Ashley Gallagher, Author at New Jersey Globe

PBA president says new weed law restricts cops from ‘upholding basic law and order’

July 30, 2021 11:55 amJuly 30, 2021 11:55 am

The head of the state’s largest law enforcement union is sounding alarms over the outcome of a marijuana legalization law he claims is restricting police officers from “upholding basic law and order across New Jersey.” In a letter to Senate...

N.J. ranks 13th in nation for LGBTQ+ elected officials

July 29, 2021 9:30 amJuly 29, 2021 12:42 am

New Jersey ranks 13th in the nation in electing members of the LGBTQ+ community to public office, according to a report released on Wednesday by Out for America. The LGBTQ+ community is seeing an all-time high of representation amount elective...

Menendez takes on Zuckerberg over Facebook spreading vaccine misinformation

July 28, 2021 2:31 pmJuly 28, 2021 2:38 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today called out Mark Zuckerberg for vaccine misinformation being spread on the popular social media site, Facebook early Wednesday. Menendez says that Facebook refuses to share the specific number of users who have viewed some sort...

Seeking to pull ’22 Olympics from Beijing, Smith pushes U.S. sponsors to speak up

July 28, 2021 12:25 pm

Representatives of six major U.S. Corporations sidestepped questions from Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) about pulling the 2022 Olympic games from China over human rights issues during a congressional hearing on Tuesday. The companies — Coca-Cola, Visa, Airbnb, Intel, and Procter...

Kim smacks Toms River candidates for anti-Semitic statements

July 27, 2021 6:06 pmJuly 27, 2021 11:36 pm

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) has called out a Republican councilman from Toms River for a dog whistle campaign mailer that depicted a fur hat worn by an Orthodox Jew that some view as a bid to blame overdevelopment on the...

Study shows police body cameras are effective

July 27, 2021 1:41 pmJuly 28, 2021 1:45 pm

Body-worn cameras are an effective tool to hold police officers accountable, according to a study completed by Stockton University and two other colleges. The study, using data from the Chicago Police Department between 2012 and 2020, found that body cameras...

Sherrill’s new assignment: help create jobs

July 27, 2021 11:23 am

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) will lead a task force on the Future of Work and Capitalism for the New Democrat Coalition, a group of centrist Democrats in the U.S House of Representatives. “The future of work is a question that...