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Corzine, Forrester ... To many, a coin toss
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Deborah Howlett - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Bern Firner is still not sure who is going to get his vote today as New Jersey goes to the polls to elect a new governor.
Firner, a Piscataway computer programmer, chewed on the decision with several buddies Saturday night while fishing for striped bass. He wrestled with it Sunday while watching the Giants game. Yesterday he was still undecided.
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Virginia governor's race seen as closest since 1989
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
AP's BOB LEWIS - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Virginia's most expensive statewide race and the closest since at least 1989 ended Tuesday as both parties pushed programs to get their voters to the polls to full throttle in the governor's race.
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CORZINE ROMPS
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Deborah Howlett - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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With stunning ease, Democrat Jon Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey yesterday, defeating Republican Doug Forrester in a campaign that turned out to be the most expensive and negative the state has ever seen.
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Army hands out new award for any soldier who performs satisfactorily in combat
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
AP's JOHN J. LUMPKIN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Army Sgt. Tim "Gus" Gustafson was riding shotgun in the Humvee when the bomb went off under the right front tire, a few feet from his right leg.
Gustafson recounted the attack Wednesday at the Pentagon, shortly after senior military officials awarded him the Army's Combat Action Badge. That is a new award for any soldier who performs satisfactorily in combat. He already had received a purple heart.
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Stem cell bill may hit a wall
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
TOM HESTER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A proposal to invest $150 million in state funds to build a stem cell research institute -- planned as a hallmark of acting Gov. Richard Codey's 17-month term -- faces a roadblock in the Assembly and may not be considered there before the summer recess in nine days.
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Republicans ask Bush to rethink Iraq
Monday, June 13, 2005
Reuters' Vicki Allen - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A Republican congressman called for a deadline to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, while some other members of President Bush's party urged yesterday that his administration come to grips with a persistent insurgency and revamp Iraq policy.
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Bill would use GPS to track high-risk sexual predators
Friday, June 10, 2005
RICK HEPP - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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New Jersey's 250 most dangerous sexual predators would be forced to wear tracking devices and all 10,000-plus registered sex offenders would have to undergo yearly polygraph tests under legislation approved yesterday by a state Senate committee.
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Environmentalists urge stronger protection for shorebird
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
AP's ANGELA DELLI SANTI - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Environmentalists on Tuesday will urge the governors of New Jersey and Delaware to enforce strong new protections for a migratory shorebird threatened with extinction.
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Hope and venom run from possible Hillary '08 ticket
Monday, June 6, 2005
ROBERT COHEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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-- When Hillary Clinton spoke to the Wisconsin Women in Government's annual dinner in April, a record 2,200 people showed up, including 800 who watched the New York senator on a big screen from an overflow room.
The former first lady is on the move these days.
As she travels across the country giving speeches and raising money for her 2006 Senate re-election campaign, she draws rock-star attention from fans and headline coverage from the local press. The buzz, and the boost she gives local Democratic organizations, are laying the groundwork for a possible 2008 White House bid.
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Cheney visits Jersey to push benefits plan
Saturday, April 16, 2005
ROBERT SCHWANEBERG - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Warning that Social Security must be saved for future generations, Vice President Dick Cheney explained the Bush administration's proposal for "personal retirement accounts" yesterday to a friendly crowd of about 350 in Pemberton.
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Chertoff to watch drug dispensing as part of bio-terror drill
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
AP's WAYNE PARRY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Federal Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was scheduled to observe a mock antibiotic distribution effort Wednesday as the nation's largest anti-terrorism drill entered its third day.
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NJ awaits word on federal disaster designation after floods
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
AP's ROSA CIRIANNI - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Latoyra Taylor was moving out of her family's home and into an apartment all her own when the rain began. As she stood behind a police line with other neighbors who were evacuated over the weekend, all the 20-year-old could do was think of what she had left behind.
"Everything that meant something is in the basement," she said Monday afternoon. "Pictures, diplomas, everything. Stuff that can't be replaced. Pictures of my deceased grandma."
