In honor of National Adoption Day taking place on Saturday, November 21, 2020, Middlesex County hosted its 13th annual celebration event on Wednesday, November 18. The adoptions of 8 children and two adults were finalized during the event, including one…
Author: Andrew Thompson
Pallone names App Challengers
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced the winners of the 2020 Congressional App Challenge for high school and middle school students in New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District. Samay Nandwana from Princeton Day School and Ansh Bhatti and Aditya Shelke from…
America happy Trump lost
Most confident that election was fair A third of the country is “happy” that Donald Trump lost the election – which is slightly more than the one-quarter who feels the same about Joe Biden winning. The Monmouth University Poll also finds a…
US reaches grim milestone of 250,000 coronavirus deaths
More than a quarter million Americans have died from complications of COVID-19, the disease caused by a coronavirus that is tearing massive holes in states across the nation. The worldometer website placed the United States death toll at 254,563 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries…
Biden begins sans Trump transition
Despite efforts by the incumbent to deny apparent election results, President-Elect Joe Biden has announced members of his team who will lead transition activities and reviews on the ground at several federal agencies. Agency transition teams are in charge of…
Vas: Diaz mixes police & politics
Perth Amboy mayoral challenger Joseph B Vas is accusing the incumbent of breaking a key campaign promise that puts her on shaky ethical grounds. Vas said during these unprecedented times in law enforcement, when communities throughout the country are demanding…
Premiere Stages award winners
Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, has named Grace McGory, Christopher Grant and Becky Gibby as the winners of the Premiere Senior Endeavor Awards, a new playwriting initiative established in response to the challenges of…
Herman Cain dies of COVID-19
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain died from coronavirus 40 days after he attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 74-year old Black business executive was hospitalized in Atlanta since July 1. Cain was born Dec. 13, 1945,…
Quantum leap eyed on Internet
Government officials and scientists unveiled a plan to build a quantum Internet, pursuing one of the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century. A quantum Internet relies on atoms, photons and electrons exhibiting a quantum state known as entanglement,…
A ‘tsunami of evictions’ threatens New Jersey
As coronavirus cases continue to fall and the economy brightens for the moment, some communities in New Jersey are bracing for a new threat: a surge of evictions that could push thousands of people from their homes. A disproportionate number…