SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, June 29 (TNSpp) -- American Baptist Churches USA issued the following news release: The American Baptist Churches 2023 Biennial Mission Summit met June 23-25, 2023 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Throughout the event, women in pastoral ministry were strongly affirmed in their call and practice of ministry. Three of the four worship services at the event featured keynote speakers who serve as American Baptist women in ministry: Rev. Miriam   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 1 (TNSgov) -- The New Jersey Business and Industry Association issued the following news: A bill strongly supported by NJBIA that requires the state auditor to publish a user-friendly report summarizing the Annual New Jersey Comprehensive Financial Report, a voluminous and technical document which details revenues, costs, assets, and liabilities to convey the state's overall fiscal health, was passed unanimously by the Assembly on Friday. Now headed for Gov. Phil Murp  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 29 (TNSgov) -- The Delaware Riverkeeper Network issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: New Jersey's lead environmental groups fighting to hold the state's chemical industry accountable for their decades long, negligent, pervasive poisoning of people and environment urged caution in interpreting the complex settlement announced this morning by the Murphy Administration. Led by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network with support from Clean Water Action and Enviro  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, June 29 (TNSrpt) -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: Today, Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, released the latest version of the report, Black Women in American Politics 2023. For nearly a decade, Higher Heights and the Center for American Women and Politics have teamed up to report on th  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, June 29 (TNSres) -- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey issued the following news: Christina Glytsou, PhD, member of the Cancer Metabolism and Immunology Cancer Pharmacology Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state's leading cancer program and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center together with RWJBarnabas Health, has received $600,000 over a three-year period from The V Foundation for Cancer Research, a premier c  more

BELMAR, New Jersey, June 28 (TNSgov) -- The National Conference of Insurance Legislators issued the following news release: The National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) has submitted a comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging it to retract a proposed rule which poses a significant threat to the longstanding framework of the state regulation of insurance and violates the McCarran-Ferguson Doctrine. "The Proposed Rule undermines the well-established and continually re  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 28 (TNSpp) -- The New Jersey Business and Industry Association issued the following news on June 27, 2023: NJBIA Chief Government Affairs Officer Christopher Emigholz appeared on WJLP's/On NJ's "NJ Politics with Laura Jones" last weekend to discuss the sunset of the Corporate Business Tax 2.5% surtax and also legislation to make New Jersey's CBT more competitive with other states. Emigholz credited Gov. Phil Murphy and Senate Budget Chair Paul Sarlo for spearheading t  more

MERCERVILLE, New Jersey, June 29 (TNSres) -- The New Jersey Association for Mental Health and Addiction Agencies issued the following news release: The New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies' (NJAMHAA's) advocacy resulted in significant funding for the behavioral healthcare workforce and increases for some of the services these essential workers provide in Governor Phil Murphy's proposed budget for fiscal year 2024. NJAMHAA urges the State Legislature to keep all of thes  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, June 30 (TNSgov) -- The New Jersey Business and Industry Association issued the following news: NJBIA is urging the Legislature to vote against legislation on Friday that mandates worker retention during a minor change in ownership of service worker contracts, effectively removing an employer's right to make their own operational decisions, even if there are health and safety concerns. Bill S-2389 (Singleton, D-7; Zwicker, D-16)/A-4682 (Schaer, D-36; Timberlake, D-34; Dani  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 1 (TNSgov) -- The New Jersey Business and Industry Association issued the following news: A bill that will reform New Jersey's corporate tax policies to be more competitive with other states by changing the way global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) and net operating losses (NOLs) are treated under state law advanced to Gov. Phil Murphy's desk on Friday. Bill A-5323 (Pintor Marin, D-29) and its Senate-counterpart, S-3737 (Sarlo, D-36) was passed unanimously by bot  more

ISLAND HEIGHTS, New Jersey, June 28 (TNSgov) -- The Kennedy Forum issued the following news release: Former U.S. Congressman and Founder of The Kennedy Forum Patrick J. Kennedy delivered video remarks to the World Health Organization (WHO) this week at their Fourth Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours (FADAB). The address comes during a swing of European engagements for former Congressman Kennedy with stops in the United Kingdom and Greece. The WHO convened an audience of member-st  more