The New Jersey Business & Industry Association released a report Thursday indicating that the outmigration of some 2 million New Jersey residents cost the state approximately $18 billion in net adjusted gross income in the years between 2004 and 2013.
“The $18 billion we lost during the years we studied had a significant economic impact on the state,” NJBIA CEO and President Michele Siekerka said. “During that period, we lost $8.4 billion in household spending, $11.4 billion in economic output, 75,000 jobs and $4 billion in total lost labor income.”
The study found that the majority of New Jersey residents leaving the state are migrating to Pennsylvania. New York was the second-most-popular destination for those relocating from the Garden State, showcasing that, while people are leaving in search of lower taxes, they also want to maintain a relatively close proximity to family and friends.
“This pattern underscores New Jersey’s need to stay competitive with its neighbors and those other states vying for our residents and businesses,” Siekerka said.
And it’s not just retirees, either. According to the report, millennials, which it defined as those between the ages of 18 and 34, are leaving New Jersey in the highest numbers.
Midland Park NJ, Ethos Fitness and Spa For Women is exclusively designed for women’s fitness and is the favorite fitness and spa escape for moms in Bergen County! It has a perfect blend of group exercise, personal training, Pilates and Spin classes in addition to wellness programs. As for the spa, they offer an entire portfolio of services for both men and women—and it’s open to non-members. They also offer youth programs for young girls– so grab your daughters – and YES, they have childcare!
Ridgewood NJ, the Deaths of former Ridgewood Deputy Mayor and wife are called suicide . Earlier this week
Police brought three Carlstadt children to safety over a backyard fence after their father shot and killed their mother on the front lawn of their home before killing himself.
These two incidents are just two more in a string of area domestic killings this year in Bergen County.
On June 1, a 53-year-old Fair Lawn man shot his elderly parents dead, started a fire and turned the gun on himself .In March, a 44-year-old Bergenfield man shot and killed his 36-year-old wife and then himself .Back in late January, authorities charged a 45-year-old North Arlington man with beating his 47-year-old wife to death with a hammer .
Different circumstances for sure but authorities continue to look for clues that could make these episodes more predictable.
Experts normally attribute domestic killings to many causes ,“Prior domestic violence is by far the number-one risk factor in these cases,however unemployment was a significant risk factor for murder-suicide but only when combined with a history of domestic violence.
“In a seminar titled Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us, an expert panel discussed a recent spike in news reports of “familicide” cases. Panelists included Jacquelyn C. Campbell of Johns Hopkins University, author David Adams, and Richard Gelles of the University of Pennsylvania. Campbell, Anna D. Wolf Chair and professor at JHU’s School of Nursing, discussed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Violent Death Reporting System. Of the 408 homicidesuicide cases, most perpetrators were men (91 percent) and most used a gun (88 percent).
A 12-city study that Campbell conducted of these cases found that intimatepartner violence had previously occurred in 70 percent of them. Interestingly, only 25 percent of prior domestic violence appeared in the arrest records, according to Campbell. Researchers uncovered much of the prior domestic violence through interviews with family and friends of the homicide victims.
“Prior domestic violence is by far the number-one risk factor in these cases,” Campbell said. She also explained that most people who commit murder-suicide are non-Hispanic white males who kill their mates or former mates. Prior domestic violence is the greatest risk factor in these cases. Access to a gun is a significant risk factor, as are threats with a weapon, a stepchild in the home or estrangement. However, a past criminal history is not a reliable or significant predictor in murder-suicide. In the aftermath of a family murder followed by a suicide, communities, police, researchers and others search for explanations. In difficult financial times, it may be natural to look for economic influences, especially when the killer has recently lost a job or has enormous financial problems.
Campbell found that unemployment was a significant risk factor for murder-suicide but only when combined with a history of domestic violence. In other words, it was not a risk factor in and of itself but was something that tipped the scale following previous abuse. (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/230412.pdf )”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the House passed Rep. Scott Garrett’s (NJ-05) amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. The amendment would prevent the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, both voting members of Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), from designating any additional nonbank companies as Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs).
“American taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook to bail out big banks, Wall Street, and any other financial institution that the government decides is too-big-to-fail,” said Garrett. “
As the FSOC designates both banks and non-banks as ‘systemically important,’ it essentially puts the government’s stamp of approval for taxpayer bailouts into federal law. I’m pleased that my colleagues took a stand today to protect the wallets of millions of hardworking Americans who make their financial decisions around kitchen tables instead of Wall Street board rooms.”
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During the 2008 crisis, the taxpayers were forced to spend billions of dollars to bail out financial institutions that were considered too big to fail. The Dodd-Frank Act codified the government’s ability to designate specific banking firms as too-big-to-fail, and gave FSOC the ability to designate additional non-banks as well.
Rep. Garrett is Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He is the sponsor of the Bailout Prevention Act and theFinancial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Transparency and Accountability Act.
Westwood NJ, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s criminal investigation unit and a large contingent of police were conducting an investigation Thursday afternoon at the home of former Westwood council member and former Former Ridgewood Deputy Mayor Robert W. Miller, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges earlier this year. Authorities say the home is the scene of an “active investigation “. Miller served as a a Ridgewood councilman from 1996 to 1998.
Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal confirmed that the deaths of former Westwood and Ridgewood Councilman Bob Miller and his wife, Aecha, were apparent suicides.
Public records list Robert and Aecha Miller as the owners of the home at 430 Kinderkamack Rd., where the investigation was taking place. Neighbors reported seeing the couple over the weekend and that Robert Miller may have been wearing what appeared to be an ankle bracelet monitor.
In February Robert Miller, 67, pleaded guilty to federal charges, confessing that he sold phony massage therapy training certificates to women who worked as prostitutes at more than two dozen massage parlors in New Jersey. Miller resigned from public office in 2015 after seven years of service.
