NJN News; Tuesday June 18, 2002

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people who care about your clients and geraldine archive foundation governor mcgreevey signed legislation making terrorism a crime punishable by death of hudson county soccer stadium for the metro stars has been proposed and the political debate may sound familiar this state rallies to keep the land in gm plant in new jersey beyond two thousand vice one county is doing to assist families of military personnel in need of support services and a father and son both mortician is breathing new life into their political careers nj and use for tuesday june eighteenth with rare bipartisan support from lawmakers governor mcgreevey today signed into law a sweeping new anti terrorism statute making terrorism a capital crime in new jersey officials say provisions in the new law gives law enforcement important tools to fight terrorism the new jersey statehouse correspondent jim parker has the

story the september eleventh attacks on the world trade center claimed the lives of nearly seven hundred new jersey is taking a heavy toll on communities west of the hudson soon after the attacks state lawmakers here began updating the state's criminal code to make it more difficult to carry out terror attacks first priority of government is to protect and defend and how you go about doing that is to them and that because of criminal justice call him took the lead in overhauling the criminal code the result being a bill signed by governor mcgreevey today that makes terrorism a crime punishable by the death penalty the new law also removes the statute of limitations for terror related crimes extends wiretapping capabilities to include non profit organizations and clamps down with stiff penalties on money laundering and support of terror groups and aiding and abetting terence cullen says the provisions aimed at lower level factors in a possible terror scheme are critically important the death penalty may not stop someone who wants to die but it

will give reports to those who would hayden says the governor signed the village a lot just days after one final approval from the unanimous assembly this bill is politically necessary the state has a rational reasonable expectation every potential within its arsenal to combat terrorism state officials conceded the federal government already has many of the powers embodied in the law in the patriot act and other federal statutes but officials here say new jersey where terrorists or known to have lived and plotted needs its own powers to investigate as well as prosecute especially if a federal case should fail this just enables the state to move forward in a prosecution if necessary and if appropriate senator bill gormley says the bill's purpose demanded bipartisanship we're on a sense of chamberlain's one residence features he got on trains to go to work in new york city the role as of the end of the day that they're gonna work they were going off to work to change the whole

culture of the state how we think one of the bill's sponsors says a key protections built into the legislation is designed to guard against overzealous prosecution the safeguard requires that before terrorism related charges can be brought by county prosecutors they must first be approved by the state's attorney general jim harker nj and news the statehouse a bill is moving through the legislature to help build a new soccer stadium for the metro stars in the town of harrison like to propose new yorker read and it has also run into opposition from legislators concerned about the future of the meadowlands where the metro stars currently play michael allen reports while soccer fever is emanating from asia have a world away in harrison new jersey the president of the new york new jersey mattress stores is really about a new stadium on the site that restores currently playing giant stadium

like the nets and the devils they wanna leave the meadowlands seven thousand seat stadium is way too big for them they're planning to build a twenty five thousand seat stadium on this blighted cited harrison across the passaic river from newark one hundred fifty million dollars stadium and five thousand car parking facility would anchor development of thirty five hundred new housing units and three and a half million square feet of office and retail space you know we've all been talking about great urban revitalization and this project is the poster child for the revitalization and the stadium and parking decks are the spark plug that's gonna get this development going the project would be financed by bonds issued by hudson county and by parking revenues over thirty years there's no state funding involved with a bill that passed the assembly last thursday designating the site a sports and entertainment district would dedicate half the sales tax from this otherwise unproductive site for the project for five years it was sponsored by assembly speaker obvious years and senator bernard can and we think that the mattress

guys really should have their own stadium or arena they have the strings themselves as a soccer team we want to keep them here in new jersey and get more quality place to play democrats all voted for the bill for what one republican voted against the republican leader opposes it for the same reason he opposes the newark arena to protect the meadowlands sports complex well again as a forum to build a stadium for them someplace else putting the smaller stadium pow why not build a smaller stadium right at the sports complex the stadium that can be used moulder purpose the proposed site is a thousand feet from the harrison penn station and a short walk from newark penn station the turnpike en route to ad ran nearby soup cabbage says many fans live in the area and it's far easier than the meadowlands for new yorkers to get to from a transportation standpoint there's no better place last week he learned his team makes the playoffs they can use giant stadium football at a rolling stones concert we don't have a home we are out of giant stadium an october of

all four were team that averages north of twenty thousand fans a game and we don't have an adequate plays the play giant stadium is just not the place for us soccer is in the air all over the world this month the metro stars get their way it will be here in two thousand five that's their goal michael ncaa news harrison officials in burlington county unveiled a program today designed to help servicemen and women and their families who were called to active duty the program's goal is to ensure that families are taken care of all spouses are away from home can st john reports is he active duty assistant program was initiated by burlington county officials following the september terrorist attacks the program are present assessed military family from fort dix and mcguire air force base were on active duty status the program provides services and aid in order for their families to continue their standard of living until a spouse returns program just received a

