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Advocates Demand Action On Bill To Cap Soaring Hospital Costs In NJ
The New Jersey Hospital Association opposes the legislation and has blamed insurers for driving up medical costs.

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The New Jersey Hospital Association opposes the legislation and has blamed insurers for driving up medical costs.

A bill that would require social media companies to create a 24-hour hotline for people to report fraudulent accounts is moving forward.
Public employees who want to cash in on their unused sick time wouldn't have to wait until retirement to do so under new legislation.
The three-count indictment against McIver alleges she assaulted federal officers during a scuffle outside Delaney Hall.
The New Jersey statutes governing how House vacancies are filled are varied, and timing decides which is used.
Sherrill said she and her transition team will spend the 76 days until her Jan. 20 inauguration planning priorities with her executive team.
Though Atlantic City is heavily Democratic, Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small faced headwinds in his bid for a second full term.
The party retained Sen. Tony Bucco (R-Morris) and Assemblyman John DiMaio (R-Warren) for another term as minority leaders.
The Dec. 2 runoff was triggered because no candidate received more than 50% of the vote.
Department of Justice attorneys requested a stay, arguing that the federal government shutdown bars them from working on the civil case.
More Democrats came out than Republicans. Statewide, 68,665 Democrats cast early in-person votes, compared to 63,178 Republicans.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel called the state’s claims “simply not true.”
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is defending his push to sue acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba for defamation following his arrest for trespassing.
“The data show that without action, critical areas like multilingual learning and computer science may face widening gaps,” Walsh said.
The Trump administration continued on Tuesday to pin the blame for the shutdown on Democrats.
While living in Italy this summer, I made a trip to Genoa to see Christopher Columbus’s birthplace.
Mikie Sherrill went in for the kill Wednesday night by accusing Jack Ciattarelli of being a killer.
June's legislative primaries were the most expensive in state history, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission announced Monday.
The sentencing comes more than two years after Menendez was first indicted for his role in the scheme.
Sen. Mike Testa (R-Cumberland), has sometimes lampooned the agency as “North Jersey Transit” over the dearth of services in South Jersey.