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New Jersey May Be First State to Punish Inversions With Bill
Spurred by Pfizer Inc.’s plan to merge with Ireland-based Allergan Plc, New Jersey lawmakers want to cut off state contracts or incentives to U.S. companies that move their addresses to countries with lower taxes.
Dueling road studies precede N.J. gas tax debate
Weeks before debate is expected to heat up again over whether to increase New Jersey’s gas tax to pay for road improvements, a new analysis finds that state taxpayers are getting a bargain on their highway system — even if it costs $2 million a mile.
That number was calculated by the Reason Foundation, a Libertarian think tank that used it as proof that New Jersey has the least cost-effective highway network in the nation.
Eustace, Benson & Singleton Bill to Promote Responsible Use of Subsidies Aimed at Prompting Economic Growth Signed into Law
Legislation Assembly Democrats Tim Eustace, Daniel R. Benson and Troy Singleton sponsored to help ensure that taxpayer funds aimed at retaining employers and spurring economic growth in New Jersey yield positive results has been signed into law.
NJ bill would ease access to epinephrine
This week, the state Assembly is scheduled to vote on a bill, A4094, to expand public access to emergency epinephrine.
Sponsored by Assemblymen Herb Conaway Jr., D-Burlington, Troy Singleton, D-Burlington, and Benjie E. Wimberly, D-Passaic, the Epinephrine Access and Emergency Treatment Act would allow health care providers to prescribe auto-injectors to anyone properly trained to use them.
Lawmakers Look to Resolve Forced Returns to NJ of People with Disabilities
Bill would make agreement with administration permanent, allowing some residents to remain at facilities outside the state
The long-running struggle over whether New Jersey’s government will force adults with disabilities who live outside of the state to return to New Jersey is set to come to an end.
A bill (A-4781/S-3117) advancing in the Legislature would make permanent the terms of an agreement reached by lawmakers and Gov. Chris Christie during the summer. The deal prevents state officials from requiring that adults with intellectual disabilities who live in other states transfer to group homes in New Jersey.
Assembly to vote on Christie override
TRENTON — The lame-duck session of the New Jersey Legislature is in full swing and could become a memorable one this week as Assembly Democrats could succeed in overriding one of Gov. Chris Christie's vetoes for the first time.
After Pfizer move, N.J. lawmakers split on response to corporate tax inversion
The Assembly this week will consider a bill to ban inverted companies — U.S. firms that reincorporate abroad to reduce their corporate tax rate — from receiving state contracts or subsidies. The bill would also require the companies to repay any subsidies that have already been doled out.
Thanksgiving: The Every Person Holiday
Thanksgiving Day is approaching and I’m sitting in my writer’s chair thinking about this year’s message to you. Allow me to allude to two comments I have brought up before.
First, what makes this holiday so special is that no person can find offense in participating, and we exclude no one. We give thanks for the blessings in our lives and we do this regardless of one’s color, faith or place of origin. The simple goal of Thanksgiving and its non-exclusionary openness make it the perfect holiday.
The other aspect of Thanksgiving that I’ve mentioned before is the importance of sharing it. I’ve noted in the past that inviting someone into your home on Thanksgiving Day, especially when you sense or know that they have nowhere to go, is the right thing to do. The simple act of asking goes a long way, and it allows the invitee to make the decision.
N.J. gun rights group annoyed at Christie
TRENTON — The head of a New Jersey gun rights group says he's dismayed at the lack of action by Gov. Chris Christie in the five months since the governor announced he was forming a commission to ensure the state's laws and regulations "do not infringe on New Jerseyans' constitutional rights" to bear arms.
EDITORIAL: Is Liberty State Park doomed?
The other shoe is dropping at Liberty State Park. Goodbye, precious parkland. Hello, cheesy entertainment venues.
Gov. Chris Christie has long wanted to plow under a large swath of the park to throw up hotels and amusements and whatever else redevelopers say might generate revenue on the site. It’s all part of Christie’s euphemistic “Sustainable Parks” concept to squeeze more money out of our green spaces by destroying large portions of them.