The latest proposal would provide credits for wages that certain small businesses paid to employees to keep them on board over the course of the public health emergency.

By participating in online survey, community members will help inform projects designed to revitalize and rejuvenate the area located in and around the capitol's State, Broad, Front and Warren corridors.

Philip Sellinger is currently co-managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Florham Park office, a position he's held since 2002 after spending 18 years at Sills Cummis & Gross in Newark.

In February 2019, an F&A school bus driver transporting 12 special-needs children in Newark crashed the vehicle into the wall of a building, and had allegedly overdosed on heroin at the time. Police had to revive the driver using Narcan.

Seven awards were doled out for the program at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's last board meeting of 2021. The initiative has picked up some of the tab for 30 productions in the state since its reintroduction in 2018.

Officials set a deadline of Jan. 5 to apply for SBA funds, which are only available to companies, homeowners and renters in Bergen, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset and Union counties.

The measures are designed to help businesses recoup the costs of complying with pandemic restrictions and to encourage investments in small and mid-size companies.

A lame duck proposal that would prohibit the state from mandating that commercial and residential properties make the switch from oil and natural gas was approved by a Senate committee on Dec. 6.

Legislation to bolster the program cleared an Assembly committee on Dec. 6. The effort comes as productions pick up in the Garden State, following the standstill imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although New Jersey is a “national leader in policies that support working families,” the program leaves much to be desired, said Debra Lancaster, head of the Rutgers Center for Women and Work, and one of the lead authors of the report.

The initiative will make low-interest loans up to $350,000 available to for-profit organizations and grants of up to $350,000 available to nonprofits and local government units.

The legislation is a bid to boost the state's workforce. According to a Dec. 2 statement from the Assembly Democrats, more than 88,000 additional families could benefit from the expanded tax subsidy program.