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Trenton NJ, despite Governor Murphy’s happy talk, the teachers’ pension fund (TPAF) is not healthy.
Continue reading Even After Massive Taxpayer Contributions NJ Teachers Pension is in Trouble Again
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Trenton NJ, despite Governor Murphy’s happy talk, the teachers’ pension fund (TPAF) is not healthy.
Continue reading Even After Massive Taxpayer Contributions NJ Teachers Pension is in Trouble Again
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Trenton NJ, New Jersey’s statewide minimum wage increased by $1.13 to $14.13 per hour for most employees on January 1, 2023.
Continue reading New Jersey’s Minimum Wage Increased to Over $14/Hour January 1st
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Trenton NJ, on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, PJM – the regional electric grid operator – asked 65 million people in 13 states to conserve electricity to prevent rolling blackouts in the area.
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Trenton NJ, Governor Murphy signed into law A4769/S-3214 which makes various revisions to requirements for obtaining a firearm purchaser identification card, permit to purchase a handgun, and permit to carry a handgun; codifies sensitive places in which firearms and destructive devices are prohibited. State Senator Holly Schepisi said in a Facebook post:
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TrentoN NJ, on the floor of the New Jersey State Senate, Senator Joe Pennacchio today once again implored his Democrat colleagues to act on legislation that would convene a special committee with subpoena power to investigate the Executive Branch’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue reading Bipartisan Legislative Investigation of Pandemic Response Blocked by Democrats
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Trenton NJ, Governor Murphy says that the state’s long delayed review of the state’s COVID-19 pandemic response could begin within days. The governor first announced in April 2020 that the state would have a full examination of how it handled the pandemic and said repeatedly since that he was “committed” to an investigation.
Continue reading Review of New Jersey’s COVID-19 response could begin within days
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Ridgewood NJ, Congressman Van Drew expressed his outrage with the decision by Governor Murphy to approve the increase in tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway for the third year in a row.
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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.
Continue reading “Temporary Worker’s Bill of Rights”, Protecting Temporary Worker Jobs
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Trenton NJ, Senator Jim Holzapfel, Assemblyman Greg McGuckin, and Assemblyman John Catalano (all R-10) said Governor Murphy is delusional if he thinks New Jersey is “prepared” to accept illegal immigrants that might be transported from other states when his administration has failed to deliver basic government services to New Jersey residents.
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Trenton NJ, the NJ Staffing Alliance (NJSA) requests that Governor Murphy conditionally veto the Temp Workers Bill of Rights A-1474/ S-511, to allow the fixing of several flaws that would place undue hardship on temporary staffing agencies and potentially force their closure and loss of jobs for thousands of temp workers.
Continue reading Flaws in NJ Temp Workers Bill Could Cause Further Job Loss
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Trenton NJ, Republican leadership in the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly called for the formation of a special legislative committee to investigate massive health care premium increases that will be paid by active and retired public employees and taxpayers.
Trenton NJ, With all the economic problems facing our state and our citizens, Governor Murphy and the Democratic legislature are instead shamefully laser-focused on ending the life of more babies and causing more misery and harm to women facing crisis pregnancies.
Continue reading New Jersey Becomes Abortion Sanctuary State
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Ridgewood NJ, supporters of Phil Murphy’s Energy Master Plan take note ,Germany’s experiment in Green Energy is a major fail. Out of necessity, Germany’s Socialist/Green coalition government has announced it will have to increase the burning of coal to reduce its dangerous dependence on Russian oil and natural gas. Underlining that dependence was Russia’s announcement that it was cutting gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline (Trump warned you) for “technical reasons.” In other words: a form of blackmail.
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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio accused of intentionally misleading legislators on behalf of the Murphy administration in an attempt to hide the state’s rapidly increasing debt, the Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee repeated their calls for the Treasurer to be held accountable by the committee in a letter today (click here for PDF) to Senate Budget Chairman Paul Sarlo (D-36).
baby factories and a safe haven for sex traffickers and sexual predators
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Trenton NJ, Governor Murphy Seeks to Make NJ the Most Dangerous Place for Babies in the Womb and their Mothers: Will the Legislature Follow?
Continue reading Governor Murphy Seeks to Make New Jersey the Abortion State at Taxpayer Expense