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News Roundup & Open Thread for Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

by: Rosi Efthim

Fri Nov 20, 2009 at 05:49:00 AM EST



Message Man

  • Frank Pallone, profiled.

    On equality, and on the fierce urgency of now

  • Newark Councilman Ron Rice has some words for Sen. Steve Sweeney.

    Home rule still rules and other realities of the Christiezoic Period

  • Chris Christie ran on the promise of lower taxes, and few specifics. He's counting on shared services and consolidation, but both are still hard sells in NJ.

  • Not exactly what you said in your campaign rhetoric, is it, buckaroo? Christie tells NJ not to expect fiscal miracles.

  • Amid stormwater management seminars, and municipal aid chatter at the League of Municipalites, Christie's first big appearance before local electeds drew mixed response when he talked plans.

  • GOP victors in NJ & VA tell how they won and why Sarah Palin wasn't invited.

  • Michael Steele expounds.

    I might want to change the wallpaper, but seriously, I'll take it

  • Chris Christie won't be living at Drumthwacket either, snubbing it like Corzine did, and preferring to his hilltop house in Mendham near his many mortgage interests.

  • Why oh why do the Govies hate Princeton?

    Corzine's tearful goodbye at League of Municipalities

  • Oh, and another guy spoke, too.

  • Stile - On Christie's tough talk at the League.

  • A Forceful Entry by Christie, a Sober Exit by Corzine.

    For all you Seton Hall grads

  • SHU & Seton Hall Law claim their own.

    Sheila Oliver, marriage equality proponent

  • Clear path to Speaker.

    Chiappone & wife to be arraigned on corruption charges

  • A 7-count indictment on charges that they deposited more than $7,000 of the Assemblyman's legislative aides' paychecks into their personal bank account and Chiappone's 2005 campaign fund.

    Local News

  • Morris County: Morris Dems back off having a party member become county's Superintendent of Elections.

  • Fort Lee: Veterans gather to watch a film by a Marine lieutenant, a video diary of his time in the Iraq War.

  • Hoboken: Get ready to look up, and smile.

  • Summit: Habitat for Humanity discussion provokes a full room.

  • New Brunswick: Recount in the ward system vote.

  • Washington Borough: A community garden shall grow there.  
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