Category: News
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Sherrill signs reproductive and gender-affirming care protections into law
Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a bill Thursday protecting reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare, which lawmakers passed after an emotional Assembly debate in June and deeply partisan votes.
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Is New Jersey becoming the new Hollywood? Netflix, tax credits fuel ‘Jerseywood’ boom
New Jersey’s growing film industry, bolstered by Netflix’s planned Fort Monmouth campus and other major studio projects, has inspired hopes for local jobs and business growth while raising questions for many experts on the cost and accountability of the state’s film tax credits.
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Driverless cars could one day empower blind New Jerseyans
Linda Melendez paints a vibrant picture of autonomous vehicles, a future that is not cold and robotic but instead liberating and empowering for the 65-year-old, who is blind. A bill establishing trial testing for self-driving cars in New Jersey is pending in the legislature.
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Sherrill’s new initiatives aim to expand affordable housing in NJ
New Jersey is taking several major new steps to address its housing shortage by helping towns move from planning affordable housing to actively getting it built, while a federal, bipartisan housing bill also becomes law in Washington.
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The New Jersey fight against Trump-era immigration policies
In the face of strict federal immigration policies, organizations across New Jersey like Resistencia en Acción are taking the task of resisting and protecting their communities into their own hands. And with the introduction of new federal policies threatening the position of immigrants, state officials have worked to protect New Jersey immigrants.
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Historic Old Barracks Museum reopens in Trenton for America’s 250th anniversary
Trenton’s historic Old Barracks Museum has reopened its doors for America’s 250th, after lengthy restoration. The site quartered both Patriots and British troops during the Revolutionary War.
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State lawmakers propose guardrails to limit license plate camera data
Lawmakers in New Jersey and 34 other states have proposed legislation restricting the use of widespread networks of automated license plate surveillance cameras that create hoards of data used to track motorists in the wake of their recent use in ICE arrests.
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