NJN News; Wednesday June 19, 2002

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she is serving customers strengthening the business community and investing in new jersey's future first union serve in the financial needs of individuals and businesses from connecticut to florida writes i'm communication solutions designed for the people and businesses of new jersey horizon blue cross blue shield of new jersey making a health care worker in new jersey's businesses and individuals and the new jersey education association people who care about your experience and geraldine archives it senate democrats agree to amendments that could help clear the controversy of corporate business staffs radiation pills will soon be available to residents near nuclear power plants education officials announced steps to get the three state controlled school districts back in local has safely speak up big rig inspections to help crack down on drug safety and the story of a northern new jersey woman's fight over deportation after she lost her husband september eleventh and good news for wednesday june

nineteenth nj and news has learned democratic legislators and governor mcgreevey are trying to amend their corporate business tax proposal to be more palatable to republicans and the business community the amendments will be unveiled tomorrow at the senate budget and appropriations committee hearing michael oren has a preview when the committee met on monday in her various objections from the business community and six democrats and six republicans on the committee and seven votes needed to move the bill democrats are looking for ways to entice at least republican committee co chairmen robert litt tell overture they're citing sources telling jay ended the democrats are willing to allow companies to keep deducting dividends when calculating their tax mischel build it away with avidan deductions it's an important issue to new jerseys from your home based corporations the democrats are likely to lower the percentages businesses would be asked to pay in the new proposed alternative minimum assessment but so far at least they have not agreed to senator lott tells goal of limiting the total take from the corporate business tax to one point eight

billion dollars they're afraid doing so would bring in lower revenues in future years senator paul argenti was behind closed doors with democratic colleagues on the cbc much of this afternoon they were a half a dozen key issue is that there were raised in delaware were trying to deal with it i don't know i've made a pledge to my dear committee members that i would not address any the manson so we had a press conference which were considering doing today or until we actually reveal them by in the committee process was we are going to do tomorrow governor mcgreevey says he's open to amendments as long as the deal brings in one point eight billion next year the concern is the absurdity of mammoth that it being proper would actually raise less that indicated and so that those negotiations are ongoing with senator worked out with the senate democrats can get one republican voting committee tomorrow they'll try to pass the cbc if they can't they'll wait and try again next monday michael r

nj and to strike radiation pills will soon be available to people who live near the state's nuclear power plants the state health commissioner has announced that potassium iodide will be given to those residents to protect them from a type of radioactive iodine in nuclear power reactors adrian sippy know has the store read one hell will be given to each person living or working within a ten mile radius of the state or nuclear power plant in salem and ocean counties that's to wonder and sixty thousand pails the state health commissioner says that as ian iodide or k it does offer cancer protection to define what plan in case of exposure to radioactive iodine and will be handed out to interested resonance and distribution site next month its emergent the most important means of protection which is evacuation evacuation evacuation that ailes will give both adults and children twenty four hours protection state police say they are mapping out evacuation plans to minimize exposure in case of an accident or attack or ruby reality of the

power to the regions a rutgers university environmental scientists says the state's distribution plan is fine if we assume the greatest threat is coming from a nuclear power plant and not the nuclear bomb explosion which could also contain radioactive iodine state red distribution under good education program in the value considering we don't know what kind of events may or may not occur the commissioner says pills or available over the counter at pharmacies and online and he is working to ensure there are ample supplies and stable also keep stockpiles for any nuclear emergency in any part of the state appeals were offered by the nuclear regulatory commission to thirty four states with nuclear reactors maybe we're just a lot more potassium iodide depending on how many people were in the jails later is you know and can use the mcgreevey administration is taking its first steps to

end state control in the three districts under state takeover the education commissioner says one hundred thousand students in newark jersey city and patterson schools would be better served by locally run district's state house correspondent jim parker has that story take over law was designed to serve as a temporary fix until power to run the schools was back in the hands of local residents but that's not the way the law has worked out fourteen years later we're still wonders a city almost eleven years later we're still in paterson and we're going into or easier look where announced that the state board of education the mcgreevey administration will seek to change the takeover law is a requirement for returning to local control are not as stringent currently the local districts need full certification and thirty some areas from test scores to dropout rates to win release the commissioner says that some realistic and will assemble a panel to propose changes things that reflects substantial improvement which is really the measure will

glide where we end up with the commissioner says a well run locally operated district invariably serves students better and that that should be the goal should not be running away from the commitment that the state made to the local districts rutgers professor paul trachtenberg wrote the report on which the administration has based its recommendations so far people insane should declare victory and we think that that's what they intend to do i think they are taking this seriously the education commissioner says he'll let school advisory boards operating in their work and patterson help decide whether to renew their superintendents contracts or bring in new chief executives going in the right direction and i just think that will continue to move as it goes back for more newark schools superintendent mary anne boleyn says he's concerned the state's plans could slow momentum in improving district the commissioner said the two superintendents are doing a good job but he wants the local boards to be able to compare them with other candidates

