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Gubernatorial candidate Hirsh Singh, who has vowed to overhaul the election system in New Jersey and make it more transparent, has come down strongly on the attack by former Governor Chris Christie against President Trump over the weekend. Christie wanted Trump to end the lawsuits opposing election fraud and called his legal team a national embarrassment.
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Trenton NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today issued additional guidance to prosecutors concerning the prosecution of low-level marijuana cases, supplementing his August 29, 2018 and November 4, 2020 guidance.
Continue reading New Jersey Marijuana Possession-related Offenses Adjourned Till January 25, 2021
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Continue reading Governor Murphy Extends Public Health Emergency Dictatorship in New Jersey
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NJ Governor Phil Murphy is afraid of showing the public what criteria he uses for restrictions; prolonging the state recession; creating unemployment; for violating his own restrictions multiple times; the havoc of the mail-in election he mandated; mismanagement of multiple state agencies; anger over his tax hikes; and of the result of investigations into the deaths (in long term care facilities) of the roughly half of the states Covid fatalities. Most of all, Murphy is afraid of the NJ native son who has stood up for all the state’s residents and asked the hard questions even when it was unpopular to do so. That person is Jack Ciattarelli.
Continue reading Governor Murphy Targets GOP Contender Jack Ciattarelli
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Trenton NJ, The Department of the Treasury reported that October revenue collections for the major taxes totaled $2.501 billion, down $137.4 million, or 5.2 percent below last October. Fiscal year-to-date, total collections of $8.108 billion are down $673.1 million, or 7.7 percent below the same four months last year.
Continue reading New Jersey Revenue Collections Continue Downward Spiral
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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Department of the Treasury today priced the General Obligation bonds authorized under the COVID-19 Emergency Borrowing Act one day earlier than anticipated due to the amount of interest the State had received.
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Trenton NJ, The Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee — Senate Republican Budget Officer Steven Oroho (R-24), Senator Sam Thompson (R-12), Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-13), and Senator Michael Testa (R-1) — issued the following background brief today on the Murphy Administration’s pending closing on $4 billion of emergency bonds:
Continue reading Critics Shred Governor Murphy’s “Crazy Eddie ” Budget and Bond Scheme
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Trenton NJ, The Supreme Court issued an order today suspending criminal and civil jury trials and in-person grand jury sessions in response to a second wave of COVID-19 infections.
Most court hearings have been held remotely since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in March. As COVID cases declined and the court put safety measures in place, limited in-person proceedings, including socially distanced jury trials and inperson grand jury sessions, were able to resume in September.
Continue reading New Jersey Supreme Court Order Suspends Jury Trials Over COVID-19 Pandemic Concerns
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Trenton NJ, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota have legalized marijuana for adults 21 and older, as voters in each state approved their respective ballot initiatives at the ballot box. South Dakota also passed a medical marijuana initiative and became the first state in American history to enact both policies on the same day. The Marijuana Policy Project was instrumental in the Montana and South Dakota campaigns.
Continue reading Marijuana Reform Campaigns Go Five For Five in November
Many people in the United States and overseas are wondering what are the top migration issues in 2020. There are likely to be a lot of factors that can contribute to this situation.
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Trenton NJ, “Today, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal learned that a staff member he had contact with at the workplace on Monday tested positive for COVID-19. Upon learning this information, the Attorney General took a rapid COVID-19 test which came back positive; a follow-up PCR test, however, returned a negative result.
Continue reading Staff Member of NJ Attorney General Tests Positive for COVID19
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Linwood NJ, The New Jersey Democratic State Committee and its Chairman John Currie want me to declare Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the President-elect and Vice President-elect respectively. I have some news for them.
Most New Jerseyans will not see any of the fiscal Benefits that were promised as a result of Marijuana Legalization
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Trenton NJ, Leading Democrat’s are staking their claims in an effort to direct “All Revenues” from legal marijuana back to their own districts. State Senator Mike Doherty (R-23) warned that infighting among Democrats about the taxation of marijuana and how to spend any resulting revenues makes it clear that most New Jerseyans will not see any of the fiscal benefits that were promised as a result of legalization:
Continue reading Promised Fiscal Benefits of Marijuana Legalization Go Up in Smoke !
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Trenton NJ, S&P Global Ratings downgraded New Jersey’s general obligation bonds to BBB-plus from A-minus Friday afternoon based on steep revenue losses triggered by the coronavirus. Citing economic headwinds caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the rating agency took the action ahead of the state’s planned $4 billion-plus GO sale this month, after two other agencies affirmed the state’s rating. S&P also revised the credit outlook to stable from negative.
Governor Murphy’s “Crazy Eddie” Borrowing Scheme
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