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CNBNEWSNET– TRENTON — New Jersey\’s Department of Education on Wednesday unveiled a six-month plan to review the Common Core educational standards. The review was ordered by Gov. Christie Christie in May, when he declared that Common Core was \”simply not working\” in New Jersey. Working on a short timeline, the department is rapidly moving forward with the…

MOUNT HOLLY NJ (July 10, 2015)Almost two hours of oral argument just ended on whether environmental groups can intervene in a lawsuit between ExxonMobil and the Christie Administration over decades of pollution. Judge Michael Hogan hopes to render a written decision early next week.

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Ashley Reynolds was a happy 14-year-old who loved sports, did well in school academically and socially, and enjoyed keeping a journal she intended her \”future self\” to read. But what happened in the summer of 2009 was so devastating that she couldn’t bring herself to record it in her diary—or speak about it to anyone.

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The New Jersey Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG) on May 29 filed suit in Union County Superior Court against the Summit Housing Authority and its Custodian of Records alleging violations of the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) and Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA).
 
A hearing to address the OPRA counts in the case (Docket No. UNN-L-1927-15) is scheduled for July 10 at 10:00 a.m. before Judge James Hely, J.S.C. OPMA counts will be addressed at a later date.
 
The lawsuit is the latest installment of NJFOG’s \”affirmative litigation\” initiative, begun in 2014, intended to give teeth to the State’s open public meetings and records laws and to increase compliance by public agencies statewide.

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The core of the Pinelands National Reserve will be a bit bigger, thanks to the acquisition of a 473-acre property by the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. In a deal for $418,142, the foundation purchased the tract, which will increase the size of the Franklin Parker Preserve in the Pine Barrens to more than 10,000 acres. Preserving… 

Published by NJ101.5on May 19, 2015

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By PETE KASPEROWICZ • 7/8/15 | Washington Examiner

Of the more than 2,200 people who received federal sentences for drug possession in fiscal year 2014, almost three-quarters of them were illegal immigrants, according to new data from the United States Sentencing Commission.

Illegal immigrants also made up more than one-third of all federal sentences, that data said.

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The commission\’s data showed a slight decline in the total number of illegal alien sentences from 2013 to 2014, but still showed that the illegal population is a major contributor to federal crimes in America.

In 2013, illegal immigrants were responsible for 38.6 percent of all federal sentencing, and that dropped to 36.7 percent in 2014.

But the sentencing of illegal immigrants for drug possession jumped significantly. In 2013, 1,123 illegal immigrants were sentenced on convictions of simple possession, and made up 55.8 percent of those cases.

In 2014, 1,681 illegal aliens were sentenced, and they made up 74.1 percent of the total. Illegal immigrants were also 16.9 percent of all federal drug trafficking sentences.

The data became public just as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pushed for tougher immigration laws, and has cited last week\’s shooting death of a California woman at the hands of an illegal immigrant as the latest example of the need for more enforcement.

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