Category: Projects
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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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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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The high price of AI: Early optimism runs into current reality
The state’s big dream of turning New Jersey into the “Silicon Valley” of artificial intelligence has run smack into the reality of soaring energy costs, the unrealistic ambitions of overly optimistic lawmakers and a public backlash against the growing number of data centers.
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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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