OP-EDS/ COLUMNS

Fix Chris Christie's tax burden
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff says expected revenue is less than the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services predicts. Trenton will take in up to $913 million more than expected ...

Not just another sex scandal
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, far right, head of the International Monetary Fund, stands beside his attorney as he is arraigned on Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court. There's a debate under way ...

Pipeline has no place in NJ's Jersey City
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) - Jerramiah T. Healy Star-Ledger Guest Columnist
Mayor Jerramiah Healy says the high pressure natural gas pipeline proposed to go through Jersey City would create safety and economic concerns. By Jerramiah T. Healy ...

Of budgets hostages and deficits
Politico - Charles R. Morris ‎
Paul Krugman, an ABC's “This Week with Christiane Anampour” Sunday, and then in his New York Times Monday op-ed column, argued that President Barack Obama should not cut a budget deal with ...

BOB INGLE: NJEA offers revised history on one tax
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Bob Ingle  ‎
Chris Christie took his town hall road show to a Washington audience recently, the message was the same as here: Teacher unions are the biggest stumbling block to education reform. Back home, the New Jersey Education Association was proving him right. ...

U.S. Senate vote expected on bill to cut oil company tax breaks
NorthJersey.com - Herb Jackson - ‎
US Sen. Bob Menendez's attempt to eliminate about $2 billion in annual tax breaks for big oil companies failed in the Senate on Tuesday, providing political fodder for both parties but leaving gas prices and the federal deficit ...
 
 
NEWARK/ ESSEX COUNTY

Developers Rediscover Newark
National Real Estate Investor - Stan Luxenberg ‎
One Riverfront Center in Newark exemplifies the Class-A buildings that lend an increasingly upscale image. For four decades, no new hotels were built in the central business district of Newark, NJ Crime rates were so high that lenders were reluctant to ...

Acting Newark police director Samuel DeMaio vows changes, shrugs off controversy
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - James Queally ‎
Samuel DeMaio has big plans for a city facing big problems. Two weeks after being named Newark's acting ...

Not Guilty Pleas in 5-Year-Old's Death
Wall Street Journal - ‎
A northern New Jersey woman and her boyfriend have pleaded not guilty in the death of the woman's 5-year-old daughter on Mother's Day. Bianca Young, 24, of Newark and her 27-year-old boyfriend, Ahmed Thakur, made separate appearances in ...

10 Images and Ideas Inspired by the Newark Peace Summit
Huffington Post ‎
The Newark Peace and Education Summit was a truly inspiring event. I am glad I took so many images and wrote down ideas while I was there. Looking at all of them this morning reminded me how captivating and consuming the weekend really was. ...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty)
WNYC - Anna Sale - ‎‎
Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he absolutely feels "in the right place at the right time doing the right thing," but that doesn't mean he's not wondering about what might come next when his second term comes to an end. Speaking to WNYC on Monday, ...

Multi-car accident on Route 280 in Newark injures several people
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - James Queally  ‎
A multi-vehicle accident on Route 280 in Newark injured several people this afternoon and snarled rush-hour traffic, authorities said. The wreck occurred at 3:45 pm in the westbound lanes near the First Street ...

Newark police honor 21 officers, 2 squads during annual awards ceremony
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - James Queally
The Newark Police Department honored 21 officers and two special squads during its annual awards ceremony at City Hall today. The awards were doled out to officers for bravery in facing down wanted gunmen, assistance with capturing homicide ...

Newark woman charged in fatal beating of her 5-year-old daughter pleads not guilty
Suburban News - Alexi Friedman
Bianca Young pleaded not guilty today to charges she killed her 5 year-old daughter. NEWARK — A Newark woman charged in the beating death of her 5-year-old daughter pleaded not guilty today ...

Homebuilders still face bleak construction market
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Sarah Portlock
Model homes on display at the Oakbridge housing development in Danville, Nationwide, new residential construction figures and building permits are down. Calif. in April. ...
 
NJ STATE NEWS

Wildlife officials plan to combat fungus killing thousands of NJ bats
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Peggy McGlone -
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has detailed a national plan to combat a fungus that has killed more than 1 ...

Extra NJ revenue could go to property tax rebates, education
Dailyrecord.com - Jason Method
New Jersey officials tussled over what to do with a sudden windfall of income tax collections even as they awaited a major decision by the state Supreme Court. State Treasurer Andrew P. Sidamon-Eristoff told a legislative panel Tuesday that ...

New Jersey Lotto Winner Apparently Leaped to Death
Fox News - ‎
The New Jersey man who authorities believe decapitated himself when he leaped to his death with a rope around his neck had won a $1 million slot jackpot in 2001. John Leatherman's torso was recovered near the Ocean Grove Fishing Pier ...

