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In the News - The City That Cried Wolf
NJ doesn’t have an extra $12M to keep up State Police patrols in rural towns - yet $45M in “distressed cities aid” is given to the city of Newark - and even after Newark is slated to receive $45M in emergency funding - a bold (insensitive) move on the part of Newark’s governing body to [...]
In the News - State Police Funding
Towns buck police plan
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By Heather Simione
hsimione@sjnewsco.com
With the state now requiring municipalities to begin paying for state police patrols, at least two local government bodies are protesting.
The Borough of Elmer and Mannington Township have both officially objected by passing resolutions opposing the payments.
Under the new state budget, 89 municipalities across the state must [...]
In the News - Newark Receives $45M in Aid
How long are New Jersey taxpayers going to take this type of abuse? A $45M dollar bailout, state designations as a “Distressed City” and oversight of hiring and finances -
QUESTION - What’s the definition of insanity?
ANSWER - Doing the same thing over and over again - and expecting different results.
How about taking a [...]
In the News - Rural Police Funding
Officials fight patrol fee
Representatives from both Warren and Hunterdon counties meet to discuss alternatives to paying for state police protection.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
BY STEPHEN J. NOVAK
The Express-Times
HAMPTON | Less than a week after South Jersey officials gathered to find alternatives to charges for state police coverage, leaders from Warren, Hunterdon and Sussex counties assembled to [...]
In the News - Public Safety
Parts of rural N.J. to pay for State Police service
By LISA GRZYBOSKI
Courier-Post Staff
After escaping similar plans in 2002 and 2006 that were ultimately scrapped from the final state budget, rural towns that rely on the New Jersey State Police for all or part of their police protection will have to start paying something for that [...]
In the News - NJSP Funding
Charge may pay for state patrols
Thursday, August 07, 2008
By Trish G. Graber tgraber@sjnewsco.com
BUENA VISTA TWP. - South Jersey legislators and elected officials across the state are pushing back against charges for state police coverage imposed on rural municipalities with part-time or no police forces of their own.
About 40 locally elected officials from Cumberland to Hunterdon [...]
In the News - COAH and Highlands Council
Who didn’t see this coming??????????’
Affordable-housing pledge clashes with Highlands Act
Lawmakers and preservationists must decide how to reconcile competing goals
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
BY PAULA SAHA
Star-Ledger Staff
As many officials in northern New Jersey see it, the Highlands Act and the state’s affordable-housing laws are two noble causes that appear to be on a collision course.
On the one [...]
In the News - Public Safety
Trooper fees mount while towns think
Thursday, July 31, 2008
By Warren Cooper
Towns that don’t have full-time police forces are beginning to get serious about how they’ll react to the idea of paying for heretofore free State Police rural coverage. As of today, many towns owe the state an as-yet-unspecified amount of money for their first month [...]
In the News - Public Safety
Towns face charges for services of state cops
By LISA G. RYAN
Gannett State Bureau
Towns that depend on the New Jersey State Police for all or part of their police protection received letters this week indicating how much they’ll have to pay the state if they want to keep the service.
The 89 towns affected — mostly rural, [...]
In the News - Lebanon Borough
Rural Central Jersey towns among 89 told to start paying for state police patrol
By LISA G. RYAN
GANNETT STATE BUREAU
Towns that depend on the New Jersey State Police for all or part of their police protection received letters this week indicating how much they’ll have to pay the state if they want to keep the service.
The [...]
In the News - COAH
Corzine signs affordable housing overhaul
By GREGORY J. VOLPE
Gannett State Bureau
In a scene reminiscent of a Southern Baptist tent revival, Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation on Thursday overhauling the state’s affordable housing policy that advocates called landmark and critics called another property tax raiser.
It “is the most important housing reform legislation enacted in the nation, [...]
In the News - Rural Police Funding
Rocky Hill challenges bill for State Police patrols
The number of towns challenging a provision in the new state budget that bills them for previously free State Police patrols has grown to seven, including tiny Rocky Hill in Somerset County.
Ed Zimmerman, the unpaid mayor of Rocky Hill Borough, said today the annual $90,000 bill for State [...]
In the News - Lebanon Borough
Mixed reactions to census report in Somerset, Hunterdon counties
STAFF REPORT
Officials had mixed reactions to the release of figures by the U.S. Census Bureau that shows, in some cases, significant growth in Somerset and Hunterdon counties between 2000 and 2007.
In the four-county region covered by the Courier News, Middlesex County’s population grew 5.1 percent from 2000 [...]
In the News - Small Town Consolidation
Corzine’s big lie about small towns
Posted by Paul Mulshine March 03, 2008 10:02PM
Categories: Politics
With his new budget, Gov. Jon Corzine is trying to pull the same stunt on
residents of small towns that he tried to pull on drivers using toll
roads.
The governor’s gimmick is to make a class of people, preferably those with
minimal political clout, bear [...]
