State government has long neglected South Jersey, whose smaller population and lower household incomes ensure fewer votes and less support for seekers of statewide offices such as governor and U.S. senator. The Legislature is controlled by the more numerous lawmakers of the north, who answer…
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Toward the end of last month, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection released climate action plans for four regions in the state. The plans didn’t get as much attention as you might expect, partly because the release was thrown into the Sandy 10th anniversary mix and got a bit lost.
Nearly all of the businesses in New Jersey are small businesses — 99%. They employ 1.9 million people.
A few years ago, when Gov. Phil Murphy and the state Legislature joined the progressive trend of lifting the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a concern of many economists was the effect it might have on unemployment.
For several years, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has been funding additional police officers for Atlantic City. This important benefit to the city began before state government started working to restore the city, even before the CRDA shifted its statewide focus to the city a…
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New Jersey isn’t just about increasing taxes and finding new taxes and fees to feed its uncontrolled appetite for revenue. Government in this state is also about holding onto all of its existing taxes, even if their expiration was once envisioned.
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew as expected won reelection easily in the 2nd District. He had defeated a stronger candidate and campaign in his first reelection after becoming a Republican. And this midterm election was under an unpopular Democratic president.
New Jersey Democrats achieved a considerable success in last week’s congressional elections, losing only one seat to the ascendant Republicans.
In New Jersey, authorities operate independently from the governing bodies that create them. So while the governing body is ultimately responsible for the authority, it doesn’t oversee the authority’s operations and leaves day-to-day responsibility for them to authority officials.
New Jersey ratepayers and taxpayers have poured a lot of money into giving the northern, often cloudy state lots of solar panels and what will be hundreds of wind turbines offshore.
A few months ago the state discovered much more money would be needed to maintain the superior benefits that government workers get. Now it’s becoming clearer how the public will pay more.
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For three years, Mayor Patrick Rosenello has led the city of North Wildwood in a slow motion boxing match against the state Department of Environmental Protection over how best to manage the beach.
The large increase in Atlantic City Expressway tolls enacted in 2020 was hard to take. A significant amount of the money was to start work on a light rail line between Cumberland and Camden counties. And at the same time tolls were set to automatically increase annually thereafter, without end.
Toward the end of last month, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection released climate action plans for four regions in the state. The plans didn’t get as much attention as you might expect, partly because the release was thrown into the Sandy 10th anniversary mix and got a bit lost.
Ocean Wind 1 will be New Jersey’s first major offshore wind energy project, generating 1,100 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power half a million New Jersey homes and businesses. South Jersey is rightly preoccupied with this transformative development by Ørsted and PSEG out in the ocean…
Nearly all of the businesses in New Jersey are small businesses — 99%. They employ 1.9 million people.
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Over the decades the media have noted many landmarks in women doing things formerly reserved to men. Many became expected and inevitable, once the human species started making the wider use of women and men that was obviously needed. These “first woman” stories have a ways to go before socie…
A few years ago, when Gov. Phil Murphy and the state Legislature joined the progressive trend of lifting the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a concern of many economists was the effect it might have on unemployment.
New Jersey enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive gun control laws ages ago. Since then, a long series of gun-control proposals unlikely to significantly further effect gun violence have served political purposes. The issue offers all sides too many opportunities for posturing, virtue…
Last month New Jersey sent an odd looking notice to residents titled “2019 ANCHOR Benefit Filing Information.”
One of the first goals of the Atlantic City Clean and Safe Committee, a group of law enforcers, local officials and store owners, was to turn back the wave of shoplifting in the city. That wave started and grew from some lenient and liberal provisions of otherwise welcome bail reform, and th…
New Jersey’s development of offshore wind energy has proceeded quickly, leaving the public’s awareness and voice to try to catch up. A brief trivia quiz of its five-year history might help.
Ocean City has been giving visitors and residents who use its popular beaches a break for several years, eating the increased costs of operating and maintaining those beaches. This month it finally raised the beach-user fees after more than a decade, and although the hikes were very high on …
Homelessness, drug addiction and mental health problems have converged on the Rio Grande section of Middle Township as they have in many communities across America. This month the Township Committee voted to create a community partnership to start work on these issues undermining the quality…
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