Dana DiFilippo
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Journalist and longtime word herder, always hunting for a good story. @NJMonitor / @StatesNewsroom previously: @WHYYNews @PhillyDailyNews
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Horrifying. The world is broken.
Here is graphic video of the assault on the older Asian woman by a black male suspect in NYC. The building security who witnessed the attack did not help her. They closed the door.
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"Philadelphia mascots are no strangers to allegations of physical attacks. The Phillie Phanatic was 'the most-sued mascot in the majors' ... for claims ranging from injuring a woman’s knees while climbing through the stands to hugging someone too hard."
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I love Philly so much.
West Philly reacts to Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania by dancing in the street, of course
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#Trump
protester Joanne Parker, 78, of Cobbs Creek:"I'm retired+I'm still paying taxes. He's a multi-billionaire; why he is he paying none?"
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Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell,
@realDonaldTrump
get booed at
#Philly
protest. Cheers for ACA, other programs for needy.
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A NJ cop began having sex w/a minor after responding to her suicide attempt, traded nude pics w/her and got her pregnant. He's still a cop. Police records in NJ are private, so the public never learns abt these cases unless they end w/an arrest or lawsuit.
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NJ will not cooperate with states looking to criminalize patients who get abortions here or providers who perform abortions on out-of-state patients here. Murphy: "Your body belongs to you."
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Murphy signed that OPRA bill today and now I’ve been stranded at Newark Penn Station for the past hour … bc public transit is underfunded probably? Idk why. New Jersey is failing me today.
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This couple used this iconic photo as their Christmas card (without paying the photog 😡) - but now are suing over it. I hope UPI and the photographer fight this lawsuit to death.
#journalismmatters
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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This is a JOURNALIST for Philly’s
@NPR
station
@whyy
, beaten while covering protests in Fishtown tonight.
#GeorgeFloydProtests
I got called out for recording them and they beat the shit out of me and pushed my girlfriend
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Today’s news that
#Tronc
cut
#NYDailyNews
staff by half hits home. It’s been 2-and-a-half years since my
@PhillyDailyNews
layoff, and it still stings. (thread)
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They took on New Jersey's party bosses — and they're winning. "This isn’t just a David versus Goliath story. To paraphrase Albert Finney in 'Erin Brockovich,' this is a story about David versus Goliath’s 'whole f***ing family.'" via
@terrencemcd
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Some personal news: After 18 years of telling Philadelphia’s stories, I’ll start a new job next month in Trenton, telling the stories of the people
@CCTrenton
serves. I’ll miss Philly. What a great news town! But change was overdue, for better work/life balance. (1 of 2)
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🎉Super-excited 🎉 to announce that I’ve joined the team at
@NJMonitor
, a news startup that’s part of
@StatesNewsroom
. We will work to hold powerful people accountable and explain how their actions affect New Jerseyans from Montague to Cape May.
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It's getting dark, and there are still close to 1,000
#TrumpinPhilly
protesters marching in Center City, 2nd massive protest of the day.
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Breaking: Grand jury votes not to criminally charge two
#SouthJersey
cops in car stop shooting death of
#JerameReid
.
http://t.co/WbQ3Y7DmHg
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"At a time when powerful forces are itching to make same-sex marriage illegal again and politicians nationwide are vowing to look up girls’ skirts when they’re too good at sports, Valentina Gomez’s campaign bellyflop is 100% a win." via
@terrencemcd
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#TrumpinPhilly
protesters now all gathered outside hotel where the prez and GOP leaders meeting. Roar of crowd is deafening.
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Sundiata Acoli, 85, was released yesterday after 49 years in prison for the 1973 slaying of a NJ state trooper. Below, he hugged Rev. Lukata Mjumbe of Witherspoon Street Presby. Church in Princeton after his release. 📷: Bring
@SundiataAcoli
Home Alliance
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Actual exchange during Sen. Bob Menendez’s federal bribery trial in Manhattan this afternoon:
Q: Fair to say, the New Jersey press can be unrelenting?
A: Yes.
#journalism
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After ICE protests, a Hudson County official says protests can only be 10 people, one hour every 2 weeks, out of view, with 24-hour notice to police. ACLU: The Constitution guarantees free assembly and free speech, so hell to the no. Via
@snietomunoz
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Seriously some of the funniest signs at this Great Wall of Love, a counter rally
@MazzoniCenter
vs Westboro pickets.
