
New Jersey
New Jersey adds jobs, but unemployment doesn’t budge
New Jersey has more jobs for the third straight month, but the unemployment rate is unchanged. Employers in the Garden State added ...
12 years ago
N.J. voters approve far more school budgets this year than last
This year, school districts in New Jersey got a pretty big break. “Voters approved nearly 80 percent of school budget proposals whi ...
12 years ago
NJ Supreme Court to take up school funding case
WHYY’s Jo Ann Allen speaks with John Mooney of NJSpotlight.com about the latest twist in the New Jersey Supreme Court’s long ...
12 years ago
Call for more facilities funding at NJ colleges
Leaders of New Jersey’s colleges and universities are hoping the state will invest more in higher education. Rutgers Preside ...
12 years ago
Frack wars reach other side of the Delaware
New Jersey environmentalists are urging Governor Christie to support a ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Fracking is a ...
12 years ago
N.J. casino deregulation may not save A.C.
New Jersey’s latest attempt to help its struggling casino industry will take effect Wednesday. That’s when the state wi ...
12 years ago
Government contractors giving less to New Jersey politicos
Political contributions by public contractors in New Jersey are down for the fifth year in a row. Contributions from contractors fel ...
12 years ago
Suit highlights, but doesn’t challenge Pa.’s fireworks law
A New Jersey man is suing a neighbor, and a Pennsylvania fireworks retailer, after being injured by a mortar-style device. Pennsylv ...
12 years ago
Fight brewing in Camden over business curfew
To cut down on crime, Camden city government is once again proposing a curfew for businesses. The city tried before in 1998 and 200 ...
12 years ago
Sandcastle building no longer illegal in N.J. shore town
When Matthew Doherty became mayor of Belmar, New Jersey earlier this year, he asked for input from residents on laws they thought might b ...
12 years ago
Boxer Hopkins fights for pit bull population control in Camden
The group New Jersey Aid for Animals is getting help from boxer Bernard Hopkins, the former middleweight champion, to advertise a pit bul ...
12 years ago
Laid-off police, firefighters elated some will be back on the job
Camden Mayor Dana Redd said Thursday she will use $2.5 million from the South Jersey Port Corporation to put some laid-off police officer ...
12 years ago
Camden re-hiring some police officers and firefighters
There’s good news for Camden, New Jersey. Some police and firefighters are getting re-hired after massive layoffs. ...
12 years ago
Camden logs 10th homicide this year
Ten people have been killed in Camden, N.J., so far this year. Just two and a half months into 2011, the death toll is two more tha ...
12 years ago
N.J. shore towns say Census numbers don’t add up
The Census said populations are down in some New Jersey shore towns. At one town said the numbers just don’t wash. Ava ...
12 years ago