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News Roundup & Open Thread for Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

by: Rosi Efthim

Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 07:36:00 AM EDT

Portraits of NJ Soldiers Fallen in Iraq

  • As the US ends its combat mission in Iraq, Blue Jersey honors those New Jerseyans who served there. Sketches of a few who made the ultimate sacrifice.

    Schundler releases chronology, emails and documents regarding Race to the Top

  • Called a liar by Gov. Chris Christie, his fired Education Commissioner is firing back. Documents, timelines, emails to top Christie aide Maria Comella, and drafts of letters to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, shown in stages with edits by Christie Chief of Staff Richard Bagger. Taken together, if Schundler's documents are accurate, they illustrate that the "lie" Schundler was fired for was not what Christie made it appear.

    The documents:
    Schundler's Chronology of Events
    Schundler-Comella Email Exchange
    Schundler: My Draft Letter to Duncan
    Schundler: Bagger's First Rewrite of my Duncan Letter
    Schundler: Bagger's Second Rewrite of my Duncan Letter

    Round-up of Schundler document coverage:

  • politickernj
  • Star-Ledger
  • philly.com
  • Daily Record

    Many questions that need answers now

  • Democrats push for hearing on Race to the Top error, despite Christie's call to move on.

    New power trio of the NJ Department of Education

  • Temporary replacements?
  • NJ Board of Education vows to continue reform after Race to the Top loss.

    Property tax hikes in New Jersey will hit 23.5 percent factoring in loss of rebate

  • Christie's budget eliminated NJ SAVER homestead rebate for this year. Homeowners who qualified for the rebate last year saw an average check of $1,037 to offset a statewide average tax bill of $7,291. Average homeowner tax bill went up in 379 towns, down in 35, unchanged in just 1.

    Christie OK's $821M for water, sewer projects

  • Christie signed into law $821M in no-cost or low-cost loans for  200 eligible water and sewer infrastructure projects.

    Rutgers survey finds most Americans expect economy to stay in recession or worsen

  • 18% think we're headed into a depression.

    Appeal is filed in the Fort Dix terrorism case

  • Against what most courtroom observers consider a legal long shot, lawyers for the Fort Dix Five filed a multipronged appeal Tuesday seeking to have the convictions of the jailed suburban terrorists overturned.

    Passaic Democrats call for probe of sheriff's abrupt resignation

  • Passaic County Dems call for an investigation into the abrupt resignation last month of Sheriff Jerry Speziale, alleging county GOP officials got him a high-paying public job so he would abandon his reelection bid.

    Local

  • North Plainfield: Yeah, it's probably not a good idea to be buying pot in the Rescue Squad ambulance, as 2 squad members were arrested for in nearby Plainfield.
  • Camden: Postponing decision whether to close one of its two remaining library branches.
  • Ramsey: Candidate for vacant seat launches bid for same seat in November.

    Yay! WiFi on the choo-choo!

  • You might be able to blog on NJ Transit trains soon without a wireless card. (Did that just sound as geeky as I thought it did?)

    This is an Open Thread. What do you think of this Schundler stuff, Blue Jerseyans?

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    Oy, is it September already? News Roundup & Open Thread for Sept. 1, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 07:31:00 AM EDT

    Blue Jersey Housekeeping

  • Big shout-out to all the new Blue Jerseyans that drifted over after Rachel Maddow's slammin' show on Gov. Christie. Welcome newbies! This post is for you.

  • Listen to Blue Jersey Radio last night, with Jeff & Jay's special guest, NJ Democratic Chair Asw John Wisniewski.

  • Are you following Blue Jersey on Twitter? Looks like we're going to hit 1,000 followers today. Is lucky 1,000 you?

  • Did you miss Pres. Obama's Oval Office address on the Iraq War? You can see it (and read it) here.

    Congressional

  • NJ-12: Rush Holt will ask cable companies to drop an ad by a pro-Israel group of influential Republicans because of the "blatant lies" in it.
  • NJ-12: More on that: How Bill Kristol's pro-Israel group is lying to you.
  • NJ-7: Lance withdrawn from CNN's 100 most vulnerable House seats list.

    EduChristication: Are we destroying a once-great state education system?

  • Zapped by Christie for not telling the truth, Schundler says it's gov who's lying.
  • Why is the Governor now delaying filing NJ's application for $268 million in federal aid for education jobs, with the school year right around the corner?
  • Race to the End: Governor says it's time to "move on" (wait ... don't I know that phrase from ... somewhere...)?
  • Diegnan: "I'm suspicious that the (NJ Education) department at this particular point is probably in chaos." Gov. Christie is delaying releasing a report saying how much NJ is spending per pupil, over concerns, he says, that it could hurt the state in a current legal challenge from a NJ pro-education advocacy group. But Patrick Diegnan, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, says litigation is not a reason to hold off on that report, and wonders if the Gov. has confidence in the report.
  • Senate leaders say Gov. Chris Christie owes Pres. Obama an apology over his 'Race to the Top' accusations.

    Essex County underground: potential redistricting obstacles for veteran Rice

  • Potential shrinkage of Essex County Dem Party representation could mean the loss of an African-American senate seat in a delegation where black numbers have already dwindled.

    Turnpike & GSP contracts awarded

  • $119 million for Turnpike widening where it meets I-95 & $25.5M to build in shoulders to parts of the Parkway's shore area.