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NJT being all NJT this morning, making everyone late (and no updates, thanks NJT). New law idea: corrupt pols and every pol who has voted against public transit should be required to contribute to fund to 1) fix transit infrastructure and 2) compensate commuters for their time
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V.P. Kamala Harris praises N.J. abortion laws at NAACP conference — "Extremist, so-called leaders are passing laws with the intention of criminalizing public health professionals, punishing women for making decisions that are intimate, private decisions."
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Resisting vaccines all the way to the grave: Police were among the first eligible for covid vaccines, but 22 cops in NJ died of covid in the last week alone. "Reluctance to get vaccinated has contributed." via
@NikitaBiryukov_
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Seabrooks told cops: "People are trying to kill me, I need an escort." Members of the Healing Collective say they were outside, asking to help, but officers barred them from helping.
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Happy to announce I joined
@WHYY
and the
@NewsWorksWHYY
team this week. I'll be writing news and features. Tips? I'm at ddifilippo
@whyy
.org
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Lost my job today. So, sooo painful. So proud, though, of my 15 years at the best paper ever. Hopeful about what may come.
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Happening now: NJ Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill to make birth control available over the counter without a prescription. Background:
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Jason Kelce "wore Mummers garb. Threw out stray expletives. 'Borrowed' a police bike. Sang that 'We’re from Philly, F***in’ Philly' song. Downed a beer on the parade route...He did exactly what every Philadelphian would do, had they been in his place."
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Double and triple dipping 🤑: Retired police chief with $148K pension takes newly created $118K-a-year post with Hudson sheriff’s office Via
@ron_zeitlinger
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Often missing from the blame game is corporate greed.
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Reminders: Politics is a dirty business, whose practitioners routinely thumb their noses at the public. Cherry-picking people for elected positions is not democratic. Replacing a woman who earned her place with a man who didn't is sexist.
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Calls to ban caste discrimination grow as New Jersey's South Asian population swells — "They are bringing in the culture of India and Hinduism here, and they’re bringing caste, and they don’t treat the lower caste as human beings." via
@njmonitor
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6+ hours into NJ Senate budget cmte hearing, where they're hearing a controversial bill to reduce access to public records, young woman testifying scolds lawmakers (only half the cmte is here anyway) for barely listening (most have their eyes on their phones). "Basic manners!"
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NJ has 54 crisis pregnancy centers, but many are religious ministries that masquerade as abortion clinics. As more women visit NJ for abortions from states where it's restricted/banned, lawmakers want to ban deceptive marketing by CPCs. via
@njmonitor
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There are a whole lot of cops who responded to this incident of a man in mental crisis barricaded in his bathroom, most of whom were dressed for war, with guns drawn and pointed even as they cajoled him to come out of the bathroom.
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Happening now: NJ will argue in federal Third Circuit court in Philly later this morning to keep its 2022 gun control law that carved out ‘sensitive places’ where people can’t carry guns.
@MomsDemand
rally outside now with
@NewJerseyOAG
Background:
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Paterson: "This is a police department that has burned the trust of its community to the ground. It’s past time for a housecleaning, and that will only happen if the politicians decide to brave expected opposition from the police unions and insist on it."
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James Solomon, a JC councilman, urges lawmakers to amend the bill to protect Caven Point, etc. Without amendments, 'you will confirm our most cynical fears that a billionaire's one voice is more powerful than tens of thousands of residents in JC and NJ.'
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#Philly
police lags on transparency when it comes to disciplining problem officers, says
@DustinSlaughter
:
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Out trick-or-treating with my kids and discovered the best election sign of the season, and possibly ever:
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(2 of 2) Stay tuned, though, bc you haven't seen the last of my byline! I'll be freelancing. Thank you, Philly, for everything. ❤️
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Super proud of my daughter Amalie (IG:
@byamalie
) who won first place tonight in the student category of
@NJMonthly
’s annual photo contest for this image of The Empty Sky Memorial in Liberty State Park. Chip off the old block
@SaedHindash
❤️💪🏽🏆
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So please BUY A NEWSPAPER. SUBSCRIBE TO A NEWS WEBSITE. SUPPORT JOURNALISM. Democracy depends on it. Also: HIRE AN OUT-OF-WORK JOURNALIST! Today, you have dozens of freshly fired journalists you could hire, and journalists are smart, passionate, talented go-getters. -30-
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How are so many people nonchalantly drinking coffee, filling out forms, reading iPhones, etc? The PHILLIE PHANATIC IS IN THE ROOM!
