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New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials announced the overnight closure next week of the Route 35 Bridge over the Perth Amboy Connector in Perth Amboy, as well as overnight lane closures of Route 440 southbound on Monday, December 20 as an overhead sign structure replacement project advances in the city. Beginning at 11 p.m.Continue reading “Perth Amboy driving snarls ahead”

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and a former campaign staffer who in 2018 pleaded guilty to embezzling over $220,000 in campaign funds were fined more than $30,000 for the finance violations, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission announced Wednesday. The commission found 264 reporting violations in disclosures submitted byContinue reading “Newark mayor, ex-campaign treasurer fined $30K over election law violations”

A Union County, man was charged with committing a string of robberies in New Jersey, including a bank robbery and two armed robberies of convenience stores. Dayshawn Brimfield, 30, of Elizabeth, is charged by complaint with one count of bank robbery, two counts of Hobbs Act robbery, one count of using and carrying a firearmContinue reading “Armed Elizabeth bank robber charged”

Strikes have been in the news recently, as more workers have had enough of being exploited but powerful private equity investors continue to display characteristics of greedy predators intent on sucking the life out of America’s economy. Nearly 10,000 Fred Meyers and QFC workers went on strike Friday morning demanding better pay and benefits fromContinue reading “Strikes are back in style but greed is still fashionable among the rich”

A family in New Jersey created a life-sized board game during the pandemic and now it’s for sale! The New Jersey family’s project to pass time during the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be profitable after they started selling copies of their life-sized board game. The Aversa family said they designed a game called What’s Next? atContinue reading “What’s Next? is a new game invented in New Jersey during Covid lockdown”

The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department are investigating an overnight shooting which is the 37th homicide of 2021 in New Jersey’s capital city. At approximately 1:40 a.m. on Saturday, December 18, 2021, Trenton police received a Shot Spotter activation for multiple rounds in the 400 block of Garfield Avenue.  AdditionalContinue reading “Trenton clocks 37th murder for 2021”

A man is dead after a fatal police-involved shooting in Vineland on Saturday morning, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office says. The incident occurred around 5:30 a.m. at the Penn Lincoln Mobile Home Park. Police say during an encounter with the man, one Vineland police officer fired his weapon, which struck the man. First aidContinue reading “Vineland police officer shoots & kills a man New Jersey at mobile home park”

Philip R. Sellinger took the oath of office as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Sellinger was the co-managing partner of the New Jersey office of the Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm, an office he founded in 2002. He previously served as co-chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Practice Group from 2013Continue reading “Philip R. Sellinger is NJ’s U.S. Attorney”

A Florida man who attacked police at the US Capitol on January 6 with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank and a pole was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Friday, December 17, 2021, the longest sentence for any of the terrorists involved in the failed coup d’etat but far shorter thanContinue reading “Trump terrorist sentenced to 5 years”

At least 57 journalists were detained across the U.S. in 2021, with nearly all those cases taking place in just two cities where media were covering protests. While the number of those detained is less than the record 142 media arrests in 2020, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, which documents violations against media, says it isContinue reading “America used to have freedom of the press, now journalists are endangered”

Americans of all political affiliations agree on one issue: they see the Supreme Court as mainly motivated by politics. More than 6 in 10 Americans, 61 percent, say the Supreme Court is mainly motivated by politics, and 32 percent say it’s mainly motivated by the law, according to a recent Quinnipiac University national poll ofContinue reading “Americans say the Trump-stacked Supreme Court is motivated by politics”

The Food and Drug Administration did away with an unnecessary rule that required patients to visit hospitals, clinics or doctors’ offices to pick up medication used to terminate early-stage pregnancies. Medical abortion is a procedure that uses drugs to end a pregnancy, so it is safer, doesn’t require surgery or anesthesia and can be the mostContinue reading “FDA eliminates key restriction on abortion pill”

Whether it’s working as a United States Air Force chaplain, a U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot, an enlisted airborne infantryman, a husband or even a father, Matthew Mendenhall dedicated his career to loving and caring for others. Maj. Matthew Mendenhall, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing chaplain, retired on October 1, 2021 after 28 years ofContinue reading “Air Force chaplain’s legacy lives on”

More than half a billion people have been pushed into extreme poverty due to health care costs as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts health services worldwide. New evidence compiled by the World Health Organization and the World Bank shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health Coverage.Continue reading “Pandemic disrupts health services worldwide says World Bank & WHO”

More than 450 advocacy groups from across the issues spectrum—including child advocates, faith organizations, racial justice groups, labor unions, climate and environmental advocates, immigrants’ rights organizations, and care economy groups—sent a letter to senators urging them to pass the Build Back Better Act and extend the Child Tax Credit before leaving for the holidays, orContinue reading “More than 450 advocacy groups urge Congress to pass Build Back Better Act”

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, described Time magazine’s Person of the Year Elon Musk as the ‘poster boy’ for her Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, which she co-sponsored with Representative Pramila Jayapal and Representative Brendan Boyle. The Ultra-Millionaire Tax would bring in at least $3 trillion in revenue over 10 years –Continue reading “Senator says billionaire Elon Musk paid zero federal income taxes in 2018”

Not only are two lawmakers benefiting from six-figure jobs at the Paterson Board of Education, one of New Jersey’s poorest school districts, but Assemblyman Benjie Wimberly and the husband of Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter have both recently received large salary increases. The average classroom teacher in the district earns $65,000 a year. Wimberly’s salary increased fromContinue reading “Poor school spending profits politicians”

by Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger | ProPublica Here’s a tale of two Stephen Rosses. Real life Stephen Ross, who founded Related Companies, a global firm best known for developing the Time Warner Center and Hudson Yards in Manhattan, was a massive winner between 2008 and 2017. He became the second-wealthiest real estateContinue reading “These Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Avoided Paying Taxes for Years”

A pair of suspicious men with weapons have been seen at the Metropolitan Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, according to preliminary and unconfirmed reports. An alert to student residents said to shelter in place or avoid the area. Weapons have been confiscated, according to college sources but Teaneck Police said only that thereContinue reading “Lockdown at FDU campus in Teaneck”

Progressive Democratic activist Lisa McCormick said two New Jersey financial firms are receiving federal investments that are intended to create a more equitable economy. McCormick said First Bergen Federal Credit Union in Hackensack and New Millennium Bank in Fort Lee are among the 186 community financial institutions that will share more than $8.7 billion inContinue reading “Lisa McCormick says 2 NJ financial firms sharing in federal investment”