TRENTON, N.J. – When pressed by Assemblywoman Aura Dunn during Monday’s Assembly budget hearing, the Department of Children and Families Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer couldn’t address the workforce needs of child care centers, the decline in the number of community-based centers seeking licenses or the discrepancies in safety standards...
TRENTON, N.J. – At Monday’s joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly Environment Committee, several expert witnesses testified on strategies to reduce and eliminate plastics pollution. In a line of questioning from Assemblyman Michael Inganamort, Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics and a former EPA regional administrator under President...
TRENTON, N.J. – A clear indication Democrats in New Jersey have moved too far left and out of the mainstream, two vulnerable Democrats left an Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing Thursday just prior to votes on Gov. Phil Murphy’s latest gun package. “I have to get somewhere,” Chairwoman Lisa Swain...
TRENTON, N.J. – You first have to get your facts straight if you’re going to conjure Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who famously remarked that people are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts. Assembly Democrat John McKeon chastised Assemblyman Hal Wirths for saying Gov. Phil Murphy supported...