New Jersey
A peanut butter mile: South Jersey woman running to raise awareness
How long will it take to tally 500 peanut butter miles? How about 1,000? More to the point, what is a peanut butter mile? Kristen ...
15 years ago
How are New Jersey public schools doing? Depends on where you live
The New Jersey Education Association, NJ’s primary teacher union, trumpets, “New Jersey’s schools are the best in the n ...
15 years ago
Measure limiting sick-time payouts advances in N.J.
A New Jersey Assembly committee has voted along party lines to advance legislation that limits cash payouts for unused sick time accumula ...
15 years ago
N.J. lawmaker wants to nudge businesses to hire long-term unemployed
The Assembly Labor Committee has advanced legislation to spur job growth in New Jersey. The measure would provide tax credits to b ...
15 years ago
Breakfast with Christie: Governor to attend breakfast at Burlington Township school
Governor Chris Christie is scheduled to attend breakfast at Bernice Young Elementary School Friday as part of National School Breakfast W ...
15 years ago
American Girl Doll Fashion Show to benefit South Jersey Ronald McDonald House
It sounds like something out of a wild story book. This weekend, a bunch of dolls will join forces to help out a house founded by a popul ...
15 years ago
Interactive map: The changes in state aid to local communities in New Jersey
In his budget address, Gov. Christie talked about a record level of school aid, the 2 percent property tax cap, and pension reform all ...
15 years ago
At first hearing on $32B budget plan, N.J. lawmakers focus on health care
The New Jersey Assembly held the first legislative hearing Wednesday on Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed $32 billion budget. The focu ...
15 years ago
N.J. leaders strike $1 million deal to save anti-bullying law
A bipartisan agreement struck Wednesday by Gov. Chris Christie and legislative leaders in New Jersey will preserve the state’s anti ...
15 years ago
New no-fee policy for residents designed to promote Camden County’s 20 parks
Bride-to-be Suzanne Brown got an early wedding gift when the county refunded the deposit she’d put on the picnic grove she reserved ...
15 years ago
A New Jersey family’s history told through dozens of quilts
Dorothy Talavera of Delanco, N.J., can stand over any one of her dozens of quilts and tell you when it was made, who made it and the hist ...
15 years ago
N.J. Dems offer tax-cut alternatives to Christie plan
Democrats in the New Jersey Legislature are proposing dueling alternatives to Gov. Chris Christie’s income tax cut plan. Sen ...
15 years ago
N.J. Congressman Payne lauded for trail-blazing civil rights legacy
The first African-American elected to Congress from New Jersey died Tuesday. Congressman Donald Payne, who was 77, had been undergoing tr ...
15 years ago
Hop farming slowly but surely growing in New Jersey
Facing a massive crop shortage in 2007, New Jersey homebrewers Marylu Hansen and Beau Byrtus found a way to stay in business and make som ...
15 years ago
Opponents of Rutgers-Camden Rowan merger raise money for legal challenge
Supporters of Rutgers-Camden are mounting a campaign against Governor Christie’s plan to merge the campus with Rowan University.&nb ...
15 years ago