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How $10 grows to $65 for NJ motorcycle registration
Jim Gearhart My colleague Mike Symons reported the Motor Vehicle Commission is proposing a $65 motorcycle registration, which, he wrote, would be a raise from the current $10 fee. Readers from 101.5...
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Maybe he could try holding his breath
Louis Greenwald When word began spreading property tax rebate checks could be a victim of Corzine's next budget, Assemblyman Lou "The Empty Suit" Greenwald vowed to fight to death to keep the rebates....
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State Street Miracle a little too convenient?
Jim Gearhart Behold the Miracle on State Street, the tax amnesty program that Corzine says was so successful at the last minute they delayed putting off a vote on the state budget while they figure out...
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Tax series gets rave reviews; reporter joins Gearhart
Jim Gearhart Asbury Park Press Investigations Editor Paul D'Ambrosio joined Jim Gearhart on his top-rated show on New Jersey 101.5 FM this morning. Paul and Jim discussed what was learned during the...
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Christie defends campaign, time as U.S. Attorney
Republican Chris Christie visited 101.5 FM's Jim Gearhart today and defended his campaign. All of these Monday morning quarterbacks have never had to do anything themselves, he said in response to...
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Daggett won’t pledge to refuse Corzine offer
Jim Gearhart This morning on 101.5 FM's Jim Gearhart show a caller asked independent candidate Chris Daggett if he would take a pledge not to accept a position in the Corzine administration. Daggett...
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Christie: not anti-union or against prevailing wage
Jim Gearhart Chris Christie dropped by Jim Gearhart's show on 101.5 FM this morning. Christie said the state has to spend less at all levels but the leadership of the teachers union fights reform for...
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State unions still unhappy with Sweeney
Steve Sweeney The state employee unions that heckled Sen. Steve Sweeney when he proposed pension reform three years ago still aren't happy with such plans even though the state's pension fund is in...
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Christie: Cutbacks don’t have have to mean tax hikes
Gov. Christie checked in with my radio colleague Jim Gearhart on New Jersey 101.5 FM this morning and repeated his earlier opinion that the "chattering classes'' will oppose his proposed budget freeze...
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Christie: Teachers not problem, union is
Gov. Christie dropped by Jim Gearhart's 101.5 FM show today to reinforce his invitation to the teachers union, the NJEA, to save teacher jobs by accepting a one-year pay freeze and pay 1.5 percent of...
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Sweeney: Times dictate pension changes
Steve Sweeney State Senate President Steve Sweeney talked to Jim Gearhart on 101.5 FM today to clear up misunderstandings about the pension reform bills passed this week. He said those with contracts...
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Christie exchange caught on tape
There has been another heated exchange between Gov. Christie and someone in the audience. This time it wasn't what the governor described as a thin-skinned reporter but a teacher who complained about...
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Did Christie blink?
Jim Gearhart Jim Gearhart, 101.5 FM's legendary morning man and long-time observer of the Jersey political landscape, has been one of Gov. Christie's biggest cheerleaders. No more. While Gearhart...
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Sweeney: ‘Me of all people?’
Jim Gearhart Senate President Steve Sweeney says voters trust lawmakers to do the right thing. He says the current 4 percent cap on property taxes is working and it can be lower. But where they have...
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Christie: Happy to give up some power
Gov. Christie reminds people he said he would have a budget without tax hikes and he and the Legislature pulled it off despite critics who said it couldn't be done. "I was confidence there would be no...
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Even in Bergen, you have the Internet
Paul Sarlo As expected, the Democrats' latest political theater presentation -- on the Race to the Top grant lost because former Education Commissioner Bret Schundler screwed it up -- produced little...
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Lautenberg’s tunnel pimping shot down
Frank Lautenberg Several times I've written blogs or in the Politics Patrol column about the nutty rail line from Xanadu to Macy's basement being promoted by Sen. Frank Lautenberg who thinks the tunnel...
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Here’s to you, Jim, a living legend
Jim Gearhart Join me in congratulating my friend and radio colleague Jim Gearhart of 101.5 FM. Millennium Radio honored the legendary morning man by naming the station's building the "Jim Gearhart...
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There is nothing lower than taking advantage of a helpless person in an emergency. My colleagues at the Asbury Park Press report two female workers trying to get home after working three shifts in a...
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Christie comments on ms patient’s prison sentence
Some wondered if Gov. Christie were talking out of both sides of his mouth when he advocated treatment instead of jail for non-violent drug offenders but would not intervene in the case of John Ray...
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