From Hicks, another day of dodgy testimony on Edna Mahan | Editorial
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If you tuned in for Marcus Hicks’ testimony before the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday, you heard little that suggested meaningful changes are pending at New Jersey’s only women’s prison, the sadistic nightmare known as Edna Mahan, where sexual privateering and other forms of violence have been treated with bureaucratic indifference.
The besieged commissioner of the Department of Corrections offered two hours of pointless platitudes about accountability and his aim to protect the 400 inmates of Edna Mahan, but repeated that culture change takes time, and in the end Sen. Dawn Addiego spoke for her colleagues when she seethed, “It’s been three years, and once again, I’m asking for your resignation.”
N.J. should act to protect abortion rights with Supreme Court case looming, advocates say NJ.com 2 hrs ago Susan K. Livio, nj.com
Female lawmakers and pro-choice advocates in New Jersey have warned that abortion rights are under threat since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg eight months ago and the appointment of conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett to replace her.
On Monday, those concerns intensified after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case strikes at the heart of Roe V. Wade, the landmark case that established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973 and is the first abortion case for the nation’s highest court since former President Trump appointed three conservative justices.
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Lawmaker says active-shooter drills can traumatize children, wants written notice and an end to fake blood, guns and more
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An active-shooter drill at Robert Fulton School, North Bergen in June 2017 involved multiple law enforcement agencies.
New Jersey must redo how it conducts emergency drills in schools, says a lawmaker who has been advocating to change them for years.
Any school district planning to conduct an emergency drill, including “lockdowns,” could only do so after written notice had been provided to staff, parents and guardians of students in the district, reads a bill introduced last week by Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg.
Food & Water Watch is launching new petition campaigns in five cities and towns to help create community choice aggregation programs, marking a notable expansion of the group’s ongoing work to move the state off dirty energy.
The simultaneous petition drives in Woodbridge, North Brunswick, Cherry Hill, Teaneck and Long Branch are part of the group’s yearslong campaign to build local support for moving off fossil fuels and onto 100 percent clean renewable energy by 2030. The campaign is backed by a broad coalition of environmental, social justice and grassroots community groups across the state.
“I believe in the power of grassroots activism and local solutions. We have the ability to transition Teaneck’s power from fossil fuels to renewable sources,” said