NJN News; Thursday May 30, 2002

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jersey making a health care worker in new jersey's businesses and individuals the new jersey education association people who care about your experience and geraldine archives at new jersey families and the solemn ceremony at ground zero as recovery efforts come to a close governor james mcgreevey signs the early retirements bill into law the state treasurer defends the corporate business tax and other fiscal measures before the assembly's budget committee to what the three republican us senate candidates are taking the campaign to the airwaves and he's pulling no punches on the future of boxing in atlantic city and you're from new jersey athletic commissioner hugh laurie hazard nj and use for thursday may thirtieth the cleanup is now complete at ground zero in new york city this morning a ceremony marked the end of the eight a half months recovery and cleanup

after the towers collapsed and fell in the september terrorist attacks separate fake reports the beginning of the solemn ceremony there were no speakers this morning just a slow procession out of the pit at ground zero and at the lower portion of manhattan's west side highway ceremony began a ten twenty nine am marking the moment when the second tower fell the final game of the world trade center which survive the towers collapse was the last piece of the one point eight million tons of debris to be removed from the site into a stretcher symbolizing the victims who lost their lives was loaded onto an ambulance which then led the procession out of the cleanup sites within twenty eight hundred people lost their lives in the world trade center attacks nearly seven hundred of whom were from new jersey many new jersey residents were unable to get close to the kids this morning but instead lined up along the side of the road to a fall of the police officers firefighters and the family members of victims

from the strength of our company and notice where it appears that to all my brothers playing saw what no forget this place here and growing closer now that was a lot of this is still going on that thing is that there's just not in the service of the country are the hard work when the plane's first hit the towers and in the weeks and months since new jersey police and fire departments responded contributing manpower and equipment proportionally their department suffered greater losses than the port authority police in new york and new jersey the greatest single day loss of life for any police department in us history we had all of the memory of the other is there was a risk

to our offices were meted out successfully people from new jersey contributed in other capacities as well this bridgeton pastor offer counseling to workers at ground zero during the months of cleanup been working with with all their recovery workers in helping them to process through things but talking with them sharing with them and they're sharing their grief and down and doing everything i can there help them process it while the removal of the final bean represents the end of the cleanup but also marks a new beginning the lower manhattan development corporation must decide what will be built in this part of the world trade center must balance of several different interest a process that could take at least a couple of years is everything nj in new york in trenton governor mcgreevey signed into law in early retirement bill the administration hopes it will save forty six million dollars to help close a yawning budget gap in the next fiscal year state house correspondent jim parker reports it took less than five

minutes and no debate for the early retirement measure to win overwhelming approval in the senate just two hours later the bill which passed the assembly earlier this month rested on the governor's desk for a public signing ceremony with democratic lawmaker it really made no other remarks no questions before heading back and has an office as recently as last week this same early retirement bill was in trouble as senate republicans tried to expand it to include school and municipal employees the greedy said that would wipe out any expected savings and threatened to lay off more than two thousand state employees to make up the difference the senate republican co president dropped a push for the expansion late last week agreed to today's special one vote session this as of july first early retirement deadline for workers who want to take advantage of the program approached yeah the search on our state we needed to undo this on a short term basis and we were always supportive and ready to vote for this bill we saw the option should be made available for mobile product actually less

time around in the early nineteen nineties the majority of sorts who participated in the program did not find that there was the tax savings in the cost savings so the bill passed with a dozen more votes than needed for the majority six republicans did vote against the measure among them senator robert marx and many were plenty to retire in the very near future anyways so that all we don't get anything by that just thought give them a golden parachute that the taxpayers can't afford the bill's sponsor says the alternative was unacceptable i think this is the most compassionate way for us to come across to readers and reduce our workforce and too at the same time to keep those people in the job's who need them because they had a young family administration officials expect some twenty two hundred of the seventeen thousand state employees were eligible to take advantage of the offer the state expects to hire workers for about half the positions that will be vacated by early retirements since the new

employees will earn less than the longtime workers they're replacing personnel commissioner says savings are also expected there jim harker and today a new state house for the second day in a row the state treasurer testified to lawmakers about how to restore fiscal stability in trenton today it was the assembly budget committees turned to hear the governor's plan to overhaul business tax collections adrian subpoena reports is increasing the attacks somehow going to create a rush of investment companies out of the state of new jersey in the surrounding states now the state treasurer says it now front of the assembly budget committee he reiterated the need for reforming the corporate business tax laws are claiming they allow some companies to pay almost no taxes if we fail to reverse this erosion we will say c p t dropped to just four percent of the post it religiously or two thousand and three despite decades of unprecedented economic expansion and growth in corporate profits at revel be less next year than in nineteen eighty two but even if the administration gets an estimated eight

