Jack Ciattarelli won the Republican nomination, shaking off two pro-Trump candidates in the primary, engineer Hirsh Singh and pastor Philip Rizzo, campaigning on a more moderate conservative agenda.

Fifty-six percent of voters said they would pick Gov. Phil Murphy for a second term if the election was held today, compared to just 24% who favored former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican frontrunner.

If the school’s trustees approve, Jonathan G.S. Koppell would be the ninth MSU president to serve after longtime president Susan Cole announced last September that she would retire effective July this year.

James Fakult began his two-year term on June 3, succeeding outgoing PNC Bank New Jersey Regional President Linda Bowden.

“The ‘rally around the flag’ effect the pandemic has had on Gov. Murphy’s ratings in the past year is inevitably coming to an end,” said Ashley Koning, an assistant research professor who heads the polling institute.

“Let’s not kid ourselves. The public health emergency is over. The pandemic is not,” the governor said during his COVID-19 briefing on June 7 in Trenton

The PPE Manufacturing Tax Credit will run over three years and allocates $10 million for 2020, 2021 and 2022. It’s part of the broader $14.5 billion New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020, meant to help fuel the state’s rebound from the COVID-19 recession.

“We’ve seen tens-of-thousands of small business owners in New Jersey benefit from this grant program offered by the NJEDA since it was initially launched in April of last year, so we’re very grateful to receive this additional funding that will help us fulfill many more requests for financial assistance,” reads a statement from NJEDA head Tim Sullivan.

“[N]ow is the right time to take this action, particularly as the final limits on gatherings are lifted tomorrow,” reads a joint statement issued on June 3 by Murphy, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin and Senate President Stephen Sweeney shortly after the bill was approved by the full state Legislature.

Sixty-one percent of residents said they would support some type of credential that would establish evidence that someone was inoculated against COVID-19.

The state is rolling back one of its final rounds of pandemic restrictions, as the spread of the virus plummets and more than 4.1 million people are fully vaccinated.

"[N]ow is the right time to take this action, particularly as the final limits on gatherings are lifted ... " reads a joint statement issued by the governor, Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. "With passage of this bill today and its signing tomorrow, followed by the governor's signing of an executive order terminating the Public Health Emergency, we will move closer to normal than at any time since March 2020."