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Tax burdens, bad roads fuel downward spiral

BUSINESS CRY:
FIX N.J. NOW

What is 16-foot
great white Mary
Lee doing off N.J?
DAN RADEL
@DANIELRADELAPP

Mary Lee, the 16-foot, 3,456-pound great white

shark, is back in the waters off the New Jersey coast,
but how long she will be here, what shes here for or
where shes going is a hypothetical guess.
All researchers know for sure is that shes a shark,
acting well, like any other shark in the ocean would act.
OCEARCH researchers, the group that placed a
global positioning satellite tag on her in 2012, however,
are playing close attention to her movements to understand more conclusively the behavior of an apex predator.
What weve learned is she likes to move back and
forth a lot between habitats. More than was originally
thought, said Jim Gelsleichter, a marine biologist from
the University of North Florida and OCEARCH collaboSee SHARK, Page 12A
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The former Bell Labs building in Holmdel at one time housed as many as 7,000 employees from AT&T and Western Electric.

MICHAEL L. DIAMOND @MDIAMONDAPP

Seventh in a weeklong series.

HOLMDEL Ralph Zucker walked into the Bell Labs building one
day in 2007, looked around and saw the once-bustling site contained
only a vast, eerie silence.
The shell was intact. Four separate pavilions connected by a ring of
walkways were under one glass-paneled roof that allowed sunlight to
stream in. But now it looked like a giants greenhouse, where nothing
grew.
Google wasnt coming here. Apple wasnt coming here. So Zucker,
the president of Somerset Development, decided he would need to
turn the iconic and seriously outdated corporate office into a
campus not only with technology companies, but also with retailers,
houses, a health center and hotel.
If we create great places ourselves, then people will not have to
get up in the morning and travel an hour, an hour and a half, Zucker
said. People (here) get up every morning and travel into Manhattan
and sit in line or take the ferry or take the bus or the train, and thats an
arduous commute. But they go there because those are great places.
New Jersey could use more great places, but building them is a
chore. The state suffers from heavy tax burdens that leave it among

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See TAX, Page 4A

Clinton regains lead in New Hampshire

Poll of Democrats finds strong debate performance gives her slight edge over Bernie Sanders. Page 1B

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MIKE DAVIS
@BYMIKEDAVIS

Overtime sporting event at Madison Square Garden? A headlining band playing late into the night at Irving Plaza?
If you live at Shore south of Long Branch, keep an
eye on the clock: When it strikes 11:18 p.m., youre stuck.
As part of NJ Transit schedule changes last month,
the last North Jersey Coast Line train which leaves at
1 a.m. no longer stops south of Long Branch. Riders
who get off at Elberon, Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Bradley Beach, Belmar, Spring Lake, Manasquan, Point
See TRAIN, Page 12A