hundred million in corporate business tax revenues they still need to make up significant shortfalls in next year's budget in addition to six hundred million dollars of new budget cuts currently being discussed the administration is planning to help bridge the gap by selling bonds begins revenues due to the state of the job abdo settlement atlanta securitized two point five billion spending one point one billion for fiscal year two thousand break there's a lot of concern about taking our money while using it for a one shot deal for one year two years in a more orderly this money was to be used for health concerns anti smoking programs for children now is being used for one or two years that for very slow warming that were typical of that money and no different for purposes and in two or three years and one little boy disappeared some lawmakers fear of women at the settlement money as a continuing revenue source could decrease the state's bond rating making it more expensive to borrow textures not going to be poison ivy so it's good it's why special responsibility to say some of those dollars for restoration hope stays you

bonds from the tobacco settlement probably in the next fiscal year the treasure recommends getting to market early before it is flooded by other states hoping to close their own budget gaps with tobacco money he dreams of you know nj news at the state house with just days to go before election day the republican us senate race remains relatively quiet but two of the candidates hope their tv ads will draw attention to their campaigns michael aaron takes a look at what each has been running starting with diane out torricelli is wrong for new jersey and on the strongest republican to defeat democrats voted to cut taxes forty times torricelli voted for the biggest tax increase in history i stand with president bush in the war against terrorism bob torricelli voted to weaken the cia and our national defense and one percent of the passengers he deserves a senator

as a homeland security immigration and now every year forester campaign is finishing out with this boxer's campaign manager bill pascoe and we've been around for about two weeks now we've got a radio spot version of the same thing as sixty second rate is buckled wakeup call our final mail pieces or else on taxes as a republican primary republican voters like to hear that their candidates are in a cut taxes former nasa these spots the republican consultant dave marash was media adviser in the abortive jim tressel

your campaign they were reviewing what they're saying here more relevant is how many times and they get to say that's cool murray says forced to secure your campaign war chest makes all the difference in the forest or because he does a number of spots has the ability to broaden his message and that the war appear to be much more substantive however we have to go back to the fundamental question who's seen it and how many times essentially with a little bit of my money she has tv exposure for hers like spinning into a blasphemous today a

new mayor you've got about that most to a thousand people the voters primary outgoing tv going mel is all very important but when you try to reach a very select audience just a few people on the best way to do it is in a very personal way with doing that today's new york times will compensate for an ad buy much more than four years i'm very pleased with the new york times endorsed clinton thought inquirer the courier post even then ocean kenya's fabled every endorsement of comically i think that people are saying the focus of see those saucy are increased and cell c are mailers and and i really think that this is the time to be spending money and i think it's working out there's more to come on npr news will show you some signs of improvement in tampa i'm sara lee kessler what polio survivors from half a century ago you need to know to day i'll have the story the

when we think of polio we think of the disease that killed and crippled millions of people in the nineteen fifties it was conquered by salt in sabin and their vaccines yet today as many as eighty percent of the world's twenty million polio survivors are still suffering debilitating health problems and his health and medical correspondent sarah lee castle reports that's the polio paradox and i had a terrible pain in my neck i had a stiff neck had a horrible ahead my head hurt fifty five year old

kathleen gallantly is talking about her bout with polio as a seven year old and it nearly cost her her life my whole body was paralyzed adopters told my parents that if i did not get to the hospital that night i would die after a month in the hospital kathleen returned home her right arm which remained paralyzed was supported by an awkward brace held in a fixed position over her head and as i got older i try to hide it kathleen on a quest to be normal discarded her brace and underwent surgery when people notice the scars she says she simply lie about the reason i would tell people you know when our idea i was in an accident when i fell but today kathleen is no longer align she can't once again she's using assisted devices disabled by something called post polio sick well a or pbs exhaustion that's often part of it

happening as a patient at englewood medical centers post polio institute dr richard bruno the director estimates that eighty percent of america's one point six million polio survivors have p ps whipple we're survivors don't realize is that when they had polio even if it were a mild case they could've lost half of their neurons were looking at the brain of one of our post polio patients who had severe fatigue severe trouble focusing attention and severe we're finding difficulty and you see this white spot in her brain which is the result of having had polio and dr bruno's own research suggests that twenty percent of baby boomers were suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome to day may actually have contracted polio as children and may not have known it one of the paradoxes is that people believe polio is only paralytic that you could only have had polio at one arm one leg was paralyzed what they had made him to call the summer grip or they have seed they were

