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Archive of New Jersey on Monday June 29, 2009
NJ: After months of stalls, legislators slap limits on buying handguns
Handgun purchases in New Jersey would be limited to one per month after lawmakers gave final approval early yesterday to a controversial bill that had stalled for months and re-emerged in the rush before the Legislature's summer break. Read More
NJ: Few expected to immediately use paid leave
Heralded as a victory for workers' rights and criticized as a potential drain on businesses, a law making New Jersey the second state in the nation to provide paid leave to care for new children or ailing relatives takes effect Wednesday. But the measure is not expected to dramatically alter the workplace right away, its champions and opponents agree. Read More
Tracking the recession: Budget deadline looms
Unlike the federal government, states have to balance their budgets. But several states still have not completed spending plans for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Read More
NJ: Corzine signs bill to impose electoral rules on lieutenant governor candidates
Without ceremony, Gov. Jon Corzine Friday signed legislation that imposes electoral and campaign finance requirements upon candidates who seek the position as New Jersey's first lieutenant governor. Read More
NJ: Joe Biden's gaff bites Jon Corzine in — speech
Vice President Joe Biden suffered another bout of foot in mouth disease Thursday evening and this time Gov. Jon Corzine got bit. Biden replaced Corzine as governor of New Jersey with a guy named Tim Kaine. Read More
NJ: Corzine defends record to Newark crowd
More than 90 percent of Newark's voters supported Jon Corzine when the Democrat ran for governor in 2005. That was then. Now facing a tough re-election challenge from Republican Christopher Christie, the governor defended his record yesterday on issues including education and children's health care at a town hall meeting in the city. Read More
NJ: Where prison is shuttered, hope mingles with concern
This is the time of year when the inmates of Riverfront State Prison in Camden would start ratting on each other. In whispers, letters and phone calls, they traded gossip in hopes of landing a cell facing the Delaware River and the Philadelphia skyline. Then, on the Fourth of July, the luckiest convicts had the best view of the fireworks. Read More
NJ: 104 newest New Jersey state troopers graduate academy
Governor Jon Corzine, Attorney General Anne Milgram and State Police Superintendent Colonel Joseph R. Fuentes Friday presented badges to New Jersey's newest state troopers during graduation ceremonies at the Ritacco Center in Toms River. Read More
NJ: Worker furloughs shut state courts
State courts will be closed today while judiciary workers are on the furlough ordered by Gov. Jon Corzine. County probation offices and business offices where the public files court papers or makes payments to the courts will also be closed. Read More
US: National sex offender registry delayed a year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has given states and American Indian tribes another year to feed a national Internet database set up to protect children by showing where possible predators live and work. Read More |
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