ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
The difference between acquiring public data in PA vs. NJ is wild.
In PA, officials generally work with requestors and start from a place of "how can we get you this?"
In NJ, even requests for basic data often get denied. There's no wiggle room. Your request is closed. New OPRA law FTW.
'It was a travesty' A hearing for an NJ bill that would overhaul watchdog agencies turned spiteful, leaving observers to wonder: What was that about? www.app.com/story/news/i...
It was a harrowing 12 days for Fulfill. Here is how the Jersey Shore's biggest food bank - with the aid of the state Agriculture Department and local farmers - helped SNAP recipients get through the government shutdown. www.app.com/story/news/l...
Some 800,000 New Jerseyans who receive food assistance through SNAP could see their benefits end in November if the federal shutdown isn't resolved. It could puts more pressure on local food banks that are already stretched thin. Story below. www.app.com/story/money/...
A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times.
The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules.
It is "decidedly improper and impermissible."
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Update: At least three other high-ranking officials in CDC have also resigned.
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” one of the officials said in a note to staff.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Health insurers selling plans in New Jersey's Affordable Care Act market are proposing big rate hikes for next year, just as Congress is preparing to let federal subsidies expire. www.app.com/story/money/...
(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.
@ryanjreilly.com
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Jersey Shore businesses are grappling with President Trump's scattershot tariffs. Do they absorb the cost or pass it onto customers? Do they hire or hold off? And can Saltwater Culture find an American clothing manufacturer that doesn't import fabric from overseas? www.app.com/story/money/...
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
This is awful. Reliable economic data is a key strength of the US economy.
When Argentina and Greece faked economic data it contributed to major crises.
I don't think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures. But there is now a risk plus an awful appearance.
We need to amend the Constitution to require every US senator to take Econ 101 before assuming office.
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
New Jersey is one of the healthiest states in the nation thanks in part to a huge expansion in the number of residents who have insurance, a report released today finds. But experts worry the progress could stall. www.app.com/story/news/h...
Jersey Shore towns have struggled in recent years to hire enough lifeguards to staff their beaches and swimming pools, but Long Beach Township had an added challenge. Lifeguards no longer can find affordable housing for the season. How to address the problem? www.app.com/story/news/l...
Freehold Raceway was home to horse racing for more than 170 years until it closed last December. Its new owner discusses how the deal came together and his plan for a life for the property after racing. Story below. www.app.com/story/market...
Southern Ocean Medical Center nurses' union agrees to a contract with Hackensack Meridian and averts a strike that was set to begin today. www.app.com/story/news/l...
A lot can change in a decade, including the size of the state budget.
We tracked the growth, from increased spending on actuarially determined public-employee pension contributions to statutorily required K-12 public school aid payments.
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A health clinic in Asbury Park has added the first vending machine in Monmouth County stocked with free syringes, wound kits, test strips and Narcan. It's part of a harm reduction program that New Jersey health officials say is saving lives. www.app.com/story/news/h...
Not the coffee. NOT THE COFFEE! www.app.com/story/money/... @mdiamondapp.bsky.social
Mortgage rates are high. Stock market is faltering. Economy is uncertain. But Monmouth, Ocean County home prices keep reaching new records. www.app.com/story/money/...
In a new memo, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ will allow for subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to get information and testimony from journalists.
This is nonsense. Just nonsense.
Another set of absolutely dismal business-side surveys out today from the Philly and Richmond Feds
Can't help but wonder what would happen if young people voted at the same rate as older people.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Jersey Shore business owners are trying to figure out how much of Trump's tariffs they can absorb, but they warn that prices for consumers are going to rise. And economists say the damage to New Jersey's economy could be steep www.app.com/story/news/n...
JPMORGAN: “.. Considerable uncertainty, .. [but] we have enough conviction to state that yesterday’s announcement of a 22% tariff increase pushes the risks of US/global recession to 60% from our previously stated risk of 40% from a month ago.”
