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New Jersey Bubble Wrap Company Looking to Relocate to Dutchess County

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Linden NJ,  Air Protection Packaging Corp., based in Linden, New Jersey, wants to move its headquarters and manufacturing facilities to the former Alfa Laval building in the Town of Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County , New York.

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COVID-19 Pandemic : Magnitude of the Economic Disruption Unparalleled

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Ridgewood NJ, according to the US Census Bureau  the COVID-19 pandemic caused a record job losses and transformed the nation’s employment landscape but recently released historical data tables put the magnitude of the economic disruption in clear context.

To get some prospective in 2017, for example, roughly 30 million adults experienced either an end of employment or a reduction in work hours, including both involuntary and voluntary job terminations. But only about 3.8 million collected Unemployment Insurance (UI), which is contingent on involuntary job termination, according to the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Four More Correctional Officers Charged in Inmate Assault Probe at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility

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TRENTON NJ,  Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today announced charges against four senior correctional police officers related to an incident in which inmates were assaulted and seriously injured at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in the early morning of Jan. 12, 2021.

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New Jersey Ranks Near Last for Return on Taxes Paid to the Federal Government

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New Jersey Is 2021’s 2nd Least Federally Dependent State

Ridgewood NJ, with states having received hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released updated rankings for 2021’s Most & Least Federally Dependent States, as well as accompanying videos.

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Murphy Administration Was Warned “Nursing Home Order” Would Result in the Deaths of Nursing Home Patients

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Trenton NJ, in conference call on March 31 with hundreds of long-term care facility operators the Murphy Administration was told patients would die , “You understand that by asking us to take COVID patients, by demanding we take COVID patients, that patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn’t have otherwise died had we screened them out.”

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What One Year of Lockdowns Have Taught Us All

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Ridgewood NJ, “I stand behind my comment that the lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 yrs,” Jay Bhattacharya, a prof of medicine at Stanford, said. “We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms… for a generation”

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New Jersey leads the nation in COVID-19 deaths per capita, time for a serious investigation of Governor Murphy

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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy like to say his decisions are based on science and data.  New Jersey leads the nation in COVID-19 deaths per capita. It leads the world. If New Jersey were a country, its death rate of 249 deaths per 100,000 residents would rank it ahead of every nation on Earth.

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Cuomo Backs tracks ,Murphy Brags about Nursing Home Covid Death Data

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Trenton NJ, Amid reported investigations into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) office handling statistics around coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes, neighboring New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Sunday he was “confident” in his state’s data.

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Governor Murphy Again Puts Politics Over Quality of Life at NJ’s Veterans Homes

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Trenton NJ, Senator Joe Pennacchio and Senator Kristin Corrado today questioned Murphy’s selections of new leadership at the veterans home in Menlo Park.

“The Governor’s bold idea for new leadership to fix our veterans homes is to bring back those who failed the first time around,” said Pennacchio (R-26).  “I can’t believe that’s the best he could do.”

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Majority of CPA’s Polled Considered Governor Murphy’s Budget Worse for the Economy over the Long Term

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Roseland NJ, Nearly 65 percent of the 315 certified public accountants (CPAs) surveyed by the New Jersey Society of CPAs (NJCPA) after Governor Murphy presented his proposed 2022 budget for New Jersey on Feb. 22 said they considered the $44.83 billion budget worse for the economy over the long term. Nearly 40 percent of those respondents said it would leave the economy “significantly worse” and 24 percent said it would leave the economy “marginally worse.”

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Governor Dumps NJ “Social Justice” in Favor of Greed and “Politics As Usual” for Cannabis Regulatory Commission

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Trenton NJ, the glaring absence of a member of a social justice organizations on New Jersey’s newly established Cannabis Regulatory Commission is a troubling oversight that should be remedied, Senator Mike Testa said today.

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Decriminalization of marijuana legislation strongly restricts the ability of police departments to communicate with parents about use of marijuana and alcohol by their children

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To the Parents of Washington Township,
On February 22, 2021, Governor Murphy signed three laws which legalized cannabis, decriminalized marijuana, and outlined procedures to have previous convictions and/or pending cases dismissed. We were aware of this pending legislation and understand that a majority of New Jersey residents voted to have marijuana legalized in the state. We did not anticipate, however, that this legislation would strongly restrict the ability of police departments in New Jersey to communicate with parents about use of marijuana and alcohol by their children.

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Governors Cuomo and Murphy, “Birds of a Feather”

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Trenton NJ, NJ Governor Phil Murphy said sexual harassment accusations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are “concerning” and supports an independent investigation by the neighboring  state’s attorney general.

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Outrage Grows Over Governors Lack of Interest in Fixing the States Broken Unemployment System

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Trenton NJ, Senator Anthony M. Bucco expressed shock at Governor Phil Murphy’s suggestion at his press briefing that investing funds to fix the State’s broken unemployment system would be “throwing good money after bad. ”Sen. Tony Bucco expressed shock at Gov. Phil Murphy’s suggestion at his press briefing today that investing funds to fix the State’s broken unemployment system would be ‘throwing good money after bad.’

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New Bill Would Prevent New Jersey Governor from Unilaterally Changing How Voters are Able to Invoke their Constitutionally Right to Vote

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Middletown NJ, Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (R-Monmouth) has introduced legislation (A5401) which would prevent future attempts by this or any New Jersey Governor to unilaterally change how voters are able to invoke their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote. The bill comes as New Jersey continues to be under the seemingly autonomous control of one individual since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last March:

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