Saturday, May 25, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013

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Gov. Chris Christie's latest filing shows he has raised $6.5 million before the June 4 primary.
The New Jersey agency entrusted with ensuring access to public records may be Gov. Chris Christie’s biggest ally for keeping a pension scandal...
TRENTON - As the Legislature moves toward adopting a new budget, the Christie administration and a nonpartisan budget analyst offered starkly differing projections Monday of how much revenue the state will take in.
For the third time, Gov. Christie has refused to link climate change and Sandy. "I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change,” Christie said yesterday in response to a question from a reporter from WNYC, an NPR affiliate. Today at a union meeting for teachers, Christie's expected Democratic challenger, State Sen. Barbara Buono, brought up his remark. "Wake up!" Buono said. "How much proof do you need? This kind of putting his head in the sand, being in denial, is not going to solve our problem. Being in in denial is going to have the future Sandy be the legacy our children are going to inherit."
The two most powerful men in the New Jersey Senate are locking horns.
Gov. Chris Christie's revenue projections for the next 13 months are overestimated by nearly $1 billion and could be even worse if some revenue items that are in doubt do not come through, the New Jersey Legislature's budget expert told lawmakers Monday.
WASHINGTON - Bob Casey wanted more contrition. Bob Menendez wanted scrutiny of what he called "a second scandal." And Pat Toomey wanted to know how anyone could see IRS targeting of conservatives as anything but political.
TRENTON - With its imposing, Victorian-era buildings and leafy, college-like campus, the Vineland Developmental Center was in its time a state-of-the-art institution for treating young women with complex mental and emotional disorders.
An investment group led by George E. Norcross III and Ira Lubert announced Saturday it would bid on the bankrupt Woodcrest Country Club, adding a new player to the mix of potential owners of the Cherry Hill golf course.
About 25 tea party members protested in Moorestown at Christie's fundraiser for the Burlco Republican Committee. They stood on the sidewalk of the affluent town's community house and waved signs as Christie's black SUV breezed by them.
Gov. Chris Christie's latest filing shows he has raised $6.5 million before the June 4 primary.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's wife says her husband would make a good president.
"When you think Gov. Chris Christie, you think fun," Al Roker declared on the "Today" show this morning. And with that, Christie began his gig this morning co-hosting -- errr, extended interviewing -- live from Seaside Heights. After a bit of controversy over whether a gubernatorial candidate should be hosting one of the most watched shows on TV, the appearance was downgraded to an "extended interview." In reality, it was one brief interview and a ribbon-cutting with the Christie family.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took his message that his state's shore is open to tourists to a national audience Friday and said he'll welcome President Barack Obama to a shore tour next week.
The leader of the New Jersey Assembly is trying to block the entire list of 176 construction projects at colleges and universities across the state while she seeks answers to how decisions were made on the $1.3 billion in grants.
State Sen. Barbara Buono, the Central Jersey senator (almost definitely) facing Gov. Christie in the fall, is finally up on the air. But her new ad -- a mix of retro shots of her from back in the day and pointed shots against Christie -- will not be seen in the Philadelphia and South Jersey television markets. The ad, at a cost of more than $1 million, will run only in the New York City market, which covers North Jersey.
For the third time, Gov. Christie has refused to link climate change and Sandy. "I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change,” Christie said yesterday in response to a question from a reporter from WNYC, an NPR affiliate. Today at a union meeting for teachers, Christie's expected Democratic challenger, State Sen. Barbara Buono, brought up his remark. "Wake up!" Buono said. "How much proof do you need? This kind of putting his head in the sand, being in denial, is not going to solve our problem. Being in in denial is going to have the future Sandy be the legacy our children are going to inherit."
The New Jersey agency entrusted with ensuring access to public records may be Gov. Chris Christie’s biggest ally for keeping a pension scandal...
TRENTON - As the Legislature moves toward adopting a new budget, the Christie administration and a nonpartisan budget analyst offered starkly differing projections Monday of how much revenue the state will take in.
The two most powerful men in the New Jersey Senate are locking horns.