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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) today released significant updates to its Unemployment Insurance application, the first of many improvements designed to make it easier for New Jerseyans to apply for unemployment benefits.
The Democrats look like cheaters , courts look complicit and Republicans play the fool again .
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Princeton NJ, Senate Republican Leader Steven Oroho responded to news that Princeton University has launched an internal investigation into allegations of impropriety by the head of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.
Continue reading New Jersey Redistricting : Princeton Gerrymandering Project Comes Under Fire
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NEWARK NJ,the US Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 21 defendants in nine federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in various health care related fraud schemes that exploited the COVID-19 pandemic. These cases allegedly resulted in over $149 million in COVID-19-related false billings to federal programs and theft from federally-funded pandemic assistance programs. In connection with the enforcement action, the department seized over $8 million in cash and other fraud proceeds.
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Elizabeth NJ, Governor Phil Murphy marked the historic opening day of adult-use recreational cannabis sales in New Jersey at Zen Leaf in Elizabeth one of several facilities across the state now selling cannabis to adults 21 years and older. The commencement of the adult-use recreational cannabis market represents another step forward in “New Jersey’s ongoing efforts to create a new cannabis industry that continues to prioritize medical marijuana patients and advance social justice initiatives”.
Continue reading Recreational Weed Sales Commence in New Jersey to Great Fanfare
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Trenton NJ, acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that an inactive correctional police officer for the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) was sentenced to probation conditioned on his serving 364 days in county jail for using unjustified force and breaking the wrist of a male resident at the JJC Juvenile Medium Security Facility in Bordentown.
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Trenton NJ, N.J. Chamber President and CEO Tom Bracken continues to kiss up to Governor Murphy and the Democratic legislator . In a statement Bracken claimed that last Wednesday and Thursday, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce held a very successful “ReNew Jersey Business Summit and Expo” in Atlantic City. Some news coverage of the Summit included a comment made by me, in regard to the plight of the business community, that suggested the governor and Legislature “are not doing anything about it of substance.” Braken owned it then proceeded to back peddle and play CYA .
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Ridgewood NJ, according to a new poll from AARP two out of five New Jersey voters 50 years old or older considered leaving the state to live elsewhere in the last year.
Continue reading AARP Poll Finds 83% of New Jersey Voters 50 or Older are likely to Leave the State
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Trenton NJ, Forty-four states’ and territories’ Attorneys General recently called on social media giants TikTok and Snapchat to collaborate with parental control applications so fathers, mothers and guardians can monitor their children’s social media usage on those platforms.
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Trenton NJ, the Senate Republican leadership team called on Governor Phil Murphy and Senate President Nicholas Scutari to halt the implementation of New Jersey’s controversial new sex education standards and to hold public hearings on curriculum changes to empower parents who feel ignored.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Declan O’Scanlon is warning that Governor Murphy’s proposal to replace two tax rebate programs (the longstanding Homestead Rebate Program and the “middle class rebate program” created last year) with a new “ANCHOR” rebate will reduce existing renters’ rebates by up to 50 percent, meaninglessly increase total funding for rebates, and won’t be distributed for 13 months (until May of 2023).
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Trenton NJ, As part of its recent budget testimonies provided to the Legislature, NJBIA has released its updated 2022 Regional Business Climate Analysis showing New Jersey continues to significantly trail the rest of the region in business climate.
Continue reading New Jersey Still Worst Business Climate in the Region
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Hamilton NJ, over the last month, the New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association (NJPCSA) launched the most extensive paid and earned media campaign in its history to call upon the Governor to reverse his Department of Education’s charter school expansion denials. Parents, lawmakers, leaders and community members responded in unprecedented numbers.
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Trenton NJ, with Tax Day approaching on April 18 and 81% of Americans thinking that the government does not spend their tax dollars wisely, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2022 Tax Burden by State report.
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Trenton NJ. Senator Kristin M. Corrado chastised the Motor Vehicle Commission today calling the continued delays and congestion at MVC facilities “offensive” to hardworking New Jerseyans.
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Trenton NJ, after repeated calls for NJ Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo to resign .The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has begun scheduling in-person appointments for workers who have had trouble with their unemployment claims, and on March 28 will begin seeing claimants with previously scheduled appointments at select One-Stop Career Center locations. No walk-ins will be served.
