NJ elections: George Norcross involved in Bergen County primary njherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from njherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New Jersey Sees Renewed Push For 'Reproductive Freedom Act' - Livingston, NJ - A proposed law would protect "essential reproductive health care" in NJ, including abortion, prenatal care and access to birth control.
POLITICO
Get the New Jersey Playbook newsletter
Email
Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Presented by Ørsted
Good Thursday morning!
Remember how controversial the state takeover of Atlantic City was back during Gov. Chris Christie’s second term?
Well, that’s scheduled to end this year. But a bill that has started advancing in the Assembly would extend it another four years while restoring Civil Service and interest arbitration rights to the city’s public workers.
Gov. Phil Murphy praise the process at a coronavirus briefing earlier this month.
Murphy described the unwritten rule, which allows Senators to block gubernatorial nominees who hail from their home county, as an occasionally annoying but necessary evil. I think it s been largely a good thing over time, Murphy said.
Defenders of the courtesy tradition have long argued that it lets individual senators serve as a check on one of the most powerful governors in the nation. But for Statehouse veterans, like Golden, courtesy simply gives senators the leverage to horse trade with the governor s office.
Senators will often threaten to hold nominees hostage in exchange for some unrelated matter, like funding for a port project or a patronage post for an ally. Senators can block or delay nominees from Senate confirmation without ever having to explain why.
His mother is trying to keep him from falling.
It s not a real cliff it s a metaphor that families and advocates of people with disabilities use to describe the transition to life after they turn 21 and age out of special education programs.
John is 20 and has severe autism. The life he has known since the age of 3 will soon change when he turns 21 and no longer is eligible for special education programs, said his mother, Patricia Miller of West Orange.
“It’s been a difficult year for everyone, but for our kids who have autism it’s been extremely difficult,” she said. It was a year of interrupted routines, raised tensions and halted therapy. To top it all off, John and others like him across the state are about to “fall off a cliff.”