Category: New Jersey

New Jersey Hospital Mandates Booster Shots for Workers Who Got J&J’s COVID Vaccine

Hospitals around the nation earlier this year began imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but employees were told they’d meet the requirements if they received the single-shot Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine. That’s changed at a New Jersey hospital, where employees now must get a booster if they received the single-shot jab. University Hospital in Newark on…


New Jersey’s Vaccine Mandate for State Capitol Will Restrict Public Access to Legislature: Republican Lawmakers

A plan proposed by the New Jersey government which requires full COVID-19 vaccination or a test for lawmakers, staff, and the public to enter the state capitol complex will limit public access to legislature, according to Republican lawmakers. A New Jersey government commission—comprising four legislative staff and four staff from the governor’s office—introduced a resolution…


New Jersey Gov. Declares State of Emergency in Preparation for Nor’easter Storm

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared on Monday evening that the region will enter a state of emergency, effective 8 p.m., in preparation for the impacts of a nor’easter. Murphy urged for residents of all 21 counties in the Garden State to stay off the roads, remain vigilant, follow safety protocols, ensure devices are fully…


New Jersey Man Falls 9 Stories From High Rise Onto BMW, Survives

A New Jersey man survived a fall from a nine-story high rise in Jersey City after landing on a parked BMW on Wednesday morning, according to bystanders and officials. Witness Christina Smith, 21, told the New York Post that she heard the moment the man, 31, crashed through the roof of the vehicle parked below…


New Jersey Gubernatorial Candidates Square Off on Hurricane Response, Pandemic, Policing in First Debate

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican hopeful Jack Ciattarelli faced off in a contentious gubernatorial debate on a range of issues, including the response to Hurricane Ida, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial profiling, school curricula, and taxes. Ciattarelli, a former New Jersey Assemblyman, wrote on Twitter that he was “fired up after the debate.” Ciattarelli…


Three Charged in $30 Million Cable Television Scheme After FBI and IRS Probe

Three men have been charged by indictment with crimes arising out of a lucrative copyright infringement scheme, according to a press release from acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. in Philadelphia. Bill Omar Carrasquillo, 35, of Swedesboro, New Jersey; Jesse Gonzales, 42, of Pico Rivera, California; and…


New Jersey Set to Shed $182 Million Unilever Assets Over Ben & Jerry’s Boycott

A New Jersey state treasury official said on Wednesday it is set to divest $182 million in Unilever Plc. stock and bonds held by its pension funds over the restriction of sales by the consumer giant’s Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand in Israeli-occupied territories. It is the latest action by a U.S. state challenging…


Newark, NJ Firefighters and Police Unions Demand Negotiations on Vaccine Mandate

Firefighters and police unions in Newark, New Jersey, held a rally on Wednesday to demand that the city government negotiate with them on the change in their work conditions due to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate imposed by the mayor. More than a hundred people demonstrated in Newark against the forced vaccination order by holding signs, shouting…


Biden Visits Areas in Northeast Affected by Ida Flooding, Promotes Infrastructure Bill

President Joe Biden traveled to parts of the northeast Tuesday to view the aftermath of flash flooding that left at least 50 people dead in six states. Biden made stops in Manville, New Jersey and the New York City borough of Queens, where record rainfall last week caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida overwhelmed…


New Jersey’s Largest Dairy Farm Nearly Destroyed in Tornado

The morning after one of the most intense tornados recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the largest dairy farm in the state, owners Marianne and Wally Eachus looked at each other and just cried. “What are we going to do?” they asked one another. Just 12 hours earlier, the couple was eating dinner…