle and E-ZPass. "The track record fro privatization is very bad for ...

10. Michigan vs. Michigan State: The state of public universities in the U.S.
(U.S./Nation)

... few universities autonomy to control their own finances has some appeal. So-called privatization proposals have come up in every recession for the last 20 years, and a few states have loosened the ...

11. New Jersey State PBA feeling the heat in Trenton
(Opinion/Commentary)

... out to the taxpayers. Aside from these issues mentioned above, we still have the privatization issue brewing in Camden County and which has now taken hold in Monmouth County as well, where their freeholder ...

12. Species going extinct at 1,000 times normal rate due to humans
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... privatization, exports and trade liberalization, is accelerating the decline in biodiversity Rojas says. Pavan Sukhdev, one of the world's leading economists, agrees. "We cannot continue our stewardship ...

13. IS THIS ANY BETTER THAN PRIVATIZATION WOULD BRING?
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

22 prison guards facing probe Tuesday, January 05, 2010 STAR-LEDGER STAFF Three prison officers are under investigation for allegedly threatening to electrocute a mentally ill inmate during an interrogation ...

14. prison privatization is wrong
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

in addition to the morality issues surrounding privatized prisons, the companies simply don't perform to the same standards as state-run facilities, and the cost savings they tout when promoting private ...

15. Partially agree
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... That is why this privatization door has been open. It Is time to come clean to the taxpayers and explain that we want reform and that reform will bring more financial responsibility and that privatization ...

16. You all make me laugh !
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Let me preface my comments by saying that I am adamantly opposed to the privatization of the New Jersey prison systems. However, for people involved in the prison systems to come on this site and pontificate ...

17. Jersey's private jail industry: Where inmates become a commodity and taxpayers remain in the dark
(Opinion/Commentary)

... safety of our jails and prisons is a mystery to the common taxpayers who are being fed the biggest lie in the history of politics when the subject of jail privatization rears its ugly head. These discount ...

18. Senate confirmation testimony of Lisa Jackson on privatization
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... to DEP's false claims used to justify privatization (i.e. that they lack adequate staff resources): http://www.wolfenotes.com/2009/05/privatization-of-nj-toxic-cleanup-law-reveals-a-systematic-collapse/#more-532 "But ...

19. Enck quote
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Good story Joe - I must say that I was very disappointed to read this quote from Enck - recall that even Lisa Jackson- in a reply to a question from Chairwoman Boxer - explicitly repudiated privatization ...

20. A New Jersey Turnpike road companion – all about those folks we honor through rest stops
(Life/Style)

... privatization of the Turnpike, there was also some mention about jettisoning these service area names in favor of corporate names (as has been the trend at many sports venue and the PNC Arts Center, formerly ...