New Jersey's wealthiest pump up tax revenue: report
Reuters - Joan Gralla, Diane Craft - ‎
New Jersey should capture an extra $914 million of tax revenue over the next two years, a fiscal monitor said on Tuesday, a promising forecast for a state struggling to close a $4 billion deficit. Personal income taxes account for ...

Greenwald Urges Using N.J. Revenue Gain for Tax Relief
Washington Post  ‎
New Jersey Assemblyman Louis Greenwald, a Democrat who chairs the Budget Committee, talks with Bloomberg's Terrence Dopp about a report that revenue may top Governor Christie's forecasts. Revenue may beat Christie's forecasts by ...

NJ Human Services Police Captain Charged
Wall Street Journal -
Authorities have accused the third-highest ranking member of New Jersey's Human Services Police Department with falsifying time sheets. Capt. Brian Brady also is accused of submitting fraudulent firearm qualification certificates and using ...

NJ students perform modern interpretations of Shakespearean plays
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Peggy McGlone -
Members of the cast of Trinity Christian School's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. MORRIS COUNTY — The handshake-hug that Orange Prep students Roger Tanis and Christian ...

Jersey programs win $1.3 million in NEA grants
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Peggy McGlone - ‎
The federal arts agency announced its second round of 2011 grants yesterday, distributing more than $88 million to support 1145 arts programs. New Jersey's piece of the grants pie is significantly smaller than last year ...

Policymakers cast critical eye on health care
NorthJersey.com - Lindy Washburn -
New Jersey's health care system is in bad shape. Costs are high, quality is mediocre and doctors have been slow to adopt information technology that would make care more efficient. That was the consensus at a conference in Trenton on ...

Hoboken woman's iPhone photos of space shuttle go viral
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Karl de Vries –
Today's cover of the St. Petersburg Times, which used one of the iPhone photos a Hoboken woman took of space shuttle Endeavour taking off. In fact, she makes sure she brings a digital camera with her ...

NJ human services police captain is charged with falsifying time sheets
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Chris Megerian - ‎
The building in Trenton which houses the Department of Human Services. A high-ranking member of the police force there has been charged with faking time sheets. TRENTON — A high-ranking official with the ...

Rainy weather disrupts Montclair State University graduation schedule
NJ.com - Kelly Heyboer  ‎
This week's rainy weather is wreaking havoc ...

North Jersey under flood watch, rain expected all day
NorthJersey.com (press release) - Katie Sobko, Chris Harris - ‎2 hours ago‎
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the area until late tonight. There will be rain and isolated thunderstorms moving through the region today, with storms capable of producing locally heavy ...

FDU graduation set for today
NorthJersey.com - Chris Harris
Despite her best efforts, 22-year-old Fairleigh Dickinson University graduate Erica Lee was still a tad late for Tuesday's 68th commencement at the Izod Center in East Rutherford — just 13 miles away. “I was so late,” the biology major ...
 
NATIONAL

Cornel West Spars With Ed Schultz About Obama (VIDEO)
Huffington Post - ‎
Cornel West about President Obama after a day after the high-profile scholar and leading black intellectual gave a scathing interview condemning Obama's term in office. On Monday, an interview with West appeared on the website Truthdig. ...

Geithner: Republicans responsible if US defaults
msnbc.com - Pallavi Gogoi - ‎‎
SEC'Y TIMOTHY GEITHNER: David, let me tell you how we're going to do this. Congress is going to have to raise the debt limit. They understand that. That's absolutely essential to preserve the creditworthiness of the United States of America. ...

US Postal Service (USPS) Faces Financial Shortfall Unless Congress Addresses ...
MMD Newswire (press release) - ‎‎
Statutorily mandated payments due to the government at the end of September will not be paid, he said, unless Congress acts to refund overpayments of pension funding or ease the mandate to prefund retiree health benefits. Testifying before the Federal ...

Deal on Deficit Reduction Unlikely as Coburn Quits 'Gang of Six' Talks
PBS NewsHour - David Chalian, Terence Burlij ‎
The breakdown now puts more pressure on Vice President Joe Biden to strike a deal in the bipartisan, bicameral negotiations he's been leading, which are aimed at taking a first significant stab at long-term deficit reduction without trying to resolve ...

Obama heading to Massachusetts for fundraisers
Boston Globe - Glen Johnson - ‎
President Obama waves goodbye at Andrews Air Force Base as he departed this morning for New London, Ct., and Boston. By Glen Johnson, Globe Staff President Obama is coming to Massachusetts later today for a pair of fundraisers in Boston and Brookline. ...