two hundred eighty five thousand dollars federal grant to kick off operation this service agencies and organizations it was a national law or any any member of the military and are counting to ease the financial hardships caused by the deployment of those personnel military officials say they welcome the support especially for the many reservists and national guard personnel were activated for the biology active duty side for years the national guard was a punchline in many situations but now i think that the national guard has become part of the frontline out of all of the refueling that's being done in the world fifty percent it's being done by reserve is a national guard officials estimate nearly three thousand families qualify for the program a five year i said girl you know just a plumber or to help with a circuit breaker that strip is a simple thing to most of those words were deployed

spouses on the other side of the world that's a big bang and ironing out that we get from the community as absolutely outstanding week we appreciate and then when the program will be especially beneficial to those who really need economic help many of them are we're making a lot more money in the private sector some of them have small businesses so somebody a gap program us cable financial services child care services just in a rave family support services at that oh absolutely absolutely invaluable for many of our members whatever service the cases can provide and if we can find it we're going to help them through their kids age on indian news a program at the monmouth county jail in freehold is believed to be the first of its kind in the state it's aimed at curbing domestic violence and abuse and its targeted at inmates jerry henry has more since april these inmates along with nine others have been a part of a new program here is the

group is called one at turning was around and it's voluntary for any inmates in this maximum security prison would like to participate the eighteen week intervention program is aimed at curbing domestic violence these protests say they are already using some aspects of what they learned in the group sessions they range from anywhere from he did two arguments oftentimes funny session even if it goes in the negative direction because he gets something out of prison don't anger head thick chocolate chose to make you boil we want your actions in college how do you cope with it yourself it was a collaborative effort between police court judges and social services tentative and begin developing it ten years ago but this is the first time she's turned to jail inmates making stopping thinking taking responsibility and the choices you make and that there will be consequences and

those consequences yourself and stop blaming others and what we know from our study this program on the house on a substantial reduction of actual incidents of domestic violence but this couple of the other programs really want to show very very positive impact on a reduction of recidivist sister that was just over two months old here officials say it's still too early to tell if it's really making a difference but they feel that they will know it's a success they don't see some of the same faces but behind these bars six members of the new jersey forest fire service will be helping to battle blazes that have destroyed more than a hundred and nine thousand acres in colorado the new jersey teen left for colorado early this morning state officials say that they'll be spending too weeks assisting weary firefighters battling wildfires there will be back with more in jay is coming up in just about three years for

workers to pay the power corneal transplants and save the vision of tens of thousands of people but in cases of severe scarring they don't always work in tonight's health watch a new procedure that improves the odds health and medical correspondent sarah lee kessler has the story

that out of this or a construction worker can see it all is a miracle of modern medicine ten months ago while working on a highway job like this drought continues to hold the roads underpinnings in places exploded in his face working its way into his left eye socket even though you were wearing protective by gear yes i have my safety glasses on our stuff got knocked off my head the result the surface a balanced left i was badly burned the cornea severely damaged i was confronted with a very minimal amount of residual healthy surface if any dr david chiu allen's ophthalmologist knew that a corneal transplant was his patients only hope but he also knew it would fail unless he first did a livable stem cell transplant a relatively new procedure they an injury such as palin's where a camp otto across washed over is i

d stem cells of bell little stem cells form a ring around the guy they give rise to healthy corneal tissue so in allen's case you took healthy levels stem cells and his right eye and put them and the republican regions and suggests senses it up for corneal transplant to score a corneal transplant was done two months ago emory university hospital following two livable stem cell transplants we were there when allen stitches were removed now as i look at it today i can say that you have blue eyes to blue eyes but from the fund that we saw the damage in the beginning you really couldn't tell i know it was like looking through several lawyers wax paper you feel pretty lucky if the outcome so far here two three four weeks ago

i had twenty two hundred and today i'm closer to twenty one hundred so it gets a little better as we go along and dr chu says a little stem cell transplant is also an option for patients with severe corneal scarring who've had injuries that are long term as many of my patients who have told me that they've seen a doctor's ten doctors they all said there's no chance that today at least something i can offer at least a chance that they immediately see something fairly kessler engineer news new york coming up in business a look at today's market activity and state officials tried to steer general motors to keep the lending truck flat open beyond two thousand five details coming up next in this case as both the negotiators for the state met with general motors representatives in london today to try to keep the

