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Property Taxes May Increase Due to School Aid Cuts, Drug Overdose Deaths on the Decline, Don’t Knock Mississippi, Prisoner Suicides Lead To Questions Towns Facing School Aid Cuts Might Get A Green Light to Increase Property Taxes New Jersey Monitor Senate lawmakers approved a bill Thursday allowing school districts facing state aid cuts in the current or coming school year...

Electric Bills To Rise, Children With Disabilities Not Getting Services the Need, Family Leave Law On Track to be Strengthened, NJ Rehab Services Are a Mess NJ Families Will See Their Electric Bills Increase This Summer From NJ Spotlight Electric bills will rise again this June as a result of an auction overseen by state officials to acquire the power...

Water Might Taste Different Soon, New NJ Education Commissioner, ACLU Challenges Facial Recognition, Pension Payments on a Hot Streak, Syphilis Makes a Comeback… Berkeley Heights, New Providence Among Communities that Might Notice a Change in How Water Tastes from Patch During the change, officials said customers in the affected counties may notice a slight taste and smell of chlorine in...

Affordable Housing Back on the Radar, Report on Flood Resilience, Telehealth Access Lands in NJ Supreme Court and Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence issued for NJ Attorneys   Affordable Housing Overhaul Advances NJ Monitor Another bill would allow affordable housing projects backed by state or local affordable housing trust funds to make payments in lieu of taxes. That bill drew some concern...

Ambitious Week for Murphy on Education, Immigration, Mental Health and More…. Education From NJ Education Report: “While the work of cementing important changes and implementing them on the ground has just begun, Governor Murphy’s proposed initiatives reflect those for which our coalition has long advocated, such as investment in teacher training, literacy assessments of students, and collaboration with local universities...

Affordable Housing Reform Pushed Back, Infertility Treatment & Insurance Coverage, Grief Instruction in Schools, Liquor License Reform and Legislative Pay Raises Affordable Housing Bill Pushed to Next Legislative Session From the New Jersey Monitor The Senate won’t consider legislation making sweeping changes to the state’s affordable housing system before the Legislature’s session ends Tuesday, though the proposal is likely to...