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New Jersey utility regulator approves gas rate hikes
1 day ago · Some New Jersey residents will see their gas heating bills increase by nearly 16% under new rates approved by the Board of Public Utilities. The board on Thursday approved rate increases for customers of Public Service Electric and Gas and Elizabethtown Gas Company, with those who get natural gas from PSE&G facing steeper increases.
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Trump taps former Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy for Transportation chief BY: Jacob Fischler - November 18, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican, to be the next secretary of Transportation, Trump said in a statement Monday evening.
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Oct 25, 2024 · New Jersey media’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day BY: Terrence T. McDonald - October 31, 2024 Wednesday’s news that Advance will stop publishing the Star-Ledger and shut down the Jersey Journal in February was a devastating blow.
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The New Jersey Monitor is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news site that strives to be a watchdog for all residents of the Garden State. When policy makers are making decisions, our reporters will do more than tell you what they’re doing. We’ll tell you why and how their actions matter to you. When a […]
Sentencing panel targets mandatory minimums and geriatric parole
Nov 15, 2024 · A state commission is urging state lawmakers to pass stalled legislation that would reduce the prison population in New Jersey by ending mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders and giving elderly, long-incarcerated people a path to release, among other things. The New Jersey ...
Lawmakers exploring changes to law on legal notices after …
1 day ago · New Jersey lawmakers are exploring how to disseminate legal and other public notices as print newspapers that have carried them for decades begin to go out of circulation. Though the issue has long simmered as online outlets displaced print circulation, it boiled over in late October when the owners ...
New Jersey minimum wage will rise to $15.49 on Jan. 1
Oct 8, 2024 · New Jersey’s minimum wage will rise to $15.49 for most workers at the start of the new year, state labor officials announced Tuesday. The 36-cent increase is the first annual inflation adjustment to the state’s wage floor following a six-year phase-in that was meant to bring the minimum wage to $15, though high inflation in 2023 spurred an indexing adjustment that brought minimum hourly ...
A revamped ballot design jumpstarts democracy in New Jersey
May 31, 2024 · The article is published through a collaboration between Bolts and the New Jersey Monitor.. As New Jersey Democrats vote in Tuesday’s primaries, they’ll encounter a revamped ballot, stripped of a unique design that critics say has given party leaders the ability to hand-select primary winners.
Moody's boosts N.J.'s credit outlook, citing pension payments and ...
Aug 15, 2024 · Ratings firm Moody’s improved New Jersey’s credit outlook on Wednesday but kept ratings static for the state as a whole, praising continued full pension payments but warning that reliance on one-shot revenue items and a drained surplus could lead to credit downgrades.