Neighbors told the Bergen Record that he noticed that Westwood police and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office detectives were at the house at 1:30 p.m. and were still conducting an investigation at 3:45 p.m.
The parent company of the Asbury Park Press and five other New Jersey newspapers has acquired The Record (Bergen County) and other assets of the North Jersey Media Group. Gannett, The Record Read more
Hundreds of transportation projects across New Jersey will come to a halt Fridaynight for at least a week as the state looks for money to pay for the work. Associated Press Read more
For the third time in three years, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected prosecutors expansive (and sometimes absurd) reading of the laws they use to prosecute people. Donald Scarinci, PolitickerNJ Read more
Paramus NJ, the Fairway supermarket in Paramus and Woodland Park are expected to remain open for now .The struggling New York supermarket chain has emerged from bankruptcy with a reorganization plan that leaves the New York company with less debt, $50 million cash on hand, and new private equity owners.
The company, announced its reorganization plan last month, and was able to negotiate agreements with its lenders to reduce its debt by $140 million and trimmed its annual debt service obligation by up to $8 million.
The reorganization plan, was approved by the bankruptcy court last month, and took effect Sunday. Sterling Investment Partners, the private equity firm that bought the family-owned Fairway chain in 2007, and took the company public, has been replaced by a new group of investment firms.
Fairway currently has 15 stores, and will be closing a store in Lake Grove, on Long Island.
The Paramus Fairway opened in 2009 and the Woodland Park store opened in 2012, both were part of Sterling’s plan to expand into the suburbs , some would suggest over expand and to make Fairway a regional chain.
…FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM NOON EDT TODAY THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…
NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING AREAS…IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT…SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD
COUNTY. IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY…BERGEN…ESSEX…UNION…HUDSON
AND EASTERN PASSAIC COUNTIES…IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK…ALL OF
NEW YORK CITY…AND NASSAU AND SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTIES…
* FROM NOON EDT TODAY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
* SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP
AND MOVE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON.
* THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OF UP
TO 2 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. RAINFALL OF THIS
MAGNITUDE COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF URBAN, LOW LYING, AND
POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.
By Matt Arco | NJ A
on July 06, 2016 at 6:28 AM, updated July 06, 2016 at 9:14 AM
TRENTON — The list didn’t come on Tuesday, but should today.
Gov. Chris Christie’s office is expected to announce Wednesday the list of Garden State road projects funded by the Transportation Trust Fund that will shutdown in the coming days due to a stalemate with New Jersey’s state Senate.
The list of road projects, which was expected to be released as soon as Tuesday, would effectively grind millions of dollars of roadwork to a halt that’s deemed nonessential.
Christie announced last week he is planning to shut down nonessential state-funded road projects amid the standoff with the Senate.
TSA, American Airlines Jointly Testing Innovative Airport Security Technology
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WASHINGTON and FORT WORTH, Texas, July 05, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and American Airlines, through a joint initiative, will install new screening technology, including automated security screening lanes and computed tomography (CT) scanners, at select American Airlines hubs nationwide this fall.
The automated screening lanes incorporate technology and screening station modifications that enhance security effectiveness while decreasing the time travelers spend in security screening by approximately 30 percent. TSA and American Airlines anticipate deployment of these lanes to Chicago (O’Hare), Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Miami.
This two-piece garment reveals more than it conceals and has stood the test of social resistance over the years.
July 5th,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Fashion met innovation, in the mid 19th century, a post World War II fabric shortage led to the United States War Production Board slashing usage of natural fibre cloth along with a mandate on reduction of fabric in beachwear for women. A few snips, cuts and slashes and the first signs of the bikini started to takie shape.
Enter the French Designer Jacques Heim, who ran a beach shop in the resort town and now popular film festival destination, Cannes created a two-piece garb in 1946 that he aptly called ‘Atome’ a la atom. Around that time, Louis Réard, a French engineer who also looked after his mother’s lingerie store crafted a swimsuit that exposed the navel for the very first time and gave birth to the string bikini. His inspiration being the women who lolled about on the St Tropez beaches, rolling up their swimsuits for better tanning results. He called this design of his – the bikini – and unveiled it on July 5, 1946, a mere five days after the first testing of a nuclear device was held in Bikini Atoll, expecting an ‘explosive commercial and cultural reaction’. Needless to say, the reaction was more than an explosion.
Every Fourth of July our country comes together to celebrate the signing of the Declaration that would enshrine the principles of what it means to live as free people. But the signing of the Declaration of Independence was not the end of the pursuit for freedom and liberty—it was just the start.
The Revolutionary War was a long, bloody affair that endangered the property, family, and very lives of the Patriots who knew that they had no choice but to fight to defend their rights. And the subsequent years after the American Revolution were filled with many questions for this new fledgling country. It would be 11 years after July 4, 1776 until the United States Constitution was finally adopted to guarantee the rights of all Americans.
The lesson of Independence Day is that freedom is not something you declare one time and hope for the best. It’s a commitment we must, as Americans, fight for just as diligently in 2016 as the revolutionaries in 1776.
Freedom is fought for by the brave members of our armed forces who put their lives on the line to defend us. It’s fought for by our first responders who risk everything to serve their communities right here at home. And it’s fought for by everyone who is proud to live in a country that fights to end tyranny and oppression both here and abroad.
Herein lies the beauty of America. Few of us can trace our heritage in this country back to the colonial days, yet we continue to celebrate the achievements of early America. That’s because the Founders’ cries for freedom and liberty have been adopted by everyone who has made this country their home. This is the American Dream.
Our dream is about more than a place on a map or any specific of group of people. Our dream is a promise that the government is beholden to the people, and it’s a promise that every person is born free and deserves to pursue their own happiness.
