Category Archives: New Jersey News

Americans For Tax Fairness (ATF), along with 79 other national organizations, released a letter to Congress in support of President Biden’s Tax Plan. In the letter, the co-signers, write: “Biden’s plans are big and bold public investments financed by requiring the rich and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. "The president’s economic plan—consistingContinue reading “Good government groups support Biden’s tax plan”

Police in Tennessee found the body of a missing Rahway, New Jersey woman, whose son was the subject of an Amber Alert. Authorities found Yasmine Uyar’s son, Sebastian Rios, alive on Saturday, according to the Rahway Police Department. The child’s father, Tyler Rios, was arrested in Tennessee, where Uyar’s mother planned to go to beContinue reading “Yasemin Uyar’s body found in Tennessee”

Hardship rates remain well above pre-pandemic levels and large racial inequities persist, the Census Bureau’s latest Household Pulse Survey data show. These inequities reflect the pandemic’s especially harsh impact on families of color, on top of the structural barriers they already face — in housing, employment, health care, and many other areas — that canContinue reading “Things remain difficult for many Americans”

Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey, on July 11, 1804. The Burr–Hamilton duel was fought at Weehawken, New Jersey, between Burr, who was the Vice President of the United States, and Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the Treasury, on the morning of July 11, 1804.Continue reading “Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton on this day 217 years ago”

Asserting the half century-old federal system of narrowly defining poverty no longer reflects the real depth of deprivation in the state, Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ) is advancing a new, more inclusive, measure that reveals nearly three million New Jerseyans, including 800,000 children — almost a third of the state’s population — actually wereContinue reading “NJ’s poverty 3 times worse than reported”

Governor Phil Murphy was endorsed for re-election by the Republican mayor of an Ocean County town that Donald Trump won with 62 percent of the vote over President Joe Biden, while his GOP opponent picked up the support of a top member of the Trump administration. Republican Seaside Heights Mayor Anthony E. Vaz endorsed theContinue reading “Republicans big & small endorse rival candidates for governor”

By Maggie Hicks | OpenSecrets Foreign agents reported being paid more than $30.5 million to influence U.S. policy or public opinion on behalf of Turkish interests during the Trump administration. An inquiry the Justice Department has reportedly launched an inquiry into Rudy Giuliani may reveal even more undisclosed lobbying. The DOJ reportedly launched the inquiryContinue reading “Rudy Giuliani is being scrutinized for foreign lobbying. He may have been one of many in the Trump White House”

An Amber Alert that was issued by New Jersey State Police was canceled after the missing 2-year-old boy was found and his father was arrested, but the child’s mother is still missing. New Jersey State Police said that the child’s Amber Alert was safely found Saturday morning but his mother remains missing. The Amber AlertContinue reading “Amber Alert canceled, mom remains missing”

The United Nations human rights chief called on nations of the world to take action to root out systemic racism against people of African descent with a report calling for measures to dismantle discrimination, sweeping changes to policing, and economic reparations. “The status quo is untenable,” said Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner forContinue reading “UN calls for action against racism”

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III accepted all of the recommendations of an independent review commission that stood up in March and delivered its findings just last week. The commission recommended an array of changes in how the defense department and the services that fall under it will handle sexual assaults. "On my firstContinue reading “Commanders nixed from prosecution of sexual assaults”

By Anna Massoglia | OpenSecrets The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that California’s nonprofit donor disclosure requirement is unconstitutional since it could chill the First Amendment rights of donors who might be deterred from contributing if their names became public. However, some argue the ruling may open the floodgates to even more “dark money” in politicsContinue reading “Supreme Court’s nonprofit donor disclosure ruling may have ‘dark money’ consequences”

With summer in full heat wave mode, water pollution can close New Jersey beaches or put swimmers’ health at risk. In 2020, bacteria levels at New Jersey beaches indicated that water was potentially unsafe for swimming on at least 35 days, according to a new report Safe for Swimming? by Environment New Jersey Research &Continue reading “Bacteria made Jersey beaches unsafe for swimming in 2020”