The Valley Bank CEO describes the days and late nights he and his staff put in to help businesses stay afloat during the pandemic and explains why he's optimistic about the future.

Because of the limited supply, a task force led by Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer Linda Carroll will set the priorities for which staff members will get the shot first.

The former state attorney general and current Lowenstein Sandler partner talks about why the excessive number of vacant federal judgeships in New Jersey is bad for business.

The first such center opened in East Windsor during the week of Dec. 14 and three more followed in Middletown, Marlboro and Old Bridge. The containers can also be used to administer vaccines when the shots become widely distributed.

The deal for Strovis Holdings LLC includes the target's subsidiaries Strovis Insurance, Strovis Payroll & HR and Strovis Benefits.

The organization's 3rd Party Client Survey showed that the state's manufacturers have reported more than $463 million in new and retained sales; nearly $300 million in process savings; and more than $366 million in capital improvements and investments.

The chairman emeritus of the Bridgewater-based Somerset Patriots talks about how the team survived through the summer, the outlook for next season and what its new affiliation with the New York Yankees will mean for the region's economy.

The list that unfolds over the following pages is the last such feature we’ll publish this year. Like the others – and like most of business and life in New Jersey – the Manufacturing Power 50 is shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. The top ten individuals are drawn mostly from the pharmaceutical industry, which will provide the treatments and tools that will eventually end the outbreak. No surprise there.

The pastor of Newark's Metropolitan Baptist Church talks about the sharpened challenges facing minority-owned businesses, the shortcomings in state policy and how the Legislature's recently reconstituted Joint Committee on Economic Justice and Equal Opportunity could help bring about meaningful change.

The physician in chief for behavioral health at Hackensack Meridian Health – for the latest edition of NJBIZ Conversations. Small talked about the emotional toll of the virus, what employers can do to help their workers cope and how folks can avoid the worst psychic and physical damage.

Women's Health at Grove Street took over a previously vacant 6,000 square foot space in the building to enhance its maternal-fetal medicine, antenatal testing and mammography capabilities.

Editor Jeff Kanige spoke with John Bartlett, a partner at Murphy Orlando who discussed the courts rejecting six applications for new medical cannabis dispensary licenses around the state. Bartlett gives plenty of insight as adult use of marijuana is set to be legalized in New Jersey on Jan. 1.