local truck plant operating after two thousand five that after gm announced yesterday it will stay open a year later than originally planned sacca rethink reports and for workers unwelcome imposition to expand production beyond them in the plant's region of closing gate in two thousand for according to union extended period could help prevent the closing altogether so it's good news for our members because it means that we are in contention for the possibility of another vehicle in its statement gm spokesperson said quote our market forecasts indicate that there will be a demand for the products justifying production through the summer of two thousand by the lasers showed a very general motors announced it was laying off eleven hundred employees at this plan and closing the facility by two thousand for this decision allows the plant to stay open another year the negotiations are

ongoing and beyond that the government really has her estate special liaison to the company he and other new jersey officials at the plant today to meet with a company representatives about how they can induce gm the financial incentives to stay the extra year state officials and union agree it's more likely we'll be able to bring an nba production figures it's time to work on long term solutions so that we keep these jobs differently and that's the most important thing to say we are our meeting ongoing for new products as they became available and i saw a competitive but the war were in a good position the many east coast have a good reputation at the lack of workforce we've been all right so far beyond two thousand five zachary thinking james jerseys unemployment rate fell in may at the same time employment in the garden state fell slightly the jobless rate was down to five point four percent from the revised april rate of five point six percent

if the twenty ninth consecutive month that the state's rate was below the nation's average which was a five point eight percent last month officials say the number of people working in new jersey the decreased by thirty six hundred jobs from april to a seasonally adjusted level of just over four million in that he left at and t to go to become ceo of qwest communications now joseph not cio of mars county has been forced to step down amid questions about the firm's accounting practices the regional phone company has been rocked by financial and regulatory problems causing its stock to plunge from sixty four dollars in the year two thousand to a current level of about five dollars united health group has agreed to acquire a marriage choice for five hundred and thirty million dollars in stock and the assumption of thirty million dollars in debt americans provides medicaid services to low income americans in new jersey and in other states the new company will be called marriage rights on wall street it was the next day of trading the dow jones industrial average rose nearly nineteen points to close it nine thousand seven oh six the amex composite inched up a fraction

the nasdaq fell ten and a half for the s and p's gained nearly one point on the day the ten year note last one thirty second it yielded four point eight five percent a group of students representing for new jersey high school star in north carolina this week for the chance to claim and national debate title is a retailer caught up with members of newark's debated before they left for the toilet it's fast paced and intense presenting an argument and a debate but it's a challenge these new works students say they're ready to face at the national forensic sleep twenty three have like a lot of evidence and we have to redo our whole lot of evidence turn around its very psychological and made to think on your feet the debate's include two categories the lincoln douglas debate which is a one on one battle where resolutions are based on moral and philosophical argument and policy debate which requires extensive research and evidence to argue namely political topics these days nuclear

weapons than the police events students from ford high school's band off the one and two new york high schools science high technology high all vying for the national title but science high school they have an advantage because they've captured new more state titles of the past twenty years with the region is getting married and there's a lot of prestige and try to stick to the students as they represent a new work in the national debate and although the goal is to win these students say gaining useful skills and respect maybe the best records of all i'm obviously posed by one of the first ones i don't want to be out in the libertarian was being used in his obama back when rowan and i actually read the pages are so many people most of whom i was conservative activists but i am

here and i'm very happy for it doesn't they still to come on and jr news mortician politicians so father and son in the funeral business are again turning their attention to politics this fall fb come november there could be a new family dynasty in camden county to work sessions father and son are making separate runs for top municipal offices in that part of the state at its a p no has their story

they're a father and son team hoping to be mayors of adjoining sounds very tight reelection in northeast danbury former cherry hill there was that job that primary election behind them they're each looking to make history all everybody is telling us this is a first for the state the first in the nation but nobody knows they also share their family business they own flat memorial chapel in cherry hill a funeral home lies on the very street that divides cherry hill and more have been working side by side cemetery was a boy like his father his first a mortician then the politicians because i really appreciate when people so my father and i would always hoped one day to say things about me and that's really why that involved in this business the family business like about politics or so the tots are the first mortician turned politicians in camden county it's a bit of a

phenomenon to former haddonfield mayors were funeral directors the former mayor of clementine also in the business you have to be compassionate you have to have the people person didn't understand that you have to be a very good listener because you have to understand the flintstones are telling you quality is essential to an elected official they say as narrow vorhees harry fights are thirty thousand people cherry hill where bernie plot was married nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty has more then double that some have suggested that the hard bargain the politics could sell your family business patsy differently when you have a large funeral having some political privileges the south with traffic intersections in emissions across absolutely what they're looking forward to his father son campaign fundraisers a claim if elected they will handle the business of the community the same way they have been handling the one for decades with their injury and you know enjoy news cherry hill i can hear

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