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EV advocates warn NJ likely to miss 2025 goal

By NJ Spotlight | Genesis Obando | 3/25/2025 4:43 PM

Retailers say changes in state policy are deterring potential buyers The post EV advocates warn NJ likely to miss 2025 goal appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Field of candidates to succeed Murphy is set

By NJ Spotlight | Codea | 3/25/2025 12:12 AM

Republican Ed Durr drops out at the last minute The post Field of candidates to succeed Murphy is set appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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As Trump tries to close federal agencies, he will need help

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/25/2025 12:10 AM

Despite President Trump’s orders, the future of federal agencies rests with Congress The post As Trump tries to close federal agencies, he will need help appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Push to stop big rent increases, prevent property hoarding in NJ

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/25/2025 12:08 AM

Assembly committee approves bills to give residents better access to affordable housing information, curb evictions The post Push to stop big rent increases, prevent property hoarding in NJ appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Op-Ed: Three ways to improve NJ Transit train service

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/25/2025 12:05 AM

Despite some progress, NJ Transit ‘continues to disappoint’ The post Op-Ed: Three ways to improve NJ Transit train service appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ Spotlight News: March 24, 2025

By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 3/24/2025 6:30 PM

We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Opening arguments set tone for Nadine Menendez trial The trial was delayed for months as wife of Bob Menendez, former senator, underwent cancer treatment. Trump names his former lawyer […] The post NJ Spotlight News: March 24, 2025 appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Trump names his former lawyer as interim US attorney for NJ

By NJ Spotlight | Laura Galarza | 3/24/2025 5:46 PM

Alina Habba, a Summit native, represented Trump in high-stakes New York civil trials The post Trump names his former lawyer as interim US attorney for NJ appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Sinkhole on I-287 stirs more highway troubles in Morris County

By NJ Spotlight | Genesis Obando | 3/24/2025 5:40 PM

Officials say the hole was caused by a collapsed drainage pipe, unlike I-80 sinkholes The post Sinkhole on I-287 stirs more highway troubles in Morris County appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Opening arguments set tone for Nadine Menendez trial

By NJ Spotlight | Laura Galarza | 3/24/2025 5:36 PM

The trial was delayed for months as wife of Bob Menendez, former senator, underwent cancer treatment The post Opening arguments set tone for Nadine Menendez trial appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Stand-alone Department of Veterans Affairs proposed for NJ

By NJ Spotlight | Laura Galarza | 3/24/2025 5:24 PM

Interview: Jay Boxwell, legislative director for NJ VFW The post Stand-alone Department of Veterans Affairs proposed for NJ appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ wildfire season starts with ‘tinder-dry’ conditions in places

By NJ Spotlight | Laura Galarza | 3/24/2025 4:35 PM

More rain needed for state to escape drought conditions that began last fall, experts say The post NJ wildfire season starts with ‘tinder-dry’ conditions in places appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Teenage voters in Newark are set to make history

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/24/2025 12:11 AM

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds in Newark have one day left to register to vote for school board election in April The post Teenage voters in Newark are set to make history appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ budgets for growing cost of health care, nursing homes

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/24/2025 12:09 AM

While GOP Congress looks to cut safety-net spending, Gov. Murphy plans 16% funding increase for Medicaid, CHIP The post NJ budgets for growing cost of health care, nursing homes appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ governor’s race: Candidates — and big money — pile in

By NJ Spotlight | Codea | 3/24/2025 12:07 AM

Filing deadline for June primary ballot is Monday The post NJ governor’s race: Candidates — and big money — pile in appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Op-Ed: The Affordable Care Act at 15 years old — successful, but facing challenges

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/24/2025 12:06 AM

The law transformed access to affordable health care. Now it must be defended The post Op-Ed: The Affordable Care Act at 15 years old — successful, but facing challenges appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ Spotlight News: March 21, 2025

By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 3/21/2025 6:31 PM

We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Five years later, ‘long COVID’ still threatens jobs and benefits No real cure for long COVID and it even remains an elusive diagnosis. Trump ‘playing with fire’ by trying […] The post NJ Spotlight News: March 21, 2025 appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Trump ‘playing with fire’ by trying to dismantle Department of Education

By NJ Spotlight | Laura Galarza | 3/21/2025 5:40 PM

Interview: Robert Kim, executive director, Education Law Center The post Trump ‘playing with fire’ by trying to dismantle Department of Education appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Five years later, ‘long COVID’ still threatens jobs and benefits

By NJ Spotlight | Laura Galarza | 3/21/2025 5:20 PM

No real cure for long COVID and it even remains an elusive diagnosis The post Five years later, ‘long COVID’ still threatens jobs and benefits appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ adds more than $1.4B to current budget

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/21/2025 12:12 AM

Additional money went to farmland preservation, open space, property-tax relief, school aid and more The post NJ adds more than $1.4B to current budget appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Assessing drought in the Delaware River Basin is complicated

