By Quentin Karpilow & Zachary Liscow After years of failing to pass a carbon tax, climate hawks are now rallying behind a bold new proposal for tackling global warming. Known as the Green New Deal, this economic stimulus package for…
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West Orange Astronaut seeking US Senate in Arizona
Captain Mark Kelly is a retired U.S. Navy combat pilot, engineer, and NASA astronaut who grerw up in West Orange, New Jersey and now lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Kelly says his next mission…
Protesters to greet Booker at $1000/head event in Newark
New Jersey residents who are not among the adoring fans mesmerized by Senator Cory Booker’s celebrity plan to protest outside his swanky fundraising event Friday in Newark. ‘Tell Cory Booker: Hands Off Venezuela!‘ is being organized by Bob Witanek, Jay…
One in four U.S. adults have a pre-existing condition
Twenty-seven percent of U.S. adults say they personally have a long-term medical condition, illness or disease that a health insurance company would consider a pre-existing condition. This includes 16% who are the only family member in their home with such…
Video shows extreme violence, abuse in Sudan
Human Rights Watch released a video on February 11, 2019 that shows Sudan government forces’ extreme violence and shocking abuses against protesters during weeks of largely peaceful protests across the country. Warning: Viewer discretion advised The organization said the United…
Battle over council vacancy brews in Linden
Linden City Attorney Daniel Antonelli was in court to contest Senator Nick Scutari’s effort to appoint Paul Coates to City Council, despite a nearly unanimous vote on the governing body to maintain a vacancy until the 8th Ward voters can…
El Chapo is guilty
A U.S. jury has reached a guilty verdict in the drug-trafficking trial of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, 61, on all 10 criminal counts, including drug trafficking and engaging in a criminal enterprise as leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. Guzman is…
Green New Deal to get vote in United States Senate
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that he will post the Green New Deal, an environmental and energy plan touted by progressives for a vote in the Senate. The Green New Deal legislation laid out by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
Union members to Congress: Protect TPS & DACA
Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA)members from across the United States alongside fellow union members spoke with dozens of lawmakers this week to urge Congress to act now to provide permanent protections for recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS)…
Supreme Court affirms that abortion is a woman’s right… but that may change soon
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a rogue decision by the Fifth Circuit Court that violated precedent and was designed to close the doors of the abortion providers in the state of Louisiana. The June Medical Services v. Gee ruling reversed a Louisiana…