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Ridgewood NJ, On October 6th, Iowa Democrats will welcome NJ Senator Cory “I am Spartacus” Booker as the keynote speaker for the 2018 Iowa Democratic Party Fall Gala. Senator Booker will be joined by Fred Hubbell, Rita Hart, and the 2018 Democratic slate of candidates.
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Washington DC, The National Association of Wholesale-Distributors (NAW) endorsed New Jersey’s 12th District GOP Candidate Daryl Kipnis in the 2018 congressional race.
“As a successful attorney for over a decade, Mr. Kipnis has been a strong advocate fighting against excessive and unfair taxation as well as over-burdensome governmental regulations,” Blake Adami, vice president of government relations for the association said Friday. “Mr. Kipnis believes in building a strong national infrastructure program to address our nation’s failing roads, bridges and highways and pledges to work tirelessly with the administration and congress to pass a large-scale comprehensive infrastructure package, that will help to revitalize the country’s infrastructure and drive economic growth in all sectors of the economy. The Board of Directors of the NAW Political Action Committee (NAW-PAC) fully endorses Daryl Kipnis for the New Jersey 12th Congressional seat.”
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Washington DC, Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ-07) is now the first New Jersey lawmaker cosponsoring the Secure Elections Act – legislation to continue protecting and securing election infrastructure and voting from foreign interference.
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Ridgewood NJ, NJ TRANSIT is continuing to work closely with Amtrak and the Federal Railroad Administration on the investigation into Friday night’s incident in the Hudson River Tunnels. At NJ TRANSIT, the safety of our commuters and employees remains our highest priority. We assure our customers that, once the Amtrak repairs are complete and all the necessary safety inspections are made, rail service through the tunnels will remain completely safe.
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Newark NJ, A Turkish man who owns a New Jersey defense contracting business has been charged in a scheme to fraudulently acquire lucrative manufacturing contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and for conspiring to export military technical drawings to Turkey without a license from the State Department, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
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Ridgewood NJ, On Wednesday, September 12 at 6pm at Serendipity Labs Ridgewood, please join us for a educational presentation and networking event with the Small Business Resource Group, & Presented by Tim Hyatt from Hyatt Computers!
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Newark NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced a settlement with data management software developer Lightyear Dealer Technologies that resolves the Division’s investigation into a cyber security lapse that allowed unauthorized public internet access to a company database containing personally identifiable information of customers and employees of more than 100 auto dealerships nationwide, including at least four dealerships in New Jersey.
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Trenton NJ, according to Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal, Federal Highway Administration data on revenues that the states have available for spending on roads, bridges, and mass transit New Jersey collected the seventh-highest transportation revenues of any state, even before it raised its gas tax and every state that spent more was considerably larger.
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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Business & Industry Association President & CEO Michele N. Siekerka, Esq. issued the following statement regarding today’s press conference by Governor Murphy on increasing New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood teen Deena Shefter has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship. Shefter attended Bergen County Academies (BCA), a STEM-focused magnet high school in Bergen County , she is a member of the National Honor Society and the National Spanish Honor Society. Her research investigates the connection between multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis .
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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association takes a sharp exception to the Colin Kaepernick and Nike’s ”Just Do It” Campaign . The NAPO says in the ”Just Do It” campaign, Nike grossly insults the men and women who really do make sacrifices for the sake of our nation and calls for a boycott of all Nike products.
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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey State Police Troop “D” Criminal Investigation Office is proud to announce that Mr. Red and Mr. Yellow M&M were located unharmed.
Both Red and Yellow were reunited with their twin siblings at the PNC Bank Arts Center on September 01, 2018, after going missing on Monday, August 20.
The Troop “D” Criminal Investigation Office would like to thank all of those who called with leads, Live Nation, the PNC Bank Arts Center, and M&M Mars Corporation for their assistance with this case.
The collaborative effort resulted in resolving the investigation without the need for an arrest—a very sweet conclusion.
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Ridgewood NJ, On Labor Day I was at Graydon late in the afternoon. The water was beautiful, the weather was spectacular, the snack bar was humming, there were lots and lots of people swimming and on the sand. It was, in a (hyphenated) word, picture-perfect.
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Ridgewood NJ, a Yale Computer Science professor gives freshmen students some unorthodox advice in , Ten Things They Didn’t Tell You at Freshman Orientation (https://www.businesstelegraph.co.uk/ten-things-they-didnt-tell-you-at-freshman-orientation/) , Professor Gelernter states by saying , “Welcome to Yale .Please disregard what you’ve been told so far, and follow these instructions.”
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Trenton NJ, Senate President Sweeney and Senator Ruiz Joint Statement on NJ Department of Education Announcement to Reduce PARCC Evaluation Weights
“As we approach the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year, we are deeply disappointed that the administration is walking away from New Jersey’s students by reducing the PARCC assessment to count for only five percent of a teacher’s evaluation. These tests are about education, not politics.
