Taxes are a perennial top issue for New Jersey voters, and public-opinion polls indicate they remain so this year with the governor’s office and the full state Legislature on the November ballot. Yet the top Democrats in both the Assembly and Senate are continuing to say they have yet to decide if a limit on […]
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New Jersey is the only state in American that bans the commercial sale of home baked goods. At least one town has had enough. This week, the Warren County community of Pohatcong passed a resolution in support of Senate Bill 1768, legislation intended to repeal the baked goods ban. The Democrat-run N.J. Senate Health, Human […]
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Bernie Sanders (D-VT) claims the support of 17 Democrats for his single-payer health care bill, Save Jerseyans, but it seems more likely to be on the Democrat platform in 2020 than on President Trump’s desk anytime soon. Republicans are pushing back all the same. “Senator Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is one that my constituents […]
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A 90-day state pilot program that allows Ocean County residents who either purposely or inadvertently received unwarranted Medicaid benefits a chance to withdraw from the program and avoid criminal prosecution starts on Tuesday. The program, launched by the Office of the State Comptroller, comes in the wake of 26 arrests in Lakewood on fraud charges. […]
TRENTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating NJ Transit for widespread abuse of the federal Family Medical Leave Act, NJ Advance Media has learned. Alleged abuses by rail and bus operations employees have resulted in “delays and cancellations of service due to unavailability of rail crews, bus operations and light rail operators,” “higher […]
Kim Guadagno is firing with both proverbial barrels today, Save Jerseyans, after her New Jersey gubernatorial election opponent Phil Murphy (D-Twitter) declined to say whether he’d extend the interest arbitration cap which will expire at the end of the year without affirmative action in Trenton. “Now we know why Phil Murphy hasn’t released a plan […]
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TRENTON — The state Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled Atlantic County and Bridgewater Township committed unfair labor practices when they refused to pay employees’ step increases after labor contracts with public workers expired. The state’s high court upheld the appellate court in a rebuke to the Public Employment Relations Commission, which had decided local governments […]
Since late July, Save Jerseyans, Senator Cory Booker (D-Twitter) has been touring the state on what is being called the “21 county Jersey road trip.” In typical Booker form, he and his staff are extensively chronicling his moves on social media. They’ve even created a special hash tag (#JerseyRoadTrip) to document all the photo ops… err… “highlights” from the important […]
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TRENTON, N.J. – Governor Chris Christie signed S3422/A18 on Tuesday, amending the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget to give furloughed state employees retroactive salary payments for this July’s shut down. “This bill justly reinstates the pay lost by our hard-working rank and file state workers who were not at fault for the three-day government closure that disrupted […]
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A New Jersey legislator is seeking to stop what she says is the “wild west” of zoning with a package of bills that she says is designed to give guidance to local governments in the wake of court ordered affordable housing decisions. Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi (R-Westwood) has introduced a package of 10 bills to address […]
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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta took on occupational licensing reform Friday, calling for the elimination of unnecessary licenses and the streamlining of those that make sense. Acosta urged while speaking at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Denver, Colorado, state legislators roll back burdensome occupational licensing requirements that effectively serve […]
Officials at a handful of hospitals will finally get to review a confidential consultant’s report and other documents they claim are at the heart of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s alleged plan to exclude them from a preferable insurance network under the company’s OMNIA health plan. On Monday the New Jersey Supreme Court granted four […]
David Tepp It is challenging to find any degree of optimism in the healthcare debate. Mostly, what we hear are rhetorical grandstanding and bitter divisiveness. Meanwhile, the uninsured continue to suffer and, for the fortunate ones who have coverage, their income is being siphoned by skyrocketing insurance premiums and prescription medication costs. Yet, there is […]
Teenagers can no longer buy cigarettes in New Jersey. On Friday, Governor Chris Christie signed into law S-359/A-2320 which raises the minimum age from 19 to 21 for the purchase of tobacco products. “By raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21, we are giving young people more time to develop a maturity and […]
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Hello, Save Jerseyans. It’s been awhile! Of late, we’ve been seeing an uptick in cases of “policing for profit.” A Hudson County Democrat in the Assembly, Nicholas Chiaravalloti, recently proposed speed cameras to be set up in work zones when people go 11 miles per hour over the limit. Besides the mixed constitutionality in the […]
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JERSEY CITY — Jersey City is asking the City Council to give initial approval to a new set of regulations requiring developers seeking city subsidies to hire local union workers who are women and people of color. The move comes one month after a federal judge ruled that similar regulations the city had been working […]