    Local

  • Bergen County: Former Bergen County Improvement Authority chair Ron O'Malley indicted in mortgage fraud scheme.
  • Newark: School Superintendent Clifford Janey's contract was not renewed.
  • Newark: The great sell-off of city properties to plug the budget hole gets a go-ahead.
  • Westfield: Moody's downgrades your bond rating, for an inability to balance budgets.
  • Rutgers & Kean: Both universities are laying off employees, due to tight budgets.
  • Bruce SpringsteenLand: Judge throws out N.J. lawsuit against Bruce Springsteen ticket resellers.
  • Atlantic City & Camden waterfront: 6 windmills that Fishermen's Energy wants to build in the ocean off AC would tower 300 feet in the air, with blades reaching 500 ft., to be brought in by barge from Camden, application documents show.
  • Lebanon Twp:  Township committee and its first aid squad sent to mediation.
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 07:37:00 AM EDT

    Rachel Maddow: Christie's Obama Derangement Syndrome

  • The Governor is a national story for $400 million of the wrong reasons. (VIDEO)

    Blue Jersey Radio is tonight

  • Charlie Stile seems to think he knows who tonight's guest is. Jay's got that for you at 2:30pm. Meanwhile, get ready to listen here, call in here: (646) 652-2773 and - bonus! - subscribe here to Blue Jersey Radio.

    Newark Councilman Rice to Chris Christie:

  • Apologize to Pres. Obama for your own $400 million mistake, and take some responsibility.

    This is not Christie's Katrina

  • But don't wait for his Katrina. What Booker & Sweeney need to learn from Weinberg & Stender.

    Role of Consultant Comes to Light as Schundler Admits Error

  • Brooklyn consultant was paid big bucks to help with Race to the Top.

    Schundler says he made the error

  • Another day, another explanation of the $400 million "mistake".

    Israel group targets Rush Holt

  • And the non-profit advocacy group J Street, too.

    The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

  • A few things to think about as you watch Tea Party-approved candidate Anna Little and the Tea Party "grassroots" surge with the far-right corporate tycoons planning and funding, funding and planning.  

    NJN

  • Interim director leaving, NJN getting ready for hearings on its future in January.

    NJ campaign finance accounts remain long after officials leave office

  • Where will Jerry Speziale spend his? Where did Bill Baroni? John Rooney? Joe Roberts? Wayne Bryant?

    Suspended N.J. State Police sergeant files whistleblower lawsuit

  • A suspended New Jersey State Police sergeant has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the division, saying he was retaliated against for reporting financial waste.

    Local

  • Jersey City: With Schundler's firing, where's Charles Epps' contract?
  • Gloucester County: The Freeholder Board where Steve Sweeney sits as Director (till 12/31) has a court-ordered monitor starting Wednesday, whose job it will be to make sure freeholders act in accordance with laws regarding public meetings and public records.
  • Wayne: Scott Rumana's headache.
  • Linden, Clark, Fanwood, Westfield and more Sun power coming to your utility poles.

    Did you see Maddow? This is an open thread ...

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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Monday, Aug. 30, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 08:50:22 AM EDT

    Congressional

  • NJ-6: CNN's coming: District where "Tea Party-approved" Anna Little will battle one of the House's more progressive members, Rep. Frank Pallone, will be the subject of CNN coverage, according to word leaked by Little's campaign.
  • NJ-8: Tea Party. GOP challenger has a rally, and his 80-person crowd is more worked uphealth care reform than incumbent Dem Rep. Bill Pascrell.
  • NJ-3: Adler & Runyan debate on Philadelphia TV.

    End of combat in Iraq is little relief for area families who lost loved ones in the war

  • Read three stories from South Jersey.

    NJ skipped Race to the Top application training

  • Participants were also shown a slide reminding them to proofread the final application, and were informed no new info could be submitted after June 1. But NJ was one of a handful of states that skipped skool.

    NJ financial aid program slashes assistance to college students

  • State funding for Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) program went up this year, but not enoughl to cover the surge of students needing financial aid due to the economy.

    Legislative hearings on the $400 million "mistake"

  • Al Doblin: The stupidity raining down on Trenton is biblical in proportion. The Legislature is a collection of bullies, buffoons and, yes, bureaucrats.

    Local

  • New Brunswick & Atlantic City: Private company's redevelopment of New Brunswick could be model for Atlantic City revamp.
  • Edison: Creation of $110,000 post in Edison raises questions, eyebrows.
  • Teterboro: Breakup in doubt.

    What did you do on your summer vacation?

  • Brianna and Justin Barrett of Morris Twp. met Barack and Michelle in Martha's Vineyard.

    Monday morning open thread ...

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    Wild Weekend News Roundup & Open Thread for Aug. 28-29, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Sun Aug 29, 2010 at 09:01:43 AM EDT

    $400 Million Man

  • Chris Christie's No Scapegoated Appointee Left Behind Act.
  • An Open Invitation to Bret Schundler.
  • (Worst?) Press Conference.
  • I Hate To Say We Told You So (Not Really).

    Students have less this year

  • Fewer teachers & larger class sizes, fewer after school activities, foreign language classes, full-day kindergarten, sports ...

    Schundler ... and Christie & Schundler

  • Tom Moran: Christie faces ugly political ramifications of 'Race to the Top' error, Schundler firing.
  • Gov. Christie, Schundler clash over who was wrong leading up to firing.
  • Schundler's exit: Embarassing episode of incompetence and division in the Christie administration (S-L editorial).
  • Bio of former Education Commissioner Bret Schundler.

    Stile: There are limits to Schundler's diplomacy

  • Schundler: "I didn't mislead the public,'' Schundler said. "I'm really disappointed. I don't think I should be terminated. I think I gave the governor good guidance."

    Lawmakers' reactions on Schundler's firing break along party lines

  • Denial. Not just a river in Egypt.

    Future of N.J. school reform remains uncertain without federal funds, permanent education chief

  • What now?
  • Gov. Christie names education department veteran Rochelle Hendricks acting commissioner.

