Archives for March 2007
GOP backs Walsh, Coyle
Published on 31 Mar 2007 at 12:18 pm.
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Republican Assembly aspirants pledge to support Coyle run By MARTIN C. BRICKETTO Courier News Staff Writer The ringside seats for this year’s Somerset County freeholder race may be in Green Brook.
Legislative trio handed subpoenas on grants
Published on 27 Mar 2007 at 9:39 am.
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Their groups got $3.4M in ‘Christmas tree’ funds BY JOSH MARGOLIN AND TED SHERMAN Star-Ledger Staff Three legislators with ties to organizations that received $3.4 million in special grants were subpoenaed yesterday in connection with an expanding federal corruption probe of the Statehouse.
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Who Pays America’s Tax Burden, and Who Gets the Most Government Spending?
Published on 26 Mar 2007 at 7:41 am.
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by Andrew Chamberlain, Gerald Prante and Scott A. Hodge Special Report No. 151 Executive Summary While many studies answer the question of who pays taxes in America, the question of who gets the most government spending is often overlooked.
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GORE REFUSES TO TAKE PERSONAL ENERGY ETHICS PLEDGE
Published on 22 Mar 2007 at 9:21 am.
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U.S. Senate Committee on Enviornment & Public Works WASHINGTON, DC – Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a “Personal Energy Ethics Pledge” today to consume no more energy than the average American household. The pledge was presented to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, [...]
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Officers to be honored for heroism
Published on 21 Mar 2007 at 6:58 am.
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The Courier News NORTH PLAINFIELD — Five North Plainfield Police Department officers will be honored tonight by the borough’s American Legion post for acts of heroism.
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The hidden cost of illegal workers
Published on 21 Mar 2007 at 6:56 am.
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Low-skilled individuals, legal or illegal, cost the government much more in services than they pay in taxes. By David R. Francis The Christian Science Monitor Possibly the rush of illegal workers across the Mexican border has eased a little. That would please most Americans, since polls find that 3 out of 4 want immigration levels [...]
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Sunshine Law needs some fixes
Published on 19 Mar 2007 at 6:55 am.
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Courier News Opinion Anyone who regularly attends public meetings in New Jersey — a tiny subsection of the citizenry, we realize — knows that governing bodies have a tendency to escape into executive session — closing out the public — rather frequently.
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P.A. says feds endangering port security
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 7:12 am.
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DHS denies it ignored a cargo test BY RON MARSICO Star-Ledger Staff The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey accused the federal government yesterday of jeopardizing port security by failing to follow up on a $20 million pilot project that the agency helped test last year to safeguard cargo containers worldwide.
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The Hubbell Standard
Published on 14 Mar 2007 at 1:52 pm.
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Hillary Clinton knows all about sacking U.S. Attorneys The Wall Street Journal Congressional Democrats are in full cry over the news this week that the Administration’s decision to fire eight U.S. Attorneys originated from–gasp–the White House. Senator Hillary Clinton joined the fun yesterday, blaming President Bush for “the politicization of our prosecutorial system.” Oh, my.
Rudy Giuliani on Abortion
Published on 12 Mar 2007 at 8:03 am.
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