By Winnie Hu and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times
Fifty-nine of New Jersey's wealthiest school districts would receive no direct state aid for their operations next year — in effect, a 100 percent cut — under the governor's proposed budget, according to state figures released on Wednesday.
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New Jersey will likely have its first bear hunt in five years this December after the acting commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection approved a preliminary plan that calls for "lethal control" of the burgeoning population.
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Bergen County Democrats blasted, for a second straight day on Wednesday, Governor Christie's plan to repeal the law that bars businesses from opening on Sundays.
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School district officials who had braced themselves for big state aid cuts lamented Wednesday that the actual cuts are deeper than they had feared.
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Family-planning centers that largely serve low-income women would lose all of their state funding - $7.5 million - under the budget Gov. Christie proposed Tuesday.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Gov. Chris Christie (R) Elected: November 2009 Term expires: January 2014
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