    Dems to Guadagno: No help for the ladies?

  • Why doesn't NJ's highest-ranking woman speak up more?

    Christie a hot commodity among Republican candidates

  • It will be interesting to see if Christie is still such a hot commodity in a week or two.

    Just Jersey

  • New/old nickname.

    What are you reading, Blue Jerseyans? Post your links and thoughts in Comments. It's an Open Thread...

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    TGIF News Roundup & Open Thread for Aug. 27, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Fri Aug 27, 2010 at 05:25:00 AM EDT

    It's time to pay back Alice Paul

  • Yeah, there's something we can do for New Jersey's Iron Jawed Angel.

    US Government video contradicts Gov. Christie

  • Oh, this raises some very big questions now. Watch the video.
  • What was said when Christie's team went to Washington.
  • NJ officials did not provide missing numbers during Race to the Top presentation, video shows.

    Buono files OPRA requests for documents in Race to the Top application process

  • Let's get to the bottom of this.

    Largest energy supplier in USA

  • Coming, and promising price drops.

    Largest purge of workers in decades

  • Newark submits a plan to eliminate 1,000 city jobs.

    The Christies - definitely wealthy

  • Chris and Mary Pat made over half a mil in the last 6 months according to financial disclosure reports, which - come to think of it - are still as vague as they were when Christie was running for office and complaining about them.
  • LG & husband clock in at $230,000.

    Senate schedules vote to override Gov. Christie's veto of $7.5M family planning funds

  • Sept. 20.

    Do these things or risk losing your state aid

  • The Christie administration today released a "best practices" checklist that municipal governments must fill out or risk losing some of their state aid.

    What are you reading this morning, Blue Jerseyans? Shoot us a note or a link in Comments. It's an Open Thread.

    Passaic County Sheriff

  • Democrats choose Berdnik.  
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 07:39:00 AM EDT

    NJ's $400 Million Race to the Top blunder (rough timeline):

    We find out we're #11 in a Top Ten program ....

  • NJ will not get federal Race to the Top education funding.

    Then we find out New Jersey's "mistake"...

  • NJ 'Race to the Top' application wrong-year error is revealed in federal documents.

    Then, some questions had to be asked ...

  • Here's the application. Read it for yourself.
  • The $400 million error: Did incompetence kill New Jersey's chances in the Race to the Top?

    Christie accepts blame, then tries to offload it ...

  • Gov. Christie blames Washington bureaucracy for state's failed 'Race to the Top' application.

    But when the "mistake" is tracked, the truth is very different ...

  • Draft signed off on by NJEA had the correct information. Christie administration changed the application on its own.
  • Star Ledger editorial: Own up, Governor: Race to the Top error was New Jersey's, not Obama's.
  • Christie's first big, expensive public mistake.
  • Charlie Stile's column says Christie's trying to have it both ways, but also shows why better cooperation with NJEA is crucial.

    And that now leaves us with a lot of questions for the Christie administration ...

  • Sheila Oliver orders investigation. Separate hearing planned in the Senate.
  • Of course they won't. US education officials will not consider NJ's new plea for Race to the Top funds.
  • Attacks Fly in New Jersey for Losing Out on $400 Million Education Grant.

    Education

  • Who will win the war over the future of public education in New Jersey?

    Seton Hall U - "The Politics of Gay Marriage"

  • Professor says the class will go on as scheduled at the Catholic university, including use of the book about marriage equality, What's Love Got to Do With It?: The Case for Same-Sex Marriage by Ray Lesniak & Loretta Weinberg.

    NJ-3

  • Freshman incumbent Rep. John Adler and GOP opponent Jon Runyan debate today. But you'll have to wait a few days to see it.

    DRPA

  • Another wave of changes adopted for the beleaguered Delaware River Port Authority.

    Local

  • Jersey City: Superintendent of Schools Charles Epps' $268K salary awaits state approval, but Bret Schundler's suggestion to do a nationwide search for a candidate is ignored and Steve Fulop's filed a complaint that decisions are being made with too little notice.
  • Jersey City punts on superintendent choice (Star Ledger editorial).
  • Lakewood Orthodox Jewish leaders want want abuse accusations addressed - where do religious rights stop and the justice system begin?
  • GSP, near Paramus: Cop-car dashboard video reveals State Police Chief was stopped for going 75 in a 65, but was let go with a handshake and no ticket.

    Heavy news day yesterday. If I missed something you're reading, please post a link in Comments. Thanks. This is an Open Thread ...

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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 07:26:00 AM EDT

    "Not so good at math" Governor loses NJ $400 million

  • Stunning. NJ kids get rooked because nobody in the Christie admin can read simple instructions?
  • Did incompetence kill New Jersey's chances in the Race to the Top? Star Ledger editorial raises big questions about Schundler's performance, and also indicts NJEA for not supporting Christie's education plans.
  • Poll: 78% of parents want the state to spend more on education.

    Gutless pols begat pension nightmare

  • Charlie Stile on how we got into the mess with the SEC complaint: Short-term, politically expedient spending was Trenton's objective, not long-term fiscal prudence. "Chicken Run" leaves egg on the faces of NJ's political class.

    Rules on conflicts of interest, political dealing

  • Special board meeting at the under-fire DRPA today.

    Mandates: Thursday morning 10am, State House Annex

  • Public hearing of Assembly's Environment and Solid Waste Committee, chaired by Asm John McKeon, will examine mandates - mostly unfunded, that towns say drive up property tax.

    With Steve Sweeney's resigning Freeholder Dec. 31

  • 9 dual office holders left.

