New Jersey
Firefighters union backs McIver in NJ-10 special primary – New Jersey Globe
The state’s largest firefighters union has endorsed Newark Council President LaMonica McIver for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 10th district.
McIver and ten other Democrats are competing in a July 16 special primary for the chance to fill the unexpired term of Donald Payne, Jr. (D-Newark), who died on April 24 at age 65.
“As president of the Newark City Council, LaMonica has shown a willingness to always communicate with the public safety professionals who keep that city safe,” said Eddie Donnelly, the New Jersey Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association president. “LaMonica listens, and puts her words of support into action.”
Donnelly praised Payne and his father, the late Rep. Donald M. Payne, Sr. (D-Newark), for carrying themselves with “class and dignity” and said they were “never afraid to stand up” for their constituents.
“We know that LaMonica will serve the same way,” he said.
Donnelly said that he’s ready to put the full weight of his 5,000-member union, which includes EMTs and dispatchers, behind McIver.
“An endorsement from NJFMBA is not just words on a piece of paper, it means mobilization and real support,” he said. “Between now and July 16th we will be boots on the ground in Essex, Hudson, Morris, and Union counties, and, ultimately in the voting booth, to help send LaMonica McIver to Congress.”
New Jersey
Raise a Glass: Discover these top 12 happy hour spots in NJ
🍸 Half-priced drinks and apps make for a good happy hour
🍸 Here is a list of 12 of the best happy hour spots in New Jersey
🍸 What’s your favorite watering hole in the state?
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, right?
Work is done for the day. It’s still light outside. It’s warm, breezy, and it’s summer. It’s the perfect season to grab a few friends or co-workers and hit up a good happy hour. But where can you go to sip on a few cocktails and munch on some apps at reasonable prices?
Here are 12 of the best happy hour spots in New Jersey broken down by region — North, Central, South, and the Jersey Shore.
North Jersey
The Barrow House
1296 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton
Happy Hour is only available in the bar area from Monday through Friday 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Specials:
- $6 – giant pretzel, crispy cauliflower
- $8 – wings, mac n’ cheese
- $10 – crispy brussels sprouts, margherita pizza, short rib tacos, spinach and artichoke dip
- $5 – select drafts
- $6 – house spirits
- $8 – select wines
- $10 – specialty cocktails
- $25 – select bottled wine
The Craftsman
1609 Maple Avenue, Fair Lawn
Happy Hour is available Tuesday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Specials:
- $6 – Craftsman draft beers
- $6 – red or white wine
- $9 – select cocktail specials
- $65 – Craftsman punch bowl
- $9 – pretzel, stuffed meatballs, chicken crackling and shishito peppers
Wicked Wolf Hoboken
120 Sinatra Dr, Hoboken
Happy Hour is Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Specials:
- $4 – well-mixed drinks, all draft beers and select glasses of wine
- $5 – select appetizers
Central Jersey
Salt Creek Grille
1 Rockingham Row, Princeton
Happy Hour is only available in the bar and lounge Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Specials:
- Half-priced all wine by the glass
- Half-priced all draft beer
- $5 – edamame and seaweed salad
- $7 – sake salmon
- $8 – California roll
- $9 – salt and vinegar chips
- $10 – roasted garlic hummus, tomato bruschetta, eggplant parmesan rolls, spicy salmon roll and shrimp tempura roll
- $11 – Bavarian pretzel bites, sliders and fire cracker
- $13 – short rib mac n’ cheese
Killarney’s Publick House
1644 Whitehorse Mercerville Road, Hamilton
If Irish fare with a flair is your thing, then check out this Happy Hour on Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Specials:
- $3 – Miller Lite
- $4 – Nutrl Orange
- $5 – Guinness combos
- $6 – Surfsides, Tito’s drinks and Hornitos drinks
- $12 – espresso martini
- $7 – edamame
- $8 – chicken sweet chili potstickers, hummus duo, mac and jacks
- $9 – bang bang shrimp
- $10 – wings
- $11 – mussels
- $15 – pound pick and peel shrimp
Elixir Bar and Grill
2222 Woodbridge Ave, Edison
There are so many snacks and drinks to enjoy during the Elixir Bar and Grill’s Happy Hour. Drink specials are available from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily and during all NFL games. Appetizer specials are also available from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
The Drink Specials:
- $1 off pints, beer bottles, and malternatives
- $5 – Fireball, Screwball, Red Stag or Caza Cafe shot
- $6 – Jack, Crown, Jameson or DonJ shot. Tito’s, Jack, Jameson, Don Julio, or Bacardi mixed drink.
