Booker: Let’s use COVID-19 crisis to push Leftist priorities, ‘environmental concerns’
By Matt Rooney _ Senate Democrats blocked a COVID-19 GOP stimulus package over the weekend; the espoused rationale (“it doesn’t do enough for workers”) was […]
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Official N.J. website’s COVID-19 quiz warns you might be sick… even if you’re likely not.
By Matt Rooney _ UPDATE: The Murphy Administration apparently fixed its quiz after our post… Some Save Jersey readers, however, are still reporting bogus results… […]
THE LIST: What’s still open in New Jersey?
By Matt Rooney _ What’s still open after Phil Murphy shut down most or much of New Jersey on Saturday (effective 9 p.m.)? There are […]
N.J. ready to criminally charge “stay at home” violators; DOJ exploring indefinite detention
By Matt Rooney _ Governor Murphy’s executive order shuttering “non-essential” businesses and banning ALL social gatherings (weddings, funerals, etc.) takes effect Saturday evening at 9 […]
Political correctness’s unspoken role in Northern Italy’s COVID-19 disaster | Rooney
By Matt Rooney _ Italy is a modern, wealthy, “universal health care” European state. It didn’t matter. Its death toll from the China-born coronavirus surpassed […]
Singh suddenly competitive with big Atlantic win
LINWOOD, N.J. – Perennial Republican candidate for high office Hirsh Singh won the Atlantic County GOP’s convention on Saturday, locking up his home county’s line […]
UPDATE: Bergen’s top official backs down from business-closing order, compares self to Bible’s Noah
By Matt Rooney _ Bergen County’s Democrat Executive Jim Tedesco had cited his “moral authority” to shutter businesses and enact draconian COVID-19 emergency measures earlier […]
DISGUSTING: Turnpike Authority continues pushing massive toll hikes during pandemic
By Matt Rooney _ Thousands are out of work. Transportation companies are working overtime to keep supply chains operational. The Turnpike Authority is taking advantage […]
New Jersey’s pathetic budget reserves leave state EXTRA vulnerable to COVID-19
By Matt Rooney _ This is definitely an under-discussed angle of the current COVID-19 crisis, Save Jerseyans… Partly because the most pressing matter is keeping […]
Trump clinches 2020 Republican nomination
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Amidst a growing pandemic-induced crisis that’s sickened thousands and driven the U.S. economy into a virtual standstill, President Donald Trump clinched the […]
Bergen GOP cancels its convention
HACKENSACK, N.J. – The GOP in New Jersey’s most populous county won’t be holding a nominating convention this year. At least not an in-person one. […]
Bergen County’s top official is among the first to overstep. He won’t be the last. | Rooney
By Matt Rooney _ Be on your guard, Save Jerseyans. Yes, for a virus against which hand washing and social distancing are our only defense […]