New Jersey law enforcement officials have increased patrols at houses of worship, community centers, and cemeteries in the wake of recent bias incidents, Gov. Christie’s office said Friday. “We live in a world where hostilities have become part of our everyday lives and are directed at what makes us as New Jerseyans and Americans so unique – our diversity,” Christie said in a statement.
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‘Fairness formula’ dead, but push for school aid changes isn’t
Gov. Chris Christie appears to have given up on his ‘fairness formula,’ though not the broader goal of revamping how New Jersey distributes school aid. Christie has called since last June to equalize per-pupil school aid across all districts, rather than give additional aid to districts with higher levels of poverty and homes where English isn’t the main language.
Power gone, Atlantic City mayor walks re-election tightrope
His city is a half-billion dollars in debt, its casino industry continues to shrink, and the state has seized most of his power.
New Jersey Oks gas pipeline through protected Pinelands
New Jersey environmental regulators on Friday approved a hotly contested plan to run a natural gas pipeline through a federally protected forest preserve amid raucous protests that included drums, tambourines and choruses of “This Land Is Your Land.” The 15-member New Jersey Pinelands Commission voted to approve a plan by South Jersey Gas to run the pipeline through the federally protected Pinelands preserve, where development is drastically restricted.
Vote expected on hotly contested New Jersey pipeline project
New Jersey regulators are set to vote on whether a natural gas pipeline should run through the state’s federally protected Pinelands region, which includes more than a million acres of farms, forests and wetlands. The Pinelands Commission is expected to make a final determination Friday morning on the proposal that has touched off a classic jobs-versus-environment battle in the nation’s most densely populated state.
Aide denies report that Christie is saying he’s taking White House role
An aide to Chris Christie is denying a report that the New Jersey governor has told friends and staff that he is taking a job in President Trump’s administration, Axios reported. The New York Post reported this weekend, citing a source close to the White House, that the New Jersey governor had been telling staff he was taking a White House role.
The Latest: Puzder withdraws nomination for labor secretary
The fast food executive says in a statement provided to The Associated Press that he was “honored to have been considered by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Labor and put America’s workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable prosperity.” Puzder says “while I won’t be serving in the administration, I fully support the President and his highly qualified team.”
Princeton Democrats lock out Lisa McCormick from candidate forum
“We may be locked out, or told to sit down and shut up but we will not be silenced,’ says Democrat Lisa McCormick, a candidate for governor who spoke about progressive values, standing up for the people, for the environment and fighting against political corruption outside after she was denied entry to a rigged party forum in Princeton. Lisa McCormick, who is running for governor in New Jersey against a Wall Street millionaire who wants to buy the election, showed up uninvited to a candidate forum sponsored by the Princeton Democratic Club.
Christie: Flynn needs to clear up Russia conversation details with Trump, Pence
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn Sunday, saying he needs to clear up questions about whether he discussed sanctions in his pre-inauguration conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. “I don’t think that you can have any more than one president at a time,” Christie told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
Christie: Health care repeal shouldn’t cost people coverage
Gov. Chris Christie says Republican lawmakers seeking to repeal or replace the Obama-era health care law must ensure that people covered by its Medicaid expansion aren’t harmed. Speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, Christie stood by his previous calls to change the law.
Christie ‘Really Willing Partner’ in Defunding Sanctuary Cities
Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., never made it into President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after being fired as head of the transition, but he vowed to be a “really willing partner” of Trump’s potential federal defunding of “sanctuary cities” in his state. “The fact is that those folks should be enforcing federal law, and the federal government has to give tools to the states to be able to help them have the enforcement of federal law,” Christie told Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” on Thursday night.
US suspends immigration program helping non-Muslim Iranians
Many citizens of Muslim-majority countries affected by Pres… Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died The March for Life has become a familiar ritual in Washington after more than four decades, but this year, abortion opponents have political momentum on their side The March for Life has become a familiar ritual in Washington after more than four decades, but this year, abortion opponents have political momentum on their side Far from the cacophony enveloping Washington in Trump’s first week in office, the Iowa voters who helped him capture the state and the presidency last November give the president high marks for reversing … (more)
Former Baylor student files new lawsuit alleging rape
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s episode of dizziness during a news conference on city efforts to tamp down gun violence was unrelated to a “longstanding kidney issue.”
New Jersey set to hand over millions in tobacco cash
Gov. Chris Christie has dedicated his final year in office to addressing the opioid epidemic, but the state’s failure to spend on smoking cessation efforts when thousands of people still die annually from tobacco-related illnesses has drawn derision from advocates and public health officials. Instead of spending millions from a landmark 1998 settlement with the tobacco industry on smoking cessation efforts, New Jersey this year will begin repaying hundreds of millions of dollars to bondholders after converting the settlement money into $90 million to fill a budget hole in 2014.
2016 Golden Duke Awards Winners Announced
TPM is pleased to announce the winners of the Tenth Annual Golden Duke Awards recognizing the year’s best purveyors of public corruption, outlandish behavior, The Crazy, nonsense and all relevant betrayals of the public trust. The awards are named in honor of former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who epitomizes the iconic modern scandal.
Virginia’s governor race could be a referendum on Donald Trump’s politics
VIRGINIA, the one state in the old confederacy carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016, chooses a new governor next year. Ditto New Jersey, another blue state, where the departing Republican governor, Chris Christie, is an on-again, off-again-but these days, mostly off-again-adviser to Donald Trump, the president-elect.
Froma Harrop: Trump’s favorite targets are Republicans
Donald Trump has inspired so much fear among his Republican comrades that he no longer has to issue harsh tweets when they misbehave. They do it themselves.