The Record April 6, 2010 Governor Chris Christie’s proposed state budget has New Jerseyans of all stripes talking. Some are worried about cuts to programs on which they depend. Others are frustrated by how their specific industry or profession will fare in this new environment. And most New Jerseyans are looking for relief after being over-taxed for much of the past decade. [...]
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By Tom Moran The Star-Ledger March 17, 2010, 5:01AM [...]
Courier-Post March 15, 2010 Cuts in aid to schools and other programs are inevitable as the state faces an $11 billion deficit. [...]
By Peggy Ackermann Star-Ledger March 14, 2010, 10:00AM Former New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman unveils the gubernatorial portrait of herself in June 2001 that hangs in the State House. [...]
By Christine Todd Whitman The Korea Herald March 4, 2010 At a critical time in the energy policy debate, faced with the twin concerns of climate change and rising energy demand, the Obama administration and environmental organizations such as the Pew Center for Climate Change and the Environmental Defense Fund have reached a surprising consensus. Despite past reservations about nuclear energy, they now acknowledge that the United States’ most significant carbon-free electricity source has a role to play in an economically sound, low-carbon energy policy for America. [...]
By Governor Christine Todd Whitman The Record March 2, 2010 While Indiana Senator Evan Bayh’s retirement may seem a local issue or simply the latest bit of political tweeting, when results-focused reasonable leaders with a track record like Bayh’s lose hope in the potential of Washington to improve the lives of his fellow Americans, the nation had better take notice. [...]
The Record March 1, 2010 THE BATTLE of the pensions continues. Everyone is losing. Last week, the state Treasury Department issued a new analysis on the state's beleaguered pension fund. Or perhaps, it would be better named "the pension underfund." It is now underfunded by nearly $46 billion. [...]
Christine Todd Whitman February 12, 2010 Politico [...]
By Governor Christine Todd Whitman Washington Post February 11, 2010 It shouldn’t, but it will. Among the reasons winter storms will make this issue more politically challenging are overreach and simplification — on both sides of the debate. “An Inconvenient Truth” brought the issue of climate change to the fore, but many of the charts implying that the world’s end is near were overly dramatic. [...]