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Ridgewood NJ, across the country and in New Jersey kids are headed back to school this week, so the Ridgewood blog thought we would offer the latest case for children wearing masks for six hours a day.
Continue reading No Evidence to Suggest That Child Masking Works
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Trenton NJ, on the three-month anniversary of the State receiving $6.2 billion in COVID relief funding from the federal government, the four Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee today called on the Murphy Administration to stop the foot-dragging and put the money to work helping residents, as it was intended.
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Trenton NJ, Preliminary estimates produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that total nonfarm wage and salary employment in New Jersey increased in July by 14,600, to reach a seasonally adjusted level of 3,954,100. This marks the seventh consecutive month of gains in the state’s total nonfarm job level.
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Trenton NJ, as early as April of this year, Senator Declan O’Scanlon and Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee proposed using federal American Rescue Plan Act money to stabilize the Unemployment Insurance Fund and avoid massive tax increases on employers in the state.
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Newark NJ, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division today filed a complaint and a proposed consent decree with the state of New Jersey and New Jersey Department of Corrections concerning the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.
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Trenton NJ, Following Cuomo report, Katie Brennan urges action on stalled NJ sexual harassment laws. On Monday she urged legislators and the Governor’s office to take swift action on three stalled pieces of legislation that she has championed that are focused on sexual harassment in state government.
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Trenton NJ, anti-mask protesters or “knuckleheads” as the Governor likes to call NJ citizens followed him most of the day on Saturday . The loud and large crowds even converged just outside Governor Murphy’s home . The latest round of protests were spurred on by Governor Murphy’s announced that all students, educators, staff, and visitors will be required to wear face masks indoors for the start of the 2021-2022 school year. The Governor signed Executive Order (EO) 251, which will mandate masking in the indoor premises of all public, private, and parochial preschool, elementary, and secondary school buildings, with limited exceptions. The EO is effective on Monday, August 9, 2021.
Continue reading Huge Anti-Mask Protests Follow Governor Murphy Throughout the State on Saturday
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Trenton NJ, the Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a proposed consent decree to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the State of New Jersey and state officials.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit, brought under Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act, challenges the failure of disability transportation offices in the State of New Jersey – including NJ Transit Access Link and county-based Community Transportation programs – to provide voter registration opportunities to their customers.
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Morristown NJ, in a new research report New Jersey’s Energy Future: At What Cost to You? issued today, the Garden State Initiative offers an independent review of New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan (EMP). Since the EMP was released in January 2020, the details of the plan have largely eluded public scrutiny as portions have moved towards implementation. The report, which continues GSI’s commitment to independent analysis of how government can most effectively serve the public, provides an overview of what is, and more importantly, what is not in the plan, and recommends area residents demand more information from the Murphy Administration and the state’s Board of Public Utilities.
Continue reading Governor Murphy’s Energy Master Plan : Massive Increase Costs to Consumers
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Trenton NJ, Senator Kristin Corrado today called on the Murphy Administration and Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo of the troubled New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to address systemic failings within the department after a scathing evaluation by University of Chicago researchers.
Continue reading Study Names NJ the Worst State to Get Help with Unemployment
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The most recent attack by the NJ Democrat Committee on New Jersey’s next Governor, Jack Ciattarelli, reads like the same-old chicken-little sky-is-falling caricature of every GOP opponent they have ever faced. Jack is anti-science they say because he believes in the philosophical exemption from vaccines that exists in some shape or form in every state (at least until Covid-19). Jack is anti-gay they scream because he is against the out of touch sex “education” Democrats have pushed into every public school which mandates teaching middle school children about anal sex and the controversial notion that they can change their biology.
Continue reading Same Old, Same Old Democrat Attacks on Jack Ciattarelli
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Trenton NJ, a Governor Murphy-appointed member of the NJ Transit’s board of directors has been arrested in connection with a nearly $900,000 insurance fraud scheme, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said.
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CAMDEN NJ, an Atlantic County, New Jersey, man who was previously employed by the New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Permanency (NJDCP&P) was sentenced today to 250 months in prison for producing images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
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Washington DC, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted the Department of Justice’s refusal to investigate deadly mandates in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan sending COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes and long-term care facilities, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of seniors.
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Trenton NJ, It seems clear to us that investors have gotten jittery in part because of the threat of a new round of business and school reopening restrictions. These concerns of a blue state like New Jersey return to invasive lockdown and mask requirements (See the item below) are well founded. Democrats like to impose controls on the economy.
Continue reading Vaccines or Not Lockdowns Could Be in New Jersey’s Future
