Rodrick Cuts Budget 9% – No Municipal Tax Increase
On June 30th, Mayor Rodrick and the Toms River Township Council presented a budget for 2025 that has a 9% reduction in overall spending while maintaining a zero percent tax increase. The…
Bucco: Murphy Passes the Buck on Public Employee Pension & Health Benefit Costs to Property Taxpayers
Sen. Anthony M. Bucco said Gov. Phil Murphy is passing the buck to property taxpayers after his mismanagement led to surging costs in public employee pensions and health benefits for local governments.…
Autism designation on NJ Driver’s Licenses passes Senate in unanimous vote
Driver’s licenses in New Jersey often have additional designations such as those for military veterans and organ donor designations. Now, a law seeking to add an autism designation has passed in a…
Senate Passes Oroho Bill Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Extortion
Sen. Oroho's bipartisan bill establishing the crime of sexual extortion to protect young victims was passed by the New Jersey Senate.…
Spain passes pioneering sexual, reproductive health law
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament on Thursday passed a sexual and reproductive health law that allows girls aged 16 and 17 to undergo abortions without parental consent and, in a first for…
House Passes Bill Forcing Rail Unions Into Deal With Railroads
House Passes Bill Forcing Rail Unions Into Deal With Railroads John Hugh DeMastri on November 30, 2022 Editor’s note: This article has been updated. The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a…
Portugal’s parliament passes 2023 budget bill on final reading
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament on Friday passed the majority Socialist government’s 2023 budget, which aims to further slash the deficit and debt even as economic growth is expected to slow down…
German parliament passes welfare reform to boost benefits and training
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s lower and upper houses of parliament passed a welfare reform on Friday that will raise unemployment benefits from the beginning of next year and provide new help to…
Russian rouble edges lower as month-end tax support passes
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The rouble edged lower against the dollar, euro and yuan on Tuesday, as the Russian currency began trading without the support of a favourable month-end tax period and investors…
China’s digital currency passes 100 billion yuan in spending – PBOC
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Transactions using China’s digital yuan surpassed 100 billion yuan ($13.9 billion) as of Aug. 31, China’s central bank said on Wednesday, as the country continues its roll-out of a…
Gone again: Videos show eroded beach, 10-foot tall cliffs at Ortley Beach after Ian passes
ORTLEY BEACH, NJ – Toms River Mayor Maurice Hill is still looking for state officials to pay for the last storm that eroded the beach in Ortley Beach as another storm washed…
Hungary passes anti-graft law to avoid loss of EU funds
By Krisztina Than and Gabriela Baczynska BUDAPEST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Hungary’s parliament passed the first of a series of anti-corruption bills on Monday as Budapest seeks to avoid a loss of European Union funds…
House Passes Sweeping Antitrust Package Targeting Big Tech
House Passes Sweeping Antitrust Package Targeting Big Tech John Hugh DeMastri on September 29, 2022 The House of Representative passed sweeping antitrust legislation targeting Big Tech with bipartisan support following a…
Ocean City Police Department K-9 Uno Passes
by OCPD, The OCPD family is mourning the loss of one of our retired police service dogs. “Uno” passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his handler and family. Uno joined the…
Spain launches free rail travel passes to fight inflation
By Marco Trujillo and Christina Thykjaer MADRID (Reuters) – After struggling a bit with the ticket machine at Madrid’s grand 19th century Atocha railway station, 26-year-old Jennifer Bernard Quintana and her sister…
‘Dark Day For Wisconsin Students’: Wisconsin School Board Passes Curriculum That Calls Girls A ‘Person With A Vulva’
‘Dark Day For Wisconsin Students’: Wisconsin School Board Passes Curriculum That Calls Girls A ‘Person With A Vulva’ Reagan Reese on August 23, 2022 A Wisconsin school board approved a sexual education…
Woman Injured in Montgomery County Crash Passes in Hospital
SILVER SPRING, MD – A woman who had been in the hospital since her August 5th crash in Montgomery County passed away on Tuesday. According to Detectives from the Montgomery County Department…
U.S. Senate passes $430 billion climate change, tax, drug pricing bill; sends to House
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed landmark legislation sought by President Joe Biden that Democratic backers say will bring a major reduction in carbon emissions that cause climate change, lower…
Border crossings from Ukraine since war began passes 10 million mark – UN agency
BERLIN – The number of border crossings from Ukraine has surpassed 10 million for the first time since Russia invaded the country, the UN Refugee Agency reported on Tuesday. A total of…
Retired Anne Arundel County K9 Soren Passes
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD – A 7-year police K9 veteran has passed on. Soren, who was a K-9 sniffer working with the Anne Arundel County Police Department will be missed by his…
U.S. House passes bill boosting Biden’s record defense budget
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday paving the way for the defense budget to exceed $800 billion next year, authorizing $37 billion in…
Are They Real? Man Passes Realistic Counterfeit $100 Bills at Gas Station
CORTLANDVILLE, NY – We get it. The rise in gas prices is too much to bear for most Americans but passing counterfeit bills to pay for $5 per gallon gas is more…
Canada’s Senate passes budget, greenlighting measures on housing, Russian assets
OTTAWA – Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s budget, adopting a long list of measures including a two-year ban on foreign home buyers and the power to confiscate and…
Canada passes bill to compel local content on streaming platforms
OTTAWA – Canada’s lower house of the parliament passed legislation on Tuesday that would bring online streaming platforms under the stewardship of the country’s broadcast regulator and compel firms like Netflix, YouTube,…
Baltimore County K-9 Einstein, a Pioneering Bomb Sniffer Passes
BALTIMORE, MD – There are many great ones that hailed from Baltimore over the years. Babe Ruth, David Hasselhoff, Michael Phelps, Frank Zappa, Montel Williams, and the great baller Reggie Lewis. But…
U.S. House passes bill expanding Supreme Court security, sending bill to president
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives gave final congressional approval on Tuesday to a bill that would bolster Supreme Court security, in light of threats made against justices ahead of their…
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