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New Jersey’s summer entertainment calendar is bursting with activity over the next four weeks, offering a diverse array of concerts, theatrical productions, festivals, and family-friendly events across the state. From the Shore to the Meadowlands, and from historic stages to modern arenas, residents and visitors have a wealth of options to choose from. Live MusicContinue reading “With a wide variety of events, New Jersey offers something for everyone”

During its monthly open meeting in June, the five-member Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) indicated that it no longer plans to complete cumulative impact analyses when conducting environmental reviews of projects. The change was announced in an order approving the Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage Project.  FERC Commissioner Chang wrote a separate concurrence to makeContinue reading “Federal agency ends complete environmental impact analyses on project reviews”

A big step forward has been taken for the future of the shuttered Gillian’s Wonderland Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey. On Thursday, Ocean City Council passed a resolution in a 5-to-2 vote to designate the former boardwalk amusement park pier as an area “in need of rehabilitation.” Property owner Eustace Mita, a prominent Philadelphia-areaContinue reading “Ocean City Council designates Gillian’s Wonderland Pier as rehabilitation”

by Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor A man who works at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall charged with striking a protester with his car outside the facility Sunday blamed protesters for causing him to hit the woman, court records say. Video of the Father’s Day incident showing the red 2023 Dodge Challenger hitting a womanContinue reading “Man charged in Delaney Hall crash blamed protesters, police say”

After weeks of backroom wrangling that would make a used horse trader blush, Governor Rebecca “Mikie” Sherrill and the Democratic sachems of the Legislature have slapped hands on a $60.7 billion spending plan for Fiscal Year ’27. They tell us it’s a masterpiece of fiscal responsibility. They tell us it’s a shield against the barbariansContinue reading “Budget deal follows $6.5 million in graft & weeks of legislative horse trading”

Since the Trump Administration and Congress’s decision to roll back limits on overdraft and nonsufficient funds (NSF) fees, many of the country’s largest banks have begun to ratchet up their overdraft fee take. Overall, struggling families paid over $12 billion in overdraft and NSF fees in 2025. A new report from the National Consumer LawContinue reading “Struggling families paid banks over $12 billion in overdraft & NSF fees in 2025”

The latest indication of the Trump administration’s unraveling position in Iraq arrived Thursday not in the form of a defeated army or a fallen capital, but in the more inglorious shape of a damaged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, struck by an Iranian drone while transiting a route the United Nations had declaredContinue reading “Iranian strike hammers home Trump’s defeat in Middle East war”

One hundred fifty years ago today, the sun rose over the Montana Territory on a scene of carnage that would forever alter the nation’s understanding of its westward march. The date, June 25, 1876, marks the annihilation of Lt. Col. (Brevet Major-General) George Armstrong Custer and five companies of the U.S. 7th Cavalry at theContinue reading “June 25, 1876, is a date forever etched in history as Custer’s Last Stand”

The war that President Donald Trump launched against Iran on February 28 has imposed staggering costs—economic, humanitarian, and strategic—on the United States and the world, with American workers bearing a particularly heavy burden as inflation has erased every real wage gain they made during his second term. According to the Consumer Price Index released thisContinue reading “Trump’s war in Iran has wiped out 1.5 years of wage growth in America”

The earthquake that rumbled through New York’s Democratic primaries this week was not a tremor in a single borough. It was a shockwave that has been reverberating across the nation, and the party’s corrupt and entrenched establishment is still trying to find its footing, staring at a political landscape that is shifting beneath its feet.Continue reading “New York’s primaries were earthquakes rocking Democratic fault lines”

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on June 10 released a 267-page proposal that would formally legalize nationwide sports betting on prediction markets, handing the burgeoning industry nearly everything it sought while igniting furious opposition from states, Native American tribes, and consumer advocates. The proposed rules would establish a framework for evaluating whether event contracts involveContinue reading “CFTC rule would legalize betting on prediction markets, sparking fierce backlash”

By Lisa McCormick The 2028 Democratic presidential election must be more than a referendum on Donald Trump’s malignant, neo-fascist MAGA agenda. Repudiating authoritarianism is necessary but not sufficient. America must do better — far better — than the field of likely contenders currently being assembled, or it will not only be our democracy that suffers.Continue reading “The establishment Democrats are not on our side in Reagan’s class war”

A New Jersey man from Gloucester County was arrested and charged after he allegedly hit and killed two teenage pedestrians in Townsend, Delaware, over the weekend. Delaware State Police say Nizaiah Ellis, from Newfield, New Jersey, was traveling southbound on Dupont Parkway around 1:10 a.m. Saturday, when two teens were walking an electric bike inContinue reading “Delaware Police say New Jersey driver hit and killed two teenage pedestrians”

Governor Kathy Hochul stood in the well of a national convention four years ago and told the country New York would lead. It would cut its poison gases by 85 percent before mid-century. It would hold the people she and her colleagues put in office accountable for meeting that mark. New York passed a law,Continue reading “Governors who promised to save the world now seem like they want to sell it”

By James J. Devine The same week that 45 million additional people slipped into critical levels of food insecurity, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, giving new meaning to the concept, “Eat the Rich.” The milestone came on Friday after SpaceX, his rocket company, completed the largest stock market debut in history. Musk’s netContinue reading “Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as 45 million more face critical hunger”

If you had set out to invent a parable about the American moment, you could scarcely do better than the one unfolding at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It has everything: a $14 million no-bid contract, a patriotic paint job that began sloughing off within days, an algae bloom of historic proportions, a cure thatContinue reading “Pool fiasco is a reflection on the incompetent Trump administration”