    Congressional

  • Rush Holt tells a public meeting both the economy and national security would benefit from a shift to alternative energy sources. He urged small business owners to capitalize on government incentives designed to help them make their buildings more energy efficient.
  • Adler v. Runyan: NJ-3 opponents square off the 2nd time this week, taping the Larry Kane Show (which airs next week).

    Not outside the line

  • Christie vetoes a bill extending NJ's low-interest loan program to towns bordering already-eligible areas.

    Local

  • Newark councilmen Ron Rice & Augusto Amador want a federal review & civil rights investigation of the death of a pedestrian killed by a car a policeman was driving.
  • Newark council proposes selling off massive real estate holdings to close budget gap.
  • Middlesex: New ! Gross! Now with new lemony freshness!
  • Mt. Holly: Neighbors of a planned business center fear the demolitions all around them are to intimidate them into leaving the homes, in a UEZ area where some of the same people deciding what will happen there, are profiting.
  • Passaic County: Sheriff's Dept. motor pool chief charged with stealing about $100K from a drug bust car & pilfering an engine to fix his own car.
  • Teterboro: James Ahern on what's new with the "breakup".
  • Atlantic City: Cooperation needed to fix AC's troubles. (Daily Journal editorial)
  • A different kind of Atlantic City revitalization: Watch out, Philadelphia Flyers.  
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 06:51:00 AM EDT

    Rest in Peace, Pedro Millet of Elizabeth

  • New Jersey has lost another soldier to war. US Army Specialist Pedro Millet's family had a "premonition" that he shouldn't get on the plane when he went to serve in Afghanistan. He was killed on his third day, the circumstances of his death not yet released. His body returns to his home country this morning at Dover Air Force Base. He was 20.

    And then ... I'm gonna take my (sniff) ball ... (balls fists) and g-g-go home! (stamps foot)

  • Christie threatens to veto Port Authority Board minutes - and those of other agencies - if Democrats don't approve dozens of appointees he's submitted for confirmation.

    US Attorney denies 'culture of corruption' in NJ

  • Chief federal prosecutor in Garden State doesn't believe he lives in the most corrupt state in the union and that such talk can be "demoralizing" to people who live here.
  • Hmm... wonder if he's a member of this?
  • Poll: New Jersey doesn't like Jersey Shore. I felt the need to tell you this, here.

    Education dollars

  • Race to the Top Program funding awards to be announced today. Will NJ be on the list?
  • APP editorial tells Christie to stop playing political football: Don't play politics with education aid.
  • Also coming, soon, $268 million in federal stimulus dollars for hiring back school staff let go. Christie says the money won't be a "measurable help" to NJ's economy.

    Do I have this straight?

  • If the state makes a mistake overpaying unemployment insurance, Christie wants NJ to be able to track people down and collect it back?

    Trentonia

  • Christie renominates Thomas Calcagni to run the state Dept. of Consumer Affairs two months after the Senate balked at his Manhattan residency. Calcagni spent 10 years working under Christie but lived in Manhattan till recently.
  • State expands high school diplomas for veterans program.

    No comment.

  • Wind fails to impress Steve Lonegan.

    Former UMDNJ dean gets $60,000 settlement in discrimination claim

  • Warren Wallace, a former dean, who was fired during a federal investigation got a $60K settlement on his claim UMDNJ discriminated because of their racially biased hiring practices.

    Local

  • Somerset & Hunterdon: Christie nominates new prosecutors.
  • Jersey City will hire a lobbyist to block a Texas company's plans to route a natural gas pipeline through their city.
  • Passaic County Dems: Veteran chairman Currie on the line this week.
  • Hunterdon County: Misconduct indictments dropped against Sheriff Deborah Trout and 2 officers for "legal and factual deficiencies.'
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Monday, Aug. 23, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Mon Aug 23, 2010 at 07:49:00 AM EDT

    Wyclef Jean going to court to challenge ruling that he can't run for Haiti President

  • @wyclef announced Sunday via Twitter that he will appeal Haiti election officials decision that he cannot run for President.

    Blagojevich insists he will call Bob Menendez to testify in his defense

  • If he is retried on corruption charges, Blago plans to call Menendez, Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel to testify for him. He's also going to try and subpoena Barack Obama. Good luck with all that.  

    More Congressional

  • Heating up in NJ-12, Holt v. Sipprelle.
  • NJ-7's GOP incumbent Leonard Lance has talked himself into a dispute over the meaning of remarks he made about New Jersey's share of federal funds.
  • Lautenberg & Menendez: New Jersey to receive $13.5 million in grants to assist homeless.
  • NJ-6: Frank Pallone's Tea Party opponent Anna Little weighs in on the cultural center in Ground Zero's neighborhood. Now, what do you suppose she would say?

    UK to Libya on the 1 year anniversary of al-Megrahi's release:

  • Fellas, Not so much with the celebration. Scotland is still in a standoff with Menendez & Lautenberg over release of records from Lockerbie bomber's release.  
    CNN has some advice for Barack Obama:

  • Be more like Chris Christie (check out #3).

    Trentonia & more NJ

  • NJ Senate votes today whether to assign review of Kyleigh's Law to state attorney general.
  • Uninsured slow to sign up for policies for people with pre-existing conditions.
  • Star Ledger editorial: Truth in pensions: Just how big a hole are we in?

    Family-Planning Clinics Feel Christie's Cuts

  • Take Karen Miller's daughter, for example.

    Newark

  • Joan Whitlow: Idle fire trucks may be a sign of things to come in Newark.
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    Weekend News Roundup & Open Thread for Aug. 21-22, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Sun Aug 22, 2010 at 08:58:00 AM EDT

    Chris Christie

  • Gov. Christie's attitude toward NJ education bewilders, hurts his former teachers.
  • Dear Gov. Christie: Can the 2012 VP campaign (for now).

