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N.J.'s Largest Teachers Union Pushing Hard For Vote On Health Care Overhaul

New Jersey’s largest teachers union is putting pressure on the Democratic-controlled Assembly to vote on a plan to overhaul educators’ health insurance plans that has stalled in the lower house.

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Contact Tracing Plan For NJ: What We Know Now

Identifying and tracking all who have come in contact with someone with COVID-19 is critical to New Jersey’s reopening plans

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Bordentown City Vigil: ‘All Lives Cannot Matter, Until Black Lives Matter’

Bordentown City and its surrounding community held a candlelight vigil at the small city’s heart to remember the life of George Floyd, and to show that “all lives cannot matter until black lives matter.”

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Hundreds Take Stand Against Racism At Moorestown Protest

Their goal: raise awareness in a predominantly white town of the police brutality and racial inequality minorities and people of color face in the United States.

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Emergency Food Pickup In Burlington County This Weekend

State, county and local officials will host an emergency food distribution event in Riverside Saturday.

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N.J. Will Track Police Use Of Force, Require Licensing Cops, AG Says As Protests Roil Nation

New Jersey will soon launch a statewide database of police use of force and create a licensing system for police officers amid national protests over police violence, the state’s top law enforcement official said Tuesday.

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School Aid Figures Revised: Pandemic Hit On State Budget

Two-thirds of New Jersey districts will see increases reduced — some drastically — from Murphy’s first budget

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Students, Lawmakers Putting Pressure On Murphy To Allow High School Graduations

Like countless other high school seniors across New Jersey, Isabella Ghanbary and her best friends and co-plaintiffs Arianna Wilent and Gina DiPasquale had been waiting for this moment for much, if not most, of their lives.

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Reopen N.J. Outdoor Dining And Allow Graduation Ceremonies? Not Yet, Murphy Says.

Even though more people can now gather outside in New Jersey during the coronavirus pandemic, don’t start searching for al fresco restaurant bookings or planning a high school graduation ceremony. At least not yet, Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday.

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South Jersey Leaders Call For Reopening Plan And Timetable for Atlantic City And Other Low Impact Regions

Senator Troy Singleton (D-7), Deputy Assembly Speaker John Burzichelli (D-3) and Assemblymen John Armato (D-2) and Vincent Mazzeo (D-2) today called upon Governor Phil Murphy to immediately issue actionable plans with specific timetables for the reopening of Atlantic City and other regions of the state that have seen far fewer infections from COVID-19 than harder hit counties. 

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