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Full Coverage: Paterson school construction comes to a halt.
Paterson school construction comes to a halt See CHANNEL 12 VIDEO COVERAGE MORE VIDEO COVERAGE UNIVISION CHANNEL 41 VIDEO FOOTAGE HERALD NEWS COVERAGE TELEMUNDO VIDEO COVERAGE (09/08/10) PATERSON – Some parents in Passaic County are protesting Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts after construction on a new elementary school was suddenly stopped.Marshall Street Elementary was supposed [...]
‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ reunion recap, part 2: Lollipops and roses and a head in a satchel
Real Housewives of New Jersey” reunion leave you, like me, feeling a little verklempt? Did you also start to tear up when Jacqueline Laurita tells Danielle Staub that she wants to let go off all her anger
N.J. exterminators use dogs to sniff out growing bedbug infestation.
OLD BRIDGE — Anchor gleefully wags his tail and bounds around the legs of his owner. The 2-year-old beagle has just been let out of his cage but now it’s time to get down to business. “Find your bees,” Carmen Reino commands. The dog is off, straining at the leash, pulling Reino around his home [...]
Unemployment rate rises as labor force expands.
Full Story:NorthJersey.com WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn’t enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work. The Labor Department says companies added a net total 67,000 new jobs last month, down [...]
N.J. education officials take steps to boost remedial help for students
New jersey education officials find disturbing
evidence that some New Jersey teens who didn’t possess simple math skills received passing grades in Algebra II and Calculus
Tom Moran: Christie faces ugly political ramifications of ‘Race to the Top’ error, Schundler firing
Full Story: Nj.com TRENTON — At the end of the darkest week in Gov. Christie’s term, it got worse Friday. The governor had already lost a $400 million education grant, thanks to the most expensive clerical error in history. He then played the role of sore loser, complaining about the contest rules and blaming President [...]
Smugglers flood N.J. with guns.
Full Story:NorthJersey.com Interstate 95 and its connector highways earned that nickname as the favored route of gun smugglers who bring inexpensively purchased firearms from East Coast states with lax gun-control laws into strict states like New Jersey. That reality is just one of the obstacles authorities face in trying to keep illegal guns off the [...]
Governor Chris Christie fires N.J. schools commissioner Bret Schundler.
Full Story:NorthJersey.com TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie fired state education commissioner Bret Schundler this morning after Schundler refused to resign in the wake of the controversy over the state’s loss of up to $400 million in federal school funding, an official briefed on the situation said. AARON HOUSTON/FOR THE STAR-LEDGER Education Bret Schundler testifies before [...]
Another Paterson man killed by NJ Transit train.
Full Story:NorthJersey.com PATERSON — A city man was fatally struck by a NJ Transit train late Saturday. The incident occurred west of the Paterson station on the Main Line, not far from where another man was killed by a train a week ago, according to a spokeswoman for the transit agency. Mark Popewiny, who would [...]
Paterson Native Victor Cruz is making a name for himself with the NY Giants.
Victor Cruz for a 64-yard touchdown pass to give the Giants a 17-16 lead over the Jets. The ball went over the shoulder of the defender and Victor Cruz stretched out and
NJ forest fire burns 670 acres of Pinelands.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Full Story:Northjersey.com BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP— A forest fire in the New Jersey Pinelands that had burned 670 acres was about 60 percent contained Tuesday. The blaze broke out Monday afternoon in Bass River Township. It forced the closure of Bass River State Forest and the evacuation of an unknown number of [...]
Three immigrants with green cards in N.J. file health care discrimination lawsuit.
Full Story: NJ.com Three immigrants with green cards sued the state today, saying it is discriminating against them by removing them from state-subsidized health care due to their immigration status. The lawsuit seeks to prevent the state Department of Human Services from instituting planned budget cuts that would remove the plaintiffs — and about 12,000 [...]
Gov. Christie vetoes $100M homebuyers tax credit bill.
Lisa Fleisher/Statehouse Bureau Follow Share this story Story tools Matt Rainey/The Star-LedgerGov. Chris Christie holds a press conference outside the Atlantic City boardwalk in this file photo. TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed a bill that would give tax credits of up to $15,000 to homebuyers, saying the state could not afford to forego [...]
SEOC Leaders hold their Annual Summer Organizing Retreat.
By: Henry Sosa Friday July 23rd, 2010 During the next 2 days the Statewide Education Organizing Committee will deepen their understanding and skills, assess where they have been, and where do they need to go. SEOC builds parent power as a means to improve their schools by using direct action organizing, an approach that always [...]
‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ star Danielle Staub files report with Wayne police
BY ANDREA ALEXANDER The Record STAFF WRITER WAYNE — The drama in the life of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” bad girl Danielle Staub is often just as riveting off-camera as it is on the show. FILE PHOTO Danielle Staub says she doesn’t owe a past associate any money. Now, a man from her sordid [...]
Sussex County man joins Obama to urge restoration of unemployment benefits
Monday, July 19, 2010 Last updated: Monday July 19, 2010, 6:05 PM BY HERB JACKSON The Record WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT President Obama used a North Jersey man’s 20-month job search to assail Republicans who have repeatedly blocked votes on extending unemployment benefits as the Senate tries again today to pass the long-stalled measure. “A partisan minority [...]
