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Governor Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy Welcome Thousands of New Jersey Residents to Drumthwacket for Holiday Open Houses

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Princeton NJ,  Drumthwacket is open for the holidays! Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy are happy to invite New Jersey residents to attend The Holidays at Drumthwacket, a longstanding tradition of open houses at the Governor’s official residence in Princeton. The Drumthwacket Foundation, in partnership with six garden clubs from across New Jersey, has decorated each room in the public first-floor of the residence using fresh arrangements and greenery to complement the architecture and decor of the historical property.

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Mercer County Clerk Issues Election Statement Following Prosecutor’s Report on Election Night Fiasco

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Trenton NJ, Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello issued a statement on the November 8 General Election following the conclusion of Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri’s investigation into the recent Election Day scanner failure. The investigation was aimed at determining whether or not there was malicious or criminal intent to disrupt the conduct of the election. The inquiry was launched after County Clerk Covello requested that the County Prosecutor review the circumstances and report findings of the investigation to the State Attorney General, Mercer County Commissioners, County Executive and Mercer County’s other two election offices.

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Mercer County Voting Machine Fiasco

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Trenton NJ, in March Mercer County officials signed a $2.8 million contract with Dominion Voting Systems to make certain that the county would be able count all the votes on Election Day. But on Election Day, the entire system inexplicably crashed.

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Governor Murphy Finally Starts to Faceup to Statewide Stolen Car Epidemic

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Trenton NJ, in September , a suspect entered Governor Phil Murphy’s exclusive waterfront Middletown neighborhood looking to steal a car. The governor’s neighbor’s home was targeted by at least two would-be car thieves who tried to break into their Garage. Another neighbor scared the thieves off and the perpetrators fled the scene in a white BMW SUV.

Governor Phil Murphy implied on several occasions that Republicans are playing the “crime card” and apparently that’s racist.

On November 12th Governor Murphy seemed to change his tune and announced support for a series of legislative measures to combat auto theft. The Governor proposed:

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Epic Failure of Mercer County Voting Machines

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Trenton NJ, Election officials in Mercer County, New Jersey are working to investigate what caused a county-wide voting machine outage on Election Day. The malfunction forced voters at over 130 polling places in Mercer County to fill out a standard ballot and place it into the emergency slot in the voting machine.

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NJ Attorney General on Threat to Synagogue: the , “immediate threat has been mitigated”

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Trenton NJ, statement from NJ Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin on the threat to New Jersey synagogues:

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“Temporary Worker’s Bill of Rights”, Protecting Temporary Worker Jobs

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Trenton NJ,  the New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA), the voice for staffing firms across the Garden State, has over the past year discussed its views with members of the state legislature on S-511/A-1474 also referred to “Temporary Worker’s Bill of Rights” to include language that would ensure staffing agencies remain in compliance with new administrative regulations while protecting the safety and health of the workers they serve. NJSA firmly believes that while Governor Murphy’s conditional veto of A-1474 addressed several administrative issues, it left in place significant elements that would cause not only great harm to the law-abiding temporary staffing industry, but also its clients and ultimately the citizens whom this bill’s sponsors purported to benefit and protect.

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‘First Responders Appreciation Month’ Signed into Law in New Jersey

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Governor Murphy has signed a bipartisan resolution sponsored by Senator Kristin Corrado that would honor first responders throughout the state by designating October of each year as First Responders Appreciation Month.

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South Jersey Bus Drivers Win Back Illegally-Seized Union Dues in First Amendment Lawsuit

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Camden NJ , Camden-area South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) driver Tyron Foxworth and six of his colleagues have prevailed in their federal lawsuit charging the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 196 (IFPTE) union with violating their First Amendment rights.

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The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission approved the first 18 annual licenses for cannabis businesses

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Trenton NJ, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission approved the first 18 annual licenses for cannabis businesses.  Eight of the applications were for direct to annual license applicants, and 10 were applications to convert existing conditional licenses to annuals.

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Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Using Academic Cover to Target Individuals in New Jersey

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Trenton NJ, A federal indictment was unsealed today charging four Chinese nationals, including three Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence officers, in connection with a long-running intelligence campaign targeting individuals in the United States to act as agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and National Security Division Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced.

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Calls For More Transparency on State’s Health Insurance Plans

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Trenton NJ, the Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee criticized the State Treasurer today for not responding to nine pages of budget questions, and requests for data, about the State’s health insurance plans for public employees submitted seven months ago.

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Trenton Democrats Stall Income Tax Indexation offering No Relief to New Jersey Tax Payers

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Trenton NJ, after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced changes to federal income tax brackets to protect workers from inflation, Senator Anthony M. Bucco called for New Jersey lawmakers to advance his legislation to prevent tax bracket creep at the state level for New Jerseyans.

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Murphy Administration Fails to Comply with its Own Russian Divestiture Law

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Trenton NJ, More than eight months since Governor Murphy signed bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senators Paul Sarlo and Declan O’Scanlon requiring the State Treasury to divest certain Russian holdings, the State appears to have done little in way of following the law’s requirements.

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New Jersey Job Numbers Soft Despite Plunge in Unemployment Rate

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  • Private-sector jobs fall for first time since the worst of the pandemic
  • Sharp drop in the unemployment rate reflects decline in labor force, as well as increase in numbers working
  • Sharp decline in construction, as government jobs grow

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Morristown NJ, on October 20th, New Jersey’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development issued the monthly jobs report for September 2022. Dr. Charles Steindel, former Chief Economist of the State of New Jersey, analyzed the report for the Garden State Initiative: Continue reading New Jersey Job Numbers Soft Despite Plunge in Unemployment Rate