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Lawmakers aim to stop creditors from debt-collecting people 'into …
3 天之前 · Debt collectors would be prevented from taking people’s homes and wiping out their bank accounts under legislation advocates are pushing state lawmakers to pass in the new year. Assemblyman Dan Hutchison (D-Gloucester) is the prime sponsor of a bill intended to keep people in debt from falling ...
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2024年12月19日 · U.S. House torpedoes new spending plan as government shutdown nears Friday night BY: Jennifer Shutt - December 19, 2024 WASHINGTON — The U.S. House failed to pass a Republican stopgap spending package Thursday, sharply increasing the odds a partial government shutdown will begin after the current funding bill expires Friday at midnight.
State watchdog finds millions of dollars in fraud at 'New Jersey's ...
2024年12月12日 · The owner and operators of a South Jersey nursing home pocketed millions of dollars in Medicaid money while its 110 residents lived in a dirty, understaffed facility, a scheme that went unnoticed for years by the state agencies tasked with oversight, the state Comptroller’s Office has found.. Acting state Comptroller Kevin D. Walsh said Thursday that his Medicaid …
Bills advance to revamp primary ballots, raise threshold to seek …
2024年12月19日 · New Jersey’s county line is one step closer to history, with Assembly lawmakers Thursday approving a bill that would retool New Jersey’s primary ballots in a 70-1 vote.. But the measure could face additional changes when it eventually moves through the Senate, which has not yet taken up the lower chamber’s bill.
Troopers gave special treatment to drivers with courtesy cards ...
2024年12月18日 · Police courtesy cards and relations to law enforcement consistently helped drivers escape motor vehicle stops without penalties, even in instances of severe speeding and apparent impaired driving, a report issued Wednesday by the state comptroller found.. After reviewing 501 no-enforcement stops conducted by the New Jersey State Police over a 10-day …
Homelessness continues climbing in New Jersey, new annual …
2024年10月22日 · Homelessness in New Jersey has climbed 24% since last year, a trend advocates attributed to an entrenched affordable housing shortage made worse by rising rents and shrinking vacancies. Advocates counted 12,680 people — representing 9,148 households — who were living in shelters, hotels and motels, safe-haven programs, transitional housing, and …
Federal hostility could delay offshore wind projects, derailing state ...
2024年12月16日 · “[T]he business model for these projects has fallen well short of projections to the degree that those wind energy developers are either halting construction or asking the government for additional subsidies to make up for projected cost increases,” four Maryland Republican senators wrote to Democratic Gov. Wes Moore in April, unsuccessfully urging him …
The economy drove New Jersey voters’ shift to the right, experts say
2024年11月7日 · Sophie Nieto-Muñoz, a New Jersey native and former Trenton statehouse reporter for NJ.com, shined a spotlight on the state’s crumbling unemployment system and won several awards for investigative reporting from the New Jersey Press Association.
Message for poor NJ Transit riders: Fixes are coming … eventually
2024年10月25日 · Editor Terrence T. McDonald is a native New Jerseyan who has worked for newspapers in the Garden State for more than 15 years. He has covered everything from Trenton politics to the smallest of municipal squabbles, exposing public corruption and general malfeasance at every level of government.