Bob Hennelly

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Today in Trenton the Presidents of New Jersey's public colleges will make their case for restoring $69 million in cuts to higher education.

The College Presidents will defend themselves against charges they make too much money with their average compensation closing in on $300,000 annually. According ...

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New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer are closing ranks with their New Jersey colleagues to push for the Federal funding for a second rail tunnel under the Hudson River between the two states. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: A second trans Hudson tunnel ...

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Private guards are some of the lowest-paid city workers, according to a survey of the security industry. Most have no health insurance and do not get even the basic training required by state law. WNYC's Bob hennelly has more.

REPORTER: The report by the Community Service ...

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For the first time in twenty years Newark voters have elected a new Mayor. 37 year-old Cory Booker, a former Councilman, won by a three to one margin over 6O-year-old State Senator Ron Rice. WNYC's Bob Hennelly was at Booker's victory party last night and ...

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Demonstrations in support of today's strike by undocumentend workers were not limited to the City. WNYC's Bob Hennely has more on how the one-day action was playing out in suburbia.

REPORTER: On any other Monday there would be a hundred undocumented day laborers in front of ...

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New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has been on the job for just over a hundred days and we're starting to get a sense of how the former Goldman Sachs CEO can govern a large bureacracy like the Garden State. Joining us now is WNYC's Bob ...

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An agreement signed yesterday between World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority means work will start today on constructing the Freedom Tower. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: Under the terms of the deal that gets heavy equipment rolling-- Larry Silverstein will build ...

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The body of Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum has been buried. Teitelbaum was the spiritual leader of tens-of-thousands of ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic Jews. He died last night at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center where he was being treated for spinal cancer. Teitelbaum was 91 years old.

A ...

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The child advocacy group that successfully sued New Jersey to reform it's Division of Youth and Family Services is expressing support for the Corzine Administration's early efforts to prevent a Federal takeover of the beleagured agency.

Marcia Robinson Lowry, director of Children's Rights said after a ...

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Bergen County's prosecutor John Molinelli says New Jersey's state park police made significant errors in judgment last weekend in an altercation with members of the Ramapo Indian tribe. One tribe member was seriously wounded and a second is in police custody.

Molinelli told WNYC that his ...

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Newark Mayor Sharpe James has decided not to seek a sixth term. WNYC's Bob hennelly has more.

The 70-year-old James, who also serves as a state senator, made the formal withdrawal late yesterday. In a letter to the City Clerk, he requested that his name be ...

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Governor Corzine plans to talk about taxes and spending with patrons at a diner in Jersey City this morning. Corzine outlined a proposed budget yesterday that would boost sales, cigarette and alcohol taxes and spending cuts. The governor says the tough approach is needed to ...

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There were no standing ovations, and lawmakers only interruppted Governor Jon Corzine three times, as he laid out a $31 billion budget proposal that raises New Jersey's sales tax by a penny, reduces the pace of property tax rebates, and holds education funds at last ...

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Governor Jon Corzine this afternoon will outline his plans to close New Jersey's budget gap which is pegged at between four and five billion dollars.

Corzine's representatives say the budget will rely more on spending cuts than tax hikes. Lawmakers have limited options because three ...

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Talks between the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein over how to proceed on the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site broke down last night. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

Lead negotiators for the Port Authority, which owns the 16-acre site, charge that Silverstein was ...

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The City's Civilian Complaint Review Board has substantiated misconduct charges against three ranking NYPD officers for actions during the 2004 Republican National Convention. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

The CCRB says a Deputy Chief, a liutenant and a seargant abused their authority, verbally abused the public ...

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New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is taking a second look at the financial terms of a deal to build a new football arena in the Meadowlands for both the Giants and the Jets. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

The final agreement between the two NFL teams ...

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Governor Jon Corzine's plan to bail out New Jersey's nearly bankrupt Transportation Trust Fund without raising the gas tax is getting negative reviews. WNYC's Bob hennelly has more.

REPORTER: Both the Regional Plan Association and New Jersey's Sierra Club say Corzine's plan is too reliant on ...

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The Dubai Ports World tempest reached a Federal Court in Newark today, where a federal judge denied New Jersey's effort to mandate a 45 day security review. The state also failed-- for now -- in its bid to get Governor Corzine a chance to review ...

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The battle over a White House-approved deal that would put a company owned by the government of Dubai in control of key port operations in New York and New Jersey has headed to both state and Federal court. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

REPORTER: Port Authority ...