as a first move toward autonomy jim harker nj and news trenton nj us senate race incumbent bob torricelli has released the first broadcast that in the campaign attacking his republican opponent in the fall doug forrester the sixty second spot talks about the high cost of prescription drugs for working families the ad goes on to accuse forrester of profiting as a so called prescription drug middleman and becoming a multimillionaire in the process horse to set himself up as a prescription drug middlemen known to hold down cost for corporations and governments to do it by squeezing their workers to pay more pressuring doctors to prescribe brooks forester and his bureaucrats approve the forest her campaign responded today saying that it's remarkable that a veteran politicians such as torricelli chooses to run a vicious personal sneer for his first ad rather than to focus on the senator's accomplishments there's more ahead and nj and is still need a u n d nj researcher honored by the president for his pioneering work in the

biotech industry workers this distinction made fb fb as we've reported three new jersey researchers were recently honored at the white

house for their work in science and technology tonight science and technology correspondent patrick reagan profile sydney pascoe of the wendy and today one of the founding fathers of the biotech industry when sidney has received the national medal of technology at the white house last week his citation sounded like a summary of several careers basic discoveries in ford field's inventions and developments that help to build the biotechnology industry and creation of the first recombinant interferons proteins that interfere with both viral diseases and cancers such a past now it's all part of the same story and store in this saga in this long journey to try to figure it all out researcher professor and chair of his department at un dinges robert wood johnson medical school pascal also serves as chief scientist to yell by a medical laboratories and as a member of his community supported along with the

scientific process and mentors colleagues and students he credits his family for the fullness of his career past and present it takes an enormous commitment from them than it has been and they've they've been just so great to allow me the freedom to do research such as his fundamental work in genetic engineering we were studying how proteins are made and i asked a very simple question and the question was can we make an active protein in the test tube from material digitally the messenger rna today justice research ranges from devising new delivery methods that could reduce interferons flulike side effects after discovering and synthesizing new proteins including interferons he says are many times more active than those now available for therapeutic use what we have found out is that cancer cells for example many other

disease cells are constantly mutating their genes and these mutations a presence ravaging so in these cells these cancer cells are developing all of these new interferons another ages four it's so what we do is isolate them from the cancer cells and examine them examined them and check their properties clearly this is not the end of the story teams of state troopers are targeting new jersey's major roadways stepping up safety inspections for trucks the idea is to improve highways safety by ensuring that big rigs are in compliance with regulations sacca rethink reports travers that's the message that the state police have plenty of truck inspections along highways major the vehicles aren't just be doing differently were just going to change up or our routine because less predictable move from place to place as we wade and apply new problem areas according to state police truck

drivers operate their rigs breakfast the most serious that's the other voters other the way to instruct or to drive more carefully hoping these president first i thought yes i turned to terrorism these are also hazardous materials all the roadways as possible health insurance rates all carriers the total number of inspections increase last year from the year before and the trend continues in two thousand to forty two hundred vehicles being taken out of service and often jersey roadways the first five months of this year the native weight significantly and do not violate they are in compliance but our concerns was that are not the ones are running on the road when their own sake they make them safer everyone including other truck drivers teenagers literature association support this is the busiest day for charging we have the largest corridor between philadelphia new york city with a gateway to new england have won the largest ports in the country so yes we

have mass of the matchups in the state according to stay division of criminal justice and they support over nearly twenty five thousand bucks apiece near on a thousand people's pensions more than any other state is everything and jamie heaslip and major south jersey reconstruction an improvement project on interstate to ninety five will soon be underway the sixty five million dollar repair work in camden in berlin to counties will be between cherry hill and mount laurel the state will replace teach your ear at payton and bridges and install state of the art technology used to alert drivers to construction the two year project will begin in december which is here now with a preview of what's coming up darling for a discount low cost phone services no available for more new jersians career economies are helping train young people for the workplace stay with us if by the

fb business news new opportunities for some new jersey young people govern arabia pse and he launched their career academy today a trenton central high school that has called for instance interesting careers in energy engineering jerry henry courts dc and he spearheaded the new academy it

will be a high school student here at jump starting in chile education company employs six thousand workers in new jersey and is looking to pardon richard and hype and mercer county community college to train future employees has a longstanding commitment to quality education and understands that if we were going to be competitive in this new economy we have to have the next generation a work force which is properly trained and technically proficient it's everything from the work that we do on the poles to a substation work which is the sophisticate in canada were to it's displacing of glitter guest names and all that is a little different ways not only to have those fundamental skills that they can have an instance if they go through the entire curriculum including a community college and i have a knowledge of the electric and gas industry was going to put them in a position where they can move forward very quickly pse and c's role in the new academy will be to renovate the existing classroom supply training equipment and how volatile bread for where the lawlessness to continue their education at mercer county