Taylor, like thousands of others who were evacuated from their homes over the weekend, will have to wait until floodwaters recede to see what could be salvaged.
New Jersey officials meanwhile awaited word Tuesday as to whether the flood-ravaged areas of the state would be declared a federal disaster area.
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Virtual plague draws a vigorous, real response
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
RICK HEPP and JOE RYAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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An elaborate drill designed to test how well federal, state and local authorities respond to a multi-pronged terrorism attack began yesterday morning with the simplest of police routines: Checking the license plates of a vehicle found abandoned at Kean University.
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Bare-knuckle Jersey politics bared
Friday, April 1, 2005
JEFF WHELAN and Deborah Howlett - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Profane, boastful and sure of his power, one of the state's most formidable political bosses can be heard proclaiming his influence over everything that moves in New Jersey politics, from U.S. senators to lowly local officials, in a series of secret recordings released yesterday.
In a rare unguarded dialogue on backroom politics Jersey-style, Democratic power broker George Norcross III tells a councilman in South Jersey that he can call the shots from behind the scenes.
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2 lawmakers share pain, but not a solution
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
AP's DONNA DE LA CRUZ - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The fight for Terri Schiavo's life hit home for two central New Jersey congressmen.
Republican Chris Smith and Democrat Rush Holt both have confronted a decision to remove a loved one from life support, and now find themselves on opposite sides of the issue in the Schiavo case.
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A name to revive ache in N.J.: Karen Quinlan
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
KATHLEEN O'BRIEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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It is all so terribly familiar: the cameras on the courthouse steps, the medical euphemisms for life's twilight, the pain of a parent losing a child.
This time, however, Julia Quinlan is merely an observer, not a mother thrust into a national debate on when to end medical intervention.
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The ethics are elusive and murky
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Carol Ann Campbell - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The court battle over Terri Schiavo's fate raises many medical questions. As a doctor and expert in end-of-life issues, Thomas Cavalieri deals with similarly difficult cases. He is chairman of the Department of Medicine at the UMDNJ -- School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford. In an interview, he detailed the facts surrounding her condition.
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Living will or a proxy can avoid conflicts
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
TONY PUGH - - New Jersey Star-Ledger (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Legal experts hope the Terri Schiavo case spurs more families to develop written legal instructions on the type of medical care a loved one should receive if that person is unable to decide for herself.
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Adams admits 'disappointment' with Bush snub, says Sinn Fein on the defensive
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
AP's NICK WADHAMS - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said Monday he was disappointed President Bush did not invite him to the White House for St. Patrick's Day, but he acknowledged his IRA-linked party has lost the initiative in pushing toward peace in Northern Ireland.
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U.S. wants N. Korea to resume nuke talks
Sunday, February 13, 2005
AP's GEORGE GEDDA - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Noting that the United States had been burned before in one-on-one talks with North Korea, the Bush administration yesterday rejected an appeal for direct discussions on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
The White House urged resumption of six-nation talks designed to negotiate the elimination of the Communist country's nuclear arms.
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PSEG execs to get $35M parachute
Sunday, February 13, 2005
TOM JOHNSON - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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More than three dozen Public Service Enterprise Group executives stand to collect a total of $35 million in severance payments if they lose their jobs as a result of the company's $12 billion merger deal with Exelon, according to a regulatory filing.
The Newark-based parent of the state's largest utility, Public Service Electric & Gas, and Chicago-based Exelon submitted a joint proxy statement to their shareholders touting the benefits of the merger, which will create the biggest power supplier in the country. The proxy was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Bush submits budget driven by war costs
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
J. SCOTT ORR and ROBERT COHEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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President Bush sent a "lean" $2.57 trillion budget to Congress yesterday, calling for billions of new dollars for the Pentagon and homeland security while cutting spending for popular domestic programs, including farm subsidies and aid to the poor.
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No teen left behind, either, starting in'09
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
JOHN MOONEY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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President Bush has touted No Child Left Behind as changing the face of public schools, and now he wants to start his second term by expanding the program even further, although with less money.
