News Roundup & Open Thread for Monday, Nov. 23, 2009: Lame Duck Special Edition

by: Rosi Efthim

Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 06:28:00 AM EST

Action Alert - Lobby Day today for marriage equality

All starts 8:30am across the street from the statehouse. Your friends are going.

Blue Jersey to statehouse Dems: Use your power while you have it

How far are the Senate and Assembly willing to go with a Democratic governor on his way out and Gov.-elect Chris Christie on his way in? Yes, that is the question.

Steve Sweeney

In a closed-door session today, first day of the lame duck session, Gloucester County's Sweeney is expected to win the Senate Presidency. Let's hope he shows good leadership, and wish him luck.

Please spend my tax dollars and take care of our soldiers & vets

Military suicides are at alarming levels. Coleman Bean, 25, of South River ... James T. Jenkins, 23, of Mercer County ... Bradley W. Iorio, 19, of Galloway Township ...

Task Force on the military suicide crisis.

Study: At least 1 in 5 soldiers returning with PTSD or depression, a contributing factor in military/veteran suicide. Who is most at risk? Sixty percent of those who committed suicide last year never sought help. What happened to Bradley Iorio of Galloway Township.

Shopping Locally

How some quirky small stores in South Jersey are fighting big box stores for their share of the market.

Voters' disgust is mere illusion

Fred Snowflack on the futility and often unrealistic plans of third-party, dump-incumbents movements.

Frank Hutchins dies at 75

The life of a community organizer and mentor to Cory Booker.

After 8 years, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed finally gets his day in court

But Gov. Tom Kean, who ran the 9/11 Commission, says don't do it in NYC.

Yeah, it was such a good idea for NJ environmentalists to help elect Chris Christie

NJ's policies make it easier for PSEG to reduce carbon footprint.

Local News

Roselle Park: The future of local politics is on 18, and works that bi-partisan thing.

Newark: Jayda and Creep, profiled in Sundance Channel's Brick City documentary series, arrested.

Morris County: Activating the Medical Reserve Corps for the first time, to vaccinate for H1N1.

Delaware River: George Washington will still cross the river, no matter budget cuts.

Wallington: Long-time incumbent granted recount after 2-vote loss.

Old Bridge: Suing to stop Wal-Mart application.

All over the state: Yeah. I totally couldn't resist the title of this thing.

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News Roundup & Open Thread for Monday, Nov. 23, 2009: Lame Duck Special Edition | 2 comments

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The WaPo OP-Ed by Ralph Izzo of PSEG is highly misleading.

The cap and trade policies he referred to come from a Corzine law implementing RGGI. That program has NOT reduced one pound of carbon emissions. It explicitly allows emissions to INCREASE by over 18% (from 2007 emissions) and is riddled with loopholes and energy industry subsidies. Cap and trade is a failure and can not work (I have Diaried this several times here excpalining why, plus posted a YouTube vidoe by 2 EPA lawyers with over 40 years experience explaining why as well).

The investments PSEG makes result from anti-competitive powers - those provisions were strongly opposed by rate council as a huge ripoff that would stiffle effective competition.

IF NJ were serious about using the market to price coal at its real costs, they would impose restrictions and surcharges on energy on imports produced by dirty coal.

The Global Warming Response Act goals that PSEG supports are essentially voluntary and not regulatory mandates, which is the same approach the Bush Administration was condemned for.

Wolfe

by: Winston Smith @ Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 06:41:55 AM CST