community college pursuing a higher degree in the utility feel i'm sure they will be able to have more than enough students who would want to study in these strange because this is a boy against a new area study school officials say as soon as the question is renovated since he began taking courses in the new curriculum as early as january of next year jerry begins in news also in trenton the governor announced a state has reached an agreement with horizon to expand low cost phone service for low income consumers as part of a deal the board of public utilities approved expansion of the lifeline program with that low income residential phone customers wanted a thirteen dollar monthly credit currently they're credited eight fifty a month some fifty thousand new jersey has now purchased a pay its estimate up to a half million households potentially qualify trouble club aaa said today gasoline prices are well below those of a year ago and there's no sign of a price like on the horizon for boys says a new jersey prices a fallen slightly from the past month down about two cents a gallon regular unleaded is now averaging a

dollar thirty two a gallon here that's compared to a dollar sixty six a gallon this time a year ago welcome news for drivers planning to hit the road during the busy summer driving season the nation's passenger rail on amtrak could stop running next month unless it receives a federally backed loans were congressional appropriation amtrak president david gunn says the role it needs a two hundred million dollar loan to keep it going until the new fiscal year begins oct first gun will make his case tomorrow when he appears before the senate appropriations committee he's also hoping to cut costs with the new company wide re organization north la basin is again in talks to expand its car rental business mercifully basin days of negotiations to buy the budget car and truck rail company that according to the wall street journal senate is currently the parent of a vis if the deal goes through it would makes and at the nation's second biggest car rental company behind hurts on what was straight monday's games turned into wednesday's losses the street gave back a big

chunk of this week's edition as several profit warning to the tech sector push stocks lower word of another suicide bombing in israel made matters even worse it closed on a fruitful one hundred forty four points to nine thousand for sixty one among them are markets the annexed effect non tech heavy nasdaq dropped forty six points on the three percent as the p five hundred fell seventeen with stocks lower treasuries games the ten year note is up nearly a full point it still falling to four point seven one percent of that this is a correction still ahead the story of the northern new jersey woman who lost her husband september eleventh why she's now fighting deportation and how was south jersey community is helping her thinking ms bee september eleventh brought unthinkable loss and grief to hundreds of new jersey families but one mars county woman lost more than

her beloved husband that day she also lost her right to stay in this country where we did lawyer reports on her struggle and on the camden county community that's taken up her cause on the morning a tuesday september eleventh the windswept fifty of the data in the middle east breath away there's a kind of diet that nothing bad could ever happen and then the phone rang a friend calling to maintain the tv and she said tentatively on and dino watched as new york's scrambled after the first plane hit her phone rang again and this time it was her husband paul's calling from the eighty fourth floor of the south tower i nice at a plane as he told one falling on on evacuating called uses the phone was still in her hands when she watched the second plane to strike the south tower i kept in my

mind that he was evacuating out of the world he could have been down far enough that he be safe and i didn't stop hoping that an ice outside on the porch watching too says die about ninety eight miles away in a little camden county town called gloucester city a group of residents watched on tv as the twin towers fell asleep we can help the help that they wanted to be sure their fundraising efforts would accomplish something meaningful right then and there i had said i said we have three years to go and when family and it usually reluctant to families petitions those vivid help a family out and know that it was for that person by thursday september thirteenth gilbey had given up hope of ever seeing paul again she had paul had left their homeland a big win for the us in nineteen ninety three and now with the weight of her grief and her two young sons deno was considering a brief trip back to england she called the ins to check the status of her visa

she's certain your husband has expired socialite stein's country is quote it so she said i think one reason making a second helping her horror dp as you realized the full extent of what that could mean i would have been a red state and taken into custody facing deportation and maximize and because they're american we're getting tightened child services and that's the point we're gloucester city and being a deal b come together her story first reported by a british journalist spread quickly eventually appearing in a south jersey a local newspaper and the folks in gloucester knew they'd down there cause it just it was a disgrace to send this woman that has lost her husband in the world trade center and then you can send her back to the people of gloucester city began a full scale fundraising efforts for glbt employees and they weren't the only ones

touched by guilty story us senator john cores einstein's death along with several other federal lawmakers who are still working on ways to help her even prime minister tony blair reached out to guilty who has secured the right to stay in the us for another year but her status is still uncertain right now she has until september tenth of this year before the threat of deportation falls on her again or colleagues who escaped the south tower that day tell guilty her husband paul might escape himself saying he was seeing going back up to help others i think there is some signed off to poke it is life and save so many lives that dying to somebody hasn't ever to come to me and say you know what was his cube your husband was a hero and was rejected but the people of gloucester did seek help guilty and her voice and through their efforts raised two thousand dollars in cash and an untold some of hope and support their north jersey friend and these people they ended up today and say that we can help

and perry have emotionally and spiritually kept me standing and we reached out to the ins but officials they refused to discuss guilty this case she says she believes she's the victim of a glitch in the existing laws and holds out hope that in the face of an unprecedented american tragedy become an unprecedented exception to the rule to keep her and her son's mason and matt here close to the memory of their father and the husband she loved he's final resting place was chosen to sing it if i hadn't had a little had a headstone from somewhere that's as dry socks nine and to think about leaving him here he's on a magical time and to my children or read it know it at engineer news chatham township richard oliver

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