sort of fussy irritable maybe they were weak maybe not and then it disappeared within weeks in his book polio paradox dr bruno offers practical advice for survivors first and foremost they must be willing as adults to use crutches special that supports or wheelchairs a necessary to conserve energy and the remaining brain is very important to us and it's fairly kessler jan news englewood the city of candy and once its visitors to have an easier time finding their way around said today officials unveiled a welcome to candidates signage and weight mining program it's a million dollars system of one hundred and nine the color coded signs designed to help visitors except attractions as the battleship new jersey the new jersey state aquarium and campbell's field and in the state's poorest city attract some forty thousand visitors every

rift is here now with a preview of business or retaliate for new cars and trucks are closer to letting you know when they need to fill your tires are details and hundreds of union members rallied at the statehouse will tell you why in business fb the business news a big rally in trenton today in support of a

bill that would help union contractors better compete with non union companies about seven hundred union train workers turned out for the rally their support legislation that sets parameters for government agencies seeking bids for projects under what's called a project a labor agreement it would require pay all workers the union wage with benefits even if they don't belong to a union it's a priority for union leadership or the scene is about to spend billions of dollars on school construction projects around the united states and to a new life for various reasons are cost effective i get the project done a long time because you didn't go into if necessary in the middle of a project to renegotiate conditions to ensure that your project it's gone after the rally many moved inside where the senate labor committee took up the bill doesn't serve people where they are testifying critics including many business groups say the bill would give unions a monopoly that was shut out many qualified contractors they say it will also cost taxpayers much more money other news on new cars

and trucks sold in the us are a step closer to having tire pressure monitors or a maker struck a deal with federal officials today that mandates monitors for all the uncle's built after november two thousand three as avandia cars must have a dashboard warning to alert drivers when their tires are under inflated the deal comes as part of a package of federal laws passed in response to the recall of millions of firestone tires tires rolling to hundreds of deaths in accidents involving ford explorers under inflation may have been a factor in some of those accidents millions of people are paying student loans will soon be paying less the cost of any government backed student loans will automatically fall the summer the government said today as of july first rates will drop to just above four percent down from nearly six percent students with a ten thousand dollars balance will save about eleven hundred dollars the standard ten year repayment periods the change comes after the government's latest option of us treasury bills the rate decrease applies only to stafford loans and plus loans for parents that were granted after july first nineteen ninety eight

news on the nation's economy the labor department says new claims for unemployment benefits fell for the second straight week new claims drop by twelve thousand last week to four hundred ten thousand the lowest level since march sixteenth economists say the report is an indication the economic recovery albeit week is keeping some companies are laying off even more workers meantime welcome news for homebuyers mortgage rates of fall into six month lows freddie mac says the average thirty year fixed rate mortgage this week is now six point seven six percent fifteen years now averaging six point two two percent drop comes amid signs the nation's economic recovery has been weaker than expected or more weakness on wall street today stocks retreated at the store and they came back somewhat this afternoon the markets and it was little change today a sluggish outlook for the retail sector international tensions between india and pakistan and worries about a business recovery all playing a factor on the street sort of close the dow industrials gave back eleven points to nine thousand nine eleven interesting number considering the events in new york

today among the broader market's the amex a self appointed nasdaq rose seven points s a p five hundred fell three in the credit market the ten year note is up a quarter its field fallen to just above five percent rebates business secure it's still ahead on and a news the state's athletic commissioner speaks out about boxing in new jersey and this weekend's big fight fb and lake city is bracing for big time boxing once again as heavyweights a vendor holyfield and how seeing rock mine are sent to do battle saturday it's been a long wait for state

boxing commissioner larry hazzard who says big time boxing is on its way back to the jersey shore reports of all the pomp and pageantry of the big fight for a successor in parts of evander holyfield will cost a lot more either way you're not far behind larry has been and was head of the state parks in the nation for seventeen years he says this week is conjured up memories of the days when this was the norm here when i was driving in like nineteen seventy when i first came into the lancet in july fourth professor rectified as a young aspiring rivalry was coming in as a driving the way i thought the same way scientists you know it's just like something new styling all a little bit over two years later five years the nineties most elsewhere has commissioned five ministers and

governors as well respected and not taken in the athletic were in the least even though the athlete survived a safe environment and a very violent that's all us and may the best man lying and that's always been my alma mater was one of those very same as forced major fight you that lake city we have to go all the way back to the late eighties for tysons speaks to record crowds you know with a newly renovated convention hall have just a second to fight is no possibility of feels now like we're at one level sixteen seventeen years

masters where feel about a very excited about it and i think that really informed of the enron jury to the indians that's lawyer join us any case but the point as the

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