Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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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.
CapitolInq: New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg was back in the Capitol for the second time since February this afternoon, but he didn’t answer questions from reporters.
TRENTON - A proposal to let voters decide whether to direct a fraction of sales-tax revenues toward land preservation for the next 30 years cleared another hurdle Monday when a Senate committee signed off on legislation to put the question on the ballot this November.
A New Jersey state senator has turned away from a plan to tax drivers by the mile instead of at the gallon at the gas pump.
Months after the FBI began probing allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), investigators are now looking at whether someone set out to smear him while he was running for reelection last year and then ascending to his new post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to four people briefed on the inquiry.
Some New Jersey Democratic lawmakers are complaining that New Jersey calculates property tax relief rebates based on homeowners' 2006 bills rather than current ones.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.