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NJ Court: Wildwood game owner can sue competitor
Found: 2 Weeks 1 Day 7 Hours 11 Minutes ago
SFMZ 69 News - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The owner of a boardwalk game of chance in Wildwood can sue a competitor he claims made defamatory statements about him and his business.......
Financial experts at odds on NJ economic remedies
Found: 2 Weeks 1 Day 7 Hours 29 Minutes ago
SFMZ 69 News - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- An emergency economic forum convened by Gov. Jon S. Corzine Monday to address the plummeting economy's effect on New Jersey discussed numerous potential responses including raising the minimum wage, forming a consortium of small lenders and creating jobs by jump-starting infrastructure improvements.......
Lawmakers get conflicting recommendations on economy
Found: 2 Weeks 1 Day 14 Hours 40 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - With the federal government proposing a quick $700 billion rescue program to bail out the nation's financial system, New Jersey's state government is wondering what its role should be in propping up the economy....
N.J. Court: Wildwood game owner can sue competitor
Found: 2 Weeks 1 Day 14 Hours 41 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - The owner of a boardwalk game of chance in Wildwood can sue a competitor he claims made defamatory statements about him and his business....
State Supreme Court hears school funding case
Found: 2 Weeks 1 Day 14 Hours 42 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - TRENTON -- The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments today over whether the state's new funding formula for public education, which took effect this budget year, is constitutional.The state says the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 provides a "thorough and efficient"education for all public school students in New Jersey, echoing the state constitution's mandate for a "thorough and efficient system of free public schools."It wants the state's highest court to issue an order upholding the constitutionality of the new funding approach."The act is not a retreat. It's a step forward,"said Robert Gilson, the assistant attorney general who represented the state in today's arguments.The Education Law Center, a group that advocates for increased funding for public schools in low-income areas, contends the state is shortchanging children in the 31 poor, mostly urban school districts that used to be called Abbott districts by eliminating money for programs such as tutoring, after-school activities and health services."The record shows that real progress is underway. We've got a ways to go, but real progress is underway,"said David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, which represents more than 300,000 students in the former Abbott districts. "Now is not the time to back away."The court could issue a decision on today's arguments at a later date. It could also remand, or send down, the case to a lower court for a hearing to establish a more complete record of relevant facts before issuing a ruling on the new funding formula's constitutionality.If the case is remanded to a trial judge, the Education Law Center has asked the state Supreme Court to schedule a hearing quickly, Sciarra said.The new formula, which was adopted in January, ensures state aid increases of between 2 percent and 20 percent for every district in the state and adds roughly $550 million in new spending to help fund schools and offset local property taxes.Under the new plan, state money is distributed based on a school district's enrollment, with extra funding for schools with large numbers of poor students or children with limited English skills. Community wealth also plays a role in the formula, with more affluent areas getting less state aid while poorer areas and those with growing numbers of needy students get more.But most of the former Abbott school districts are getting smaller state funding increases than some other districts this year. The state asserts that's because the Abbott districts continued receiving annual state aid increases over the previous seven years, when most other school districts'aid was stagnant. Abbott supporters, however, contend the smaller funding increases are the result of public misperceptions that these districts are mismanaging state money and failing to successfully educate their students."In most cases, Abbott districts have been increasing test scores, albeit not as fast as some would like,"said James Dunkins, human resources director for the Bridgeton school district in Cumberland County, at a pro-Abbott rally outside the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex before the Supreme Court hearing. "That will come to a dead stop with this new formula."Representatives of most of the former Abbott districts attended the rally, as did people from the New Jersey NAACP, New Jersey Hispanic Directors Association of New Jersey and Dollar$ and Sense, a North Jersey group of suburban districts that criticizes the new formula as "inadequate."...
The ballad of Chris &Thomas
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 11 Hours 52 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - Folk duo Chris and Thomas both majored in film composition, but their road to Hollywood was an unexpected one....
Read your books for less
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 16 Hours 37 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - ONE BUDGET LINE Wendy Li isn't watching even in this tight economy is her spending on books. That's because she uses PaperbackSwap.com, one of the book trading sites that are growing in popularity....
John F. Wasik: Fannie, Freddie rescue won't end ripple effect
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 16 Hours 44 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - The government rescue of hobbled U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this month was like treating a compound fracture with a Band-Aid....
Blue seeks the green
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 16 Hours 51 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - William Marino joined Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in 1992, when the state's biggest health insurer was losing money and was viewed as slow to anticipate sweeping changes in the health-care landscape....
Gender pay gap widening in New Jersey
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 22 Hours 40 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - The pay gap between male and female full-time workers is closing nationally, but the same can't be said of New Jersey, where the trend toward equal pay between genders has reversed course....
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