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As votes are tallied in Iraq, attacks and kidnappings rise
Monday, February 7, 2005
AP's Jason Keyser - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Gunmen waylaid a minibus yesterday carrying foreign technicians to their jobs at a mobile telephone company in western Baghdad, seizing four Egyptians in the second kidnapping of foreigners in the Iraqi capital within a week.
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Abu Ghraib guard pleads guilty in Iraqi prison abuse scandal
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
AP's T.A. BADGER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A former Abu Ghraib guard pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery and two other charges in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal as part of a deal with prosecutors on the eve of his trial.
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Codey opposes new Senate bill to legalize medical marijuana
Saturday, January 22, 2005
SUSAN K. LIVIO - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A state senator has introduced a bill that would make New Jersey the 11th state to allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to their sickest patients.
The bill, however, is not supported by acting Gov. Richard Codey, who is also president of the state Senate.
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Rice wins confirmation after heated debate on war, terror
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Condoleezza Rice won confirmation as secretary of state Wednesday despite blistering criticism from Senate Democrats who accused her of misleading statements and said she must share the blame for mistakes and war deaths in Iraq.
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Lawyers gather to plan attack on Merck over Vioxx
Friday, January 21, 2005
AP's THERESA AGOVINO - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Most of the 250 lawyers assembled in the Wyndham Philadelphia hotel ballroom listened intently Thursday as fellow attorney Barry Hill showed off an extensive collection of trinkets and product samples emblazoned with the logo of the now-withdrawn drug Vioxx.
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State is in for an 'amazingly complex' political year
Monday, January 3, 2005
JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The Democratic gubernatorial primary may pit the state's powerful acting governor against a sitting U.S. senator who plans to spends millions of dollars of his own money to get elected.
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Coast Guard: Pipe in river caused oil spill
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
AP's DAVID B. CARUSO - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A big, rusty pipe resting on the bottom of the Delaware River in an area that the government is supposed to keep free of obstructions apparently caused the gash in the tanker ship that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of thick crude oil last week, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday.
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At these prices, you say tomato, I say forget it
Monday, December 6, 2004
JOSEPH R. PERONE - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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First gasoline. Now tomatoes.
Produce prices around the country have shot up so sharply the past few months that a five-minute stroll down the fruit and vegetable aisle is starting to feel a lot like filling up the 44-gallon fuel tank on a giant SUV.
And the heartburn is stretching far beyond grocery store parking lots. Fast food restaurants, pizza joints and delis are all wrestling with a price increase caused by shortages of tomatoes, peppers and strawberries, and pleading with customers for patience.
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With fake insurgents and bombs, Army makes base feel like Iraq
Thursday, December 2, 2004
AP's Geoff Mulvihill - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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FORT DIX, N.J. (AP) — With faux insurgents, fake bombs, real concrete barriers and a little city of tents, officials here and at other Army installations preparing Reservists and National Guard members for duty in Iraq are trying to make the training more realistic.
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GIs learn to fight on the road
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Wayne Woolley - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The Humvee raced across a narrow blacktop road at Fort Dix, lurched crazily and then began to swerve when the driver slumped behind the wheel as if shot dead.
The vehicle kept rolling as a jumble of camouflage-covered bodies scrambled in the cab, straightening the steering wheel, pulling the driver's limp body from the seat and squeezing another soldier behind the wheel. Engine racing, the Humvee sped away.
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Oil spill could be worse than thought
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
AP's Geoff Mulvihill - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The Coast Guard said Tuesday that more than 473,000 gallons of crude oil is missing from the tanker Athos I, and investigators now believe that significantly more oil was spilled into the Delaware than the 30,000 gallons initially reported.
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Gash found on vessel's cargo tank after Delaware River spill
Sunday, November 28, 2004
AP's Maryclaire Dale - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Divers found a six-foot gash in a cargo tank on the Greek-owned tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River, spokesmen for the Coast Guard and the vessel's owner said Sunday.
