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• Facing $9 Billion Deficit, NJ Gov. Elect Christie Seeks 15-25% Slash In Budget

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  I wish Governor-elect Chris Christie lots of luck in trying to convince a hostile legislature in Trenton to go along with the 15-25% cuts hes envisioning in the state budget. It would include eliminating many programs of dubious worth, and it is precisely those kinds of programs that hang on because they bring the ...
  2 days ago

• Still Waiting for Obamas Stimulus Plan in Union, NJ

  
  PardonMyFrench — Authority: 137
  Some of you know that I own an office building in Union NJ (BTW - if you want good, cheap office space 20 minutes out of NYC send me an email).  Union NJ besides being Artie Langes hometown is a decent, middle class, blue collar town.  If there was a perfect town that Obamas so called Stimulus plan would help it ...
  3 days ago

• Ticket blitz coming to Caldwell? Youd better fix that broken tail light!

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 121
  Traffic ticket revenue in Caldwell is down . Way down. The policedepartment came up more than $63,000 short this season . Council members discussed the reduction in the boroughs revenue, especially the police departments drop in revenue which has decreased by $63,000 this season, said Ruane. A debate among ...
  5 days ago

• Dick Codey torpodoes the Frank Lautenberg Re-Retirement Act

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 121
  Our senior U.S. Senator, Frank "Weekend At Bernies" Lautenberg, wants toretire, again. He was hoping for Jon Corzine to win re-election as governor because in New Jersey the governor gets to appoint his successor, or calla special election. Ever since the Democrats pulled him out of mothballs to replace ...
  6 days ago

• Legislating Fiscal Irresponsibility

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  Ive railed against Governor Jon Corzines incessant attempts to engage in the fiscally irresponsible action of deferring pension obligation payments so as to avoid the tough decision of cutting spending elsewhere or dealing with the massively underfunded pensions around the state.Now, Corzine is hoping to allow the ...
  1 week ago

• Corzine Spreading The Patronage Around

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  Gov. Jon Corzine has just a couple weeks left in his term of office, and hes wasting no time trying to spread the patronage jobs around to his fellow Democrats. Usually, outgoing governors and incoming governors work together to figure out how to dole out those kinds of jobs - judgeships and other political ...
  1 week ago

• Government steps in to prevent lower sports and entertainment ticket prices

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  There are two competing sports arenas in North Jersey. The old Izod Centerat the Meadowlands is home to the hapless NJ Nets (at least until Bruce Ratnermoves them to Brooklyn) and the new Pru Center in Newark is home to the NJDevils hockey team. Both arenas compete for concerts and other entertainmentevents. For ...
  2 weeks ago

• NJ lurches closer to Sodom and Gomorrah

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  They held a "marathon" 7 hour hearing, but the outcome was never really indoubt. Tonight the NJ State Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7 - 6 to advance a same sex marriage bill . The kabuki theater act fooled no one; if Ray Lesniakdidnt have the votes he wouldnt have put it forth in the first place. Butthey sat ...
  2 weeks ago

• NJ Considers Gay Marriage Legislation

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  With just a few weeks in Gov. Jon Corzines term remaining, proponents for a gay marriage bill have little time to act before his successor, Chris Christie takes office. Christie is on the record as opposing the measure and vowed to veto the bill if he crosses his desk. Corzine would sign it into law.However, it is all ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indicted Essex County Freeholder Samuel Gonzalez (D-ACORN) wont resign

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  This week a state grand jury indicted Essex County Freeholder Samuel Gonzalez,along with a clown show of lackeys to Newark Mayor Cory Booker and North Wardpower broker Stephen Adubato, on numerous charges of ballot tampering and election fraud. Theyre accused of using the ACORN playbook to illegally submit multiple ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does Ray Lesniak have 21 votes to destroy marriage in New Jersey?

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  He must think he does . The New Jersey gay marriage proposal will be considered Monday by a Senate committee and could be posted for a full senate vote later in the week, state Sen. Ray Lesniak said today. "On Monday in the Judiciary Committee, were going to vote on marriage equality," Lesniak (D-Union) said, while ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gay Marriage Proposal To Be Considered By NJ Senate

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  Lets see if this has any more luck with a gay marriage proposal."On Monday in the Judiciary Committee, were going to vote on marriage equality," Lesniak (D-Union) said, while making the announcement to a crowd of gay marriage supporters on the Statehouse steps today."On Thursday (Dec. 10) the full Senate is going to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hey Dick Codey, what part of "were broke" is unclear?

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  Governor-elect Chris Christie has asked the lame-duck legislature to honor a moratorium on new spending . Its sound policy; NJ is $1 billion in the hole for the current fiscal year, and there is a projected $8 billion deficit looming for the next. Outgoing State Senate President Dick Codey (D-Roseland) is having ...
  3 weeks ago

• I want a job working for Union City, NJ government

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  The name "Union City" is strangely appropriate. The public employee unionsin the Hudson County municipality really have a sweet deal. School bus drivers are allotted 5 hours of guaranteed overtime each month to recharge their cell phones . Now a new audit from the State Commission of Investigations reveals ...
  3 weeks ago

• States Waited Until After Election Day To Deal With Budget Mess

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  If you want an example of how feckless and irresponsible the so-called fiscal wizard Jon Corzine was, all you need to know is that the state is now going to deal with its budget disaster by contemplating cuts to attempt to balance the budget. Any reasonable observer could have told you that the states budget was a ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Jerseys Budget Blowout

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  Despite all the protestations by outgoing Gov. Jon Corzine and legislators, the state remains in dire fiscal shape precisely because the Democrats in Trenton have studiously avoided having to make any tough decisions to curb the size of the state government and state spending.The state now faces a $1 billion deficit, ...
  4 weeks ago

• 412 million reasons to be thankful Jon Corzine wont be governor much longer

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 129
  Before the gubernatorial election Governor Jon Corzine "found" some unanticipatedrevenue in order to restore property tax rebates for senior citizens. It wasa sham, and thankfully the voters didnt buy it. Tonight on the eve of a major national holiday (the better to bury the bad news)Corzine announced that New ...
  4 weeks ago

• NJ nanny-staters seek to regulate fast food calorie counts

  
  WyBlog — Authority: 121
  Did I tell you that the lame-duck legislative session is ripe for all kindsof idiotic mischief making? A new law wending its way through our stateSenate would require fast food and chain restaurants to post calorie counts for all edible items . Because precisely what the slumping NJ business community needs is more ...
  4 weeks ago

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