TRENTON, N.J. – Aiming to help New Jerseyans facing food insecurity, the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee passed Assemblyman Jay Webber’s legislation creating a state income tax deduction for businesses that make charitable food donations. “Food banks are struggling to meet the increase in demand as more and more families...
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TRENTON, N.J. – An Assembly committee on Thursday will take up a bill addressing the limited public funds dedicated to counties for Covid-19 testing and treatment, and the soaring enrollment in Medicaid as people lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during the pandemic. The bill (A2017), sponsored by Assemblyman Erik...
TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblyman Antwan McClellan’s bipartisan bill creating a Black Heritage Trail in New Jersey was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Wednesday. McClellan, Legislative District 1’s first African American legislator in the General Assembly, was joined by the governor and the bill’s other sponsors at a...
TRENTON, N.J. – Do state taxpayers need to spend money on UFO research? The answer should be an easy “nope,” because this is real life, not a Jordan Peele sci-fi horror film. But, Assembly Democrats prioritize the paranormal over residents with their $250,000 proposal to fund UFO and alien...
TRENTON, N.J. – Republicans break down a Democrat proposal requiring retailers to shrink the size of their cardboard shipping boxes or be penalized in “<Three,” a new YouTube series from the Assembly Republican Office in Trenton. Are Dems finally tying to shrink something? Steven Szemple, a Republican legislative analyst,...
TRENTON, N.J. – A Democrat proposal giving a government-created board the ability to control prescription drug prices in New Jersey will not help patients, but will destroy the state’s acclaimed life sciences industry, says Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips. “New Jersey, which is home to 14 of the world’s 20 largest...
TRENTON, N.J. – The Assembly Republican Office has made its parody video of the New Jersey Education Association’s nationally-criticized TV commercial that accuses parents of being extremists available on its website. A higher resolution version can be embedded from Vimeo. The video can also be currently viewed and embedded...
TRENTON, N.J. – Assembly Republican Leader John DiMaio commented on the New Jersey Education Association having YouTube remove the Assembly Republican Office’s parody video of the union’s nationally-criticized TV commercial that accuses parents of being extremists. “The NJEA’s action only drives home the Republicans’ point that they will stop...
TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblywoman Beth Sawyer is calling on Rutgers University officials to revise its fall Covid-19 masking and testing requirements to align with new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control that relaxes or eliminates many of those rules. The state’s flagship university will continue to mandate testing...
TRENTON, N.J. – In a parody ad released on YouTube Wednesday, the Assembly Republican Office in Trenton slams the state’s teachers’ union for its latest 15-second TV commercial calling outspoken parents “extremists.” The parody, “If the NJEA was honest in its commercials,” says the New Jersey Education Association has...