Bipartisan bill introduced to provide $120B in relief for restaurants

A pair of township residents are seeking to continue the local conversation on equality by organizing a Black Lives Matter rally for Saturday at Hillside Park.

New Jersey remains the only state in the country to still use the colonial-era public office title of ‘freeholder’. Dating back to before the American Revolution, the title was used at a time when only white male owners of debt-free land could hold office. Today, it is a term often derided because of its inability to capture the actual duties of elected county officials.

State lawmakers voted Thursday to designate Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery, a state holiday.

The legislation establishes the third Friday in June as Juneteenth Day, and must be signed by Gov. Phil Murphy to become law.

The Assembly this afternoon passed a bill designating the third Friday in June in each year as Juneteenth Day — that celebrates the emancipation of remaining enslaved African-Americans — and establishes it as a State holiday.  The vote tally was 62-0-12.  Among those abstaining was our very own LD 24 Assemblyman Hal Wirths.

Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered the keynote address at the virtual National Food Policy Conference hosted by the Consumer Federation of America. During his remarks, Senator Booker discussed his legislative efforts to reform our broken food system and highlighted the negative impacts the current system has on independent family farmers, rural communities, public heath, workers and farm animals. Today, Booker also introduced a bill to boost safety and protect meatpacking workers from COVID-19,  The Safe Line Speeds in COVID-19 Act.