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Can N.J. Cops Smoke Weed Now That It’s Legal Here? It’s Complicated
The sale of recreational marijuana began just over a week ago in New Jersey and already public officials are facing issues, including whether law enforcement officers and other crucial employees should be allowed to smoke or use weed on their own time.
Here’s One Way The State Can Reduce Our Property Taxes l Opinion
New Jersey mayors and municipalities say the funds will help towns provide much-needed property tax relief for their residents.
Atlantic City Hosts Summit On Human Trafficking
“I frankly do not say that lightly,” the Moorestown Democrat and Senate majority whip said at the event, where he was the keynote speaker. “Although it’s been 400 years since the first slaves were forcibly brought to America and nearly 160 years since President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, slavery in the form of human trafficking is still alive.”
Murphy's Low-Income Housing Proposal Helps But Not Enough, Some Say
The initiative would allocate $300 million in American Rescue Plan funds the state received from the federal government to create the fund.
N.J. Department Of Education Partners With Rowan To Recruit More Men Of Color As Teachers
Bobby Morgan still remembers it like it was yesterday.
He said his sixth-grade teacher told his parents he “did not belong” in honors classes. And those words stuck with him throughout high school and college.
NJ Education Officials, Rowan Partnering To Get More Men Of Color In K-12 Workforce
The New Jersey Department of Education and Rowan University on Tuesday announced an initiative called "Men of Color Hope Achievers," designed to recruit and retain male educators from minority or disadvantaged backgrounds in the state's K-12 workforce, possibly as early as this September.