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1. Cash strapped states looking at Amazon tax for online shoppers
(U.S./Nation)

... retailers to mail notices to customers reminding them of their tax liabilities. Amazon responded by shutting down its affiliate program in Colorado, effectively closing thousands of small businesses that ...

2. N.J. police officers and firefighters lawsuit won’t have the public’s support
(Opinion/Commentary)

... payouts of hundreds of thousands of dollars as well as lifetime pre-paid medical insurance and greater than most monthly pension benefits have had an impact. Every dollar spent locally comes from property ...

3. Some Mexican Immigration Law?
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

...  says, • “A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” (Article 123) • Foreigners ...

4. N.J. high schools students organize on Facebook for massive protest against Christie’s education cuts
(N.J./State)

BY ERIC KILLELEA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM They walked out of class. Thousands of New Jersey high school students protested Governor Chris Christie's proposed cuts to education. In early evening, The Associated ...

5. N.J. students protest budget cuts; McKeon calls exodus a referendum on Christie’s plan
(N.J./State)

Assembly Deputy Speaker John F. McKeon called the exodus of thousands of students from classrooms Tuesday a referendum on Gov. Christie's indiscriminate cuts to schools and his relentless attacks on teachers. ...

6. Ramifications of Merger
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... of New Jersey would be sued I’m sure of it, by tens of thousands of graduates of TESC and current students of Edison, if Rutgers wanted to charge them with the cost of sending them their first copy of ...

7. CP
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so if they were not naked what is the line in the sand regarding CP............sounds like the same thing the FCC was doing when Stern was on free radio. it's all made up as the go along. no matter ...

8. Bufferfly farming on the rise in Africa
(World/International)

... agrees. "The butterfly business is booming. "A farmer needs only two butterflies to get a thousand pupae and that will be over Ksh 75,000 ($950) in a month - much more money than what one can earn from ...

9. Elder care: Caregivers should not do it all
(Health/Healthquest)

BY CAROL ABAYA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Readers' Responses: Several readers seem to think I was hard-hearted when I strongly recommended several weeks ago that both sandwich generationers AND elders should ...

10. Public hearings on Obama's offshore oil drilling plan scheduled for Newark
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... The intense noise radiates the ocean for thousands of miles. He said this has a harmful effect on marine mammals and could hinder commercial fishing. Gov. Chris Christie opposes both oil drilling ...

11. It’s about time New Jersey towns stand by their plan!
(Opinion/Commentary)

... plans before they declare a development application ready for consideration. A property owner may spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to file an application that follows existing ordinances. In most ...

12. David Rodriquez of Jersey City gets 7 years for role in pain pills distribution network
(N.J./State)

... investigation, which uncovered a major criminal narcotics network based in Hudson County that distributed thousands of black market prescription pain pills such as OxyContin and Percocet. The network ...

13. Christie forms commission to offer solutions to Passaic River flooding
(N.J./State)

... is not only disastrous to individual homeowners, but can cost communities thousands, if not millions of dollars," the Assemblyman said. "This issue has never received as much attention as it is getting ...

14. Obama asks Wall Street to call off the lobbyists
(U.S./Nation)

BY DAN ROBINSON VOA NEWS WHITE HOUSE — Comparing the U.S. economy to a house on shifting sands, President Barack Obama has appealed to the U.S. financial industry to support reforms he describes as ...

15. Five New Jerseyans, including union leader and Newark cop, arrested for roles in longshoremen shakedown
(N.J./State)

... union members to receive high-paying jobs, preferred shift assignments and overtime. Each of the thousands of union members allegedly must make a payment that typically ranges from a couple of hundred ...

16. Officials confirm diver was bitten by shark at Adventure Aquarium in Camden
(N.J./State)

... of an aquarium, however. At least that was the case until last December, when officials confirmed, that a volunteer diver was bitten on the ankle by a sand-tiger shark at Adventure Aquarium in Camden. ...

17. ‘Cross-dressing' backlash at N.J. school: A different perspective
(Life/Style)

... at the time, but it was overwhelmingly accepted as the norm. On the flip side, some women have stepped into male roles in modern films, including Julie Andrews in "Victor/Victoria, Barbra Streisand in ...

18. Alternatives
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

I also believe that reasoning with your parents and offering up alternative forms of care is a good idea. A sandwich generation caregiver can not do it all. They have kids to carpool, a full time job to ...

19. Volcanic eruptions part of life in Iceland
(World/International)

... that has left thousands of air passengers around the world stranded due to flight cancellations. The westerly and northerly winds that have prevailed since the eruption began have sent the massive ash ...

20. Together we must act to stop erosion of environmental protections in N.J.
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Day, a half million people gathered outside the White House in opposition and months later he signed that legislation. The same year hundreds of thousands more people came together to help pass the Clean ...