TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia spoke in defense of protecting safe spaces for females and hard-won advances in girls-only sports at the Roxbury Board of Education meeting Monday. The Board was considering whether to abolish its transgender student policy, which allowed males who identify as females to participate...
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TRENTON, N.J. – Slaves live in New Jersey today. They are men, women and children; some are foreign-born, promised factory or domestic work and a better life in America. Some are here already, lured away from unhappy situations, real or imagined, with promises of something better. But for them, there...
TRENTON, N.J. – The video and image went viral. Two New York City police officers were attacked by a migrant mob near Times Square on Jan. 27. Then the smug look of one alleged attacker as he flips his middle finger to cameras after being released without bail. Demands...
SPARTA, N.J. – Assemblyman Michael Inganamort hosted Jewish leaders from across his district in the state’s northwestern corner for a conversation on rising antisemitism on college campuses earlier this month. Inganamort recently returned from a 42-hour visit to Israel, where he met with military leaders at the Gaza border;...
TRENTON, N.J. – Freshman Assembly members Dawn Fantasia and Michael Inganamort, along with Sen. Parker Space, oppose a bill that grants certain persons immunity from criminal and civil liabilities for making available obscene material to minors. The Democrat-backed bill (S2421/A3446), dubbed the “Freedom to Read Act,” gives an...
TRENTON, N.J. – A bipartisan bill that will streamline submissions of public work contractors’ payrolls was signed into law Wednesday. Current law only requires those contractors submit written payroll records to the Department of Labor and the contract-awarding public body. The bill (S1442/A5345), sponsored by Assemblymen Ned Thomson, Christopher...
TRENTON, N.J. – The Assembly on Friday passed a bill that expands the eligibility for discounted fishing licenses. Assemblyman Parker Space, the minority co-chairman of the New Jersey Angling, Hunting, and Conservation Caucus and a lifelong sportsman, led the effort to promote New Jersey’s freshwater fishing in its scenic...
TRENTON, N.J. – An effort to promote freshwater fishing in the state’s scenic lakes, rivers and streams received a boost Thursday when legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Parker Space to expand the eligibility for discounted fishing licenses passed the Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee. “Whether ice fishing in...
TRENTON, N.J. – After taxpayers and government employees were hit with double-digit rate spikes last year, a new report from the actuary hired by the state to assess its health insurance plans recommends immediate and long-term ways to cut premium expenses. “Anything the state can do to lower costs...
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey has an official state bird, two state foods, and even a microbe, but not an official mineral. That is likely about to change. Since 2015, Sussex County legislators and schoolchildren have pushed to declare a state mineral. On Thursday, the Assembly passed a bill...