    Trentonia

  • NJ governors - of both parties - chose short-term gain without thought of long-term consequences - The good news about NJ's improving smoking habits means bad news again for state finances.
  • At the medical marijuana stakeholders meeting.

    A whole political culture to spend and defer the problems until later

  • New York Times: NJ got in hot water with the SEC this week, but the bigger problem, may be what the state was trying to hide: a long-brewing crisis in its ability to pay retirees.

    I & R

  • Home News Tribune: Loretta Weinberg is afraid of democracy.
  • Loretta wrote about this here at Blue Jersey.

    Few tools used from Gov. Christie's budget kit

  • Only one - a cap on tax increases - has been enacted.
  • The original "tool kit".

    Steve Sweeney will (finally) resign his Gloucester Freeholder position

  • December 31, 2010.

    NJ immunization: One of the lowest rates in US for infants & toddlers

  • Some of it is lack of access to health care. Most of it is wealthy parents who rely on junk science to reject immunization.

    The last American combat troops left Iraq this week

  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

    Wyclef Jean disqualified to run for president of Haiti

  • Residency requirement unmet.

    Local

  • A Fatal Encounter in a Newark Park - There are still so many questions in the death of Defarra Gaymon, shot dead by a Newark cop in an area of Branch Brook Park known for cruising.
  • Trenton: State takeover unlikely.
  • Charlie Stile: Girgenti's hesitancy might have cost him the nod for sheriff.
  • Christie & Sweeney coming closer to agreement on Atlantic City.
  • South Jersey had its own fuss over a mosque.
  • Hobokenhenge: Sunlight, buildings and mystery ... it's coming.

    What's on your mind, Blue Jersey? This is an Open Thread ...
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Friday, Aug. 20, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Fri Aug 20, 2010 at 07:23:00 AM EDT

    Potosnak and Adler make it into CNN's Top 100 House Races

  • For very different reasons.
  • Runyan takes to the airwaves to bash Adler.

    Lautenberg & Menendez meet with Lockerbie victims' families

  • As they labor to uncover whether a BP oil deal was behind the early release from prison of the Libyan convicted for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 22 years ago, both our senators will meet with the families today - one year after Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi's got freedom.

    Poll: New Jersey doesn't agree much with Christie's Hanson Report

  • Quinnipiac poll finds New Jerseyans want the state to do pretty much the opposite of what the governor's panel recommends.

    Christie: The Movie

  • A 20-minute film about Chris Christie's first 8 months in office will premiere Sept. 8 in a D.C. theater, and on line. Yes, really. (it's an extended Republican Governors Assn. ad).
  • Watch a preview.

    We're on the dark side of the moon

  • When Howard Dean wants a NYC mosque to move, and an ACLU-NJ staffer lauds Chris Christie (for saying the opposite).

    Shouldn't Someone in New Jersey Be Prosecuted for Pension Fraud? Here's a Nominee.

  • Slate Magazine says they think they know whose fault it is that NJ became the first state ever charged with securities fraud. Who it is might surprise you.

    No bail for Joe Coniglio

  • Former NJ state senator was hoping to be released from federal prison camp in Lewisburg, PA while his appeal is being reviewed.
    NJ Legislature

  • Assembly bill aims for more training, accountability in emergency medical services.
  • Counties without county executives will now have veto power over specific actions of county authorities, as per legislation signed by the Gov today.

    Riding the rails

  • NJ man pressures transportation officials to fix rusting, crumbling railroad bridges.

    Local

  • Trenton: Auditors find that school district officials deliberately kept inaccurate records.
  • Passaic County: After expressing interest in sheriff, Girgenti backs Currie's decision to go in another direction.
  • Hoboken: Former council candidate accused of bank fraud.  
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 06:39:00 AM EDT

    Magazine Reporter Shunned By Christie Wonders Why

  • Why wouldn't Christie talk to Governing Magazine?

    Weinberg hits Christie administration with OPRA requests

  • Reasonable requests were made over time to get State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristof to provide information behind his position that the funding source in her bill replacing $7.5 million in women's health/family planning centers won't work. Now Weinberg is using basic tools of government transparency to get at those reasons, but it's looking more and more like this is all about the administration's ideology.

    Jerseynomics

  • New Jersey becomes the first state ever charged with securities fraud. - - Update - this was settled. That was fast..
  • NJ unemployment rate rose - slightly.
  • Comptroller report: Municipalities gave tax breaks to developers that benefitted towns at the expense of school districts, tax payers & counties.
  • Charlie Stile: NJ politics awash in special interest cash.  

    Christie job performance

  • Quinnipiac Poll: 51-36 approval-disapproval. Up from June 17 poll.

    Wind

  • NJ will jump-start plans for turbines off the coast.

    Cleaning up DRPA

  • After months of scrutiny from reporters & 2 governors, over issues with perks and political patronage, and the resignation of a top official for inappropriate use of an E-ZPass, during a 5-hour some changes were instituted and Chair John Estey announced he will resign.

    Sunshine Law monitor ordered for Gloucester County freeholder meetings

  • Effective Sept. 1, a retired state Superior Court judge will monitor each meeting - that's Steve Sweeney's Freeholder Board.

    Local

  • Body found in suspicious Teaneck fire believed to be longtime community activist and former council candidate.
  • Teterboro: splitsville?
  • Christie's Atlantic City plan ignores a big question: What to do with Bader Field?

    When you get to Atlantic City

  • Look for the billboard that says police layoffs make Atlantic City less safe.