- $6 – sangria or wine by the glass
- $7 – bomb shot
- $9 – on the rock’s elixirita’s, rumrita’s, mojito’s or mules
- $10 – house martini, Long Island Ice Teas and specialty cocktails
The Food Specials
- $4 – chips and salsa
- $6 – two soft tacos
- $7 – half-order of nachos
- $8 – buffalo cauliflower, tostadas, and small bites
- $9 – queso and chips
- $10 – Mexican street corn dip, half-dozen boneless wings and fries, traditional quesadilla and Mexican pizza
- $11 – half-dozen wings and fries, two sliders and fries, and grande burrito with chips and salsa
- $12 – guacamole and chips
- $13 – five soft tacos
The Jersey Shore
Mister C’s Beach Bistro
Allen Avenue & Ocean Place, Allenhurst
Happy Hour at Mister C’s takes place daily from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and all day on Sundays
The Specials:
- $4 – Budweiser, Bud Lite, Coors Lite, Miller Lite and Yuengling
- $6 – Corona Extra, Corona Light, Heineken, Heineken Light, Stella Artois, Blue Moon, Yuengling Black & Tan and O’Douls
- $6 – house drinks, martinis and wine
- $8 – Tito’s drink special
- $10 – Tito’s martini
- $6 – South West chicken egg roll, short rib empanada and zucchini sticks
- $8 – vegetable spring rolls
- $9 – blackened tuna bites, wings, blistered shishito peppers and hummus
- $9.50 – sweet sausage, peppers, and onions
- $10 – everything Pretzel
- $11 – tempura shrimp
- $14 – PEI mussels
- $18 – Mister C’s margherita pizza
- $24 – charcuterie and ahi tuna nachos
Tuckers Tavern
101 Southwest Ave, Beach Haven, NJ
If you’re hanging out on Long Beach Island this summer, then check out the Happy Hour at Tucker’s which is Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Specials:
- $6 – Manafirkin, Coors Light, Blue Moon, Yuengling, and Stella
- $7 – house wine
- $8 – well drinks and specialty cocktails
- $1 – Buck a Shuck oysters
- $7 – soup of the day
- $8 – onion rings
- $11 – super frico caesar
- $12 – French onion flatbread
- $13 – lacquered chicken wings
- $14 – crispy fish sandwich
One Willow
1 Willow Street, Highlands
This seafood and raw bar restaurant located on the waterfront in Highlands is perfect for a happy hour get-together. Happy Hour at One Willow runs Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Specials:
- $3 – Miller Lite bottle and Narragansett Can
- $6 – draft beer, well spirits, and select wine
- $7 – cocktails
- $6 – potato chips and dip
- $9 – mussels, crispy eggplant, kani salad, wings, tuna taco and vegetable spring roll
South Jersey
Cinder Bar
410 Berlin Cross Keys Road, Williamstown (Gloucester County)
119 Berkley Road, Clarksboro (Gloucester County)
The Cinder Bar has two locations in Gloucester County. Happy Hour at both spots is Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Specials:
- $3 – Coors Light drafts, Miller Lite drafts, and Modelo drafts
- $4 – Blue Moon drafts
- $5 – house wines and canned cocktails
- $6 – select margaritas and martinis
Half-Off Select Appetizers:
- Cheesesteak egg rolls
- Ukrainian perogies
- Short rib poutine
- Pane and ricotta
- Jalapeno bombs
- Half-priced margherita pizzas
814 South Pub
814 S White Horse Pike, Somerdale
Happy Hour is Tuesday through Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Specials:
- $4 – well drinks and wine
- $5 – Tito drinks and Orange Crush drinks
- $15 – Mic Ultra bucket and Miller Lite bucket
- $17.50 – Corona bucket
- $5 – burger and fries, meatball appetizer, almost pizza bread, mac n’ cheese wedges, fried pickles and onion rings
Keg & Kitchen
90 Haddon Ave, Haddon Township
Named “Best Bar Scene 2019” by NJ Monthly, the Keg & Kitchen offers Happy Hour specials on Tuesday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Specials:
$5 Everything
- Old fashioned
- Espolon margarita
- Guinness stout 16 oz
- IPA of the week
- Red blend
- Colombard-Sauvignon
- Everything spice pretzel bites
- Empanada
- Hummus
- Loaded chips
- Chef’s flatbread
- Chicken quesadilla
- Kimchi hot dog
- Arancini
- Tacos
- Cheeseburger
Of course, there are so many other happy hour places across the Garden State, so where ever you choose to go, “Cheers.”
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New Jersey
A closer look at what's in New Jersey's proposed $56.6 billion budget, from taxes to spending
What about property taxes?
