NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–About 50 protesters uniformly filled Albany Street on April 25 for the annual Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shareholders meeting to convey a message: The price of bedaquiline, a lifesaving tuberculosis (TB) drug sold by J&J, should be no more than a dollar a day.
They chanted in succession, “Pills cost pennies. Greed costs lives,” while most held one or more pill bottles as props.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—On the verge of a massive strike, a union representing faculty at Rutgers University reached a contract agreement, but the union representing part-time lecturers continue to negotiate with the administration of President Robert Barchi.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Two men had their lives taken during just one week in the Hub City, but most people in town are still unaware that either situation is being pursued as a murder case by investigators.
The city had gone a little over five months without a killing, but that all changed with two recent tragedies that played out here during the same week.
In one case, an older man's life was cut short by a chance encounter that quickly led to violence in the middle of downtown New Brunswick's main street.
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