The past two years have been challenging for everyone in their own way. In today’s environment, the demand for therapy has surged as healthcare workers have been traumatized from caring for COVID-19 patients, political disagreements have people on edge, and families...
Ready to day drink, listen to live music and enjoy themselves, herds of thousands of people walked through Bader Field to where the tents, giant stage and innerworkings of the festival were taking place. Hosted by Good Time Tricycle Productions, the Atlantic City Beer...
With summer unofficially underway, New Jersey residents are taking advantage of lifted pandemic restrictions — but in health care settings, steps to prevent coronavirus spread remain crucial. New Jersey lifted its mask mandates in most settings almost three months...
Finding your footing in conversations about renewable energy as a utility that’s largely in the business of fossil fuels isn’t easy. But South Jersey Industries manages to make it look like it is. SJI’s CEO, Mike Renna, doesn’t require much encouragement to chat your...
A new rule to prevent already stressed communities from seeing increased pollution is the most transformative environmental measure in 30 years, the head of the Department of Environmental Protection says. In a briefing with reporters on Thursday, DEP officials...
Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced a directive instructing law enforcement agencies to no longer, in most instances, subject individuals encountered with municipal court bench warrants with bail amounts of $500 or less to custodial arrest. ...
Entering our third pandemic summer, it’s easy to get frustrated with the vaccines. They aren’t as effective against variants and subvariants that keep taunting us. They aren’t preventing ongoing transmission of infection — and reinfection. They didn’t restore our...
New Jersey needed seven years to make up deep revenue losses sustained during the Great Recession, when everything from school aid to public-worker pension funding was slashed to keep the budget in balance. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, which also brought on an...
For the first time, state environmental regulators would be required when making permitting decisions to consider the cumulative impact of new facilities such as power plants on pollution levels in already overburdened communities. That requirement is spelled out in a...
