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Governor Murphy Signs Legislative Package Protecting the Affordable Care Tax in New Jersey

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Trenton NJ, Governor Phil Murphy today signed a package of bills to safeguard the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in New Jersey. The bills, which will codify into state law the basic protections for health care consumers that are part of the Affordable Care Act, include protections for no-cost preventative care and contraception, prohibit exclusions for pre-existing conditions, allow children to stay on their parents’ plan until age 26, and incorporate mental health and maternity care as part of essential benefits, among others. The Governor highlighted the importance of these bills during an armchair discussion with Hackensack Meridian Health Chief Executive Officer Bob Garret.

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Governor Phil Murphy :‘I don’t wake up every morning reflexively trying to figure out ways to tax people’

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Trenton NJ,after his 2020 State of the State address, Governor Murphy struck back at criticism that looks for ways to tax the residents of New Jersey, during a Q and A with reporters following the launch of his Jobs NJ initiative.

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BRIDGE-GATE 2.0: NJDOT Orders Timely Road Construction Impacting Trump Rally

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Trenton NJ, it appears that the Trump Rally at Wildwoods Convention Center  will be impacted by some very timely road construction ordered by the NJDOT  can you say Bridge-gate 2.0 or perhaps Wildwood-gate .

Route 47/S. Delsea Drive to be closed and detoured for priority roadway repair beginning next week in Cape May County Closure in place until June to repair sinkholes undermining the road

From the NJ DOT , New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials today announced that Route 47/ S Delsea Drive will be closed and detoured beginning Monday for priority roadway repairs in Middle Township, Cape May County. 

Beginning at 7 a.m., Monday, January 20, NJDOT’s contractor Mount Construction is scheduled to close and detour Route 47 in both directions between Indian Trail Road and Springers Mill Road for priority repairs to a culvert over Dias Creek resulting in sinkholes that are compromising the roadway. The project is anticipated to be completed by June 2020. Local access will be maintained for residents and businesses. The following signed detour will be in place throughout the duration of the project: 

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Assemblyman Robert Auth blasts Murphy “as out of touch with fiscal reality”

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TRENTON NJ , Assemblyman Robert Auth blasted Governor Phil Murphy for his spending plans despite the state’s nation-worst fiscal position.

“The smoke and mirror State of the State address was another example of Governor Murphy’s abject denial of our current financial situation,” said Auth(R-Bergen). “We are currently fifty out of fifty in fiscal stability, two-hundred-nine billion dollars in the red and he’s extolling the virtues of excessive spending and bloated government. Even members of his own party were incredulous after the speech.”

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Legislation to Repeal the Religious Exemption for Mandatory Vaccines Fails

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Trenton NJ, thousands descended on the state capitol ,honking horns, chanting “My GOD, My Choice,” “Vote No!”, “Kill the Bill”, “We Will Vote You Out”, intermittently reciting the LORD’s Prayer, displaying a giant American flag, with megaphones and placards, thousands of opponents of a Bill that mandated vaccinations without informed written parental consent, and that also eliminated religious exemptions, surrounded the New Jersey State House and Senate chambers until long after darkness fell. A new day in New Jersey! An army of Milennials, Generation Z, fighting for parental rights and freedom of religion, has arrived for such a time as this!i Let not the sun set on this movement heading in the “right” direction!

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The Governors State of the State message, another brew of New Jersey Stuck on Stupid Economics

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Trenton NJ, The Governors State of the State message  was just another brew of New Jersey Stuck on Stupid Economics . The governor once again continued to promote his vision of a “fairer and stronger” economy, with the answer to everything being to raise taxes . Our question is once again fairer for who?,strong for who?  He of course  failed to address the “pension black hole ” , and reigning in the idiotic spending and regulatory over reach in the state, leading to the current affordability crisis.

The Murphy agenda seems to be drive all the business out of the state , and replace residents will illegals and criminals .

The massive numbers of Garden Stater’s fleeing the state or looking to flee the state in the next 5 years taking their assets and spending power with them guaranteeing to make matters far worse . Nothing said in the state of the state would make anyone change their mind . Its just the same old same old from the state house .Begging the question; will the state survive two more years of Phil Murphy and his Stuck on Stupid Economics.

