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"We need to start the process of deepwater energy exploration as soon as possible," says Straten. "It's a shame that the Democratic leaders are standing in the way."

“This is politics as usual for her, but for us, its politics at its worst.”

SENATOR LAUTENBERG’S STATEMENT ON ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY’S ANNIVERSARY

GOVERNOR CORZINE ORDERS FLAGS TO FLY AT HALF-STAFF TO HONOR UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS LANCE CORPORAL JEFFERY S. STEVENSON 

TRENTON – In honor of United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jeffery S. Stevenson, Governor Jon S. Corzine signed the following Executive Order calling for the United States and New Jersey flags to fly at half-staff on Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

ALANTIC CITY – Governor Jon S. Corzine signed legislation today sponsored by Senator Jim Whelan that transfers ownership of the Atlantic City Convention Center from the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (Sports Authority) to the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority (Visitors Authority).

            “We’re streamlining the management of the Convention Center and making it more responsive to the needs of Atlantic City,” said Senator Whelan, D-Atlantic.  “It no longer makes sense to have the Sports Authority up in the Meadowlands owning the Convention Center in Atlantic City, especially since the Visitors’ Authority has been running it since the day it opened.”

SENATORS INTRODUCE RESOLUTION TO NULLIFY AUGUST 17 CHIP DIRECTIVE UNDER CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW ACT

New Jersey Legislators and New Jersey Right to Life Say Citizen Mandate Must Be Honored

Myers Challengers Adler to Debate Affordable Housing Mandates

GOVERNOR SIGNS LEGISLATION TRANSFERRING ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION CENTER PROJECT 

Atlantic City – Governor Jon S. Corzine today signed legislation moving the Atlantic City Convention Center project from the auspices of New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority to the control of the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors’ Authority.  

Oroho, McHose & Chiusano: Highlands Plan Tramples Rights of Landowners

District 24 Legislatiors Pushing Legislation to Protect Private Property Rights

 Senator Steve Oroho, Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, and Assemblyman Gary Chiusano, all R-Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon, who represent a significant segment of the Highlands region, oppose the adoption of the Highlands Regional Master Plan because the plan fails to include provisions for compensating hard-working homeowners and property owners for the drop in property values that have resulted from what amounts to the uncompensated seizure of their land-use by the State.

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Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): “F.E.M.A. has failed Middletown residents categorically,” Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege said.

F.E.M.A. offered an informational session to the public on July 16 at Croydon Hall. In a conversation with a F.E.M.A. representative, Grenafege discovered there would not be a question-and-answer portion, similar to the kind held during an identical event in Keansburg. “I was told it wasn’t necessary,” Grenafege said. “So I said that, very often in a public forum, questions are asked that can be very helpful to the entire group. So it sounds to me like the people in Middletown are not as important to F.E.M.A. as residents in neighboring towns.”

AtlantiCare, UNITE-HERE Local 54 recognized former New Jersey Senator William L. Gormley as AtlantiCare renamed it's HealthPlex in Atlantic City the William L. Gormley AtlantiCare HealthPlex.

New Jersey Commisioner of Health and Senior Services Heather Howard was among those who commended the former senator for his commitment to creating better access to health care, including a Special Care Center in the HealthPlex that hels Local 54 participants manage chronic health conditions.

"The inability of urban schools to fulfill the promises of education is one of, if not the, greatest failure of our American society," says Straten, the Republican candidate. "It is time to try something else."

NGA TAPS CORZINE TO HEAD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 

WASHINGTON—The National Governors Association (NGA) today announced Governor Jon S. Corzine will serve as the chairman of the organization’s Economic Development and Commerce Committee.

A-500: FACT VS. FICTION

Fiction: A-500 will increase a town's affordable housing obligations.

FACT: COAH's revised third-round regulations are entirely separate from A-500 and were not voted on by the Legislature. COAH's latest rules increased the affordable housing ratios from one affordable unit for every eight market-rate units to one affordable unit for every four market-rate units for residential construction and from one affordable unit for every 25 jobs created to one affordable unit for every 16 jobs created for nonresidential construction. These ratios were adopted by COAH in early June 2008 and are unrelated to A-500.

LANDMARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING REFORM PLAN SIGNED INTO LAW

Bill Implements Most Comprehensive Reform  Of State's Affordable Housing Laws in Over Two Decades

(TRENTON) - Landmark legislation reforming the state's affordable housing program by implementing more equitable housing practices and increasing affordable housing availability across the state was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine during a ceremony in Mount Laurel, the South Jersey community at the historic heart of the affordable housing issue.

 RUMANA STATEMENT ON THE SIGNING OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING LEGISLATION         

As Governor Corzine signed legislation on affordable housing, in Mount Laurel, Assemblyman Scott Rumana (R-Passaic, Bergen, Essex), issued the following statement regarding the bill (A-500) that eliminates regional contribution agreements, creates a State Housing Commission, and imposes fees on developers of both residential and commercial properties.

Myers: Adler-Corzine Affordable Housing Mandate Will Increase Property Taxes & Pave-Over Open Space

Candidate blasts job-killing new tax on local economic development projects