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

BY CARL GOLDEN COMMENTARY While the tentative détente reached between Gov. Chris Christie and Senate President Steve Sweeney over a tax cut program may strike some as bipartisanship at its finest, ...

2. Menendez leads Kyrillos 43% to 33% in U.S Senate race
(N.J./State)

... Jersey’s U.S. Senate race, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll made public Monday. If the election were held today, 43 percent of voters would cast a ballot for Menendez, while ...

3. Convicted Rod Blagojevich starts federal prison term with chin up
(U.S./Nation)

... CNN. "He asked for a job in return (for Obama's former U.S. Senate seat). That's all he did at first. We accept that that's a crime," Blagojevich attorney Sheldon Sorosky said, according to CNN affiliate ...

4. Where were you?
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... Senator Sweeney the Senate President and a candidate for United States Senator when Lautenberg retires. LaRossa, Salanitri, Falzon, Frech, Qarmout did squat. All THEY are doing is running against the ...

5. What the F***
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... and turn his talent and energy to beat the Democrats. Or is this a clear example of cutting off ones nose to despite ones own face? In this Senate race who does Eichmann support? He seems to hate all ...

6. liberal TEA plants
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... for US Senate. What's left doesn't have a chance. ...

7. Stop telling lies Al Frech
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... keynote speaker. In your strange way of thinking you went for LaRossa, the most liberal Republican to serve in the State Senate in decades, over Doherty, the most conservative by far. Everybody knows ...

8. All the nuts are out for Bader
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... proposed to vet candidates for U.S. Senate in a Republican primary. A vetter should probably start by being registered to vote in the party primary. Like the others, he talks vaguely about "allegations" ...

9. Does Bader Qarmout, N.J. Republican Senate candidate, have other secrets?
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY ROB EICHMANN COMMENTARY Bader Qarmout is seeking the Republican nomination for the United States Senate this year. If you read his literature or his website or the newspaper and on-line stories ...

10. N.J. and N.Y. legislators to hold Port Authority joint public hearing on finances and accountability
(N.J./State)

... the way it operates,” New York Sen. Charles J. Fuschillo Jr. (R-Merrick), the New York Senate’s Transportation Committee chairman, said. “It’s an authority with a long history of overspending, financial ...

11. Attempts to discredit Sen. Barbara Buono remain unabated
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY SALVATORE PIZZURO COMMENTARY The recent Star Ledger article that suggested that an attempt was made to “bully” Senator Barbara Buono off the “Anti-Bullying” bill that she sponsored in the senate ...

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

... and encouraging shared services along with the promise of modest financial aid to carry out feasibility studies. Until now. Senate President Steve Sweeney has proposed legislation to create a bureaucratic ...

13. Senate committee OKs bill: All hospitals must disclose finances to state
(Health/Healthquest)

A bill which would ensure that New Jersey hospitals, for-profits, non-profits and public, follow the same rules when it comes to financial disclosure and transparency, was approved by the Senate Health, ...

14. Senate panel approves Democratic bill to raise minimum wage to $8.50 an hour
(Money/Economy)

... are in line with increases in the cost of living was approved Thursday by the Senate Labor Committee. The proposed increase would impact the roughly 40,000 New Jerseyans who earn the minimum wage of ...

15. N.J. schools could receive $1 million to combat bullying
(N.J./State)

... would appoint four members of the task force and the remaining three would be named by Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Assembly Speaker Sheila Y. Oliver (D-Essex). Assemblywoman Valerie ...

16. N.J. bill will increase 'keep right' law fine in attempt to calm road rage
(N.J./State)

... already passed the state Senate Transportation Committee. In New Jersey’s current “keep right” law, drivers can only use the left lane to pass, and trucks and buses cannot drive in the far-left lane ...

17. N.J. Democrats move on property tax relief to counter Christie's 10 percent income tax cut
(Money/Economy)

... credits for residents earning as much as $250,000. Leading the charge, Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D) of West Deptford called for giving middle-class families a 10 percent property-tax credit on ...

18. Kudos to Sandra Fluke, Zach Efron for contraception....and shame on Rush Limbaugh
(Life/Style)

... the church.” Rather it was “a struggle for the health care we need.” I believe that Fluke’s careful, respectful and well-documented words were persuasive in the Senate’s defeat of the Blunt Amendment ...

19. Member of Christie's developmental center task force speaks out: Closing centers was pre-detemined
(Opinion/Commentary)

... closing of the State’s Centers for the Developmentally Disabled. Christie appointed three members to the Task Force, and Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver each appointed ...

20. Santorum
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... picture of Santorum’s 12-year tenure in the Senate (1995 through 2006) than one would glean from the rhetoric of the Romney campaign. On a 4-point scale awarding: 4 for an A, 3.3 for a B+, 3 ...