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Assembly to consider pro sports gambling
Thursday, November 25, 2004
DUNSTAN McNICHOL - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Assembly Speaker Albio Sires gave his blessing yesterday to the state's latest flirtation with legalized betting on professional sports, saying lawmakers would consider the plan at a committee hearing a week from today.
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Jersey could forfeit wildlife aid
Friday, November 19, 2004
BRIAN T. MURRAY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Department of Environmental Commissioner Bradley Campbell's attempt to "take control" of wildlife management in the state could cost New Jersey millions in federal aid.
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Without a raise, head of Rutgers earns in Top 10
Monday, November 15, 2004
KELLY HEYBOER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Rutgers President Richard McCormick is the seventh-highest-paid public university president in the nation, according to a new survey.
McCormick, who earns a $525,000 salary and $100,000 annual retention bonus, placed third on the same survey last year. He would have ranked higher this year, but he asked the Rutgers board during his annual performance review last summer not to give him a raise, university officials said.
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Acting governor takes oath a day before he takes job
Monday, November 15, 2004
RICK HEPP - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Senate President Richard Codey was sworn in as acting governor last night during a private ceremony at his West Orange home even though his term won't officially begin until Gov. James McGreevey's resignation takes effect at midnight tonight.
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Codey is no stranger to special interest cash
Monday, November 15, 2004
JOE DONOHUE - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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When Senate President Richard Codey becomes acting governor tomorrow, he will assume extraordinary power.
He insists he intends to use it to clear up Trenton's scandal-tarnished image. But like any veteran of state office, he has long depended upon special interests to pay for his campaigns.
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McGreevey parting gifts: A slew of appointments
Monday, November 15, 2004
DUNSTAN McNICHOL - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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As the curtain drops on Gov. James E. McGreevey's administration, lawmakers are poised to put the finishing touches on a wave of appointments that will ensure continued state service and paychecks for a handful of the governor's loyalists.
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McGreevey spends final day away from Statehouse
Monday, November 15, 2004
AP's Jeff Linkous - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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In his last day in a gubernatorial career cut short by a gay sex scandal, James E. McGreevey planned to submit his official letter of resignation but take no other official action.
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In Fallujah, a patrol dodges 'flying Harleys,' leaps roofs
Saturday, November 13, 2004
AP's EDWARD HARRIS - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Trooping past bodies and abandoned weapons, U.S. Marines blasted their way through walls and hammered open doors yesterday in the hunt for insurgents in Fallujah. On the Muslim holy day, no calls to prayer were heard in a town dubbed "the city of mosques."
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State urged to drive harder bargains on high Rx drug costs
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
JOE DONOHUE - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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New Jersey could save tens of millions of dollars by striking tougher deals with the firms that sell prescription drugs through taxpayer-subsidized health care programs, AARP officials said yesterday.
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Military promises changes after accidental school strafing
Thursday, November 11, 2004
AP's WAYNE PARRY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The military promised changes in the way it operates a southern New Jersey target range after several 20mm rounds fired by an F-16 jet fighter on a nighttime training mission hit an elementary school last week.
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Officials demand changes after F-16 strafes school
Saturday, November 6, 2004
MARYANN SPOTO and JOE MALINCONICO - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Little Egg Harbor education officials and U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg yesterday called on the Air National Guard to revise its target-practice flights after an F-16 jet strafed an elementary school during training on Wednesday night.
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Nation's job report good news for Jersey
Saturday, November 6, 2004
BETH FITZGERALD - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The nation's employers added 337,000 jobs last month, nearly double the number economists expected, putting New Jersey on track for its strongest employment growth since the last economic boom in 2000.
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Jersey's Kerry supporters are in a blue state
Thursday, November 4, 2004
PEGGY O'CROWLEY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Disappointment, bitterness, disbelief, and bewilderment.
For millions of voters in "blue states" such as New Jersey, their mood was a matching color yesterday as they wondered just what voters in all those "red states" saw in the incumbent.
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Once again, the young prove they're inspired yet unpredictable
Thursday, November 4, 2004
KATE COSCARELLI - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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They were supposed to give presidential challenger John Kerry the edge.
