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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.