Archives for August 2005
Important Message from Mayor Allen
Published on 26 Aug 2005 at 11:39 am.
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August 2005 Dear Residents, You will soon receive your property tax bill for the 2005-2006 fiscal year. The municipal portion of your taxes is increasing by 26.5 cents per $100 of assessed value, or $265 for a home assessed at $100,000. The overall tax bill, including school and county taxes, is increasing by approximately 52 [...]
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Jersey loses this battle of Monmouth
Published on 25 Aug 2005 at 8:33 am.
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As panel approves plan to shut fort, state contingent vows to fight BY ROBERT COHEN AND J. SCOTT ORR STAR-LEDGER WASHINGTON BUREAU ARLINGTON, Va. — An 80-year-old Army veteran has been ordered to stand down. A federal commission yesterday affirmed the Pentagon’s plan to shutter Fort Monmouth and transfer its electronics research and development activities [...]
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Candidates’ campaigns claim proof of past lies
Published on 19 Aug 2005 at 11:48 am.
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Corzine and Forrester money deals revisited BY JEFF WHELAN AND DEBORAH HOWLETT Star-Ledger Staff Accusations in the race for governor reached a new level yesterday as each campaign claimed to have caught its opponent in a lie.
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Able Danger — now they tell us
Published on 15 Aug 2005 at 5:13 am.
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The 9/11 commission report, once much lauded, now has an awfully big hole Jack Kelly Post-Gazette.com The report of the 9/11 commission, once a best seller and hailed by the news media as the definitive word on the subject, must now be moved to the fiction shelves.
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North Plainfield okays budget … whew!
Published on 11 Aug 2005 at 8:05 am.
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Council president blames delay on lateness of $400,000 in state aid BY ARMANDO DIANA For the Star-Ledger Under the heading of “better late than never,” the North Plainfield Borough Council adopted the 2005-06 budget this week, putting an end to a five-month episode that almost saw the borough go bankrupt.
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Trashing Our History: Troops in Iraq
Published on 10 Aug 2005 at 5:29 am.
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By Thomas Sowell Back in June, this column pointed out that it is impossible to fight a war without heroism — but that you would never know that from the mainstream media. Nothing heroic done by American troops in Iraq is likely to make headlines in the New York Times or be featured on the [...]
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Governor’s office steered terror aid
Published on 9 Aug 2005 at 6:55 am.
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Records contradict official claims over how Democratic towns got lion’s share of grants BY RICK HEPP Star-Ledger Staff Despite its public statements, the office of acting Democratic Gov. Richard Codey played a key role in doling out millions of dollars in state homeland security grants this year to legislative districts controlled by his party, a [...]
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Air America Keeps Poor Kids Waiting
Published on 7 Aug 2005 at 1:54 pm.
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Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff After promising to pay back a nearly $1 million “loan” it obtained from a South Bronx community group that services poor children, the liberal radio network Air America now says the organization will have to wait for its money.