Leading up to the election, Democrats expected massive voter registration drives would gather young people and minorities and help push the Massachusetts senator to victory.
In the end, they helped him secure New Jersey and more than 14 other states, but it wasn't enough to swing the vote. Instead, Republicans fired up their base, including high numbers of evangelical Christians casting votes for the first time.
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Air national guard fighter fires at school
Thursday, November 4, 2004
AP's WAYNE PARRY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission Wednesday fired 25 rounds of ammunition that tore through an elementary school. No one was injured.
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Patriot Act energizes the ACLU in Jersey
Monday, November 1, 2004
KATE COSCARELLI - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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After years in the doldrums, the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is fighting big cases again.
ACLU officials say much of the resurgence can be summed up in two words: John Ashcroft.
The U.S. attorney general's enforcement of the 2001 law expanding law enforcement's surveillance and investigative powers in response to domestic terrorism attacks has created a series of dramatic civil rights cases, roused many of the ACLU's old friends and brought in news ones as well.
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GOP charges dirty politics in fake Schwarzkopf campaign call
Monday, November 1, 2004
AP's DONNA DE LA CRUZ - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Lifelong Republican Richard Bonnet pays attention to politics, so when he found a message on his answering machine from Norman Schwarzkopf saying he was voting for John Kerry this year, he was momentarily stunned.
On Sunday, the retired general gave Bush a strong endorsement in Tampa, Fla. Schwarzkopf released a statement Monday saying that the Democratic National Committee was making fraudulent phone calls and demanded that they stop.
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Legal battle over Ohio poll challenges extends to unlikely quarter - New Jersey
Sunday, October 31, 2004
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Federal judges in two states are expected to rule Monday on whether and how Republicans may challenge voters' qualifications at the polls in battleground Ohio.
Democrats say planned voter challenges in Ohio and Florida may target minority voters or cause chaos and long lines at voting stations.
A judge in an unlikely quarter — faraway New Jersey — could also rule on whether the poll challenges contemplated in Ohio should be outlawed nationally.
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The nation invests itself in the presidential election
Sunday, October 31, 2004
ROBERT COHEN and J. SCOTT ORR - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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An American house divided goes to the polls Tuesday hoping to resolve the stark choice between two presidential candidates and fearing that a disputed result could damage the democratic system itself.
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With terrorism as backdrop, Bush narrows gap vs. Kerry
Sunday, October 31, 2004
JOE DONOHUE - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Just days before the presidential election, the final Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll found a tightening race in New Jersey as voters continued to worry about the threat of terrorism.
The latest poll shows Democratic Sen. John Kerry with a 45 percent to 41 percent lead over Republican President George W. Bush, with 12 percent still undecided and other candidates taking 2 percent of the vote.
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Ex-candidate Dean rallies Democratic faithful
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
JULIA M. SCOTT - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean brought his brand of Bush- bashing politics to a student audience at Union County College yesterday.
Speaking before several hundred people in the student commons, the former contender for the Democratic nomination for president said he was in Cranford to help get out the vote and "make sure" that the Democratic ticket carries New Jersey.
"It always pays to be absolutely sure," he said.
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Some moderates in Pa. shy from Bush
Sunday, October 24, 2004
JOHN FARMER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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MACUNGIE, Pa. -- President Bush's public profession of his faith as a born-again Christian plays well with his conservative base, but it troubles some voters here in the Lehigh Valley, a critical section of this critical state.
With a heavy Democratic vote likely to come out of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and their surrounding suburbs, most analysts believe Bush cannot afford to lose the Lehigh Valley if he is to hold Pennsylvania, one of the few states still deemed competitive in the Nov. 2 election.
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Bush cousins launch pro-Kerry Web-site
Monday, October 25, 2004
AP's KEN MAGUIRE - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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There goes the invitation to the Texas ranch.
Seven distant relatives of President Bush have created a Web site urging visitors: "Please, don't vote for our cousin."
The Bush relatives, supporters of Democratic challenger John Kerry, say they've never met the president but disagree with his policies ranging from the war in Iraq to the environment.
