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TODAY'S FORECAST (12/07)
44°

Partly cloudy and breezy.

Today's top stories —

  • State police successfully enforce vax mandate on second try (NJ Globe)
  • Lawmakers brush back green-energy push (NJ Spotlight News)
  • There’s a new kind of bar in Atlantic City. Could your NJ hometown be seeing one too? (Press of Atlantic City)
PLUS: Ham and pepperoni recall: Throw away these meats, USDA says (NJ.com)

COVID-19 IN NEW JERSEY:

  • New PCR-confirmed cases: 2,525
  • New confirmed deaths: 7
  • Rate of transmission: 1.26 (+0.06)
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🏛️ Politics

  • Atlantic City PILOT amendment passes budget committee with threat of casino closures, little comment (Press of Atlantic City)
  • N.J. paid family leave law still widely unknown, hobbled by red tape, Rutgers report says (NJ.com)
  • Here are the housing bills moving through committees in the NJ Legislature (NorthJersey.com)
  • Bill advances that would punish discriminatory real estate appraisers (NJ Monitor)
  • Time’s running out for bill that would give more clout to NJ Transit customer advocate (NJ Spotlight News)
  • Lawmakers make bipartisan push on tenant tax relief (NJ Monitor)
  • Mallory's Army watches closely as anti-bullying bill gets pushed off by state lawmakers (NorthJersey.com)
  • Weaknesses in NJ’s paid family leave program outlined in new report (NJ Spotlight News)
  • Lawmaker, advocates urge creation of drug affordability board (NJ Monitor)
  • NJ lawmakers want even bigger tax incentives for film and digital productions (NJ Spotlight News)
  • Deadline to redraw municipal wards in N.J. is January 15 (NJ Globe)

🌲 Environment

  • Cherry Hill Township Council to consider electricity aggregation plan, but it may go to voters next fall. (70and73)
  • N.J. weather: Parts of N.J. to get first coating of snow on Wednesday (NJ.com)
  • Egg Harbor City Lake redevelopment plan draws ire of residents and environmental groups (Press of Atlantic City)
  • Utility shuts drinking water source that contained ‘forever chemical’ (NJ Spotlight News)
  • Asbury Park students learn how to keep Deal Lake from dying (Asbury Park Press)
  • After protests, Murphy drops Pinelands nominee (NJ Spotlight News)
  • Cresskill parents will trek to Trenton to plead for Murphy's help with flood repairs (NorthJersey.com)

✍️ Education

  • N.J. students, activists demand action on legislation to confront ‘overpolicing’ in schools (WHYY)

🦠 Coronavirus

  • NJ hospital beds fill as immunity wanes to COVID-19 vaccines (NJ Spotlight News)
  • Will NJ follow NYC with COVID vaccine mandates for businesses? 'They're just not budging' (Asbury Park Press)

☝️ Lastly —

  • Building under construction in Jersey City collapses amid gusty winds, damages school (ABC7)
  • Investigation urged of doctor who operated on immigrant women in detention (NJ Monitor)
  • Adventure Crossing set to start opening businesses at $800M Jackson project (Asbury Park Press)
  • Lyndhurst cops shared body cam footage of medical emergency, lawsuit says (NorthJersey.com)
Not everything is terrible —
  • ‘A bulldog with a smile’ : Leslie Bensley, Morris County’s number one cheerleader, retiring from Tourism Bureau she created (Morristown Green)
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