Asbury Park Press
Following Saturday s icy rainfall that coated roads and caused car crashes, Monday night brings another freezing rain that is expected to slick surfaces and make travel dangerous throughout New Jersey.
The National Weather Service issued an ice storm warning and winter weather advisory for Monday evening through Tuesday morning for most of New Jersey, predicting that up to an inch of ice may form on cold surfaces.
The Jersey Shore could see ice amounts up to a tenth of an inch between 1 p.m. Monday into early Tuesday morning. The weather service says the freezing rain could create potentially dangerous conditions for Tuesday morning s commute.
New Jersey taxpayers pour about $1.5 billion into school transportation costs annually, most of it going to private carriers charged with getting students safely to and from their schools.
However, a monthslong investigation by the USA TODAY Network uncovered a number of loopholes that allow rogue operators to exploit the system when they get into trouble simply by reconstituting their businesses under another name, a practice that has endangered children in their care and in some cases ended in death.
In fact, just days after reporters from the Asbury Park Press and The Record published their findings, New Jersey s attorney general filed charges against one of those companies and its owners alleging a variety of criminal acts.
Rich Demczyszyn is not going to take the COVID-19 vaccine, and he says there is nothing the government or doctors could say to convince him otherwise. The 49-year-old Jackson resident, who is spending his winter in Ocean City, said he does not trust that the new vaccine is safe.
Demczysyn is one of the 42% of Americans reported in a recent Gallup poll who would not take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Across New Jersey and the United States, a sizable minority of the population is expected to decline getting vaccinated against COVID-19, even as deaths from the virus climb past 3,000 Americans per day.