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Federal government sends NJ Transit $271M bill for canceled ARC tunnel
Federal Transit Administration will launch audit project Tim Farrell/The Star-LedgerAn NJ Transit train passes the now-abandoned construction site for the ARC Tunnel in North Bergen in this October...
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N.J. Sen. President Sweeney, 5 mayors push for shared services among...
Sweeney says sharing services is biggest way for towns to save money to meet the 2 percent property tax cap Patti Sapone/The Star-LedgerSenate President Stephen Sweeney speaks during the New Jersey...
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Poll: Christie better as governor than he would be as president
Most don't take prospect of Christie as president seriously, despite media coverage William B. Plowman/NBC NewsWire via Getty ImagesGov. Chris Christie appears on "Meet the Press" Sunday morning on...
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MORRIS COUNTY — The chief of a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey training academy in Morris County admitted today that she cheated the agency out of thousands of dollars by putting in for time...
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Parsippany approves new contract for schools superintendent; Gov. Christie...
LeRoy Seitz's $212,020 salary would increase to $216,240 this year, plus annual 2 percent increases through 2015 Vic Yepello/The Star-LedgerLeRoy Seitz, walking out of the Colonia Middle School in...
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Oversight of N.J. State Police hampered by staffing, budget constraints,...
'A clear and complete transition to new oversight role has been slow to materialize,' state comptroller's report says A.J. Chavar/The Star-LedgerNew Jersey State Police troopers graduating on June 24,...
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NJEA president calls Christie 'irresponsible' after he blamed teachers for...
Governor placed blame on greedy teachers, union officials, not budget cuts Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerNJEA President Barbara Keshishian stands in the doorway of the Governor's Office at the...
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Most N.J. voters are fine with plan to scrap ARC Hudson River tunnel, poll says
TRENTON — A new poll finds a majority of New Jersey voters agree with Gov. Chris Christie's decision to stop construction of a new rail tunnel into Manhattan. In the Quinnipiac University Poll...
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N.J. Sen. Sweeney says Gov. Christie's 'toolkit' misses sharing services...
Senate president wants to give state-created commission the authority to implement service sharing for police, 911 dispatch, tax collection and municipal courts Patti Sapone/The Star-LedgerSenate...
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Report shows fourth-grade students in N.J. public, charter schools have same...
Results come after Gov. Christie calls for rigorous expansion for charter schools, Newark embarks on $100M reform effort William Perlman/The Star-LedgerStudents leave school at the Oliver Street...
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N.J. $20M grant to Elizabeth housing project could spark financial crisis for...
TRENTON — New Jersey’s former Community Affairs commissioner quietly awarded a $20 million grant to a privately owned low-income housing project, setting up a financial crisis whose only remedy may be...
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Gov. Christie says he's skeptical that global warming is caused by humans
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie says he's skeptical that humans are responsible for global warming. The governor, a new darling of the Republican Party, made the remark at a town hall meeting he hosted...
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NJ Transit assesses options for $271M ARC tunnel bill from federal government
TRENTON — New Jersey Transit isn't sure it has to pay back the federal government $271 million already spent for the scrapped Hudson River rail tunnel. Executive Director James Weinstein says the...
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Atlantic City casino revenue down by 12.3 percent in past year
ATLANTIC CITY — Atlantic City's casinos took in 12.3 percent less from gamblers in October than they did a year ago. Figures released today by the state Casino Control Commission showed nine of the 11...
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GOP consider ex-N.J. party chairman David Norcross as challenger to RNC...
WASHINGTON — Republicans are aggressively recruiting a challenger to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose tenure as party chief has been marked by ill-chosen comments and...
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Poll: Majority of N.J. voters oppose Gov. Christie's education cuts, teacher...
Those surveyed questioned tenure, but did not necessarily support reform plan Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerN.J. Gov. Chris Christie before a town hall meeting hosted by GOP nominee for California...
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N.J. senators ask colleges to ban caffeinated alcoholic beverage 'blackout in...
TRENTON — Two state Senators today asked college presidents in New Jersey to impose a campus ban on an alcoholic beverage so potent it’s referred to as "blackout in a can," and is what likely sent 23...
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Gov. Christie backs off plans for 1,200 N.J. employee layoffs
Christie spokesman says most jobs were on track to be cut through attrition Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appears at a Statehouse news conference in October. TRENTON —...
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Gov. Christie slams Parsippany school board for approving superintendent...
Superintendent LeRoy Seitz's contract was extended by five years, giving him an average annual salary of $225,064 Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerN.J. Gov. Chris Christie in this Oct. 15 file photo....
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NJ Transit director touts $2.5B in construction projects after scrapped ARC...
There is life after the tunnel. That was the theme of the first NJ Transit meeting since the multi-billion dollar Hudson River train tunnel — America’s largest public works project — was terminated...
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