DUBLIN, IRELAND – Governor Phil Murphy, alongside Select New Jersey President & CEO Wesley Mathews, immediately celebrated the signing of three Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) between New Jersey educational and actual property entities with high Irish tech universities and a outstanding startup accelerator. The MOUs goal to create mutually useful alternatives and forge collaboration in modern tasks that foster entrepreneurship, enterprise improvement, profession improvement, and worldwide schooling.
“A constant effort of my administration has been serving to New Jersey establishments in figuring out and partnering with entities that may assist develop New Jersey’s economic system and create good-paying jobs,” stated Governor Murphy. “The partnerships solidified immediately are an instance of the fruits of these efforts. The MOU’s signed immediately will additional propel New Jersey’s path towards financial progress as we welcome new partnerships, alternatives, and views to our state. At the moment’s announcement will facilitate worldwide collaborations that can spur financial progress and construct a vibrant expertise ecosystem rooted in New Jersey’s legacy of innovation.”
“New Jersey is a world expertise hub,” Wesley Mathews, President and CEO of Select New Jersey added. “The MOUs signed immediately show that worldwide establishments acknowledge what we already know – that the state’s distinctive mixture of top-tier universities, expertise, infrastructure, and very best location make us extraordinarily interesting to international establishments. Select New Jersey is proud to facilitate these partnerships and help extra Irish corporations as they take into account progress alternatives in New Jersey.”
The primary MOU was signed between New Jersey Metropolis College (NJCU) and Atlantic Technological College (ATU). Amongst different objects, the settlement requires connecting corporations collaborating within the ATU incubator packages and corporations aligned with NJCU’s Faculty of Enterprise and the Guarini Institute for Worldwide Schooling and Financial Mobility, with the ecosystem in New Jersey and the west and northwest of Eire respectively. Each colleges will facilitate scholar journeys to the opposite’s campuses to enhance profession improvement alternatives and have interaction in school exchanges and connections. Lastly, the MOU will present entry to working area on the NJCU Faculty of Enterprise innovation middle for ATU entrepreneurs to discover growth into the U.S. market.
“This settlement with Atlantic Technological College will profit our respective communities by leveraging the appreciable expertise and skills of our school, employees, and college students,” stated Dr. Bernard McSherry, Founding Dean of the NJCU Faculty of Enterprise. “Working collectively, we are going to foster financial improvement, and the great jobs that accompany it, in each New Jersey and Eire”
“I can’t wait to see the outcomes of this partnership,” stated Dr. Orla Flynn, President of ATU. “The association signed immediately with NJCU will open doorways of collaboration and alternative for each companions and we sit up for an extended and mutually useful relationship with NJCU.”
The second MOU signed is between NJCU and Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC) with every signee agreeing to attach corporations related to every to the opposite’s ecosystem for the aim of enterprise improvement and knowledge-sharing. NJCU will present entry to workspace for startups related to GEC as a soft-landing to check the U.S. market. In flip, GEC will supply experiential studying alternatives and invite NJCU school and college students to go to the GEC and be taught extra in regards to the Irish tech ecosystem.
“NJCU is dedicated to growing the financial mobility of our college students by championing initiatives that foster modern profession alternatives with worldwide entities,” stated Dr. Adrian Franco, Govt Director of the Guarini Institute for Worldwide Schooling and Financial Mobility. “We sit up for connecting our college students and school with the GEC and facilitating interactions between this world-renowned incubator and the enterprise ecosystem in New Jersey.”
Eamonn Sayers, Centre Supervisor of GEC added, “This partnership will probably be an enormous asset to our member corporations and the broader Irish startup ecosystem who now have entry to the most important tech hub on the East Coast of the USA. The connection with NJCU will imply entry to workspace in addition to key introductions to capital companies and enterprise improvement alternatives.”
The third MOU is between New Brunswick Improvement Company (DEVCO), Atlantic Technological College (ATU), and Select New Jersey. This collaboration will promote overseas direct funding, improve the worldwide competitiveness of New Jersey and Irish corporations and help collaborative analysis and improvement in areas of widespread curiosity. Select New Jersey will act as an interface and supply help to ATU startups, and ATU will actively educate its group on the benefits of a New Jersey location. DEVCO will supply ATU corporations six months of free workplace, lab, or coworking area on the New Jersey Innovation & Expertise HUB positioned in New Brunswick.
Christopher Paladino, President of DEVCO remarked, “I’m trying ahead to an extended and productive relationship with ATU. Our state-of-the-art amenities can help ATU’s corporations as they search for a full-time residence in New Jersey.”
Dr. Orla Flynn added, “We sit up for working with Select New Jersey and DEVCO to speed up the expansion of ATU-supported tech corporations who need to increase their operations throughout the Atlantic.”
