TRENTON Democrats have settled on the income-tax hike Gov.

Chris Christie gets to veto this year.

Roughly 16,000 taxpayers with incomes over $1 million would pay
around $670 million in additional income taxes, rather than the rough-
ly 47,000 that would have been directly impacted if tax increases be-
gan at $500,000, as Senate President Stephen Sweeney proposed. As-
sembly Speaker Vincent Prieto wanted the higher threshold. Demo-
crats want the tax to be imposed for three years.
More than 99 percent of taxpayers wouldnt see their tax bills
BUDGET BATTLE ON
Christie to veto higher income taxes for wealthy, again
By Michael Symons @MichaelSymons_
See TAX, Page A15
INSIDE
Governor
mum on
securities
probe.
Page A7
WHAT
HAPPENED
TO J ULI A?
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
BERKELEY On a warm, summer
evening five years ago, Julia Julie
Madsen gave her husband of 50 years a
kiss, told him she loved him, and then
she left their sons summer home on
22nd Avenue in South Seaside Park to
take a stroll on the beach.
She hasnt been seen since.
For her grieving family, its as if the
72-year-old grandmother literally
walked off into the sunset, never to be
seen or heard from again.
In the weeks that followed, search
parties of hundreds would walk the
beach, go door-to-door on the barrier
peninsula and comb through the vege-
tation in the wilderness of Island
Beach State Park, looking for the lady
who was last seen wearing a pink shirt
and white pants. But even with the as-
Julia Madsen has been missing since June 25, 2009. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt,
white pants, brown leather shoes and she had red hair, blue eyes and moles on her cheeks.
Anyone who may know something should call Berkeley Detective Joseph Santoro at 732-
341-1132, ext. 120, or the police departments main number, 732-341-6600. Madsens family
has offered a $50,000 reward for information that leads to solving her disappearance.
See JULIA, Page A4
She went for a walk in 2009 and never came back
Kathleen
Hopkins
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
A Mass will be offered at 7 tonight at St. Catharine of Siena Church in Seaside Park for
Julia Madsen, to mark the fifth anniversary of her disappearance.
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VOLUME 135
NUMBER 151
SINCE 1879
ADVICE D5
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LOCAL A3
OBITUARIES A11
OPINION A16
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TABLE D1
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CLASS OF 2014
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A Jackson Memorial High School senior receives
a happy shock at her commencement ceremony
when her brother, a soldier on leave from
Afghanistan, shows up. Page A3
EDIE WINDSOR, 85, IS A TRAILBLAZER FOR GAY RIGHTS PAGE 1B
WOODBRIDGE The confusing and congested Gar-
den State Parkway Exit 109 to Middletown and Red
Bank is about to get an upgrade.
The first steps to untangling the mess of a conflu-
ence of jughandles and turn lanes on the Parkways
south side were taken Tuesday with the approval of a
$7.4 million contract to design a new interchange and
replace four bridges that carry the Parkway over New-
man Springs Road. The contract was awarded to Stan-
tec Consulting Services of Rochelle Park.
The problem is traffic backs up in the morning onto
the mainline (of the Parkway), said Robert J. Fischer,
chief engineer. Part of the reason is people wanting to
go north (on the Parkway) from Newman Springs Road
east have to make a U-turn.
Exit 109 traffic
may get easier
New $7.4M Parkway interchange
to lessen congestion in Lincroft
By Larry Higgs @APPLarry
The highlight of the project in Middletown is construction
of a fly-over bridge to take Newman Springs Road traffic
directly to the Parkway northbound. LARRY HIGGS/STAFF PHOTO
See TRAFFIC, Page A8