Carol Murphy Archives - New Jersey Globe

Opinion: It’s time for Washington to make lowering prescription drug costs a priority

July 29, 2021 12:01 amJuly 28, 2021 11:26 pm

One of the most pressing flaws in our healthcare system today is the outrageously high costs that pharmaceutical firms charge for prescription medications. Here in New Jersey, the burden of prescription drug prices is particularly heavy, and many people simply...

Just two years past deadline, Fulton gets home health care workers their parking placards

July 7, 2021 10:48 amJuly 7, 2021 11:19 am

After a delay of nearly three years since a law was passed, the New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission has finally figured out how to issue special parking placards to home health care workers. The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Carol Murphy...

Opinion: Private Investment in EV Charging is a Must

July 7, 2021 9:58 amJuly 7, 2021 10:00 am

OPINION Negotiations are ramping up between Republicans and the White House as both sides work to reach a bipartisan agreement on an infrastructure package that has the potential to revitalize America’s aging transportation system and drastically reduce the sector’s fossil...

Carol Murphy presses Peru on payment of $57 million in pension bonds to N.J. unions

June 21, 2021 4:40 pmJune 21, 2021 9:11 pm

New Jersey labor unions are owed as much as $57 million from the government of Peru after stiffing their pension funds on unpaid Agrarian Reform Bonds, and now Assemblywoman Carol Murphy (D-Mount Laurel) is on their case. A resolution sponsored...

Burlington Republicans back former Palmyra mayor against Singleton

March 24, 2021 8:00 pm

Burlington County Republicans will back former Palmyra Mayor Michelle Arnold against State Sen. Troy Singleton (D-Delran). Douglas Dillon, a retired career Department of Transportation official, and pharmacist Joseph Jesuele will join Arnold on the Republican ticket as Assembly candidates in...

Democratic women legislators compare Ciattarelli to Christie on health, family planning funding

March 22, 2021 9:34 amMarch 22, 2021 10:46 am

All 28 Democratic women in the New Jersey Legislature today slammed Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli’s for promising to remove funding cuts to women’s health and family planning services if he defeats Gov. Phil Murphy in the general election. The...

Stanfield urges lawmakers to remove Hicks after latest charges in prison scandal

March 18, 2021 5:15 pm

Assemblywoman Jean Stanfield (R-Westampton) renewed her call for the impeachment of Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks after the state filed charges against four more guards over abuses at the state’s only women’s prison. “The women at Edna Mahan don’t have any...