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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.
- WATCHDOG REPORT: New Jersey takes bigger and bigger slice of towns' utility taxes
- WATCHDOG REPORT: Some South Jersey Transportation Authority workers get big pay raises
- WATCHDOG REPORT: Galloway paid two police captains who were passed over for promotion nearly $30,000 to keep quiet
- WATCHDOG REPORT: The public pays for them, but few see benefits of free tutors
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- Living Legacies: Meet three local families who turned personal tragedy into positive change
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(A three-part series)
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- WATCHDOG REPORT: Lack of competition for bids drives up cost for beach replenishments in New Jersey
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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.
- WATCHDOG REPORT: Fact-finders kept favoring bigger teacher raises; now Christie wants to reform arbitration
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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.
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- WATCHDOG REPORT: Statistics show hands-free cell phone use while driving is just as dangerous
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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.
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- WATCHDOG REPORT: Taxpayers pay $45 million a year for remedial courses for community college students who mostly don't graduate
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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.
- WATCHDOG REPORT: Atlantic City's public payroll eclipses those in other, bigger cities
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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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- A Life at Sea. A Life at Risk / Richard Degener examines the fishing industry.
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Click here for the series: A Life at Sea. A Life at Risk
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- Indian casinos not immune to troubles during recession
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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.
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- Atlantic City sex blackmail trial adds to loss of Callaway control / with trial interactive
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The plan was to take down a political traitor.
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- Thousands of jobs linked to NextGen air traffic research site / with video & 3 related stories
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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.
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- Shore home sales show signs of life in New Jersey / with list of most expensive sales
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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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