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The Salvation Army receives generous donation of 3,000 brand new winter coats from Hilco Global and continued support from The New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund February 26, 2021, 1:47 pm | in
Hilco Global, a Chicago-based financial services firm, has donated 3,000 brand new winter coats to The Salvation Army New Jersey Division with support from The New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. At a press conference at the Jersey City Salvation Army Corps, (from left to right) Salvation Army New Jersey Divisional Commander Major James Betts, First Lady Tammy Murphy and Executive Vice President of Hilco Redevelopment Partners Jeremy Grey handed out coats to the first recipients from the community.
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Leslie Anderson
Anderson is the president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority the first and only African-American woman in the nation to lead an independent redevelopment financing agency, and thanks to her effectiveness she has been reappointed to this position by four consecutive governors. Since Anderson took over more than a decade ago, the authority has leveraged nearly $4 billion in new investments – including about $500 million in direct investments – in some of the state’s most economically distressed communities. That funding has been vital to redevelopment efforts around New Jersey, with the authority claiming credit for 15,000 new housing units and more than 10 million square feet of commercial and retail space. And the authority is now poised to play a significant role in the Opportunity Zone program. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJRA created the Small Business Lease-Emergency Assistance Grant Program
What is the ‘Jon Stewart packet’ and why are people meme-ing it? Comedy!
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
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Everyone was talking about Jon Stewart’s packet Monday.
By “everyone” we mean mostly comedians, comedy writers and other pop culture watchers. And by “packet,” we mean something like a job application.
To explain: Stewart, 58, the former longtime host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, grew up in Lawrenceville and is currently working on a new current events show for Apple TV Plus.
A call recently went out to writers interested in writing for this new series to submit a packet showing their work. This request apparently involved a prompt: write a bunch of sample jokes based on the day’s news and submit them by 9 p.m.
Athletic push, good spirits, mental health days: News from around our 50 states
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February 1, 2021, 12:21 AM·49 min read
Alabama
People get COVID-19 vaccines during a drive-in clinic in the old Montgomery Mall parking lot in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday.
Montgomery: The state will roughly double the number of people eligible to receive immunizations against COVID-19 this month even though there’s still not enough vaccine for everyone who qualifies for a shot, the head of the state health agency said Friday. Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, said everyone 65 and older, educators, court officials, corrections officers, postal employees, grocery store workers, some manufacturing workers, public transit workers, agriculture employees, state legislators and constitutional officers will be eligible to get vaccinations when the program expands Feb. 8. Currently, only people 75 and older, first responders, health care workers and long-term care residents ar
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Alabama
Montgomery: The state will roughly double the number of people eligible to receive immunizations against COVID-19 this month even though there’s still not enough vaccine for everyone who qualifies for a shot, the head of the state health agency said Friday. Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, said everyone 65 and older, educators, court officials, corrections officers, postal employees, grocery store workers, some manufacturing workers, public transit workers, agriculture employees, state legislators and constitutional officers will be eligible to get vaccinations when the program expands Feb. 8. Currently, only people 75 and older, first responders, health care workers and long-term care residents are eligible. The state has been hearing complaints that more people aren’t allowed to get in line for shots. The change means as many as 1.5 million people in the state will qualify for shots, up from about 700,000 currently, H