• New Jersey is a ‘Tax-Spend’ State! GORDON BISHOP… ON THE ISSUES

•  Is Your Municipality a Ticking Timebomb! BY ANDREW BORKIN, PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC ADVANCEMENT, INC

• September 8, 2007… A Time for Mayors to Unite Join us as we Honor Mayor Tim McDonough and Mayor Emeritus Tony DeCicco BY MAYOR ANGELO CORRADINO, NJCM PRESIDENT

• Conservation Techniques Will Reduce Energy Costs BY EDWARD J. GRAHAM, DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF SOUTH JERSEY GAS

• Newark, New Jersey: Poised For Greatness By:  Mayor of the City of Newark, Cory Booker and Heather Martin, Vice President of Sales for EAI

• Hot Topics, Cool Mayors…Straight Talk In The Garden State WITH AMY OSBORN, PRESIDENT, CAPITOL CONCEPTS

•  Keeping the Lights on in New Jersey BY DR. EDWARD H. SALMON AND RICHARD S. MROZ, ESQ., SALMON VENTURES, LTD

• New Jersey’s Great Yard Sale BY DR. DONALD M. SCARRY, PRINCIPAL ECONOMIST, NEW JERSEY ECONOMICS

• Numbers are about to do us In! BY JON SPINNAGER, NJCM HONORARY CHAIRMAN

• Quite Appropriate to Locate the NJCM Seafood Fest at one of the Most Important Commercial Fishing Ports in the Mid-Atlantic? BY NILS STOLPE, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, GARDEN STATE SEAFOOD ASSOCIATION AND FISHERIES RESOURCE CENTER

• Litter Prevention as A ‘Tipping Point’ For Reducing Crime BY DAVE STREET, NJCM AFFILIATE MEMBER

• The Past, The Present, and Our Future… Mayors Become Mayors Because they Deeply Care BY MAYOR RON SWOREN, NJCM IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

•  Andrew Weber Joins Stradley Ronon FROM NJCM STAFF REPORTS

• State Legislature Buys Time with Temporary Open Space Funding BY JOANNA WOLAVER, NEW JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY & MARK ZAKUTANSKY, KEEP IT GREEN CAMPAIGN