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Governor Pataki signed a new law promoting tougher punishment to those convicted of burning crosses or defacing property with Nazi swastikas. (This took long enough, maybe if it were implemented earlier we would have less Ku Klux Klan members on the street.)

The New Jersey Transit board of directors is considering adding a rail-link from New York to Atlantic City, giving gamblers more options to reach the East-Coasts gambling Mecca. (One thing that doesn't make sense is that the trip would take 2.5 hours, the same time it takes on a bus from Manhattan. It shows convenience, but no improvement.)

New York City's using wireless technology to access important information for emergency responders. The Citywide Mobile Wireless Network (CMWN) will allow NYPD/FD quickly access and download information including city maps, building plans and federal and state counter-terrorism and crime databases from police vehicles and fire and EMS apparatus.