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OLS's $760M Revenue Gap Undercuts Tax Cut Talk

Despite income tax surge and unemployment drop, Christie's revenue projections again come up short.
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Activists Call for Greater Scrutiny of Proposed Hospital Sales, Closures

Among issues addressed, hospitals not signing up as in-network providers, so they can charge insurers higher fees.
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Charter Schools Chart Course for Teacher Evaluations

State issues guidelines that are far less stringent than new rules for evaluation of district school educators.
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Committee Votes Out Bill to Fund Open Spaces Using Sales Tax

Single GOP lawmaker backs proposal, which could be DOA in the Legislature.
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Fine Print Task Force Would Oversee Health Marketplace

Assembly, Senate approve plan to monitor new insurance exchanges in NJ.
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Number of the Day 73

New Jersey hospitals number 73, as of 2010, with 62 of them nonprofits, three owned by the state, and eight for-profit facilities, according to statehealthfacts.org, a nonprofit website run by the Henry J. Kaiser foundation that tracks healthcare nationwide. The 73 hospitals amount to 2.4 beds per 1,000 population,
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Cooling-Tower Controversy Heats Up at Power Plants, Refinery

Green groups petition state agencies to require towers at three sites, reduce massive fish kills
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Paterson Keys Heritage Tourism to Strike Centennial

New national park joins museums, universities to commemorate 1913 strike.
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Review Committee Helps NJ Public Employees Call Another State 'Home'

Committee is one path for public employees to get around in-state-residency requirement of New Jersey First Act.
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Assembly to Vote On Bill That Promotes Recycling Of Unused Prescriptions

Sponsors say sealed medicine would benefit low-income residents struggling to afford drugs that are being thrown away.
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Number of the Day 25 percent

About 25 percent of New Jersey’s elderly cannot meet their basic living expenses, according to the New Jersey Foundation for Aging, which says rising rents of the last three years have made it difficult for most seniors
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House Committee OKs Big Cuts to Food Stamps in Farm Bill

click for full sizeThe Republican-controlled House Agriculture Committee on Thursday approved a version of the 2013 farm bill that cuts more than $20 billion in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). That would constitute a cut of roughly 25% to the $80 billion program
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FactCheck: Benghazi Attack, Revisited

President Obama says the May 8 House hearing on Benghazi and subsequent reporting about it produced no new information. That’s largely the case, but the president misrepresented some facts at his May 13 press conference in dismissing the House investigation as a “political circus.”
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Eustace, Wagner & Gordon on American Dream Vote

Senator Bob Gordon, Assemblywoman Connie Wagner and Assemblyman Tim Eustace (all D-Bergen/Passaic) said they are encouraged by today's vote by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to move forward with the American Dream project at the Meadowlands Complex in Bergen County.

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Wagner, Eustace & Gordon Hail Funding for Buyouts, Urge Relief for Residents In Flood-Prone Areas Statewide

Senator Bob Gordon, Assemblyman Tim Eustace and Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (all D-Bergen/Passaic) today hailed the Governor's announcement that $300 million in federal funding will be used to buy out Sandy-affected properties as well as repetitively flood-damaged homes in the Passaic River Basin, but said that relief is needed for residents in flood-prone areas statewide.
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