Ornery old James T. Raleigh couldn’t help but snicker. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine had just publicly christened the maiden voyage of the new Atlantic City Express Service (ACES), the region’s first direct train from New York to Atlantic City in decades, and then abruptly hopped off the illus...

When Dick Ravitch went before a room full of reporters on the 38th floor of the governor’s midtown offices in December to present his plan to save the M.T.A. from fiscal upheaval, transit advocates who closely followed the process were surprised at an omission. As expected, the former M.T.A. chair...

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Max Blumenthal's reporting, of late on Sarah Palin, has been invaluable.  As a pundit, he's awful.  He aspires to membership in that route of wolves we Democrats turn into whenever we win an election. Today he led the pack in eating our own young - heavily criticizing Obama's selection of ...

Considering his abysmal performance in office, you wouldn't think Corzine... had ANY background in running a private business. But then again, considering the performance of companies such as Lehman lately, running a Goldman Sachs appears to be proof of nothing beyond the ability to manipulate marke...

"We don't condone corruption... we insist upon it." From a February 8, 2006 letter to the editor of the Asbury Park Press, by Charles Cressy of Ocean Township. It was an observation of Jon Corzine's ill-fated appointment of politically-connected scofflaw Zulima Farber as Attorney General. From The S...

The only way to raise tax revenue is to increase GDP. But Jersey can't do that. The cold, hard fact Jersey can't get around: "No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at about 19.5% of GDP." You'd think that Jon Corzine, who came into politics via the pri...

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NEW YORK -- In Illinois' Cook County, women in poor neighborhoods no longer have access to free mammograms from two mobile vans testing for breast cancer....

NEW YORK -- In Illinois' Cook County, women in poor neighborhoods no longer have access to free mammograms from two mobile vans testing for breast cancer....