President Obama’s announcement that people should be able to keep their existing insurance policies is good news for the millions who recently received cancellation notices – but insurance companies worry about destabilization.
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Economic Opportunity Act II advances to budget committee
Follow-up legislation to the Economic Opportunity Act, the New Jersey business incentives overhaul signed into law in September, was unanimously released from the Senate Economic Growth Committee today.
Read More »Economic Opportunity Act II That’s right, proposals for more incentives will be presented Thursday
Well, that didn't take long.
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More movies? Committee to hear testimony supporting Garden State Film and Digital Media Jobs Act
“It will be a job creator for areas all across the state,” Fulop said in an interview Tuesday. The act is featured as part of a package of additional business incentives to complement the recently passed Economic Opportunity Act. State Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) is sponsoring the bill, which also calls for additional tax credits ...
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Chiesa returns to Wolff Samson after stint as interim U.S. senator
By Joshua Burd | Email | TwitterJeff Chiesa has landed in a familiar place — Wolff & Samson — after spending five months filling in as a U.S. senator, the West Orange-based law firm announced today.The former state attorney general has rejoined the firm as a partner after being tapped by Gov. Chris Christie in ...
Read More »On national talk-show circuit, Christie promotes private-sector growth amid 2016 speculation
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, for starters, cut straight to the chase, using his first question to ask Christie how interested he was in running for president in 2016. “Well, Chris, what I’m interested in doing is being the governor of New Jersey,” Christie said. That answer was a common refrain throughout the morning ...
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Gay couples find equal rights in marriage bring equal rights in divorce
In perhaps the most unexpected unintended consequence of gay marriage becoming legal in New Jersey, the law will also help same-sex couples looking to separate get more out of that all too frequent byproduct of divorce: alimony. Stacey Cozewith, a partner with Snyder & Sarno in New Jersey, explains this stems purely from a federal ...
Read More »Too big to fail American Dream worth one more shot
So one of the first awards under the controversial Economic Opportunity Act goes to one of the most controversial projects in recent history. Sounds about right. Triple Five, of course, is the last developer standing that thinks it can reboot Xanadu into American Dream, a shopping and entertainment paradise in the shadow of MetLife Stadium. ...
Read More »Business leaders fear precedent set by wage vote
With Republican Gov. Chris Christie firmly in control of the executive branch and a Democratic majority running both the Assembly and Senate, Egenton worries using the ballot box to avoid true legislating will become common. Simply put, he’s concerned about the message that was sent by Trenton. “This really does set a bad precedent,” Egenton ...
Read More »NJDOT commissioner South Jersey offers ‘boundless opportunities for growth’
Simpson, speaking before a group of business leaders Friday morning at Rowan University for an event held by the Southern New Jersey Development Council, said South Jersey can be an alternative to the too-congested North Jersey. “(South Jersey offers) boundless opportunities for growth,” he said. A good example of a project that needs that attention, ...
Read More »Menendez co-sponsors bill that will help life science companies boost capital
“It goes right to the heart of what so many small, early-stage and cash-strapped companies really need,” Debbie Hart, CEO of BioNJ said of a bill introduced Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. “It expands their cash allowance,” she said. “It also lets them hold on their investment dollars ...
Read More »Army weapons research center awards 21.3M engineering contract
According to the announcement, Alion will evaluate a wide range of armament systems, munitions, ancillary equipment, and enabling technologies during design, development, and production phases of the engineering life-cycle. Alion engineers and analysts will provide technical systems research and development, engineering, evaluation and program and acquisition planning and management to support projects such as improvised ...
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