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New 16-Unit Apartment Building Under Construction on Maple Street

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A developer is moving forward with its plans to erect a 16-unit apartment building on the site of the former rectory of the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church on Maple Street.

The 2.5-story house was recently demolished and will soon be replaced by the new development being undertaken by Construction Management Associates, also known as Premiere Properties.

The site is 75 feet wide by 200 feet long, and stretches between Maple and Freeman Streets, just off of Somerset Street in the Fifth Ward.

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Growing Concerns About Police Credibility in County Where Culture of Retaliation Dominates

EDISON, NJ—Four Edison police officers, including a Sergeant, resigned and agreed to never hold public jobs in New Jersey ever again as part of a guilty plea in Superior Court.

At the time the agreement was reached, jury selection was underway for a trial that was sure to attract a lot of publicity.

The guilty quartet includes Michael Dotro, the troubled 36-year-old Edison police officer who lives in Manalapan, and has been accused of igniting a bomb outside the Monroe Township home of one of his bosses in a separate case.

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Johnson & Johnson to Buy Abbott Medical Optics For About $4.33 Billion

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–Hub City healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said on September 16 it will spend $4.33 billion in cash to acquire Abbott Medical Optics (AMO), based in Santa Ana, California.

J&J said the deal will help “strengthen global leadership in eye health adding cataract and refractive eye surgery to [our] vision care” holdings and consumer eye health units.

The investment will include eye care products in cataract surgery, laser refractive surgery and consumer eye health, said J&J.

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NJ Student Loan Program Threatens Students With Never-Ending Debt

TRENTON, NJ—Last year alone, there were at least 1,692 lawsuits regarding New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA), the largest state-run student loan program in the United States.

HESAA, based in Trenton, has a total of $1.9 billion in outstanding debt in the form of unpaid interest-bearing loans, with expensive rates that can reach nearly 8 percent.

New Jersey’s interest rates can be almost double those of Massachusetts, the second-largest state-based student loan program.

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Another Water Quality Violation For Embattled Hub City Utility

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The city's embattled Water Utility, which also provides drinking water to customers in Milltown and Franklin, has admitted to violating drinking water standards yet again.

After more than two years without being caught violating state or federal drinking water laws, the city was issued a formal "notice of violation" on August 25, after three of its regular water testing sites were found to have exceeded the allowable amount of a common contaminant.

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Saber es Poder: Derechos de los Trabajadores

Salario Mínimo
• Actualmente el salario mínimo en New Jersey es de $8.38 la hora
y es revisado cada 1ro de enero tomando en cuenta el porcentaje de
infación. A partir del 1 de enero, 2017, el salario mínimo de New Jersey será $8.44 /hora.
• Si trabajas por propinas (por ejemplo un mesero o un trabajador agrícola), tú salario mínimo por hora no tiene que ser menor a $8.38. Sin embargo, si no puedes generar al menos $8.38 en propinas, tu patrón tiene que cubrir la diferencia.