The company, which provides service to over 800,000 people across several North Jersey counties, spent much of Wednesday and early Thursday working to repair five different water main breaks in Jersey City alone over the two-day period. As of 2 p.m. Thursday, a boil-water effect was still in-place for much of the city’s downtown area ...
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Christie announces new state comptroller, chief counsel in latest administrative shuffle
The moves are latest changes to Christie’s administration as he gears up for a second term. Current Comptroller Matthew Boxer said he would be stepping down from his post at the end of his six-year term next month, electing to not seek another term. Boxer says he intends on returning to the private-sector. “It has ...
Read More »Bill allowing DEP to grant 2-year extension on site remediation advances
The bill would extend the deadline two years from the current one of May 7, 2014, which was designated by a 2009 law. Under that law, the DEP would assume direct oversight of any site cleanup which fails to meet the looming deadline. Though a lengthy hearing was held on the bill earlier this month, ...
Read More »FDU poll Christie not far ahead of other 2016 GOP hopefuls
Though the poll found that Christie is the front-runner among Republicans, with 18 percent support from party voters, other potential candidates are not far behind, with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 15 percent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 14 percent and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio at 11 percent. The only possible ...
Read More »Economic Opportunity Act II withdrawn
Seen as the follow-up bill to the Economic Opportunity Act, the state’s business incentives overhaul signed into law in September, the new legislation was released from the Senate Economic Growth Committee last month and advanced to the Senate Budget Committee. But Lesniak says the bill hit a wall in committee due to a lack of ...
Read More »NJIT professor More economic growth, less unemployment in 2014
More real economic growth and less unemployment, he says. In 2014, Rapp predicts growth will rise to 3.1 percent in addition to unemployment falling to 6.9 percent by December. Though his numbers aren’t far off from his 2013 projections, they still represent a positive outlook. “My predictions last year were 3 percent real growth, 2 ...
Read More »Newark set to hold final vote on paid sick-leave ordinance Wednesday
The ordinance is currently listed on the council’s agenda for the 6:30 p.m. meeting and is slated for final passage if it receives the corresponding votes. If passed, Newark would join Jersey City as one of only two municipalities in New Jersey to enact mandatory sick-leave legislation. Under the ordinance, full- and part-time employees would ...
Read More »Obamacare fallout helps Christie pass Clinton in latest Iowa poll
And the most likely reason why is something outside the control of both candidates: Obamacare. In what might be a preview of the upcoming 2016 Iowa Caucuses, a new Quinnipiac Poll released Tuesday shows voters in the Hawkeye State now favor Christie. According to the poll, Christie leads Clinton by five percentage points in the ...
Read More »Bill preventing some employers from conducting credit checks during hiring process advances
The bill, which its Democratic sponsors say is intended to fight employee discrimination based on credit report information, would not apply in all cases. Employers required to perform credit checks by law or those who have suspicion that an employee has “engaged in a specific activity that is financial in nature and constitutes a violation ...
Read More »Legislation delaying employers’ ability to conduct background checks until a job offer advances by Assembly panel
Also known as “ban the box,” the bill would require employers to obtain consent from qualified applicants before conducting the background checks and must provide written notice of their intentions to do so. The bill also provides provisions for what an employer can take into consideration during the background check process according to the degree ...
Read More »Christie announces big change at Port Authority
A resignation comes as news continues to swirl around the September closure of three local lanes to the George Washington Bridge.
Read More »Bill to reinstate nonresidential construction fee moratorium advances
The original moratorium on the fees, which are designated to fund affordable housing projects, had expired in July. The new bill would extend it through the end of 2014. Under the bill, municipalities which collected the affordable housing fees after the moratorium’s expiration must return them to developers. However, municipalities that have already been spent ...
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