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Trenton NJ,Senator Michael Testa responded to the New Jersey Attorney General’s comments that the Murphy Administration’s immigration policies do not provide “‘sanctuary’ to those who break the law.”
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TRENTON NJ, The energy master plan announced by Gov. Phil Murphy today calls for eliminating the state’s reliance on natural gas. Assemblyman Jay Webber said the plan is irresponsible and called on the Legislature to stop it from moving forward.“The governor’s plan would effectively end natural gas service in New Jersey; but, New Jerseyans need natural gas, which is an abundant, affordable, clean and reliable energy source,” said Webber (R-Morris). “Not only are 75 percent of our homes and businesses heated with natural gas, but about 50 percent of our electricity is generated from it. Natural gas also is critical as a raw material for manufacturing.”
Continue reading Gov. Phil Murphy calls for eliminating the state’s reliance on natural gas?
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Ridgewood NJ, In terms of retired public employee health care benefits, New Jersey has greater unfunded liabilities – $130 billion – than every state but California, according to a new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The new report, Other Post-Employment Benefit Liabilities, 2019, examines the unfunded liabilities in each state for other-post employment benefits (OPEB), which include health insurance, life insurance, Medicare Supplement Insurance and more for retired public employees.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Kristin Corrado’s bill requiring the first update of the Legislature’s sexual harassment policy in more than a decade was signed by the governor.
“I want to send a loud and clear message that sexual harassment will not be tolerated,” said Corrado (R-40). “News reports, and testimony we have heard in Trenton indicate sexual misconduct is more prevalent than we could have imagined. That has to end. The Legislature will lead by example with a no-nonsense policy that clearly provides protections from harassment and assault.”
Nice, now every pissed off teen (is there any other kind?) will be able to disclose their frustrations to a computer system. To be carefully cataloged and stored, forever.
Next, school councilors who don’t want to be accused of missing warning signs would recommend visiting a shrink or a candy man to discuss treatment.
Before you know it, your boy or girl is on 3 meds before even stepping a foot in college! Everyone making $. The schools get more Budget, the shrinks and Pharma sell candy, the politicians get more support from school unions and drug manufacturers.
Everyone except your child that is. The teen is a nervous wreck for life.
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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:
Continue reading BRIDGE-GATE 2.0: NJDOT Orders Timely Road Construction Impacting Trump Rally
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Trenton NJ, The legislators and schools haven taken over your children. Pity you probably didn’t even see it coming. They will continue to intrude into every facet of your life until you do something, anything.
S-2835 – Adopted; Sent to Governor – Mandatory School Psychological Surveys of your children
The NJ Senate and NJ General Assembly both passed < S-2835 >, substituting it for < A-3926 >. This creates an ANNUAL computerized assessment (NOT a psychologist!) for EVERY STUDENT, ages 12-17, and is an intrusion into parental and student privacy. It looks for signs of depression and anxiety, but opens a Pandora’s box of other emotional or psychological tests “the Commissioner” of Education might choose to assess, and what “remedy” the State might then see fit to administer.
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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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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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Newark NJ, With the unemployment rate at a near 50-year low and employers expecting to hire 5.8 percent more college graduates from the Class of 2020 than from the previous graduating cohort, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2020’s Best Places to Find a Job as well as accompanying videos.
To determine the strongest local job markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared more than 180 cities across 31 key metrics. The data set ranges from job opportunities to employment growth to monthly average starting salary.
Continue reading New Study Rates Newark One of the Worst Cities for Job Creation
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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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Trenton NJ, Joint Statement from Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal Regarding Anti-Semitic Content on Facebook Group “Rise Up Ocean County”. Funny how the two never made a statement on the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, responsible for the deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial this year.
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Trenton NJ, The signing of A5802/S4103 today is a disgraceful money grab by the Majority Party and Governor which will use our tax dollars to circumvent federal law to repay and subsidize a private, non- profit organization who financially supports them at election time. A5802 will allocate $9.5 Million from the general fund, which is money generated by NJ taxpayers, exclusively to NJ Planned Parenthood affiliates to replace funds they will not be receiving from the Federal Title X Program because they refused to comply with new rules requiring Title X family planning recipients to physically and financially separate their abortion business from their family planning services.
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Ridgewood NJ, CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, Three of the bluest of the United States have thousands of independent contractors uniting via social media, the mainstream press and the courts to fight the damage and lawsuits from catastrophic versions of “employee
misclassification” legislation at various stages of becoming law.
Continue reading Democrat-Backed Legislation that Attacks Working Women, and Mothers
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Ridgewood NJ, Governor Phil Murphy patted himself on the back for New Jersey’s second statewide minimum wage increase from $10 to $11 per hour, taking effect today, January 1, 2020. The increase is part of a gradual increase in the minimum wage to $15/hour under legislation signed by Governor Murphy in February 2019. When Governor Murphy took office in 2018, the State’s minimum wage was $8.60 per hour.
Perhaps if the governors failed policies of constant tax increases and taxes on everything did not destroy the already morbid New Jersey economy we would celebrating job growth like the rest of the country .
Continue reading The Unintended Consequences of $15 Minimum Wage Increases
