The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority ignored its own policies when it succumbed to pressure from former Gov. Jon Corzine's administration and lost nearly $4 million in a bad loan to another state agency.
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On a windy day in April, the mayors from Sea Isle City and Avalon met on the Townsends Inlet Bridge to decide whose town would be first to get its beaches heaped with new sand. The $10.4 million dredging contract did not specify where to start, so the mayors flipped for it.
State arbitrators, despite the recession, have continued to recommend annual teacher salary increases of at least 4 percent over the past two years, according to a review by The Press of Atlantic City of 10 state reports.
New Jersey statistics show that talking on a hands-free cell phone while driving can be just as dangerous as talking on a hand-held phone.
Two-thirds of all students who enter a community college in New Jersey are placed in at least one remedial or developmental course. Some may take three or four. More than half never graduate.
ATLANTIC CITY — Atlantic City, with a dwindling population, employs many more workers than cities almost three times its population. The city also pays some of its public officials much more than officials in comparable — and sometimes much larger — cities.
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LEDYARD, Conn. - Walk through the dim cigarette haze and past the banks of slot machines and it feels like just about any casino.
The plan was to take down a political traitor.
When most people talk about big local business developments, they point to the Revel casino that's inching along in Atlantic City or to now-fallow Bader Field, which has become everyone's field of dreams.
Before the housing market roared and crashed with the intensity of a tidal wave, Dave Henry owned as many as a dozen properties dotting the New Jersey shore.
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