    They're coming .... if they're not already here

  • Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

    This is your Thursday Open Thread. Have at it.

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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 06:55:00 AM EDT

    Bob Ingle on Blue Jersey Radio

  • Gannett's senior political columnist dropped by and he's a great guest. Among topics discussed: How the lights get turned on in the statehouse press room, and who would play whom in the coming movie version of The Soprano State. You can catch up here.

    Cleaning up the DRPA

  • Delaware River Port Authority board will discuss 18 proposed modifications to how it does business. Perks will come up. Meeting's open to the public: 10am in Camden.
  • DRPA urged to skip $1 toll increase.

    Obama's from Jersey?

  • Sort of, maybe, in a way.

    Christie's delay: The wait for medical marijuana frustrates terminally ill patients

  • John Ammirati, of Lyndhurst, has Ewing's sarcoma: "This delay is killing me. I need pot so I can eat and I'm broke and can't afford to buy it on the streets."

    NJ arts council awards $15M to arts groups, $1.2M more than last year

  • In these tough economic times, how'd they do that?

    Congressional

  • NJ-3: Adler-Runyan race part of GOP's first-wave TV advertising offensive.
  • NJ-12: Sipprelle hounds Holt on mosque question.
  • Camp (Rush) Holt.

    Local

  • Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez dodges a bullet, as voters decide against a recall.
  • Dumont: Council overrides mayor's veto on pay-to-play rule.
  • Evesham cops: Maybe not so much with the facebook.
  • Middlesex & Old Bridge spend $10.6 million on 58 acres of open space, including an old apple orchard.
  • Cherry Hill: Transgendered people, welcome.
  • Fort Monmouth: Christie creates agency to oversee redevelopment.
  • Mt. Laurel: Council unanimously votes in budget sharply reducing the size of a municipal tax increase.

    Fiorello LaGuardia: The NYC mayor who would not get out in New Jersey

  • Border skirmishes between New Jersey and New York are nothing new.

    North Jersey revenge?

  • Manhole covers - 200 lbs. - are suddenly blowing high into the air in Atlantic City for the 3rd day in a row, sometimes followed by big yellow arcs of electricity. Nobody knows why. Freaky.  
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 07:34:00 AM EDT

    Rest in Peace, Jamal Rhett

  • This morning, the body of Jamal Rhett of Palmyra, a casualty of the Iraq War will be returned to his home country at Dover Air Force Base. The cause and date of his death were not immediately known. He was 24.

    Christie bristles at reasonable conclusions

  • All evidence points to the possibility NJ Supreme Court justices whose future depends on the Governor - the non-tenured ones - voted not to hear the same-sex marriage case, because they may be concerned about getting the same treatment Justice John Wallace got from the vocal marriage equality opponent governor. That we're all  talking about it out loud does not please Chris Christie.

    Diane Allen, profiled

  • Emerging after treatment for throat cancer, Allen looks great, just great. But in the glowing profile, no mention of why she ditched funding for women's health care, family planning clinics in a show of GOP party discipline.

    Christie warns GOP on mosque

  • New GOP icon Christie became the most prominent GOP figure to warn fellow Republicans against "overreacting" to the threat of terror and painting "all of Islam" with the brush of terrorism as players like Palin & Gingrich do their thing to gin up hysteria.

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T

  • Steve Sweeney, father of a daughter with developmental disability, sponsored bill signed into law yesterday, disallowing state law/rules from identifying individuals as "mentally retarded," and other insulting terms. Sweeney: "We have a community of productive, hard-working citizens...The 'R' word should mean respect."

    Special schools for kids whose parents ...give a crap

  • NJ Education Commissioner Bret Schundler thinks
    some schools should be allowed to accept only kids whose parents pledge to show up and visit the school.
  • Schundler: Let more entities authorize charter schools.

    Wisniewski vows to address recent NJ Transit service disruptions

  • Assembly Transportation Committee Chair wants the top brass present at hearings he'll run on repeated NJ Transit train service disruptions this summer.  

    Christie's 'shadow government' reforms stalled

  • John Reitmeyer's 6-month accounting of Christie reform initiatives at authorities, boards & commissions largely indicts Democrats for slowing the governor down.

    Congressional

  • Menendez: GOP using the "Ground Zero" mosque to score political points.
  • Menendez: Seeking Lockerbie bomber whistleblowers.
  • NJ-7: Thunder on the Right.

    Jerseynomics

  • Bill bill caps retirement payouts for current public employees at $15K for unused sick/vacation time.

    Local

  • Charlie Stile: Bergen Dem Freeholders gaming resolution is hypocritical, and amounts to a taxpayer-funded attack ad on Christie.
  • Passaic: Sheriff Jerry Speziale is gone but left several big pending lawsuits against the department still ongoing.
  • Passaic: Girgenti's silence benefits Clifton police officer Richard Berdnik.
  • Elizabeth council race results judged valid - Keenan wins.
  • Manville buys into the Kyleigh's Law repeal efforts.

    Clouds and clouds of birds

  • Purple martins & other swallows are gathering by the hundreds of thousands right now in Cumberland County, getting ready for flights to Brazil.  
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Monday, Aug. 16, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Mon Aug 16, 2010 at 07:46:00 AM EDT

    LD-14: the stakes for both sides

  • Special election Nov. 2 in the Central Jersey swing district is the only competitive state race this year.

    Has Christie made the Court afraid to touch the gay marriage case?

  • Are non-tenured Supreme Court justices afraid of being Wallaced?

  • No magic bullet for judicial independence - ways politics mixes in.

    Another bill delayed by Christie

  • Christie will delay the implementation of a law allowing a judge to require a person to undergo outpatient mental-health treatment, citing a lack of funding.