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 3/21/2025 12:09 AM

Delaware River Basin Commission graphics help to understand the different factors The post Assessing drought in the Delaware River Basin is complicated appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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‘Woolly mice’ were just a start. De-extinction still faces many hurdles

by Science News | Mar 28 2025

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Ja Morant appears to make finger gun gesture again after reported NBA warning, later hits game-winner vs. Heat

by CBS Interactive Inc | Apr 04 2025

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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Look for Merger Deal Under Trump

by NY Times | Feb 18 2025

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Here’s Why Only Some Pickles Have Ridges

by Reader's Digest | Mar 20 2025

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Audi Crooks on Keeping Eyes on the Prize and Caring for Mental Health

by thehealthy.com | Mar 07 2025

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Scarlett Johansson’s alleged stalker arrested for threatening to bomb ‘SNL’— where hubby Colin Jost works

by New York Post | Apr 03 2025

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Booker speech sets path for Trump resistance, Democrats say

by NJ Spotlight | Apr 03 2025

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Look: 309 people don banana hats to break world record at Missouri museum

by United Press International, Inc. | Apr 03 2025

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How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?

by New York Post | Apr 03 2025

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Trump supports proxy voting for new mothers in Congress: 'Don’t know why it’s controversial'

by Fox News | Apr 03 2025

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SwitchBot air purifier table review

by LIVE SCIENCE | Apr 03 2025

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Drake invests in Venezia, will sponsor kit

by ESPN Inc. | Aug 14 2024

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Wander Sleeps 2025

by Wanderlust | Apr 02 2025

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Local law restricts drones from flying above county buildings

by NEWS10 ABC | Apr 03 2025

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Trade war: Canada hits U.S. auto imports with 25% reciprocal tariffs

by United Press International, Inc. | Apr 04 2025

Word of the Day

hew

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 4, 2025 is:

hew • \HYOO\ • verb

Hew is commonly used with to to mean "to conform to or adhere to (something)." Hew on its own has several meanings having to do with cutting or shaping with a sharp tool, such as an ax. Both hewed and hewn are past participles of hew.

// The senator has always hewed closely to the party line.

// The explorers hewed logs for building cabins.

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Examples:

"The play hewed closely to the original script, with a few splashes of local color." — Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025

Did you know?

Without context, the contrasting meanings of hew may seem arbitrary. What does shaping something with an ax have to do with conforming or adhering to something? If you're not a lumberjack, that's okay, we'll explain. The connection lies in the woodworking phrase "hew to the line," where line refers to the mark along the length of a log indicating where to chop in order to shape a beam. "Hewing to the line," literally, is cutting along the mark—adhering to it—until the side of the log is squared. In the 1800s, "hew to the line" was used figuratively as half of the idiom "hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may," to advise someone to stay true to a course of action, whatever the consequences may be. Over time the latter half of the phrase has been, well, hewn off.

EV advocates warn NJ likely to miss 2025 goal

Field of candidates to succeed Murphy is set

As Trump tries to close federal agencies, he will need help

Push to stop big rent increases, prevent property hoarding in NJ

Op-Ed: Three ways to improve NJ Transit train service

NJ Spotlight News: March 24, 2025

Trump names his former lawyer as interim US attorney for NJ

Sinkhole on I-287 stirs more highway troubles in Morris County

Opening arguments set tone for Nadine Menendez trial

Stand-alone Department of Veterans Affairs proposed for NJ

NJ wildfire season starts with ‘tinder-dry’ conditions in places

Teenage voters in Newark are set to make history

NJ budgets for growing cost of health care, nursing homes

NJ governor’s race: Candidates — and big money — pile in

Op-Ed: The Affordable Care Act at 15 years old — successful, but facing challenges

NJ Spotlight News: March 21, 2025

Trump ‘playing with fire’ by trying to dismantle Department of Education

Five years later, ‘long COVID’ still threatens jobs and benefits

NJ adds more than $1.4B to current budget

Assessing drought in the Delaware River Basin is complicated

‘Woolly mice’ were just a start. De-extinction still faces many hurdles

Ja Morant appears to make finger gun gesture again after reported NBA warning, later hits game-winner vs. Heat

PGA Tour and LIV Golf Look for Merger Deal Under Trump

Here’s Why Only Some Pickles Have Ridges

Audi Crooks on Keeping Eyes on the Prize and Caring for Mental Health

Scarlett Johansson’s alleged stalker arrested for threatening to bomb ‘SNL’— where hubby Colin Jost works

Booker speech sets path for Trump resistance, Democrats say

Look: 309 people don banana hats to break world record at Missouri museum

How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?

Trump supports proxy voting for new mothers in Congress: 'Don’t know why it’s controversial'

SwitchBot air purifier table review

Drake invests in Venezia, will sponsor kit

Wander Sleeps 2025

Local law restricts drones from flying above county buildings

Trade war: Canada hits U.S. auto imports with 25% reciprocal tariffs

Word of the Day

10 Odd & Fun

1.Look: 309 people don banana hats to break world record at Missouri museum

2.Maryland Lottery player wins her third $50,000 prize

3.Pennsylvania police officer rescues -- and adopts -- highway horse

4.Watch: Nevada man says seven seized tigers were emotional 'support animals'

5.Man does 10,001 pull-ups in 24 hours to reclaim world record

6.D.C. man's $1M lottery win was predicted by a dream

7.Look: Suspected serval captured wandering loose in Ohio

8.Look: One fugitive otter captured in Wisconsin, one still missing

9.Watch: Women have been exchanging the same birthday card for 81 years

10.Wild turkeys chase mail carrier out of Massachusetts neighborhood