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By Josh Margolin, The Star-Ledger (Newark)
Hoping to sprinkle Gov. Jon Corzine with political stardust, President Obama will hit the campaign trail in New Jersey in two weeks.
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By Tom Hester Sr., newjerseynewsroom.com
A coalition of affordable housing and environmental activists are urging Gov. Jon Corzine to conditionally veto legislation described as an economic stimulus bill that was approved by the Legislature on Monday.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Pact averts layoffs, keeps schools open
By Staff Reports, The Star-Ledger (Newark)
Gov. Jon Corzine has agreed to abandon plans to close 18 regional schools the state operates for students with learning disabilities under the amended contract members of the Communications Workers of America ratified this week.
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N.J. bill would put state in charge of monitoring troopers
By Jan Hefler, The Philadelphia Inquirer
A consent agreement allowing the Justice Department to monitor state police in New Jersey could be dissolved under a bill that would shift the responsibility to the state Attorney General's Office. The monitoring began a decade ago in an attempt to eliminate racial profiling.
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Court OKs mediation in custody disputes
By Mary Fuchs, The Star-Ledger (Newark)
Couples getting a divorce can bypass judges and use mediators to determine who gets custody of their children, the state Supreme Court said yesterday.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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States, districts in delicate dance on stimulus
By Alyson Klein, Education Week
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is clear: States are on the hook for advancing education improvement goals spelled out in the law as a condition for receiving up to $100 million in economic-stimulus aid to education.
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N.H. among states hit by E. coli in beef
By The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press
WASHINGTON — At least 12 people, two of them suffering kidney failure, have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E. coli outbreak in beef suspected of having sickened people in nine states, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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