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DESPERATE YANKEES GAIN SOME OPTIMISM IN COMEBACK. S-l Wat Hecort $1.00 THURSDAY September 19, 2013 TODAY 7755 Bright sunshine and nice TOMORROW 7962 Partly sunny. Winds at 4-8 mph N. J. may have turned corner State's household income rose last year Among the wealthiest New Jersey remains one of the most prosperous states in the country, ranking second last year in median household income.

THE TOP FIVE Maryland THE BOTTOM FIVE Kentucky $41 ,724 (47) $71,122 (1) By KATHLEEN LYNN and DAVE SHEING0LD STAFF WRITERS For the first time since the 2007-09 recession, New Jersey's household income rose last year, ticking up 1.2 percent to a median $69,667 -suggesting that the worst is over for the state's economy, though it has not come close to regaining the ground it lost. And the figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday reveal a more disturbing reality for the state's poorest residents, whose economic situation continued to deteriorate in 2012. The number of people in poverty rose from 897,400 to 934,900 almost one in nine New Jerseyans. "The income hemorrhage was finally stanched in 2012," said Rutgers economist James Hughes.

But he added that the poor "are lagging way behind in the economy." Bergen and Passaic counties show the divide between haves and have-nots in the state. Bergen County's median household income rose 2.2 percent, accounting for inflation, to $82,729, after falling every year since 2007. Passaic's inflation-adjusted median rose by 10.4 percent after dropping 6 percent the previous year suggesting a statistical quirk but was still only $59,050. See NEW JERSEY Page A-6 New Jersey $69,667 (3) Alabama $41 ,574 (46) Alaska West Virginia Connecticut $67,276 (4) Arkansas Hawaii Mississippi (previous year's rank in parentheses) United States $51 ,371 Source: U.S. Census Bureau With all due honor 'Mai DAVE SHEINGOLDSTAFF ANALYSIS $10 WTC name sale is called 'shameful' PA chief says agency trying to get brand back By SHAWN BOBURG STAFF WRITER The Port Authority's top executive called the $10 sale of the World Trade Center brand name nearly three decades ago a "shameful episode" on Wednesday and said the New York attorney general is investigating the transaction with an eye toward recovering any benefits gained through the deal.

Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye, an appointee of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who steers the bi-state agency along with Governor Christie said "both governors are united in their outrage and committed to have the Port Authority take every step to reverse this." His comments at a commissioners' meeting in Manhattan came in response to a story in The Record last week and were the most extensive yet regarding the quiet $10 sale of the World Trade Center naming rights in 1986. The World Trade Centers Association, a group created and run by a Port Authority executive who retired months after the deal was struck, owns the exclusive rights to the name and licenses it to hundreds of property owners all over the world. The former executive, Guy Tozzoli, made millions while running the group be-See PORT AUTHORITY Page A-8 Born in infamy New York State's so-called Tweed Law, which is being in VA says gunman didn't raise alarms The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people Monday before being slain in a police shootout, complained of insomnia during an Aug. 23 emergency room visit at the VA Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

He was given sleep medication and was advised to follow up with a doctor. He made a similar visit five days later to the VA hospital in Washington, when he again complained of not being able to sleep because of his work schedule. His medication was refilled. Aaron Alexis did not say he was depressed or having thoughts of harming himself or others, the Veterans Affairs Department said Wednesday. Complete story on A-5 Envoys: Rockets tie Assad to gas attack Diplomats and human rights officials said Wednesday that the trajectory of the rockets that delivered the nerve agent sarin in the Aug.

21 attack is among the key evidence linking elite Syrian troops in the mountains overlooking Damascus to the strike that killed hundreds of people. A U.N. report released Monday confirmed that chemical weapons were used in last month's deadly attack in Syria but did not ascribe blame. The United States, Britain and France cited evidence in the report to declare Assad's government responsible. Complete story on A-7 FEMA chief grilled on flood insurance The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was berated by senators on Wednesday over increases in flood insurance rates that they said are starting to roil real estate markets in coastal states nationwide and making the recovery from Superstorm Sandy more difficult.

