An Associated Press article this week notes that the city of Newark, NJ, staring into a budget abyss, sold 16 city buildings to developers and investors, including the Newark Symphony Hall and police and fire headquarters.
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The blizzard zone included the state's largest city, Newark, with a population of more than 275, 000.
Indeed, Christie's political standing reportedly helped convince Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey's most populous city, to abandon his plans of running for governor in 2013.
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Jersey City, Paterson and Newark came under state control in a series of takeovers from 1989 to 1995, and local residents often complain that the state should have either improved the districts by now or return control to local authorities.
Mr. Christie, who can appoint the next superintendent because the state seized control of the city's schools in the 1990s, vowed to make Newark a national model for reforming a troubled school system.
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And Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John Brennan will join officials from FEMA, the Department of Transportation, and the Army Corps of Engineers to view impacted areas in Hoboken, Newark, and Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as Staten Island, New York.
Citing floodwaters, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has closed four airports near the city: Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty International and Teterboro Airports.
The investigators studied the calorie choices of 349 children and adolescents aged 1 to 17 at fast food restaurants in New York City and Newark, N.
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What we don't know, and won't until New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram finishes her review of this case, is whether this happened because Newark is a so-called sanctuary city , where local police are not required to determine the immigration status of those they arrest, let alone inform federal officials.
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