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N.J. shifted up to $192.1M from fee-funded licensing boards
New Jersey moved up to $192.1 million in professional license fee balances to other uses from FY2015 to FY2026, OLS says, ahead of an Oct. 29 Assembly vote on A3390.
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Middlesex, N.J. gave NaphCare $27.8M deal + top cost score
OPRA records show Middlesex County, N.J. awarded NaphCare a $27.81M jail health contract—$2.02M above CFG Health—yet gave NaphCare a 33.2/40 score on cost.
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Elizabeth, N.J. vigil shooting leaves 1 dead, 4 hurt, UCPO says
Union County prosecutors confirm 5 people were shot—1 killed and 4 hospitalized—at a Monday night vigil at Elmwood Pl. and Irvington Ave. in Elizabeth, N.J.
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East Orange, N.J. votes Monday on budget raising city tax levy 14%
East Orange, N.J.’s posted 2026 budget raises the city’s municipal tax levy by $13.4 million, or 14.2%, uses all $8.45 million of its banked levy-cap room and leans on a $14 million state loan. The City Council holds a hearing on unposted amendments and votes Monday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.
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Pina, firm gave $10,850 to Paterson, N.J. campaigns, ELEC shows
New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission filings show Cesar Pina and his company Whairhouse LLC reported $10,850 in contributions to five Paterson, N.J. municipal campaigns between 2016 and 2022 — including $7,850 during the 2019–2022 window cited in Pina’s Oct. 22 federal guilty plea — out of $24,850 statewide.
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DoD preps N.J. bases for 90-day grid collapse; public gets 3 days
As the Pentagon’s new FORTRESS initiative orders U.S. military bases to survive 90 days completely cut off from civilian electricity, water, and supply chains, federal procurement records show power and microgrid gaps at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Picatinny Arsenal, and Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey — while civilian families are still told to keep just 3 days of supplies.
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State budgets put $7.9M into Paterson, N.J. youth center, records show
Three New Jersey state budgets have set aside $7.925 million for the New Jersey Community Development Corporation’s youth center work in Paterson, N.J., official appropriations acts show, ahead of a Thursday, Oct. 29 Assembly floor vote on A5287 to reassign the unspent balance of a separate $2 million city recreation-center grant.
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NJ OKs $60.5M tax credit for Amneal’s 337-job Piscataway expansion
New Jersey’s Economic Development Authority approved up to $60.5 million in tax credits for Amneal Pharmaceuticals in Piscataway, N.J., plus $5.4 million for Lucy the Elephant in Margate City, N.J. Also: the Toms River, N.J. housing deadlock and two votes still unconfirmed.
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Video: Paterson, N.J. board tossed Pina’s ‘Old School 5’ plan in 2021
Cesar Pina admitted bribing a Paterson, N.J. official to get his Old School 5 project heard and approved. The city’s own videos show the zoning board postponed it twice and dismissed it in September 2021.
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NJEDA cuts drugmaker’s rent $1.2M as state lab campus sits 37% empty
The NJ Economic Development Authority cut Ascendia Pharmaceuticals’ rent at its North Brunswick, N.J. lab campus to $700,000 for a year, citing 37% vacancy; the reasons stayed confidential. It also approved $77.5M in Aspire credits for Newark housing.