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2. New Jersey transit backs study of new rail tunnel

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
NJ Transit Corp. -- Transportation policy, Railroad tunnels -- Design and construction, New Jersey -- Transportation, Manhattan, New York, New York -- Transportation
Published
2002

8. Taxing plan for arenas advances

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
New Jersey. General Assembly -- Tax policy, Sports facilities -- Finance, Newark, New Jersey -- Buildings and facilities
Published
2001

10. Back to basics at the Port Authority

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- Management, Marine cargo handling industry -- Management, Ports -- Management
Published
2001

13. A. & P. tries to halt sale of Grand Union stores

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Inc. -- Cases, Grand Union Co. -- Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, C and S Wholesale Grocers Inc. -- Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Supermarkets -- Cases, Grocery industry -- Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Wholesale industry -- Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Acquisitions and mergers -- Cases, Bankruptcy -- Cases
Published
2000

14. Court seeks more review of race in death cases

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
New York. Supreme Court -- Cases, Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Cases, Capital punishment -- Investigations
Published
2000

17. They're hiring on the docks: brains, not brawn

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Stevedores -- Employment, Job qualifications -- Economic aspects, Ports -- Employment, Marine cargo handling industry -- Employment
Published
2000

19. Jury selection to begin tomorrow

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
International Boxing Federation -- Cases, Bribery -- Cases, Racketeering -- Cases, Newark, New Jersey -- Cases
Published
2000

20. New Jersey moves against extreme wrestling

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Governors -- Social policy, Wrestling -- Laws, regulations and rules, Violence in sports -- Laws, regulations and rules, New Jersey -- Politics and government
Published
2000

22. WHEN SCHOOL RULES CHEAT KIDS

Author

SMOTHERS, RONALD

Subjects
School violence -- Safety and security measures, School discipline -- Social aspects
Abstract

"Zero tolerance" for threats at school sounds like a great idea--until your first-grader is suspended for playing cops and robbers. Like many kids their age, the three 7-year-old girls from […]

Published
2000

23. Source of Senator's Injuries a Mystery

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

STATE Senator Bernard F. Kenny Jr., the former Hudson County Democratic Party chairman, Senate majority leader and chairman of the powerful Budget and Appropriations Committee, has had his name appear […]

Published
2007

24. Dual-Job Ban Is Not Enough, Report Says

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Conflict of interests (Public office) -- Prevention -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Public officers -- Economic aspects -- Ethical aspects, Supplementary employment -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Economic aspects -- Political aspects, New Jersey -- Economic aspects -- Political aspects
Abstract

Only weeks after New Jersey adopted a ban on holding more than one elective office at a time, effective next year, a research organization said on Thursday that there was […]

Published
2007

25. Indictment Adds to Debate Over Ex-Mayor's Legacy in Newark

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
James, Sharpe
Abstract

Despite warnings from suburbanites who vowed not to venture into this scarred city at night, Sharpe James enlisted the help of a succession of four governors and oversaw the construction […]

Published
2007

26. Lautenberg Strides On, Unfazed by Poll

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

UNITED States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg had had a busy day by the time he returned calls Wednesday. He had just met privately with the Bush administration's nominee to head […]

Published
2007

27. Remembering a Leader, Loyally, Fondly and Sometimes Angrily

Author

Fahim, Kareem and Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Company legal issue, African American mayors -- Cases -- Evaluation, Fraud -- Cases, Conspiracy -- Cases
Abstract

In the city he led as mayor for 20 years, it was called a coincidence, a conspiracy, a shame or simply about time that Sharpe James was indicted Thursday, the […]

Published
2007

28. Driver Stopped in New Jersey Sues, Claiming Police Profiling

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Company legal issue, Police -- Cases, Racial profiling -- Cases, Automobile drivers -- Cases
Abstract

A black driver who was stopped, detained and extensively searched by state police on the New Jersey Turnpike last year and was given a warning for a faulty tail light […]

Published
2007

29. Parties Sparring Over Monetization Plan

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

EVEN before Gov. Jon S. Corzine called Republican opponents demagogues late last month for their attacks on his proposal to somehow repackage state assets like toll roads or the lottery […]

Published
2007

30. Officials to Take Another Look At Decision to Close Army Base

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Government Accountability Office -- Powers and duties -- Investigations, United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General -- Investigations -- Powers and duties, United States. Army -- Facility closures -- Investigations -- Powers and duties, Military bases -- Facility closures -- Military aspects -- Investigations, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey -- Military aspects
Abstract

At the request of most members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation, the Government Accountability Office says it will look into whether faulty cost and savings estimates played a role […]

Published
2007

31. The U.S. Attorney Who Roared

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

MUCH has been made of Christopher J. Christie's broad condemnation of 'the typical rotten politics of Trenton.' The comments by Mr. Christie, the United States attorney for New Jersey, on […]

Published
2007

32. New Jersey Decides Its Toll Road Plan Still Needs Time

Author

Belson, Ken and Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Company business planning, Fiscal policy -- Interpretation and construction -- Economic aspects -- Methods, Financial management -- Methods -- Economic aspects, Toll roads -- Economic aspects -- Methods, New Jersey -- Economic policy
Abstract

For the better part of a year, Gov. Jon S. Corzine has promised to produce a plan to solve some of New Jersey's fiscal difficulties by raising billions of dollars […]

Published
2007

33. Nine Days Ahead of Schedule, New Jersey Legislature Passes a Budget

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
New Jersey. General Assembly -- Powers and duties, State budgets -- Social aspects, New Jersey -- Social aspects
Abstract

