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the goal of a statewide conference held to assess how prepared we are to handle it. What policy decisions could slow it. And what could happen if we don’t. NJTV News Senior Correspondent Brenda Flanagan reports on Peril & Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change
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James M. O’Neil reports for The Record:
Residents of Saddle River, NJ have been forced to share their borough in recent months with a bunch of four-legged furry migrants from the west — and it has frayed some nerves.
Coyotes are traipsing through backyards, looking in windows, lounging on porches, lying in driveways. It’s as if they checked out the borough’s listings on Zillow and are looking to buy.
And it has not been a lone coyote here or there – they’ve been in groups of four, five, six or more.
“Daily I am terrorized by these animals,” resident Susan D’Elia told borough officials at a recent meeting on the issue. “It is absolutely out of control. My property is overrun. There are times I am afraid to leave my home.”
The residents of Saddle River are far from alone. Coyotes are everywhere.
They have been seen in all 21 New Jersey counties. They came from the West, and have spread through Ohio, Pennsylvania and New England.
They are in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and many other large cities. They are incredibly adaptable, living in rural forests, suburban communities and urban landscapes alike.
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Steve Esack reports for The Morning Call:
Politics has always been lurking in the shadows of Pennsylvania’s long, drawn-out budget fight and ever-present deficit. So it was just a matter of time before budgetary politics came into the light being cast by the looming 2018 election for governor.
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| United States Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, is on trial on federal corruption charges in Newark. Recent court rulings overturning the convictions of former New York legislative leaders Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver could play a role in Mr. Menendez’s case.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times |
Nick Corasaniti reports for The New York Times:
NEWARK — They were two of the most notable corruption convictions in recent political history, two entrenched New York power brokers seemingly brought to justice, their cases reverberating well beyond the wood-paneled walls of the Statehouse in Albany.
And in a span of less than three months, both convictions were overturned.
The legal turn of events in the cases against Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the two former New York State legislative leaders, is almost certain to resonate in another corruption case unfolding just across the Hudson River in the federal courthouse here where the defendant is United States Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.
What has given Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos a reprieve was the ruling last year by the United States Supreme Court overturning the conviction of the former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. In its unanimous decision, the court severely narrowed the definition of the kinds of official acts a politician must perform to be considered as having partaken in an illegal quid pro quo.
Making phone calls, arranging meetings or offering support on an issue no longer qualified as an “official act” as defined by the court. Instead, an act had to be more directly tied to an elected official’s office, such as offering a government contract or writing legislation.
In all three cases, the indictments were filed before the Supreme Court ruled in the McDonnell case and Mr. Skelos and Mr. Silver were convicted before the Supreme Court ruled.
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