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Port Authority chief: Airport security is broken
Saturday, October 23, 2004
RON MARSICO - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has sent a stinging letter to federal aviation officials, charging there are "serious weaknesses" in the airline security system at Newark Liberty International Airport that must be fixed immediately.
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Sinclair fires Washington bureau chief
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
AP's KASEY JONES - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair Broadcast Group said he was fired Monday after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
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Bush's visit to S. Jersey draws Democratic flak
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
GUY STERLING - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Even before President Bush arrived in New Jersey yesterday, Democrats accused him of using the state's link to the 9/11 terrorist attacks for political advantage while failing to do enough to protect its residents from future attacks.
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Each side professes confidence in battle to control Senate
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
ROBERT COHEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) said yesterday the fight for control of the Senate is a tossup, with the outcome hinging on hotly contested races in eight states.
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Kerry calls president an arrogant war chief
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
AP's Mary Dalrymple - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Democrat John Kerry said yesterday that President Bush sent troops into war without necessary equipment, and he accused the commander in chief of "arrogant boasting that he's done everything right in Iraq."
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Bush seems to be trying to outdo Kerry with harsh campaign talk
Monday, October 18, 2004
J. SCOTT ORR and ROBERT COHEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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As the race for the White House enters its stretch run, the only thing sharper than the political differences between the two candidates may be the rhetoric they are flinging at each other.
With just over two weeks left before the Nov. 2 balloting, President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry have ratcheted up the attacks, redoubled the name-calling and made this campaign positively negative.
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Memories of Sept. 11 weigh heavily on New Jerseyans as election nears
Sunday, October 17, 2004
AP's DONNA DE LA CRUZ - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — One fact led President Bush to choose New Jersey, a Democratic presidential stronghold, as the backdrop for a homeland security campaign speech Monday: terror and the Sept. 11 attacks are as crucial for New Jersey voters as they are for Bush's re-election campaign.
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Bush and Kerry find common ground: Ohio is key
Sunday, October 17, 2004
JOHN FARMER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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For George W. Bush, as it has been for every Republican presidential candidate for almost 150 years, Ohio is the critical state.
The record is daunting: No GOP nominee has made it to the Oval Office without winning the Buckeye State. This year, with the national polls a dead heat, only a handful of states still competitive and debate momentum favoring Democrat John Kerry, the historical imperative for Bush -- win Ohio or you're toast -- looms larger than ever.
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President hopes message on terrorism resonates in New Jersey
Monday, October 18, 2004
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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President Bush is telling voters in New Jersey — a state that hasn't backed a Republican presidential candidate since 1988 — that his battle plan for fighting terrorists is better than Democrat John Kerry's.
With a little more than two weeks before Election Day, the president was campaigning on Monday in New Jersey, a state in the shadow of the Manhattan skyline that was scarred by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.
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A broadcaster's anti-Kerry move is making waves
Thursday, October 14, 2004
AP's ALEX DOMINGUEZ - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Thirty years ago, the Sinclair broadcasting company consisted of one family-owned Baltimore channel on the UHF dial, one of those high-numbered stations whose broadcast signals were so weak that viewers needed a special antenna to get a clear picture.
Now Sinclair owns more TV stations than anyone outside the major networks. And it is not at all shy about using its clout to advance a conservative agenda.
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War of Words Over War in Iraq
Friday, October 1, 2004
J. SCOTT ORR - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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President Bush championed his stewardship of America's global war on terrorism while Sen. John Kerry challenged the wisdom of fighting an open-ended, unilateral war in Iraq, as the presidential candidates faced each other in debate last night for the first time.
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Bush reviews disputed Guard documents
Saturday, September 18, 2004
AP's Scott Lindlaw - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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President Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously, a White House official said Saturday.
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Bush makes a race of it in Jersey
Thursday, September 9, 2004
DAVID KINNEY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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On the strength of withering attacks against his opponent in TV ads and at the Republican National Convention, President Bush has cut Democrat John Kerry's lead in New Jersey to just four points, a new Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll shows.
