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N.J. police officers would have to hold state licenses under proposed program

May 18, 2022 3:13 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy and acting Attorney General Matt Platkin jointly announced this morning that they will work with the state legislature to create a statewide police licensing program, under which all law enforcement officers would have to hold Police Training...

Senate set to approve nearly all of Murphy’s diverse March slate of Superior Court nominees

May 17, 2022 4:35 pm

In March, Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled a set of 14 nominees to the Superior Court, with the intention of both diversifying the judiciary and addressing the state’s backlog of cases and judicial vacancies. Now, with a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting...

Durr bill requires drunk drivers who kill parents to support their children

May 17, 2022 12:26 pm

Courts would be mandated to order financial support for children whose parents are killed by a drunk driver under legislation introduced by State Sen. Edward Durr (R-Swedesboro). Durr’s bill requires financial support for minors until they turn 18 for anyone...

Harold Curry, two-term Democratic assemblyman from Warren County in the 1960s, dies at 89

May 17, 2022 10:34 amMay 17, 2022 4:06 pm

Harold J. Curry, a Democrat who served as an assemblyman from Warren County from 1964 to 1968, died on March 21. He was 89. Curry was the Democratic candidate for Warren County Freeholder in 1962, running in President John F....

Assembly committee clears cardboard box regulations over Republican, business objections

May 16, 2022 4:26 pm

The Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee today approved Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange)’s bill to ban large retailers from shipping products in boxes more than twice the volume of the product, but not before a number of business group...

Cryan ‘disappointed’ by Murphy’s conditional veto of bribery bill

May 16, 2022 1:05 pmMay 17, 2022 12:04 am

State Sen. Joe Cryan (D-Union), the Senate sponsor of a bill applying bribery laws to candidates for political office (rather than just elected officeholders), said today that he was frustrated by Gov. Phil Murphy’s conditional veto of the bill last...

Coughlin demands ‘largest tax relief program in state history’

May 16, 2022 12:20 pmMay 16, 2022 3:15 pm

With state revenues at higher than anticipated levels, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin is promising tax relief as a condition of passing the next state budget. “We have additional money this year, and New Jersey needs tax relief now,” Coughlin said. ...