"I don't have that authority," FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said after Sen. Chuck Schumer, asked him to delay the increases at least until an afford-ability study that was required by the law is done. When fully implemented, the insurance program's total premiums should increase by $1.5 billion to $5 billion, Fugate said in written testimony. Complete story on A-3 Lonegan questions Booker link to firm Steve Lonegan attacked Cory Booker on his personal finances for the second day in a row, questioning his relationship with a West Orange law firm. Booker, who's battling Lonegan in New Jersey's special U.S.

Senate election Oct. 16, spent about four years working as a partner at the law firm, now called Trenk, DiPasquale, Delia Fera Sodono. The firm bought out his partnership between 2007 and 2012, paying Booker $688,500 more than twice the $284,000 he made while working for the firm, according to Booker's tax filings. Complete story on A-4 Pretrial motions in Hudson News suit Pretrial motions were argued in Saman-tha Perelman's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against her uncle, James Cohen of Alpine, in a Hackensack courtroom on Wednesday. Perelman, the daughter of billionaire Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman, accuses her uncle of manipulating a massive family estate that includes the Hudson News business and leaving her with a smaller inheritance than she claims she was due, while he walked away with $600 million from the sale of the retail portion of the company.

Complete story on L-l www.northjersey.com Check out The Record's roster of bloggers at northjersey.comblogs. MITSU YASUKAWASTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Francis Carrasco, chairman of New Jersey Mission of Honor, handing the cremated remains of a veteran to a volunteer Wednesday at the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen. Unclaimed remains of 25 veterans receive military burial By MARY DIDUCH STAFF WRITER To view a photo gallery on this story visit northjersey.com and chairman of the New Jersey Mission of Honor, which partnered with six funeral homes in the state, including the Becker Funeral Home in Westwood and the Gutterman and Musicant Funeral Home in Hackensack to locate, identify and then lay to rest the remains. The ceremony, which began at the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen and concluded at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown, was the largest inter-See VETERANS Page A-6 They were accountants, dentists and construction workers.

Others were pilots or in real estate. Many were from New Jersey and New York, though some were from as far away as Ireland and Estonia. They all were veterans. Veterans whose remains had been cremated, placed in cardboard boxes and tin cans, and left on shelves in crematories unclaimed for decades. But under a crisp, clear blue sky Wednesday morning, those 25 veterans whose remains had been transferred into polished mahogany urns -received the military burial they have so long deserved.

"None of our brothers belong on shelves in cardboard boxes or in tin cans who have fought for our country and given us the freedom that we deserve," said Francis Carrasco, founder voked in the World Trade Center naming-rights scandal, authorizes the state's attorney general to sue to recover any property belonging to 1 the state or a state BOSS TWEED Christie looks at the little picture agency that was "obtained, received, converted, or disposed of without right" or seek damages against anyone who Campaign ad pulls Buono's long-ago pay-raise vote out of context obtained government property "without right." The attorney general can act on his own and must act if the governor orders such legal steps. The law was passed probably with William Tweed in mind. Better known as Boss Tweed, he headed Tammany Hall, as the New York Democratic Party was known, and used his power to siphon millions of dollars from municipal construction projects in New York City in the 1 860s. He eventually went to prison. Governor Christie may very well be angling to become the next leader of the free world.

But for the moment, the champion of "big things" is seizing on a small-bore issue more fitting a race for freeholder than a contest for governor. Christie is trying to paint his opponent, Democratic Sen. Barbara Buono, as a grubby, tax-and-spend Democrat who voted to raise her part-time legislative salary by 40 percent in early 2000. "Barbara Buono. Higher taxes for us.

A pay raise for herself," the narrator of Christie's television ad intones. This as Christie is sitting on a 20-point lead in the polls and on a mountain of campaign cash compared to her molehill. It's not enough that Christie has enlisted a small army of Democratic Party defectors and has turned his office into a de facto publicity arm of the campaign. Christie is after a blowout victory on Nov. 5, one that could mark him as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, his margin showing him as a pragmatic conservative who can win in the liberal Northeast.

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