#rockstar
Phillie Phanatic reporting for jury duty this morning. Proudly doing his civic duty.
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I support
@whyy
bc I support good journalism. I support
@WHYYunion
bc I support good pay for good work. I know firsthand how talented the WHYY staff is bc I used to work there (goofy selfie on my first day in 2016).
#supportjournalism
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And those spelling and grammar errors you see nowadays? Gutted copy desks. Sometimes all it takes to turn off a reader forever is a misspelled headline.
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ICYMI: This urgent call to action from
@Will_Bunch
is a must-read. "The fight against white supremacy and the fight against male supremacy are inextricably linked, and it is the battle of our lifetimes."
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Super-proud of my super-talented hubby
@SaedHindash
who has a photo exhibit
@charterarts
in Bethlehem this month. Viewable by appointment until 11/20.
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An obit for NJ’s Open Public Records Act by
@terrencemcd
—“The law that allowed journalists, good-government groups, and citizens to uncover government corruption, died after a series of fatal blows at the hands of the Legislature and Gov. Murphy.”
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Seabrooks himself called police for help. He sounds calm in the calls, even calling 911 for help after police arrived at his apartment. "No one is trying to hurt you," one dispatcher told Seabrooks, who officers later shot to death.
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AND YET, journalism is the best job I’ve ever had. I’ve talked to everyone from politicians to prisoners, Hollywood celebrities to homeless moms. My stories have changed policy, exposed secrets,helped vulnerable people+more. Journalism is my dearest love.(No offense to my family)
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Here's a headline that should make you want to support nonprofit news/local journalism — Public corruption prosecutions rise where nonprofit news outlets flourish, research finds
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Often, publishers push veteran journalists, with their higher paychecks, out the door first. With them goes their institutional knowledge, historical perspective, and expertise earned over time.
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A uniquely American scene — Fourth of July fireworks, music from an ice cream truck, and people running and screaming from an active shooter.
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Sam Pesin, who heads Friends of Liberty State Park, tells legislators: 'please don't throw away its future on commercial ventures that will destroy the park.' Urges them to pass Liberty State Park Protection Act -
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How NJ’s ballot design disempowers Asian Americans — "A healthy democracy is transparent, competitive, and leaves the most serious decision-making to those our Constitution entrusts: the voters. NJ must join the rest of the nation in having fair ballots."
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White men overrepresented on New Jersey's boards and commissions, report finds – "It is alarming to consider the tremendous number of voices, perspectives, and life experiences missing from these governing bodies." via
@snietomunoz
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The younger journalists taking their place tend to have more multimedia skills - but can lack foundational writing and reporting skills and prioritize retweets and how viral a story gets over its impact on others, according to one recent study.
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tfw when you get yet another delay on an OPRA request you filed 12 weeks ago - WHILE you're covering a hearing on a bill to restrict (or, many say, gut) OPRA
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MUST ADD 2 things: Photographers among the hardest hit in this era when everyone thinks all you need to take a good picture is an iPhone and a photo-filtering app. (So wrong-headed. Professional photogs can't be beat.)
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Court fight reveals absurdity of claims about N.J.'s public records law — "The chief problem with OPRA is not that it buries clerks under mountains of requests; it’s that officials abuse the law when they don’t feel like releasing records to the public."
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NJ Senate votes for Nicholas Scutari as Senate Prez. Sen. Nia Gill, who wanted the job, abstained, saying it’s long past time for someone other than a white man to lead. She criticized the behind-closed-doors vote’s lack of transparency.
“We cannot continue to work in silence.”
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#Philly
firefighter Joyce Craig-Lewis, city's first female FF killed on duty, was a hero:
http://t.co/8SMIzkJNTE
http://t.co/14nm7wU0Qo
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Every employer for every job in every profession should publicly post the job's salary range. It's 2023; pay transparency and equity should be the norm.
WHYY Union understands more employers — including NPR + other public media stations — are listing salary ranges when hiring to be transparent to job-seekers.
We have asked
@WHYY
mgmt to do the same with our job postings, but they continue to refuse 🧵
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State troopers won’t allow press on NJ Assembly floor today, no explanation given.
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Feden to jurors: “You knew it wasn’t consensual bc of his words. You knew it wasn’t consensual bc of his efforts to silence her. You know it wasn’t consensual bc of the pattern, his M.O. You know that this was not consensual bc of Andrea Constand’s testimony.”