It was like the Legislature's version of speed-dating. About 30 minutes into the Assembly debate on a measure that would make New Jersey the second state to set ambitious goals […]

Published
2007

34. New Jersey Court Says Showing of Mental Retardation Can Block Execution

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, New Jersey. Supreme Court -- Powers and duties, Death row inmates -- Psychological aspects -- Powers and duties, Capital punishment -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Social aspects -- Psychological aspects, New Jersey -- Social aspects
Abstract

In another setback for the death penalty in New Jersey, the State Supreme Court established ground rules yesterday for how a defendant, after being convicted of a capital crime, could […]

Published
2007

35. Filling the Coffers With $10 Here and There

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

CHANGE is difficult. In politics, perhaps the most recent example is New Jersey's almost tortuous march to so-called 'clean elections' by trying to provide public funds for state legislative races […]

Published
2007

36. In Trenton's Culling of Pet Projects, Legislators Feel a Bit Left Out

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
New Jersey. Legislature -- Evaluation -- Tax policy, State budgets -- Evaluation, Legislators -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, New Jersey -- Tax policy
Abstract

If last year's budget process in New Jersey ended with a bang -- as in a costly seven-day shutdown of the state government -- then this year's is ending with […]

Published
2007

37. Legislators' Pet Spending Projects, Exposed

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Company business planning, Government spending policy -- Reports, Legislators -- Planning -- Reports, Disclosure of information -- Reports
Abstract

As part of the effort to bring greater transparency to the state's budget process and reduce the potential for corruption, the Legislature on Wednesday released for the first time a […]

Published
2007

38. Budget Agreement Is Near, New Jersey Officials Say

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
State budgets -- Political aspects
Abstract

Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the Democratic leaders of the Assembly and Senate said Tuesday afternoon that they had reached 'broad agreement on the framework' for a new state budget […]

Published
2007

39. New Jersey Is Closer to Letting Voters Decide on Property Tax Relief

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Company business management, Property tax -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Management, New Jersey -- Tax policy
Abstract

A standoff over a 1-cent property tax increase led to a government shutdown last year. But on Monday, the Assembly voted 79 to 1 to allow voters to decide whether […]

Published
2007

40. The Mixed Messages of the Primaries

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

GOOD luck in any search for a grand unifying theme in the results of primaries last Tuesday in northern New Jersey. The lessons were as varied as the races. In […]

Published
2007

41. New Jersey Court Voids Death Penalty Conviction

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Company legal issue, Murder -- Cases
Abstract

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated the murder conviction and death sentence of a Pennsylvania man imprisoned since 1994. The court ruled that the trial judge and two […]

Published
2007

42. Both Parties Expect Corzine's Choice for Chief Justice to Be a Fair and Moderate Voice

Author

Chen, David W. and Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
New Jersey. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Powers and duties, Attorneys general -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Powers and duties
Abstract

When Gov. Jon S. Corzine officially nominated Attorney General Stuart Rabner on Monday as the next chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, he said he expected Mr. Rabner, […]

Published
2007

43. Court says New Jersey official was wrong to permit angioplasties

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Hospitals -- New Jersey -- Laws, regulations and rules, Angioplasty -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

The New Jersey health commissioner erred in 2005 when he allowed nine hospitals without cardiac surgery units to perform elective angioplasty, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The commissioner of […]

Published
2007

44. New Jersey public advocate seeks stronger eminent domain protections for property owners

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Company business planning, Right of property -- Laws, regulations and rules, Eminent domain (Law) -- Laws, regulations and rules, City planning and redevelopment law -- Evaluation -- Laws, regulations and rules, Ombudsmen -- Planning -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

The New Jersey public advocate urged the Legislature on Tuesday to adopt a law that would make the use of eminent domain more equitable, while preserving it as a valuable […]

Published
2007

45. New Jersey moves to end its dual-office tradition

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Company business management, New Jersey. Legislature -- Management -- Laws, regulations and rules, Conflict of interests (Public office) -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Supplementary employment -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

Sometime next month, the New Jersey Legislature is expected to end the state's well-worn -- some would say worn-out -- practice of holding more than one elective office at a […]

Published
2007

46. To Incumbents, a Dull Budget Is a Good Budget

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

AS the Legislature heads into the final thicket of budget deliberations with the governor, there seem to be few of the nettlesome problems that led to last year's shutdown of […]

Published
2007

47. Lawmakers In New Jersey Advance Bill On Paid Leave

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Workers -- Compensation and benefits, Bills, Legislative -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Social aspects, Employee vacations -- Social aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

Employees of many New Jersey businesses would be entitled to up to 10 weeks of family leave with partial pay for a new baby, a difficult pregnancy or an ill […]

Published
2007

48. Debating How to Finance Land Preservation

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Abstract

BURIED in State Treasurer Bradley I. Abelow's testimony last week before legislative budget committees was a seemingly innocuous announcement that Gov. Jon S. Corzine had transferred $25 million in his […]

Published
2007

49. A 'straddling' governor worries environmentalists

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Environmental issue, Company financing, Environmental policy -- Finance, Environmental protection -- Finance
Abstract

As a United States senator, and as a governor, Jon S. Corzine has cultivated a reputation in New Jersey as an ally of environmentalists. From clean water to open space, […]

Published
2007

50. Stalemate appears broken in dispute over dredging Delaware

Author

Smothers, Ronald

Subjects
Government regulation, Company business management, Ports -- Management -- Laws, regulations and rules, Dredging -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania announced on Thursday that he and Gov. Jon S. Corzine had agreed on a plan to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel in a […]

Published
2007

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