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		<title>Prosecution of former Garwood Police Officer Gennaro J. Mirabella???</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1995</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1995#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Renna</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Garwood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mirabella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hon. Andy Skibitsky and members of the
Westfield Town Council
425 E. Broad Street
Westfield, NJ 07090
RE: Prosecution of former Garwood Police Officer Gennaro J. Mirabella
Dear Mayor Skibitsky and Council Members:
We write to learn the reason the Westfield Municipal Prosecutor declined to prosecute Gennaro J. Mirabella on October 14, 2009.  This matter is of public interest because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hires</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1970</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1970#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Renna</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley Heights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Devanney]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[employee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two new positions were created in 2010 for former Berkeley Heights employees. George Devanney has been serving on the Berkeley Heights Planning Board for several years now. His wife Angie was the Township Administrator. They support the local Republican council members and Mayor David Cohen.
Raymond Sullivan (no relation to the freeholder) was the zoning officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shhhh don’t tell anybody, Berkeley Heights is getting a cell tower</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1967</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1967#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Renna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I attend freeholder meetings I find the information that is missing at them to be the most interesting. The information that is readily offered is suspect and tainted in my mind. They should refer to these gatherings as performances rather than meetings. Information is so scarce; Open Public Records Act requests are the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Our Guest???</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1961</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1961#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Quattrocchi</dc:creator>
		
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     On Sunday January 3rd the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders held the county&#8217;s annual reorganization meeting and swearing in ceremony at the county seat in Elizabeth. Taking the oath of office that day were two of the stalwarts on the on the board, Al Mirabella and Deborah Scanlon as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.J. Sen. Loretta Weinberg proposes expanded access to public records</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1946</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1946#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Renna</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[OPMA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OPRA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We want to change the culture of those people who are custodians of records, of public officials, who think it is their responsibility and duty to keep these things from the public,&#8221; Weinberg (D-Bergen) said at a news conference in Trenton. &#8220;The public owns everything we do. They pay in one way, shape or form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic crime?</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1936</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1936#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Renna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Laws of Union County:  § 2-21. Full-time service.
Every County officer and employee whose compensation is established on a full-time basis shall devote his entire time during business hours, except as otherwise provided at the time of  employment, to the duties of the office, subject to the provisions of all negotiated labor contracts.
Union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who pays when there&#8217;s no payback?</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1927</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1927#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bury</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pay-to-play]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Plainfield]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas county employees, vendors, and unions provided a large part of the $447,651 donated to the Union County Democratic Committee since 2008, the UC Republican Committee got most of their $63,473 from themselves.
No county vendors getting no-bid contracts.  No county employees as far as I can tell.  One union (Laborers UL 472) which supports mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for Bad Government</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1908</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1908#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bury</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[contributions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pay-to-play]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[$447,541 is what the Union County Democratic Committee received in campaign contributions since 2008 from four primary sources:
E- Employees of the county, most with six-figure salaries, chipped in $27,350.
V - County Vendors, mostly law firms, donated $108,450.
U - Unions through PACs paid $113,825.
P - Other Political campaigns or committees transferred $172,024.
I can&#8217;t account for another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union County Citizens Forum Dec. - 09</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1906</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1906#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Renna</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Forum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Union County Citizen’s Forum will air on Cranford’s TV 35 this week. The show is a review of the November 2009 freeholder meetings and features an interview with Bobby Conner, the open governance staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. The show is embedded below. TV 35 showtimes: Wednesday, Feb. 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Rahway Residents the Canaries in the Money Pit??</title>
		<link>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1897</link>
		<comments>http://www.countywatchers.com/?p=1897#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Quattrocchi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[over charges]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privatization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RVSA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Almost one half of Union County&#8217;s municipalities are served by the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority including Rahway, Clark, Mountainside, Westfield Scotch Plains, Cranford, Garwood, Springfield, Kenilworth and Roselle Park. The subject of privatization has come up more than once and as recently as last year with the commissioners divided as to the benefits that the [...]]]></description>
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