#CosbyTrial
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Police said Seabrooks had knives+a gun, cut himself and started a fire in the bathroom before cops fired "approx. 15 less than lethal sponge tipped projectiles" at and then fatally shot Seabrooks. That was absolutely the wrong response, says
@zellieimani
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Video in
#JerameReid
case:
http://t.co/n2aDOafnpT
Grand jury voted yesterday not to criminally charge cops involved.
#SouthJersey
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N.J. political operative Michael Soliman spilled lotsa tea today at the Menendez bribery trial in Manhattan about press, politics, and power — "It was my job to protect the senator, so I just cared about his optics." via
@njmonitor
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NEW: The police unions fighting
@GovMurphy
's vaccine mandate for prisons and jail officers now want the NJ Supreme Court to weigh in, after an appellate panel upheld Murphy's order this morning. via
@njmonitor
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Wayne Cadwallader of Norristown dragged his recliner to
#CosbyTrial
to observe. "I'm a monitor. But it's boring! I'd rather be fishing."
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@johnpavlovitz
We didn't wear bike helmets or seatbelts, and our parents never knew where we were.
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Ex-insurance broker Jose Uribe testified that he bribed Sen. Menendez to kill a criminal probe that threatened his company, and that N.J.'s senior senator told him afterward: "I saved your little ass not once, but twice." via
@njmonitor
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N.J. Senate budget cmte passes a bill that would add so many restrictions to N.J.'s Open Public Records Act, watchdogs warn it's a gutting. An Assembly cmte passed the bill earlier today. Only half the cmte still here after 8 hours of testimony (on this + other bills).
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Lawmakers have been weakening OPRA, NJ's law that protects public access to govt records —“We’re at a critical mass where so many people are apathetic, unreliable voters, and government does what they please. This is the only tool we have to fight that.”
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.
@NewJerseyOAG
has released 911 calls and police body cam video in the 3/3 death of antiviolence advocate and Paterson Healing Collective member
#NajeeSeabrooks
. See links here:
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In a NJ Senate education committee meeting right now, where critics of NJ's new sex-ed and health standards are testifying about - I'm not even kidding - glory holes.(And more!) via
@njmonitor
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Police rarely get indicted for fatal encounters. But a Trenton cop who pepper-sprayed an elderly man, leading to his death, got indicted this week. "It was inappropriate, it was uncalled for, it was contrary to humanity, let alone the law." via
@njmonitor
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@yrfatfriend
Bridget Jones. She had multiple men interested in/desiring her, even though her weight was a theme throughout (which was annoying bc she was only a smidge bigger than the average skinnie-minnie movie actress).
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Today kicks off Sunshine Week! So naturally, in New Jersey where the open records law is already among the worst in the nation, lawmakers will spend today trying to pass new restrictions on public records that watchdogs warn will gut the law.
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There is no justice for defendants who are poor. This is a great story on the ridiculous caseloads many public defenders carry. Defendants consequently get a fraction of the legal defense they deserve, and that can have lifelong impact.
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Interesting
@stevenrodasnj
story and great pictures — by my daughter!🩷😍 — of the grass-gobbling sheep who tidy the solar fields in Princeton.
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The Attorney General’s Office released the records as protesters gathered outside a courthouse in Paterson late this afternoon to demand justice for Seabrooks.
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Street Cop police training firm files for bankruptcy, blames state investigations – nine states have now banned officers from Street Cop training and N.J. cops who went to a controversial 2021 conference will be re-trained next month. via
@njmonitor
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Activists renew calls for change after police kill a Jersey City man in mental crisis whose family had called for help — "We need action towards creating a response that doesn’t result in death." via
@snietomunoz
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Najee Seabrooks should be alive right now, says
@RevCharlesBoyer
, who calls for 'transformational change' in how communities respond to people in mental health crisis.
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N.J. audit slams Norcross-headed insurance company for school contract - New Jersey Monitor
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Abortion will be a covered procedure in insurance plans in NJ, "with no cost-sharing or out-of-pocket costs," Murphy says, announcing new legislation to further protect abortion rights here.
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@KristenJohanson
@KYWNewsradio
@philadao
Horrible. Is he cherry-picking only ‘friendly’ reporters? A public official who so intentionally and blatantly dodges public scrutiny should get a different job out of the public sector.
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Great digging by
@terrencemcd
, who got to the bottom of Gurbir Grewal's revelation yesterday that two (other) N.J. pols tried to stop OAG criminal probes — "Sometimes our leaders don’t think the norms apply to them." via
@njmonitor
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