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Feb
22
2012

Public Policy Poll Finds 1 In 3 Americans Hold ‘Unfavorable’ View Of New Jersey – Do We Care?

We think even our swamp is beautiful. NJ Meadowlands Environment Center

Are we done crying over some backwards people in California who are convinced that they live in paradise despite their dead economy and horrible smog? Public Policy Polling thinks this is still a news story by publishing yet another study about what states are “disliked.”

You know what?  If 2 out of every 3 people said they LIKED me, I’d be pretty happy with that.  That’s what these poll results say and yet 1010wins.com turned it into a Poor New Jersey article.

Whatever.

Click below for the link to 1010wins.com and Public Policy Polling’s full report.

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Feb
18
2012

Environment New Jersey – RGGI Clean Air Act

(RGGI) or the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is the first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. RGGI involves the cooperation of 10 states : Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. They have agreed to cap and reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector 10 percent by 2018.
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Feb
17
2012

Governor Christie Orders Flags to Fly at Half Staff for Whitney Houston

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has ordered flags to fly at half staff this Saturday in honor of the late pop icon and NJ native, Whitney Houston. Her private funeral will take place in Newark this Saturday while being streamed live on the internet (noon EST on Saturday, on nbcnewyork.com).

The governor says Houston was a “cultural icon” who belongs in the same category in New Jersey music history as Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and Bruce Springsteen. However some NJ residents do not agree and sent emails and placed calls to the governor’s office criticizing him for his decision. Many people feel that the executive order of lowering the flag should be reserved for military personnel, first responders and elected officials. Others feel her drug use deems her not worthy of such an honor. Christie defended his decision by saying that Houston deserves the honor, not because she was a role model, but because of her huge cultural impact and as “a daughter of New Jersey.”

 

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Feb
15
2012

Carjackings On The Rise In New Jersey : How To Protect Yourself

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Carjackings are up in New Jersey, especially in Newark where there were 337 last year as opposed to 290 in 2010. (more…)

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Feb
11
2012

New Jersey’s Own, Whitney Houston, Dead

Stunning news out of Los Angeles tonight.  Whitney Houston’s publicist has announced that she had died. Yahoo! News says that the location and circumstances of her death are not known at this time.

 

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Feb
09
2012

Springsteen Plans to Tour with Two Sax Players to Replace Clemons

There’s an old joke with many punchlines:  How many {blank} does it take to {blank}?  Bruce fans all over the Garden State have been asking lately: how many sax players does it take to replace our beloved Clarence Clemons? Well, of course it’s impossible to actually replace the Big Man.  But, Bruce Springsteen’s answer is in his expanded lineup announced today.

It takes two.

And, one of the replacements is a Clemons.

Jake Clemons, photo: courtesy of the Star Ledger

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Feb
09
2012

New Jersey Released from No Child Left Behind Act Today

President Obama will sign the waivers today for ten states including our very own Garden State so that we won’t be tied to the No Child Left Behind Act which has by all accounts failed miserably.

The other states who applied and were granted the waivers were Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Tennessee. New Mexico applied but hasn’t been approved yet.  26 other states, reportedly, have also stated their intentions to apply for the requirements to be waived but haven’t officially done so yet.

So, more than half of all the states want out of this stifling program.  Need any more evidence that this didn’t work?

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Feb
01
2012

Audrey Zapp, Liberty State Park pioneer, Dies at 86

If you’ve been to Liberty State Park, you’ve noticed that the cobblestone road to get to the pier is Audrey Zapp Drive.

photo from The Jersey Journal

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She recently died in Colorado and The Jersey Journal had a really nice article explaining what her role in Liberty State Park was.

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Feb
01
2012

Town Denies Filming Permit for ‘Jersey Shore’ Spinoff – Thanks, Hoboken!

Hoboken Mayor, Dawn Zimmer, posted a memo on the city’s website Tuesday saying that a filming request was denied for a spinoff of the Jersey Shore starring Snooki and J-WOWW citing safety concerns.  Zimmer wrote that the decision was “based on protecting public safety and quality of life concerns for Hoboken residents.”

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Jan
27
2012

New Jersey Native Actor Robert Hegyes of ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ Has Passed Away

A Sweathog has passed.  Robert Hegyes has died from an apparent heart attack at his Metuchen home Thursday Morning. He was 60 years old.  A New Jersey native, Robert was born in Perth Amboy and attended Glassboro State College (now Rowan University).

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