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Ridgewood NJ, NJ CAR President Laura Perrotta issued the following statement in response to Governor Murphy’s press release announcing New Jersey hitting the 200,000 total electric vehicle (EV) registration milestone.
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The electric vehicle (EV) industry, once heralded as the future of automotive innovation, seems to be shifting into reverse. Despite the enthusiastic push from politicians like Joe Biden and European Greens, the market is faltering as more mandates push consumers and companies into a corner.
Continue reading The EV Industry’s Unexpected U-Turn: A Case of Politically Driven Failures
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Ridgewood NJ, nearly three in four business owners said they were challenged to find appropriate staffing in 2021, and nearly the same amount raised wages – some considerably – to help offset their workforce shortage, according to NJBIA’s 2022 Business Outlook Survey, released today.
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By Joe Cutter February 9, 2017 2:33 AM
For the fifth year in a row, New Jersey has the highest average auto insurance costs in the country.
The figures are from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Christine O’Brien, president of the Insurance Council of New Jersey, says this is a result of New Jersey being such a densely-populated state.
“The chances of accidents are high. The frequency is high, the severity can be high. The cost to repair your car, to pay for your medical bills while in an accident, are all high in New Jersey.”
O’Brien says we have the good fortune of owning fairly decent cars in New Jersey, but they cost a lot to maintain.
“We also have a number of them on the road in record numbers,” she adds.
O’Brien says the average premium runs about $1,200 a year. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners report said Jersey drivers pay an average of $1,263 a year as of 2014. They say the national average for auto insurance is $866.
Read More: This is why NJ once again has the highest auto insurance costs | https://nj1015.com/this-is-why-nj-once-again-has-the-highest-auto-insurance-costs/?trackback=tsmclip
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BY DAVE SHEINGOLD AND JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
Reforms enacted in 2011 to keep the nation’s highest property taxes in check are showing signs of weakening as a growing number of New Jersey towns fail to stay within the 2 percent cap on increases that formed the cornerstone of the effort.
Mandates lead to call for new school administrators in Ridgewood
JUNE 23, 2014 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014, 1:52 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Board of Education (BOE) recently renewed discussions on whether the district should add two more administrative positions next school year.
The move is part of the superintendent’s three-year plan, which was announced last year, to ultimately replace seven administrative positions that were cut in 2010, when the district lost all its state aid and had to make big budget cuts.
The new positions would help lighten the load facing the district’s overworked administrative staff, argued Superintendent Daniel Fishbein. The schools chief first proposed the new positions, a science supervisor and a special education supervisor, at a BOE meeting in May.
But some BOE trustees, especially Jim Morgan, had doubts about the superintendent’s proposal, because it would add fixed costs of around $300,000 to the already strained, and rising, budget. Morgan also questioned the necessity of adding administrative positions, because the district is already operating effectively.
BOE Vice President Vince Loncto and trustee Christina Krauss also expressed reservations at the time. BOE trustee Michele Lenhard was absent for the discussion, and BOE President Sheila Brogan expressed support for the new positions.
In light of the opposition facing him, Fishbein came prepared at a June 2 meeting with a data-based argument in favor of the positions. He quantified the workload of administrators, and provided trustees with a list of other districts similar to Ridgewood with larger administrative staffs.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/education/mandates-lead-to-call-for-new-school-administrators-in-ridgewood-1.1040099#sthash.1m6A3CEY.dpuf
Reader says The taxes and mandates placed upon private enterprise make doing business in NJ uncompetitive with other states
As a business owner in the private sector, let me add to it from that perspective.
The taxes and mandates placed upon private enterprise make doing business in NJ uncompetitive with other states.
The foolish Democrats that control Trenton kill the economy here every time they pass another law with the stroke of a pen.
Nobody ‘mandates’ that private enterprise make a profit (which is taxed), yet the morons who are elected from the big cities (Newark, Camden, Paterson etc) that milk the funds from the state treasury continue to pass rules that hurt businesses.
Many businesses will never expand here, and move new operations to more ‘tax friendly’/’regulation friendly’ states.
No large business would ever consider moving here.
The state is broke due to ‘obligations’ to the unions as mentioned in the previous post.
Further draining the state treasury are the billions of dollars that get flushed down the toilet in the “Abbot’ school districts (thanks to the left wing activist NJ supreme court).
It should come as no surprise that the ‘big earners’ make sure they do their ‘time’ out of state….spend 181 days per year in FLA and vote there… so NJ can no longer pick their pockets… and the rest of us will have to make up the difference in higher taxes..
Try to explain logic such as that to the Dumbocrats in Trenton… good luck.
