Category: Local
Another Trump deportation tool invalidated
President Trump is not pleased that Department of Homeland Security is no longer able to automatically deport people under a vague legal standard. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck a blow against the federal government’s deportation mechanism, invalidating a law…
Hudson Clerk cheated to give Menendez ballot advantage
Officials in Hudson County tried to cheat progressive Democrat Lisa McCormick by awarding Senator Bob Menendez a better position on the ballot without following procedures outlined in a law that required the county clerk to hold a random drawing. Progressive Lisa McCormick,…
Trump attacks immigrant rights, again
A newly-announced “pause” in federal grants to legal aid organizations around the country will end provision of legal rights information to individuals arrested by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as of April 30. The action would cut off…
Prediabetes and You, A Hidden Risk
UNION COUNTY, NJ – Tuesday, March 27 was American Diabetes Association (ADA) Alert Day®, and The Gateway Family YMCA wants residents of Eastern Union County and Northern Middlesex County to know their risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, as…
Healthcare Communications Agency, Green Room, Relocates to Parsippany
Green Room Communications, a health care communications agency focused on public relations, corporate communications, creative design, media strategy and advocacy relations, celebrates its 10-year anniversary. In commemoration of this milestone, the company has announced its relocation to Parsippany, NJ. “Green…
Bernie Sanders surrogate empowering NJ progressives
Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution spoke to a crowd at at the Busch Student Center of Rutgers University in Piscataway, about the importance of getting out the vote on June 5. Turner came to New Jersey to rally for…
E. coli reported in New Jersey
New Jersey’s health officials are investigating a half-dozen cases of E. coli that were reported in Somerset, Hunterdon, Middlesex and Warren counties. The state Health Department says the six cases of E. coli may be linked to a restaurant chain but…
NYPD officers kill unarmed black man
A New York City police officer fired five shots that killed a man on a Brooklyn street on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, after they saw him with a metal object that looked like a shower head in his hand, police…
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Baptist minister who inspired the nation through his leadership of a nonviolent movement for civil rights before he was slain by an assassin at…