About Select New Jersey
Select New Jersey is a privately funded 501 (c)(3) financial improvement group with a mission to stimulate job creation and appeal to capital funding to New Jersey. Select New Jersey markets New Jersey each domestically and internationally as the most effective place to develop a enterprise in the USA. Educated, skilled employees, supported by a community of State businesses and personal companions, present free, confidential help to information corporations in establishing operations in New Jersey. By harnessing the facility of enterprise, labor, educational, and authorities leaders, Select New Jersey permits progress throughout all sectors of the State’s economic system, aspiring to construct a stronger and extra affluent New Jersey for all. To be taught extra, go to .
A super PAC allied with Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has a colossal $9 million cash-on-hand after raising more than $575,000 in the second quarter of 2024.
Coalition for Progress has raised a mammoth $1.825 million so far this year to back up Fulop’s bid for the Democratic nomination for governor next year and in support of Democratic candidates. The super PAC has raised over $11 million since its inception in 2015.
Fulop announced his candidacy in April 2023 and quickly raised enough to qualify for matching funds under the state’s public financing law. He’ll be eligible to receive $5.5 million in public funds, giving him $8.7 million to spend in the primary. The $9 million in the Coalition for Progress account gives him $17.7 million in resources right now, more than ten months before the gubernatorial primary.
“With the Supreme Court and MAGA Republicans continuing their assault on some of our most fundamental rights and the rule of law, organizations like Coalition for Progress that advocate for common sense, forward-thinking leadership have never been more important,” said Drew Nussbaum, the PAC chairman. “We’re grateful to all of our contributors who believe in our mission and look forward to helping elect candidates who will deliver progress for the middle class.”
Raising enough to get 100% of the available matching funds isn’t always an easy task. In 2017, Republican Kim Guadagno, the sitting lieutenant governor, couldn’t hit that mark. Four years later, candidates needed to raise $490,000 to qualify for matching funds; only Murphy and Ciattarelli did so.
The New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, which administers the matching funds program, has raised the contribution limit from $4,900 to $5,800; that gives Fulop a chance to go return to donors and seek an additional $900 contribution.
So far, Fulop faces former Senate President Steve Sweeney, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and former Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller, the president of the New Jersey Education Association, in the Democratic primary. Others could join them, including Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) and Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair), Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, former Deputy U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jim Johnson, and U.S. Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs Shereef Elnahal, a former state health commissioner.,
On the Republican side, State Sen. Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield), former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerville), former State Sen. Ed “The Trucker” Durr (R-Logan), and NJ 101.5 radio host Bill Spadea have announced their candidacies for governor. Former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac is also mulling a bid for the GOP nomination.
Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman wants Joe Biden to remain in the race and is calling on other New Jersey Democrats to reaffirm their support of the president for a second term.
“The corporate media and political elites want to dump President Biden because they’ll benefit from the chaos. Regular folks I talk to outside of the political bubble are sticking with Joe, and so am I,” Suleiman said. “Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly voted for the Biden-Harris ticket, and the wishes of our rank-and-file members should not be cast away.”
Suleiman was elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention on the Biden slate in the June 4 primary; he is obligated to vote for Biden on the first ballot if the president is nominated.
“Growing up in Atlantic County, I learned that we don’t abandon our own. As a family, we stick together and tough it out,” Suleiman said. “That’s why I’m reaffirming my support for President Biden.”
He wants the Democratic congressional delegation and county chairs to publicly state their support of the president.
“Let’s show the nation that New Jersey Democrats are united behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” he said.
July 7 (UPI) — A wildfire burning in a New Jersey state Park is 75-percent contained officials said Sunday. It has scorched more than 4,000 acres since Friday.
Fire officials said the extreme heat and rugged terrain is making full containment a challenge.
“It’s hot. I think it’s roughly 94 degrees,” New Jersey Forest Fire Service Chief Bill Donnelly said Friday. “Humidity’s up so a lot of wear and tear on the firefighters.
“The fire is burning in a very rugged area of the Wharton State Forest. A lot of it is inaccessible to motorized vehicles and our fire equipment,” Tom Gerber, incident commander of the NJFFS said Friday.
The so-called Tea Time Hill Wildfire was started by fireworks on July 4th and detected by the U.S. Forest Service about 9am the next day.
“A fireworks device lighted inside the forest ignited the fire late Thursday, July 4,” the NJFFS said in a Facebook post.
No structures are currently threatened, the Forest Service said. The NJFFS had previously reported that a residence and hunting club were threatened and park police evacuated Batona Campground as a precaution. A few local roads and trails were also closed. No injuries or damaged structures had been reported as of Sunday.
“On average, 1,500 wildfires damage or destroy 7,000 acres of New Jersey’s forests each year,” the NJFFS said.
In 2023, wildfire burned more than 18,000 acres of forest in New Jersey. The NJFFS responded to more major fires than they had in more than 20 years.
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