    Seriously, you Second Amendment people need to calm the eff down

  • Morris County authorities are trying to remove 16 guns from the home of a blind man who hides them in oven mitts, in bookcases, under seat cushions. And oh, right, he's also shot himself.

    Gambling

  • North Jersey opposition threatens Christie plan for Atlantic City - North Jersey wants theirs.
  • Loss of state support may end horse racing.

    Jerseynomics

  • NJ in hock - state will borrow $2.25 billion to pay bills with.
  • Teachers, police & firefighters - Getting out, retiring &decamping.
  • Try the library: State aid cuts have forced the NJ Legal Services System to order staffing reductions that it says will deny free legal help to thousands of low-income residents this year & next.

    Congressional

  • Lockerbie bomber and the possible BP/Libya oil deal connection Lautenberg and Menendez are investigating - ow the families are involved - including NJ families.

  • NJ-7: David Larsen, strongest of Leonard Lance's three - 3! - Tea Party primary challengers isn't going away, backs NJ-6's Anna Little, won't endorse Lance, is running in 2012, and all that's starting unsettle the Lance camp.

  • NJ-13: Albio Sires: I'm not voting for any more money for the war. [snip] We started out with weapons of mass destruction and nation building. Now its down to containment...This is just bleeding the country. They're coming back maimed.

  • NJ-3: We'll be frontpaging a diary about Adler this morning.

    Local

  • Bergen County Improvement Authority swims in $450M of debt and taxpayers could be left holding the bag.
  • Ridgefield: 2 Questions on the ballot: Should Mayor Anthony Suarez be recalled? And if he is, which of 3 candidates should replace him?

    Jon Corzine on On This Week with Christiane Amanpour

  • Transcript & video, on This Week's economics panel.

    Tracking progress out of the Camden Tent City

  • Who's back living on the street; who's not.
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    Weekend News Roundup & Open Thread for Aug. 14-15, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 07:40:36 AM EDT

    Remember him?

  • Jon Corzine talking economy on This Week, with Christiane Amanpour (today - 10:30am, ABC).

    Hmmmm ... this could get interesting

  • Charlie Stile: Sen. John Girgenti tops Democrats' list of hopefuls for Speziale's spot.
  • Al Doblin: Steven Slater has nothing on Jerry Speziale.

    HBO's Boardwalk Empire

  • Martin Scorcese and Terence Winter (writer, The Sopranos) are behind the new HBO series about the real-life NJ characters who mixed politics and crime in 1920's Atlantic City. Boardwalk Empire HBO page.
  • Press of Atlantic City has its own Boardwalk Empire page, too.

    New Jersey's finances

  • Star Ledger on the new federal money to hire back teachers: Take it.

  • Star Ledger editorial: NJ must start paying into the pension system, but workers already in the system, to whom the state made promises, have to "give back." "Promises were made that can't be kept."

  • Anti-abortion activists find billing irregularities most likely created by coding error in the state's system, and conclude ... we must defund family planning.

  • Privatization fight is ugly in Newark and the City council not necessarily on board with Mayor Booker.

  • NJ's $1.6B revenue last month meets budget projections.

    Congressional

  • NJ-3: It's so interesting that the "Tea Party" candidate on the right, Peter DeStefano, seems mainly to be going after Jon Runyan, who's also on the right.
  • NJ-3: Campaigns in NJ start early and get loud quick.
  • NJ-8: Rep. Pascrell says federal health care bill encourages prevention.
  • NJ-8: Tea Party activist & Pascrell's GOP opponent say they were roughed up at senior forum.

    Local

  • Evesham police take down facebook page posting drunk-driving arrests - they put it up before they were even sure it was legal.
  • Deciminyan, on this.
  • Police contract concessions, to save jobs.

    65 years after VJ Day

  • South Jersey vets recall the end of World War II.
  • "The Gem Vac Veterans" - 4 guys who meet every Tuesday in the back of a vacuum cleaner store in Glen Gardner, to talk about the Pacific Theater.  
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    Friday the 13th News Roundup & Open Thread for August, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 07:24:00 AM EDT

    Taxpayer Revolution

  • They don't call it that, in teeny weeny Merchantville and big, cushy Cherry Hill. But that's what it is.

    Court sides with anti-abortion student

  • If you can come to school and support LGBT causes, you can protest abortion, too - same deal.  

    And in other polling news, Does a bear shit in the woods?

  • Poll explores whether NJ citizens think Chris Christie is "stubborn".

    E Brunswick Board of Ed sues to keep Hativah Charter School from opening

  • Says Hebrew-language charter hasn't met its obligations, and so district refuses to consign $1.22 million local taxpayer dollars to the startup.

    Wet shooting stars

  • Last night above the clouds that poured onto New Jersey, the Perseid Meteor Shower had its peak. Here's  what you missed (actually 2009).

    Skools

  • US education funds could send NJ teachers back to school - this is what Christie almost didn't apply for, until there were protests.
  • Prez Obama's stimulus money could rehire every fired NJ schoolteacher.
  • 61 NJ-funded special ed officials' salaries exceed the proposed $175K cap.

    NJEA looking to go on the offense

  • 2,000 state and local leaders of the teachers union met this week for sessions like: "In Enemy Territory -- Defending Your Rights in a Hostile Political Climate."  Full disclosure: Jeff Gardner was a panelist in a workshop.
  • The eyeful they read here yesterday: More Political Ineptitude from the NJEA

    The lawn fertilizer people are not happy

  • But a package of bills aimed at restoring the health of Barnegat Bay cleared 2 key legislative committees today, after 400 people listened to 6 hours of public testimony.

