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...Government and a handful of states on a collision course. The state legislature of Connecticut, which has outlawed tandem trailers on all roads since 1949, voted to continue its ban, thus becoming the first state to defy the new law. New Jersey's Governor Thomas Kean is sued an order limiting the giant rigs to interstate highways and two other major roads and proscribing them from roads the new federal law had opened up. By week's end Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and South Carolina pointedly announced that state troopers would continue to ticket truckers using tandem trailers...
...Jersey is the latest state to return to 21. Governor Thomas Kean will sign the bill this week that was passed by the legislature over the bitter complaints of college students and tavern owners. Insisted New Jersey Assemblyman Martin Herman: "At this holiday time, there is no more important gift we can give than the gift of life." In Massachusetts, the American Automobile Association filed legislation to nudge the drinking age from 20 to 21. "Too often kids learn to drink and drive at the same time," said AAA Spokeswoman Kathleen Maurer. A Governor's task force in Texas...
...read the reply [Dec. 6] of New Jersey's treasurer, Kenneth Biederman, to your article "Living Beyond Their Means" [Nov. 8] with amazement. Governor Kean, who was elected on a campaign promise not to raise the sales tax, now wants to increase the tax from 5% to 6%. If this state had a budget surplus at the end of fiscal 1982, as Biederman claims, why do we need increased taxes...
...Jersey Governor Thomas Kean won office last year partly on a promise to cut taxes. He may not be able to deliver. State legislators are already predicting a $50 million shortfall in this year's taut $6.2 billion budget; some think the deficit will be much worse. Says State Treasurer Kenneth Biederman: "We are not seeing a recovery in terms of revenues. I do not know of any state that is." Last week Kean said he was considering drastic action. For this staunch backer of Reaganomics, that probably means a tax hike...
...Halloween trick-or-treating. "I feel like the Grinch-you know, the one who stole Christmas," said Councilman Paul Sharp of Hammond, La., which enacted a ban. Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy urged parents to substitute Halloween house parties for trick-or-treating, and New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean signed a law mandating six months in jail for anyone convicted of contaminating Halloween candy, even if no one was harmed...