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Art has been around longer than human civilization, and possibly almost as long as humans. But it's a pretty safe bet that our ancient cave-artist

TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today reaffirmed his commitment to securing access to voting rights by signing a series of bills to strengthen New Jersey’s elections. Today

By V. Paul Reynolds It seems, for whatever reasons, one of Maine’s most fascinating and uplifting woods lore adventures has faded with time.

Labor leaders, executives and elected officials joined in Carteret to celebrate the ceremonial groundbreaking of Nasdaq’s new state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure and data center facility.

At least three stores in New Jersey will vote on whether to unionize workers. Starbucks has been urged to support a fair election pledge, that it won't seek payback on employees.

Over many years the best tractor ploughmen in Ireland competed at the Longford Ploughing match. The Longford Ploughing is six months after the National Ploughin...

07/14/21 Jon L. Gelman Building on his commitment to making sure that workers and employers in New Jersey are treated fairly, Governor Phil Murphy today signed a four-bill legislative package furthering state efforts to stop employee misclassification. Misclassification is the practice of illegally and improperly classifying employees as independent contractors. This practice deprives workers of the right to earn minimum wage and overtime, workers compensation, unemployment, earned sick leave,...

PISCATAWAY, NJ — With 38,990 registered voters in Piscataway, 1,904 cast ballots in the 2021 Primary Election on Tuesday for a 4.88% turnout.

05/03/21 Jon L. Gelman NJ Governor Phil Murphy on Friday signed the Healthy Terminals Act (S989) which creates new minimum wage and benefits requirements for certain Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Newark Liberty International Train Station workers. The legislation will expand access to livable wages and affordable health care for workers at the airport and train station who often cannot afford employer-provided health care plans. “For a long time, we have heard the concerns an...

N.J. should embrace year-’round school use beyond pandemic | Letters Updated Apr 04, 2021; Facebook Share Making a case for summer school following pandemic shutdowns seems logical if students are to maintain academic success. We should also consider a new regular approach to scheduling our school year. Empty rooms are wasted during the summer when most schools are closed and students seem to fall behind in learning. We should consider keeping the schools open all year, providing air conditi...