    No Bad Romance

  • Frank Lautenberg, already the coolest & oldest Senator, doing a Lady Gaga-flavored funder.

    Lautenberg & Menendez

  • Scotland defends Lockerbie bomber's doctors. Both our senators are still waiting for answers.
  • NJ Senators: Add the Taliban to the list.

    Monitoring Sunshine Law compliance in Steve Sweeney's Freeholder board

  • Both sides have picked a judge.

    Tears of respect for ousted Cordelia Staton at Trenton City Hall

  • What happened on the day the Trenton clerk was taken out of City Hall by cops in flak jackets.

    Wild 10 days in Passaic County

  • The loss of Sheriff Jerry Speziale from the Democratic ticket - Passaic Dem Chair John Currie says he'll have his replacement named in a week and a half.  
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    News Roundup & Open Thread for Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Thu Aug 12, 2010 at 06:48:00 AM EDT

    My God ... it's full of stars!

  • Tonight, and for the next few nights, stop worrying about everything and go outside and look up.

    Not New Jersey ... everywhere.

  • For the first time a national poll (CNN) shows the majority of Americans support the freedom to marry for gay people.
  • Chew on this, while we're talking about equality.

    The Politics of Jerry Speziale

  • What should happen now.
  • Also - who else was up for that job?

    Englewood Cliffs Council's only 2 Democrats quit

  • A contentious budget process, acrimonious meetings that go to the early morning hours with GOP & Dem members shouting at each other to be heard, and accusations of "secret meetings" by the GOP contributed to both longtime Democratic councilmen giving up on serving Englewood Cliffs.

    Newark sanitation workers demand Booker reconsider privatizing jobs

  • Hundreds of workers losing their jobs won't go quietly.

    Christie gets some respect

  • Here from Rocco Mazza.
  • Here from Michael Tracey.

    NJ-7: Potosnak blasts Lance & Christie on education

  • Chemistry teacher turned Democratic challenger blasts Rep. Leonard Lance for voting against the federal education bill, designed to hire back some of the teachers laid off in Chris Christie's $800 million cut to education.

    Hal Turner on the stand

  • His life as an FBI informant.

    Delaware Water Gap doesn't want a bad reputation

  • Issues statement on on PSE&G power line 'myths'.
  • Frank Lautenberg & Scott Garrett team up to save old Delaware Water Gap structures.

    Audit finds irregularities in NJ Assn of Counties lobbying group

  • NJ county governments paid escalating dues to a private lobbying group whose director's salary reached $205,000 with no apparent formal oversight, according to an audit.

    $122 million in mortgage aid coming from the federal government

  • To keep unemployed homeowners in their homes.

    Sierra Club gives New Jersey an "F"

  • Highlands.

    This is an Open Thread...

  • Discuss :: (7 Comments)

    News Roundup & Open Thread for Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010

    by: Rosi Efthim

    Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 12:42:39 AM EDT

    Loretta Weinberg gets a shout-out on JEOPARDY

  • From intern Gabriel Johnson in the JEOPARDY Teen Tournament last night. That shout-out zipped by fast, but you can catch his promo video here. Website says he's on the show today, too.

    NJ-3 poll: Adler has only narrow lead over Runyan

  • 35-28% among all registered voters. But among voters Rutgers-Eagleton poll ID's as paying the most attention to the race, Runyan pulls ahead by 1 point. Adler scores higher - ahead by 10 - with voters who consider themselves likely to vote. But pollster warns it's too early for an accurate likely voter model.
  • Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
  • Bob Ingle on NJ-3's mystery candidate: Adler coy, Democrats nationally acting fishy.

    How Jerry Speziale got the job

  • Charlie Stile tells it: Speziale to Passaic GOP Chair Scott Rumana to Chris Christie. Speziale gets a job, GOP weakens the 2010 Dem ticket.

    Maybe somebody told him turning down $$ gives ammunition to the Democrats

  • Christie relents, and will apply for $268 million federal dollars aimed toward getting teachers back in the classroom.
  • Track where the money goes with this tool from the White House.

    Xanadu changes hands

  • But will it be anything by the time Super Bowl happens nearby?

    We're betting on college grades now

  • Hell. Handbasket.

    Camden

  • Massive budget cuts, and freeze of non-essential spending.
  • Poorest US city slashes spending. Actually only one of the poorest.

    Underneath the World Trade Center

  • A subterranean memorial to 3,000, past the slurry wall, and "the last column".

    NJEA endorsements

  • Congressional & state of NJ. And they skip over Ed Potosnak (Democrat challenging Leonard Lance in NJ-7), a former high school science teacher.

    Oh, yes, they're the Great Pretenders

  • NJ gets hit with attorney fees over truth-in-music law, for a case we lost to "The Platters", "The Coasters".

    An investment in the riverside

  • Greenway project brings new life to river in South Orange.

    NJ issues request for a financial plan for $1 billion unused bonds

  • The state may use $1 billion of unspent general-obligation bond funds to pay down existing debt, under a plan by Treasurer Sidamon-Eristoff. Some of the unspent funds date to bond acts as far back as 1969.

    Gambling: North-South fracture widens

  • Donald Trump gets a letter from Ray Lesniak.

    This is a disaster waiting to happen

  • Law created after an 11-year-old was killed by a schizophrenic who refused treatment will now be on hold - indefinitely. That law would have given families greater say in committing seriously mentally ill loved ones before that kind of tragedy happens again. This is something else Christie doesn't think we should spend on now.

    Federal lobbying goes on after Christie's criticism

  • And sometimes it's not called that.

    The Palace of Depression

  • Building something out of nothing in South Jersey.
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