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Dec 20, 2024 · New Jersey Monitor provides fair and tough reporting on the issues affecting New Jersey, from political corruption to education to criminal and social justice.
Final election results show scope of Trump's success with N.J.
Dec 20, 2024 · Now that all the votes have been counted in the 2024 presidential race, the final results detail the inroads Donald Trump made in New Jersey Latino communities.. In places like Union City and Perth Amboy, where the Latino populations top 80%, support for Trump skyrocketed, with the president-elect winning 7,881 votes in Union City this year compared to 3,566 when he first ran for the White ...
State watchdog finds millions of dollars in fraud at 'New Jersey's ...
Dec 12, 2024 · The owner and operators of a South Jersey nursing home pocketed millions of dollars in Medicaid money while its 110 residents lived in a dirty, understaffed facility, a scheme that went unnoticed for years by the state agencies tasked with oversight, the state Comptroller’s Office has found.. Acting state Comptroller Kevin D. Walsh said Thursday that his Medicaid fraud team first began ...
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6 days ago · ‘Substantial evidence’ Gaetz paid for sex with minor, U.S. House Committee says BY: Ashley Murray - December 23, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney general in his second presidency, former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, paid for sex, including with a minor, used illegal drugs and sought to obstruct investigators, according to a U.S. House Committee on Ethics ...
Bills advance to revamp primary ballots, raise threshold to seek …
Dec 19, 2024 · New Jersey’s county line is one step closer to history, with Assembly lawmakers Thursday approving a bill that would retool New Jersey’s primary ballots in a 70-1 vote.. But the measure could face additional changes when it eventually moves through the Senate, which has not yet taken up the lower chamber’s bill.
Judge approves $150M agreement for Passaic River cleanup
6 days ago · A federal judge approved a consent decree this week that calls for 82 firms responsible for pollution in the lower Passaic River to put $150 million behind cleanup efforts, rejecting a challenge from another alleged polluter that argued the agreement is too lax. U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Cox Arleo ruled the agreement, which was first proposed in 2022 and covers the cleanup of two ...
Taxpayers paid $121M to settle 350+ lawsuits against New Jersey …
Dec 13, 2024 · New Jersey paid out $121 million in lawsuit judgments and settlements in 2023, but took in $459 million from lawsuits and investigations.
Lawmakers approve tweaks to tax credit program aimed at seniors
Oct 28, 2024 · Lawmakers in both chambers on Monday approved a series of technical fixes meant to prepare for the implementation of Stay NJ, a tax credit program that promises to cut property tax bills in half for New Jerseyans 65 and older.. The bill passed the Senate in a unanimous vote and cleared the Assembly with a single no vote from Assemblyman Brian Bergen (R-Morris), who opposed the bill over doubts ...
As pedestrian deaths rise, cries grow to 'target zero' traffic ...
Nov 12, 2024 · Eleven-year-old Nikhil Badlani was just two miles from home when a driver blew through a stop sign and smashed into his dad’s van at a South Orange intersection, causing a three-car wreck that cost the middle-schooler his life.
Gov. Murphy signs record-setting $56.6B state budget
Jun 28, 2024 · Gov. Phil Murphy signed the $56.6 billion annual spending bill Friday after the Legislature approved it in votes divided largely along party lines, two days ahead of a deadline that would have forced a state government shutdown.. The budget, the largest in state history, calls for New Jersey to spend $2.1 billion more than it takes in but maintains full funding of the state’s pension ...