Citigroup Pays $7 Billion to Settle Sub-Prime Mortgage Crimes by Dominic Rushe Citigroup agreed to pay $7 billion on Monday to settle a federal investigation into the toxic mortgage products the bank sold in the run-up to the financial crisis.…
Cop killer memorial erected & removed
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JERSEY CITY — A day after a 23-year-old police officer was gunned down in an ambush, mourners erected a makeshift memorial to his killer on a brick wall on Orient Avenue in Jersey City. Officials took down the “cop killer memorial” after disgust…
Lower expectations pave the way for more inequality
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NATIONAL — Over the past three years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards, weakening unions, and eroding workplace protections for both union and non-union workers. Such legislation emanates not from…
The Gateway Family YMCA Selected to Receive LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA Implementation Grant
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Initiative designed to improve quality of life for cancer survivors and their families to launch this fall in Eastern Union County and Northern Middlesex County. Elizabeth – July 10, 2014 – The Gateway Family YMCA will become a provider of…
The Rise of the Non-Working Rich
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by Robert B. Reich In a new Pew poll, more than three quarters of self-described conservatives believe “poor people have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything.” In reality, most of America’s poor work hard, often…
Route 22 Auto Sales fined $1.8 million plus restitution
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STATE – The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs obtained a $1.8 million settlement plus consumer restitution from eight auto dealerships and their owners, Carmelo Giuffre, of Brooklyn, New York, and Ignazio Guiffre, of Colts Neck. The settlement resolves a state…
Jersey City police officer killed in ambush
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JERSEY CITY — Patrolman Melvin Santiago was ambushed by a gunman as he responded to a report of an armed robbery at a Walgreens store around 4 a.m. on Sunday morning. Jersey City Mayor Steven M. Fulop said at a…
Space experts to discuss the search for life beyond Earth
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NASA Television will air a panel discussion of leading science and engineering experts on Monday, July 14, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EDT, who will describe the scientific and technological road map that will lead to the discovery of potentially…
Which comes first, the chicken or the vagina?
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by Helen Philpot Margaret, I’m old and I’m tired. I thought I was ready to hang my quill up for good and then Rick Perry had to open his mouth again and let a whole lot of stupid fall out.…
