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U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, commented on a report by ProPublica describing how some of the richest Americans pay little taxes commensurate with their titanic fortunes. Simultaneously, the Congressman sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig asking if the information documented…

The Department of Veterans Affairs continues this June to seek feedback from veterans and communities to help shape the future of VA health care policy. VA has been hosting public virtual listening sessions across the country since March to hear from veterans on their thoughts about how to improve the care they receive from VA.…

At the May board meeting of the Union County College Foundation, six community members were elected as new trustees to the board. The new members are: Rev. Dr. Selina D. Carter of Plainfield, Rev. Dr. Francis A. Hubbard of Berkeley Heights, Ken Orchard of Little Silver, Colleen Shea of Cranford, Steven St. Pierre Fernandez of…

A coalition of wildlife advocates and hunters, represented by the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice, today asked the U.S. Forest Service to issue new protections for wolves in designated wilderness areas following Idaho and Montana’s enactment of a rash of aggressive anti-wolf laws. The petition, submitted to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and top Forest Service…

by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel | ProPublica In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal…

President Joe Biden released his $6 trillion budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2022 and the ensuing decade. The White House sent Congress a spending plan that would ramp up spending on infrastructure, education and combating climate change, arguing it makes good fiscal sense to invest now, when the cost of borrowing is cheap,…

Authorities are reporting an active shooter at Joint Base San Antonio, located in Texas, which is the Department of Defense’s largest combined military station. According to the base’s Facebook page and a message posted on Twitter: "All base personnel implement LOCKDOWN procedures and immediately take cover." A second post said there were no immediate reports…

Several months after a British judge blocked his extradition to the U.S.–citing that conditions in America’s inhumane prison system would be detrimental to his health–WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange continues to be held in a maximum-security prison in the United Kingdom. The mistreatment of Assange over the past decade has been defined as “psychological torture” by…

Every police department in New Jersey will be required to annually publish the names of officers who were fired, demoted, or suspended for more than five days,” said Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, following the unanimous decision handed down Monday. The 60-page ruling ends the current controversy over contentious reform measures supported by Grewal and state…

A shooting on at Underhill Field, the athletic field at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, left one student dead and another wounded, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Police officers responding to a report of gunfire at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, found Moussa Fofana, 18, of Maplewood, and a 17-year-old boy whose…

Billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. A new ProPublica analysis of a trove of IRS documents revealed that the richest 25 Americans pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes. But even if you use the most…

Fourteen people were arrested for allegedly blocking the entrance to the Bergen County Jail, as activist group members laid their bodies on the line in the demand for Marvin Jerezano Peña to be released. Peña is a father, son, and resident of Red Bank, at imminent risk for deportation after being targeted and entrapped by…

During a recent visit to Elizabeth, Gov. Phil Murphy endorsed the re-election of anti-abortion state Sen. Joseph Cryan (D-Union), who has publicly stated his desire to outlaw abortion except for cases of rape, incest or if a woman’s life is in danger. Cryan was awarded an unfairly advantageous position on the primary ballot by State…

In May, when nearly 45,000 Union County residents found themselves suddenly unemployed, nine members of state Senator Joe Cryan’s family were secure in the knowledge that taxpayers would continue paying them lucrative salaries no matter how bad things got because they have a powerful political insider looking out for them. While thousands of families in…

Celeste Sitarski, a DPW employee is collecting a $70,000 salary while on paid leave, and using the time to campaign for her nephew’s re-election to the borough council, while her second lawsuit makes its way through the courts. Sitarski won $200,000 from a previous legal case against taxpayers, in which she amplified sexual and racial…

A Union County Democratic Committee member, who called on party leaders to remove Reginald Atkins from his post as chairman of the Roselle Democratic Committee over his support for Republicans in the 2019 general election, is now backing the turncoat as a candidate for General Assembly. Democratic Committee member Anthony Esposito sent a letter to…

New Jersey’s largest police union has endorsed Senator Joe Cryan in Tuesday’s Democratic primary election but some observers wonder if the group will do more harm than good to the anti-abortion Pennsylvania politician’s chances after the same organization supported Republican President Donald Trump last year. The New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association announced that it…

New Jersey cut the word ‘idiot’ from its constitution so that people with some mental disabilities won’t be barred from voting but it is possible a scheming politician engineered the move because he thought it would help him advance if idiots could vote. State Assemblyman Joseph P. Cryan introduced a bill on February 26, 2007…