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 — Can NJ Cover Its Share?

Credit: amtrak.com New Jersey commuters traveling to and from New York\’s Penn Station rely on two century-old trans-Hudson tunnels. New Jersey commuters got a jolt of good news yesterday: The federal government will cover at least half of the up to $20 billion price tag for a new trans-Hudson tunnel. That could go some way toward…

NEWARK, N.J. – A Newark, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for sexually abusing two girls and recording the conduct on his cellphone, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Justin Kinney, 26, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler to an indictment charging him with two counts of producing child pornography. Judge Chesler imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.

by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nate Littlejohn

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA–A cluster of small boats gather toward the end of an ebb tide on a dreary November evening in Norfolk, Virginia. Fishermen, clad in rain slickers, cast their lines toward pilings and retrieve them in silence. There’s no chatter among them – an entire day spent on the water exhausted their conversations. They’re focused on one thing – their target species, the Atlantic striped bass, though nobody’s landed one today. Suddenly, the song of a reel zings out over the rushing water as a striper is hooked and begins what might be the fight for its life. \”Hooked up!\” exclaims an angler, finally breaking the silence with words they all yearn to shout. The fish peels just enough line to make a beeline for a piling, wrapping the monofilament against the barnacles plastered to it like living razor blades. The line snaps, leaving the fisherman to grieve in the gloomy dusk.

TRENTON, N.J. – An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man today admitted engaging in a conspiracy to distribute heroin with members of the \”Dirty Block\” criminal street gang that allegedly used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City.

Tyrone Ellis, a/k/a \”Rome,\” 33, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson in Trenton federal court to a superseding information charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, and one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition while being a previously convicted felon.

Vol. 2 No. 21 (November 15, 2015)

Editor\’s Note: Each Sunday morning we will post a weekly comic strip provided by cartoonist Dave Wolfe, age 14. Dave has been drawing since he was 5 years old, he knew he wanted to be a cartoonist at the age of 8. He’s been distributing his comics in school since 3rd grade.

(click image to enlarge) RELATED CATEGORY: Artist Dave Wolf

 NJSIAA Tournament, First Round, South Jersey, Group 1 – Football

Zach Bates | For NJ Advance Media CLAYTON — It was the first-ever home playoff game for the Clayton High School football team and it sure didn’t disappoint. Coming into Friday’s South Jersey, Group 1 first-round match-up with fifth-seeded Gloucester, the Clippers weren’t necessarily the favorites. Fourth-seeded Clayton certainly silenced its doubters with a 16-12 win…

Volume XX No.46: November 13, 2015

You’ll often hear us calling for spending to be offset. Cut wasteful spending here, eliminate an unnecessary tax expenditure there, or reform a program to save money. We’re all for it. But what passes for offsets these days are increasingly just gimmicks that create an illusion of budgetary discipline. They are the useless budgetary calories that fill you up, but give you no fiscal nourishment.

The recently passed House transportation bill provides a great example. For the moment, let’s leave aside our concerns with the fundamental failure of Congress for more than a decade to address the gap between the amount of revenue generated by the gas tax and the amount of spending lawmakers want. We wrote about that last week. Instead let’s look at the biggest pay-for in the bill – tapping the Federal Reserve capital surplus account.

But let’s look a little closer at the Fed’s surplus account. In a nutshell, this account is composed of the earnings the Fed receives on its aggregate (across the twelve Federal Reserve Banks) bond holdings minus expenses. A large portion of this – to the tune of nearly one hundred billion dollars in 2014 – is remitted to the Treasury. As former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pointed out in a recent (really good) blog post, there is already a bit of a sleight of hand here; these earning are from interest on Treasury bonds the Fed holds, but if the Fed didn’t hold them someone else would and that interest would not be remitted to the Treasury.

This is just the latest in some of the budgetary dark arts members of both parties have inflicted on taxpayers. We have short term extensions of tax breaks (expenditures) that mask the true cost by having ten one year extensions scored each as only a one year cost. Or timing games that shift the cost to before or after (or almost entirely before or after the ten year window). Or only accounting for the federal budget on a cash basis and ignoring accrual accounting that would inform policymakers and the public on long-term liabilities. Or counting on ten years of savings to offset one or two years of spending. Or relying on outdated baselines that are demonstrably – even by budget scorekeepers like the CBO – false.

As long as we have budget scorekeeping rules there are going to be clever individuals who figure out how to get around those rules and exploit them to their gain. We’re not opposed to rules. It’s important to have consistent procedures, at least that way we can call people out trying to game the system and work to tighten the rules, like discounting offsets with a long time horizon to better measure up against short term spending. But it is also past time for Congress to play it straight with the American taxpayer. If you’re relying on gimmicks, then you don’t want to play by the rules. You want to spend or cut revenue more than you are willing to admit. One way to get a better handle on what needs to be done, is to have the CBO do one year, five year and ten year evaluations on their scores of bills. They have a tough job to do, but better understanding the pitfall and exploitation of the rules will help deliver a better product. That’s only common sense and we can’t afford less.

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 PRESS RELEASE November 12, 2015

Today, Clean Water Action’s Campaign Director David Pringle released the following statement in regards to Governor Cuomo’s announcement to reject a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the waters off New York and New Jersey.

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On November 13, the U.S. military conducted an airstrike in Libya against Abu Nabil, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi national who was a longtime al Qaeda operative and the senior ISIL leader in Libya.