New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie said during a press conference on Thursday that New Jersey would soon allow individuals to place sports bets at the 12 casinos in Atlantic City and at the four race tracks across the state, ESPN reports. (more)
A small town of approximately 35,000 residents is now issuing jaywalking tickets to pedestrians who are texting while walking the streets. (more)
Gov. Chris Christie became the second governor in the country today to veto a bill that would set up a state-run health care exchange. (more)
New Jersey’s legislature has approved a bill to create a new government bureaucracy — a health insurance “exchange” — that would help implement Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates, among other atrocities. Gov. Chris Christie (R) has until May 10 to sign the bill or veto it. Otherwise, it becomes law without his signature. New Jersey would rue the day it created one of these tax-hungry bureaucracies. (more)
A New Jersey teacher called the police after overhearing a 5-year-old student say “I went tanning with mommy” and now mom Patricia Krentcil faces second-degree child endangerment charges. (more)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney asked, he could persuade Christie to join his ticket in the vice president slot. (more)
A substitute teacher in New Jersey’s Atlantic County school district was suspended for telling a 7-year-old female student that she was “too sexy” for gym class. (more)
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie said America is “turning into a paternalistic entitlement society” where the federal government is telling individuals to “stop dreaming” and “stop striving,” a message Christie claimed is leading to “a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check.” (more)
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie is asking music icon Bruce Springsteen to perform at a new casino in Atlantic City over Labor Day weekend to support what the governor calls “the New Jersey comeback.” (more)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials in New Jersey’s capital say they’ve resolved a fight over toilet paper. (more)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Days before U.S. Rep. Donald Payne died of cancer, it wasn’t the phone calls of encouragement from presidents that cheered him. It was when a Washington hospital orderly recognized the New Jersey congressman as the only U.S. official to visit his village in the African nation of Eritrea. (more)
Despite receiving multiple death threats, American Atheists will move forward with plans to erect billboards proclaiming, “You know it’s a myth… and you have a choice” — one in the heart of a predominantly Orthodox Jewish community in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y. on Tuesday, and another on Wednesday two blocks from a mosque in Paterson, N.J., which is home to a large Muslim population. (more)
Nice work if you can get it. (more)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie has followed through on his promise to reject a bill allowing same-sex marriage in New Jersey by quickly vetoing the measure Friday and renewing his call for a ballot question to decide the issue. (more)
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — An Italian-American group is responding to Hoboken’s rejection of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” reality show — by giving the city’s mayor an award. (more)
The New Jersey governor with a reputation for tough talk is showing his softer side this week. (more)
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie expressed outright “disgust” Wednesday after a leader of New Jersey’s largest teachers union said that “life’s not always fair” when discussing students who live in poorer neighborhoods and attend failing public schools. (more)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie lashed out at a fellow Garden State politician Monday, calling an openly gay state legislator a “numbnuts” in response to the lawmaker labeling him a racist last week. (more)
Entertaining can be a dangerous profession. At least for Christina Aguilera, who required a physician on-site during a 2007 concert in New Jersey. (more)
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