Bergen County OKs 2024 budget. Here's what it means for residents HACKENSACK — Bergen County's official budget will have a 2.22% increase from last year, which translates to a $31.30 tax bill increase to the average assessed home of $530,000. The 2024 budget was ... 05/2/2024 - 5:20 pm | View Link
Bergen County renames two offices for children's resources to avoid confusion HACKENSACK — Bergen County's Department of Human Services will rename two offices to help residents better connect with child care, early intervention and child development services. The county’s ... 05/1/2024 - 3:03 am | View Link
Bergen County’s top rated schools. See latest full list. Bergen County Technical High School’s Teterboro campus is the top ranked high school in Bergen County, according to an NJ Advance Media analysis of new school data released by the state Department of ... 04/30/2024 - 11:45 pm | View Link
Nobody Saw Andy Kim Coming. That’s What He Was Counting On. Mr. Kim, the New Jersey congressman, has become the odds-on favorite to win Robert Menendez’s Senate seat. His strategy? Don’t ask anyone for permission. 04/26/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Bergen County’s school funding winners and losers New Jersey has fully implemented its revamped public school funding formula with the announcement of proposed state aid for the 2024-25 academic year. But, you might not like what that actually means ... 04/23/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
Kristin Jones | KFF Health News (TNS)
More than 60 years ago, policymakers in Colorado embraced the idea that early intervention could prevent child abuse and save lives. The state’s requirement that certain professionals tell officials when they suspect a child has been abused or neglected was among the first mandatory reporting laws in the nation.
Since then, mandatory reporting laws have expanded nationally to include more types of maltreatment — including neglect, which now accounts for most reports — and have increased the number of professions required to report.
Jeff Ostrowski | Bankrate.com (TNS)
As homebuyers grapple with record prices this spring, mortgage rates have also crept up. On a 30-year fixed loan, the average rate was 7.39% as of May 1, according to Bankrate’s survey of large lenders, marking three straight months of 7% rates.
Blame inflation. It’s still stubbornly elevated, rising to 3.5% in March, and that’s led to dialed-back expectations about how quickly the Federal Reserve cuts rates this year, if at all.
Ted Rossman | Bankrate.com (TNS)
“Revenge travel” has been a big theme the past couple of years as Americans have been raring to go here, there and everywhere after hunkering down during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the Transportation Security Administration screened a record-high 858.5 million passengers in 2023.
But it hasn’t been a smooth ride for travelers.
FORT LAUDERDALE — Sergei Bobrovsky has a plan.
Although the Panthers will have to wait until Monday to play either Boston or Toronto in the opener of the second round of the playoffs, Florida coach Paul Maurice is not concerned about whether star goaltender Bobrovsky will be rusty.
“Sergei’s got a plan for just about everything,” Maurice said.
MIAMI GARDENS – During most of the 24 weekends on the 2024 Formula One circuit, the high-speed Grand Prix auto race is the focal point, the main thing.
And there are celebrity-laden parties wrapped around the race.
At the Miami Grand Prix, it sometimes seems the other way around.
At the Miami Grand Prix it sometimes seems that the parties and celebrity sightings are the main thing, and the race is the sideshow.
Whatever is going on, people are watching.
Defense lawyers in the YNW Melly murder case are getting back to work, at least behind the scenes, though it will still be months before a second jury hears the bloody details.
Broward Circuit Judge John J. Murphy issued a ruling this week allowing background work, such as sworn witness interviews, to continue while key issues are considered by the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
Most criminal cases are put on hold while critical questions are under appeal, and Melly’s case has both sides challenging Murphy’s decisions.
Prosecutors want the appeals court to allow them to introduce a 20-minute documentary produced by Melly, whose real name is Jamell Demons, 25.