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New Jersey Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Commission Will Push Fiscal Responsibility at State Goverment

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Trenton NJ, Bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senator Steve Oroho that would establish the New Jersey Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Commission was advanced by the Senate and Assembly and now heads to the governor for final approval.

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NJ legislator Wants to Educate Drivers on Rights and Responsibilities When Stopped by Police

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Trenton NJ, Many new drivers are unaware of their rights and proper protocol when being pulled over by a police officer. To help educate residents to that extent, a bill encouraged by national dialogue on incidents occurring during routine law enforcement stops advanced in the Assembly Thursday.

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The New Jersey Business & Industry Association Comes Out in Support of “Path to Progress” Legislation

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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Business & Industry Association today testified in favor of four fiscal reform bills designed to lower the cost of local governments as part of a wide-ranging plan to fix New Jersey’s government finances.

Between them, the Senate and Assembly appropriations committees will consider legislation involving curriculum at K-8 school districts, sharing services between local governments, and examining state and local taxes and economic development policies. Individually, the bills are narrow in scope, but they are part of a broad, impactful plan to revamp New Jersey’s finances called The Path to Progress, which NJBIA supports.

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Garden State Initiative : NJ Reports Solid Growth, But Sustainability in Doubt

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Q3 GDP Report: NJ Reports Solid Growth, But Sustainability in Doubt

 

  • NJ’s reverses trend and reports 2.3%, leading region & slightly ahead of revised U.S. rate
  • Reported growth at best rate since early 2018
  • Questions regarding sustainability of growth in key industries raised

 

Analysis by Charles Steindel, Ph.D. for GSI

 

MORRISTOWN NJ,  The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today announced that New Jersey’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—a measure of the aggregate output of all goods and services produced within the state—grew at a rate of 2.3% in the third quarter of 2019, leading the Northeast region, and slightly ahead of the revised U.S. rate of 2.1% for the quarter. However, the strength of New Jersey’s economy in light of weak growth in recent quarters and a review of the underlying details of today’s report, is anything but assured.

 

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Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew Says Phil Murphy is totally out of touch with the hard working middle class families and retirees

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Mays landing NJ, Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew released the following statement in response to  Governor Murphy’s comments regarding the President Trump’s upcoming “Keep America Great” Rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center on Tuesday, January 28th.

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Bill Aiding NJ Victims of Crime who seek Compensation Clears Committee

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Trenton NJ.  Today Assemblywoman BettyLou DeCroce and renowned crime victims’ lawyer and advocate Richard Pompelio testified before the Assembly Appropriations Committee in support of her bill (A3391/S498) that increases financial support for victims of crime. The bill was unanimously approved by the committee and awaits a vote by the full Assembly.

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Phil Murphy’s Policies Have Been A Disaster for New Jersey

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Trenton NJ,  Evidence that Governor Murphy’s policies are choking the life out of New Jersey continues to mount. Just a few days ago, a United Van Lines study found that, for the second consecutive year, more residents moved out of New Jersey than any other state in America. And just today, an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data  by the NJBIA confirmed that outmigration cost New Jersey billions of tax dollars in 2017-2018.

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Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick blasts Democrat’s efforts to ruin the freelance , ‘gig economy’

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Trenton NJ, Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick criticized Democrat’s efforts to ruin the freelance , ‘gig economy’ after a local paper in his district was forced to eliminate its freelance program just days after Christmas in response to action taken by the state Department of Labor.

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NJ Governor Murphy’s $9.5 Blood Money Bailout to Planned Parenthood

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WASHINGTON DC,American Life League president Judie Brown president Judie Brown issued the following statement calling on Bishop James F. Checchio of the Catholic Diocese of Metuchen to impose canonical sanctions against New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy:

Planned Parenthood is a vicious, racist institution whose actions are diametrically opposed to Catholic moral and social teaching. For Murphy to shovel $9.5 million of New Jersey’s taxpayer dollars into the maw of the nation’s #1 abortion machine is abhorrent.

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