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Senator Steven Oroho and Assemblyman Hal Wirths said that legislation advanced by the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee will weaken New Jersey's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and put employers at risk of future tax increases. “At its worst point, New Jersey's UI Fund was more than $2 billion in the red,” said Oroho.
Throughout the nation, Americans are taking a stand against cruel puppy mills by supporting efforts to prohibit puppy mill operators from selling dogs in pet stores. Recently, Maryland became the second state in the nation to ban the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet stores when Gov. Larry Hogan signed bipartisan legislation to protect dogs and the state's consumers.
Johnson, Moriarty, Greenwald Bill Aimed at Incentivizing Media Production in New Jersey Voted Out of Assembly - Legislation sponsored by Assemblymen Gordon Johnson, Paul Moriarty and Lou Greenwald entitled the 'Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act' was voted out of the Assembly on Thursday, 59-14. The bill provides a credit against the corporate business and gross income taxes for certain expenses incurred during the production of certain films and digital media content in New Jersey for the 2019 fiscal year up until and including the 2023 fiscal year.
New Jersey will have the highest percentage of taxpayers facing a tax hike this year as a result of the Republican rewrite of the federal tax code, according to a new report. The Tax Policy Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., said in a report Wednesday that 10.2 percent of New Jersey taxpayers will see their tax bills rise.
Eschewing any mention of the corruption scandal that dogged him for years and put his political career in jeopardy, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez launched his bid for a third term Wednesday, telling a cheering gymnasium full of high school students that "I am here because I am your vote."
When President Donald Trump called for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment in his State of the Union address, he didn't pledge that the federal government actually would provide that much money for roads, bridges, rail and waterways. To the contrary, Trump's plan counts on state and local governments working with private investors to come up with much of the cash.
In the days after Superstorm Sandy ravaged New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie crisscrossed the state, assessing damage, hugging evacuees and projecting the image of a man in charge. In a famous show of bipartisanship, he welcomed President Obama to New Jersey as the state sought federal funds to help with damage.
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed a GOP tax bill that rewards profitable corporations and wealthy families while putting middle-class and low-income families across the country at risk. All but one of New Jersey's 14 members of Congress -- including four of the state's five Republican House members -- voted against the bill.
Editorial: Christie gets it right on off-shore drilling Governor Christie pushes back against the Trump administration on offshore drilling. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2xfodY1 The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay in Seattle in this 2015 file photo.
Phil Murphy's proposed tax increases would raise roughly $1.3 billion a year, his spokesman told Observer on Thursday, releasing for the first time a cost estimate of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee's plans to pay for a multitude of campaign promises. A separate $80 million to $100 million would be generated through savings from reining in out-of-network health care costs for public workers covered by state plans, the spokesman said, for a total annual gain of roughly $1.4 billion in revenue.
For years, the New Jersey shore town of Margate has vigorously fought a plan to build protective sand dunes on its shores, even after Superstorm Sandy inundated the town. In addition to losing ocean views, residents and officials of the town south of Atlantic City complained about a more consequential fear: Water building up between the dunes and the wooden bulkheads that separate oceanfront homes from the beach, forming huge, stagnant ponds that residents must slog through or around to reach the beach.
New Jersey's government shut down at midnight Friday after the Legislature and Governor Chris Christie were unable to agree on a budget. The shutdown will most immediately be felt by those headed to state-run parks and beaches for the holiday weekend.
FILE- In this May 18, 2017 file photo, New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno speaks during a Republican gubernatorial primary debate in Newark, N.J. New Jersey voters are heading to the polls to pick their candidates to ... TRENTON, N.J. - A former Wall Street executive and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's second-in-command are the leading candidates Tuesday as voters begin choosing who will replace the unpopular Republican governor.
In this May 11, 2017, file photo, Phil Murphy participates in a Democratic gubernatorial primary debate in Newark, N.J. New Jersey voters are heading to the polls to pick their candidates to succeed Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday, June 6. less FILE- In this May 11, 2017, file photo, Phil Murphy participates in a Democratic gubernatorial primary debate in Newark, N.J. New Jersey voters are heading to the polls to pick their candidates to succeed ... more FILE- In this May 18, 2017 file photo, New Jersey Lt.
A decommissioned Coast Guard cutter famous for its service in World War II and 1991's deadly "Perfect Storm" off the coast of Massachusetts was laid to rest on Wednesday as it joined the cadre of sunken ships that comprise the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef below the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
The ship made famous in the book and subsequent film "The Perfect Storm" has been intentionally sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts so it can become part of an artificial reef. The sinking of the Tamaroa, a 205-foot Coast Guard vessel, took place Wednesday morning.
This week, Verona's congressman Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen voted to approve the American Health Care Act , the measure that replaces the Affordable Care Act passed under President Obama, though Verona's senators signalled that they will put up a stiff fight to approval by the U.S. Senate. In announcing his vote for the AHCA, Frelinghuysen said in a statement that the measure "protects those with pre-existing conditions and restores essential health benefits."
This shoreline community has tried everything it can think of to prevent protective sand dunes from being built along the beach, invoking lost views, wrongly seized property rights and damaged tourism prospects. Now that those big-picture issues have failed to kill the project, Margate is using a mosquito to make a questionable claim: that the dunes will help spread the Zika virus.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie falsely claimed that Donald Trump did not question President Barack Obama's birthplace "on a regular basis" after the president produced his long-form birth certificate in April 2011. In fact, Trump continued for years to traffic in baseless rumors that Obama was not born in the U.S. Trump tweeted in 2012 that an "extremely credible source" told him the president's birth certificate "is a fraud," and suggested in 2014 that Obama's college records would show his real "place of birth."