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Bush given edge in keeping nation safe from terror
Sunday, September 5, 2004
J. SCOTT ORR and JOHN FARMER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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For the first time in at least a generation, polls and political analysts say, this year's race for the White House could turn on America's national security.
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They're making a buck off attacks
Sunday, September 5, 2004
JUDY PEET - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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They appear at Ground Zero after morning rush hour, solemn people with heavy Chinese or Turkish accents and graphic picture albums that say: "Remember the Heroes."
They wander quietly among the tourists and offer a free peek: a plane heading for one Twin Tower while the other burns; screaming people running from the collapsing buildings.
They say they have permits to sell 9/11 souvenirs and that some of the proceeds will go to the families of the survivors. They lie.
The police arrive and vendors scatter. They'll be back.
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Nader lists beefs with D.C. and Trenton
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
TOM HESTER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader had some choice words for President Bush, Democratic nominee John Kerry and Gov. James E. McGreevey yesterday as he tried to stir up some attention as Republicans hold their national convention in New York.
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Kean makes his role a limited one
Monday, August 30, 2004
JEFF WHELAN and JOSH MARGOLIN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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As New Jersey Republicans descended upon Manhattan for their party's national convention yesterday, one prominent name was noticeably absent from the delegation roster: former Gov. Tom Kean.
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Whitman is an outsider looking in
Monday, August 30, 2004
ROBERT COHEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A little more than a year after she ended a tempestuous stint as a member of the Bush administration, former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman is planning to take an active role during this week's Republican National Convention, preaching the gospel of social moderation.
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Bush relies on N.Y. for 9/11 symbolism
Sunday, August 29, 2004
JOHN FARMER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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NEW YORK -- George W. Bush begins the last lap in his quest for re-election in a setting laden with symbolism -- the city whose 9/11 tragedy dominated his term and defined him as a wartime president.
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Web sites fuel gas wars across state
Sunday, August 29, 2004
JOE RYAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Gasoline is Susanlee Pedersen's lifeblood.
The 30-year-old real estate agent from Byram logs up to 400 miles weekly on the road, and finding low pump prices is her priority.
Yet Pedersen wanders neither byways nor highways for the best buy. She browses the Web and checks one of several sites that track Garden State gas prices.
She considers it her weapon in a war for more affordable fuel.
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FBI agents talk with governor in probe
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
JOSH MARGOLIN and TOM HESTER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Gov. James E. McGreevey was interviewed voluntarily by the FBI on Friday as part of the agency's investigation into his complaint that he was being blackmailed by a former aide and gay lover, according to two people with direct knowledge of the inquiry.
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GOP to launch ad attacking Corzine
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
DAVID KINNEY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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In a radio ad that is set to begin airing today, New Jersey Republicans accuse U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine of walking hand-in-hand with Democratic "party bosses," disgraced campaign donor Charles Kushner and scandal-scarred Gov. James E. McGreevey.
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Expect a conventional GOP gathering
Sunday, August 22, 2004
J. SCOTT ORR - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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When Republican orators take to the podium next week at the party's convention in New York, expect the rhetoric to be conservative in style as much as in substance.
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Corzine will not force governor out
Thursday, August 19, 2004
DAVID KINNEY and RON MARSICO - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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In a brief but dramatic phone conversation, Gov. James E. McGreevey told U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine yesterday he will not budge from office sooner than planned, and the senator responded by suspending his bid for the job.
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Senator's choice briefly halts backbiting
Thursday, August 19, 2004
JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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It may not be over yet.
The movement to force Gov. James E. McGreevey out of office appeared to collapse yesterday when U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine said he would not join the rebellion.
And the men who spearheaded the attempted coup -- Rep. Robert Menendez, former State Sen. John Lynch and Camden County Democratic leader George Norcross -- appear to be out of options.
But in New Jersey, no political victory is ever final.
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The day McGreevey shocked his wife
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
ROBIN GABY FISHER - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Dina McGreevey did not learn until last week that her husband, Gov. James E. McGreevey, is gay, or that he had an affair with a male aide, according to one of the first lady's closest confidantes.
