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Washington DC, On Monday, April 12, Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) issued a statement on Twitter, calling for an end to policing and incarceration and declaring that policing in America is “inherently and intentionally racist.”
Continue reading Congressman Jeff Van Drew Squashes Idiotic “end to policing and incarceration” idea
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New Brunswick NJ, the CDC is recommending a “pause” in the administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating clots in six women that occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination. The clots were observed in the sinuses of the brain along with reduced platelet counts — making the usual treatment for blood clots, the blood thinner heparin, potentially “dangerous.”
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New York NY, Many votes chose to vote with their feet and New York’s absurd new (highest in the land 15%) tax rate on those evil millionaires is very good news for the moving van industry.
Continue reading Latest New York Tax Increase will Almost Double States Outmigration
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Imagine a scenario when a homeowner returns home after a long day, only to see the remains of their furniture and belongings littered all over, floating on water, water soaking into their walls, and destroying some appliances. The welcome home spirit is not recognized at that moment.
Continue reading House Water Damage Restoration And Clean-Up: 7 Easy-To-Follow Steps
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Trenton NJ, Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth) statement on Independent Hearing on NJ’s Unemployment System :
“While the labor Commissioner and the staff tried hard, it was obvious there was no recognition of dramatic nature of our unemployment insurance system’s failure from the top. The administration failed to assess the scope of the problems, the dire, life-threatening severity of the impact of the challenges people were facing.
Continue reading Murphy Administration Blasted Over NJ’s Unemployment System Fiasco
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Ridgewood NJ, The National Education Association (NEA) and the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) have agreed to develop a dynamic partnership to grow a New Jersey-based program to introduce states and districts throughout New Jersey and the country to the benefits and processes of labor-management collaboration. NEA is providing NJEA with a $500,000 grant to help expand the New Jersey Public School Labor-Management Collaborative and additional funds to help other interested state and local affiliates to plan and launch partnerships that foster labor-management collaboration practices in districts and worksites. NEA has committed to invest more than $3 million over three years to fund and grow this initiative.
Continue reading NEA, NJEA Join Forces to grow labor-management collaboration
Immigration law is incredibly complex and even lawyers who do not specialize in this field have a hard time diving into all its ins and outs to competently advise their clients. Even though it’d be naïve to believe that noncitizens or immigrants who end up in a difficult situation can find a decent way out without expert help, there are 6 important facts about the U.S. immigration law everyone should know.
Continue reading 6 Important Facts You Should Know About Immigration Law
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Trenton NJ, Governor Phil Murphy said at the March 22nd press conference , “So our dashboard is showing a current total of 3,510,311 doses. We’ve gotten another half-a-million shots into arms in just one week. And importantly, there have been a total of more than 2.3 million first doses administered by either the Pfizer or Moderna two-step vaccines or of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That means that we are roughly halfway to our goal of — initial goal — of vaccinating 4.7 million individuals. And by the way, more than 1.2 million of those who live, work and study in New Jersey are now fully vaccinated.”
Continue reading Critics Claim Murphy Administration Has Fumbled Covid Vaccine Rollout
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Ridgewood NJ, two surveys from home listing provider Redfin, found that of their more than 1 million users, 27% searched for homes outside densely populated urban areas between April and May of 2020, the highest since they had begun recording migration data. This shift is being driven by several ongoing factors, the most recent being the pandemic, which eliminated many benefits of working in a global financial hub.(1) Additionally, 50% of Redfin’s users living in New York, Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco would be willing to relocate if they had the option of working from home permanently.(2) Especially attractive is Florida for its warmer weather, greater array of outdoor activities such as golf, and the lower taxes.(3) With the sudden surge in demand for these properties, even buyers who are acting quickly are getting into bidding wars.
Continue reading Four States Out of Seven State in the Northeast Have the Highest Outbound Migration
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Ridgewood NJ, Senator Kristin Corrado urged the Murphy Administration to release guidance that would allow school districts to begin planning graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2021.
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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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Demarest NJ, meaningful relationships start when people take time to understand each other. During the first week of March, the Academy of the Holy Angels hosted International Week to foster a greater appreciation of the many cultures within the school community.
“I agree that all teachers and staff should be vaccinated prior to opening the schools, especially with the uptick in cases in the Ridgewood schools over the last few weeks. Should students also have a negative test via the new in home, quick and accurate “in the box” testing kits our government is funding? I say yes and BOE should be all over this as other school districts have pushed to get students tested prior to returning to school.”
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Saddle Brook NJ, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announces the supersession by his office of the Saddle Brook Police Department. As announced a short time ago by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler has been charged with offenses related to his conduct in office as Police Chief. This investigation was conducted by the New Jersey State Police, Public Corruption Unit and the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability.