New Jersey has among the nation’s highest property taxes, levied by local governments to finance services and schools. The state dedicates some income tax revenue to fund local governments, which helps keep property tax rates from growing even higher. This budget calls for increasing state K-12 funding to fully implement an aid formula ratified by the state Supreme Court, raising such aid to more than $11 billion, up nearly $1 billion from the current fiscal year. The budget also has about $2.5 billion for direct property tax relief, continuing programs introduced in 2022 and 2023 to help residents, renters and seniors. The average property tax amount in 2022, which is the most recently available information, is about $9,500, according to the state.
What else is in the budget?
Quite a bit, given it funds all aspects of state government, from the executive departments to public colleges and universities, to the Legislature itself, which this year passed a 67% pay raise for lawmakers, their first since 2002, which goes into effect in 2026. Overall, spending is up just over 4% compared with the current fiscal year budget.
It includes a number of expenditures — sometimes referred to as Christmas tree line items because they’re viewed as gifts for specific constituencies. They include funding for ending homelessness, helping people re-enter society from prison, fire departments, arts programs and one city’s effort to teach life skills through tennis.
Republican lawmakers said they barely had time to review the budget and lamented that they weren’t sure what all was in it. Even Democratic Senate Budget Committee Chairman Paul Sarlo said the document is too vast to read line by line, but he supports it overall.
“I could not take a test and be quizzed on every line item because it would take hours and hours and days and months,” Sarlo said. “I try to look at it in totality and that’s where I think we’re at.”
New Jersey
A closer look at what's in New Jersey's proposed $56.6 billion budget, from taxes to spending
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey lawmakers are poised to send a $56.6 billion fiscal year 2025 budget to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this week, hiking taxes on high-earning businesses and funding for many state services and programs.
The annual spending plan is expected to get enough votes in the Democrat-led Legislature on Friday to reach Murphy’s desk. The state constitution requires a balanced budget to be enacted by July 1.
Here’s a closer look at what’s in the budget, which would spend 4.2% more than the plan Murphy signed last year.
ARE THERE ANY NEW TAXES?
Yes. The budget calls for increasing the state’s corporation business tax on companies that make more than $10 million a year. The current 9% rate would climb to 11.5%. Business groups say that would give New Jersey the nation’s highest tax rate and punish the state’s best corporate citizens.
WHY ARE TAXES GOING UP?
The higher rate was first proposed by Murphy as part of his budget proposal early this year to help New Jersey Transit. He’s billing the levy as a corporate transit fee to help the beleaguered agency, which has regularly had to use capital funds to help finance projects.
Critics note that the revenue won’t go to transit until next year. The current budget keeps it in the general fund, so when the money goes to transit next year, whatever is being paid for now out of the general would need to be replenished or cut, those critics say.
ARE THERE OTHER TAX CHANGES?
Yes. The budget calls for ending a sales tax holiday on school supplies that had gone into effect around the start of the academic year. That cut was first introduced in 2022 when the Democrats who control state government aimed to show voters they were making the state more affordable. Lawmakers didn’t explain this cut when they unveiled the budget Wednesday, but the additional revenue could help balance the budget.
WHAT ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES?
New Jersey has among the nation’s highest property taxes, levied by local governments to finance services and schools. The state dedicates some income tax revenue to fund local governments, which helps keep property tax rates from growing even higher. This budget calls for increasing state K-12 funding to fully implement an aid formula ratified by the state Supreme Court, raising such aid to more than $11 billion, up nearly $1 billion from the current fiscal year. The budget also has about $2.5 billion for direct property tax relief, continuing programs introduced in 2022 and 2023 to help residents, renters and seniors. The average property tax amount in 2022, which is the most recently available information, is about $9,500, according to the state.
WHAT ELSE IS IN THE BUDGET?
Quite a bit, given it funds all aspects of state government, from the executive departments to public colleges and universities, to the Legislature itself, which this year passed a 67% pay raise for lawmakers, their first since 2002, which goes into effect in 2026. Overall, spending is up just over 4% compared with the current fiscal year budget.
It includes a number of expenditures — sometimes referred to as Christmas tree line items because they’re viewed as gifts for specific constituencies. They include funding for ending homelessness, helping people re-enter society from prison, fire departments, arts programs and one city’s effort to teach life skills through tennis.
Republican lawmakers said they barely had time to review the budget and lamented that they weren’t sure what all was in it. Even Democratic Senate Budget Committee Chairman Paul Sarlo said the document is too vast to read line by line, but he supports it overall.
“I could not take a test and be quizzed on every line item because it would take hours and hours and days and months,” Sarlo said. “I try to look at it in totality and that’s where I think we’re at.”
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