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Are Free Market Forces the Solution for Our Country’s Health Care Woes?
There is no topic in recent times that garners more attention than health care, except for the never-ending debate on higher taxes. Cupped into the debate surrounding health care in our country are the oftentimes competing concerns of cost, quality of service, availability, and who pays for what.
Threats To Funding For Family Planning Leave Local Women's Centers Divided
The fight to restore family planning funding to the state budget has resumed for the seventh year in a row, but support for such programs is far from unanimous among local women’s organizations.
With Spectrum Auction A Wrap, How Should NJ Spend Its $300M Proceeds?
One proposal: funnel some funds into journalism and media-related endeavors to compensate for deep cuts to New Jersey’s journalism community in recent years.
New Traffic Pattern on Route 130 In Burlington City Creates Congestion To Slow Drivers
BURLINGTON CITY — The new traffic pattern on Route 130 — which looks to create congestion to slow vehicles down near city schools — is causing more confusion than traffic calming in its first few days.
There's Nothing Micro About NJ's Small Businesses
You've got the talent and the drive to open a small business - a neighborhood pizza place, maybe, or a laundromat - and now New Jersey is offering the incentive.
Gov. Chris Christie signed a law early this year offering help to anyone interested in launching a microbusiness, an enterprise with five or fewer employees.
Lift Veil On Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Reduce Prescription Costs
As two owners of independent pharmacies in New Jersey, we often look at the health care cost landscape and ask each other, “How in the world did we get here?”
Small Business: The Real Business of America
If you want to take the measure of business in the United States, just glance at those stores on the strip mall that you pass every day on your way to work. It’s your bagel place, a laundry operation, maybe a strictly takeout restaurant. Many are microbusinesses. And if you want to take the measure of business in the United States that you don’t see, imagine all the small companies run from home, self-employed consultants, for example, on every subject under the sun.
NJ Election Watchdog: State Needs Pay-To-Play Reform
Political contributions made by New Jersey’s public contractors declined in 2016 for the third year in a row, but the state’s election watchdog remains concerned about the role of groups that can skirt pay-to-play laws.
Editorial: Promising Future For 'America's Playground'
What's the surest sign that there's good news in Atlantic City these days? Gov. Chris Christie made an appearance last week in the beleaguered resort, a place he has been avoiding lately.
State Poised To Open First 'Rehab Prison' At Mid-State Correctional Facility
New Jersey leaders hope that clinically driven ‘treatment prison’ will become national model, but Christie not looking for 100 percent success.