And she never suspected.
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Senator considers run for governor
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
DAVID KINNEY and JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine confirmed yesterday he is considering a run for governor, adding fuel to efforts by some Democratic Party leaders to pressure Gov. James E. McGreevey into moving up his resignation date.
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Democrats urging McGreevey to leave
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
DAVID KINNEY and JOSH MARGOLIN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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With U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine signaling he will answer his party's call to run for governor in a special election this year, key Democratic leaders are intensifying their efforts to persuade Gov. James E. McGreevey to quit immediately and clear the way the senator's candidacy.
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Lawyer insists Cipel repulsed by advances
Monday, August 16, 2004
ANA M. ALAYA - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Golan Cipel insists he is a heterosexual who was frightened and repulsed by New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's repeated sexual advances, Cipel's lawyer said yesterday.
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Corzine seems willing but not eager to run
Monday, August 16, 2004
RON MARSICO and JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Gov. James E. McGreevey and his former aide Golan Cipel each stayed out of sight yesterday after two days of sensational charges against each other, while New Jersey Democrats worked the phones to determine whether it is possible to have U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) run for governor this November.
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FORMER AIDE CHARGES: MCGREEVEY ABUSED ME
Saturday, August 14, 2004
JOHN MARTIN and JOSH MARGOLIN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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The day after Gov. James E. McGreevey admitted an extramarital affair with a man and announced he will leave office, the former aide at the center of the scandal accused the governor of sexual harassment.
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Governor rallies staff with a stirring talk
Saturday, August 14, 2004
DAVID KINNEY and JONATHAN SCHUPPE - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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A day after Gov. James E. McGreevey upended New Jersey politics by saying he would resign over an affair with a male aide, the governor tried to encourage his shell-shocked staff, and the man in line to succeed him tried to calm the roiled waters.
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McGREEVEY QUITS, ADMITS GAY AFFAIR
Friday, August 13, 2004
JEFF WHELAN and JOHN HASSELL - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Gov. James E. McGreevey announced yesterday that he will resign, citing an adulterous affair with a male lover and declaring, "I am a gay American."
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Exit upends political landscape
Friday, August 13, 2004
DAVID KINNEY - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Another political bombshell, another politician stepping aside, and suddenly New Jersey's political world is in tumult like never before.
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Al Qaeda boss and top aides go low-tech
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
AP's PAUL HAVEN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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If Osama bin Laden is directing plans for an attack on the United States -- as Washington intelligence officials suspect -- his instructions likely are coming out of the craggy mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the back of a donkey or under the shawl of an unassuming-looking villager.
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N.J. voters lean to Kerry on every key issue
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Concerned that President Bush has divided -- not united -- the nation, New Jersey voters give Democratic nominee John Kerry a double-digit advantage on virtually every major issue in the presidential race, according to the latest Star- Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll.
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Web site supporting terrorism traced to North Brunswick man
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
BRIAN DONOHUE and PATRICK JENKINS - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Federal authorities are investigating a North Brunswick man who they say maintained a Web site that served as a how-to guide for people wanting to donate money to terrorist organizations or engage in holy war.
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His life, their wait at Clinton signing
Thursday, August 5, 2004
JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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James Kirby wasn't taking any chances.
Former President Bill Clinton wasn't scheduled to appear at his book signing at Sam's Club in West Windsor until 2 p.m. yesterday. But Kirby, 40, a store manager from Waterford Works, showed up 16 hours early and camped out in his van.
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3 Dems see funding gap on security
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
JEFF WHELAN - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Three of New Jersey's Democratic members of Congress said yesterday that the state's elevated terror alert level demonstrates that it is being shortchanged in homeland security funding.
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Extraordinary threat, extraordinary security
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
MARY JO PATTERSON - - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Extraordinarily tight security and a fresh sense of vulnerability yesterday permeated the five financial centers in Newark, New York City, and Washington, D.C., that the federal government says were targets of a terror plot by al Qaeda.
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