New Jersey Chamber of Commerce members exchanged business cards and discussed the latest Chamber programs, events and ways to grow their businesses at a networking event October 30 at FirstEnergy Park, home of the BlueClaws, in Lakewood.
United Airlines is in the process of adding a sixth flight from Newark Liberty International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport (in March 2020); more flights to Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. (there will be 13 daily in a shuttle-type service); and more business-class seat opportunities on flights to San Francisco and Los Angeles (also next summer).
In a somber ceremony at the State House, New Jersey lawmaker Anthony Bucco took over the state Senate seat his namesake father had held for more than 20 years until his death last month from a heart attack.
When Assemblyman Anthony Bucco walked to the podium to accept a Legislator of the Year award from the N.J. Chamber of Commerce, his late father - Sen. Tony Bucco - was on top of his mind.
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce announced that four state legislators – two Democrats and two Republicans – will receive the Chamber’s biannual Legislator of the Year Awards. The State Chamber further announced that Dennis Wilson, President and CEO of Delta Dental of New Jersey, has been named its Business Advocate of the Year.
Gov. Phil Murphy has made reforming New Jersey Transit a big priority.
He is high on making New Jersey a major player in wind energy.
And his administration is working on a new set of business incentives to lure and retain companies and new jobs to the Garden State.
The Murphy administration will be sensitive to increases on the cost of energy as it takes steps to meet its clean energy goals, said Joseph L. Fiordaliso president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
The questions that Linda Bowden posed to the governor were pertinent and challenging, and elicited candid remarks from the governor on where the state stands regarding the stronger and fairer economy.
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce's Liberty Gala on September 25 celebrated the 10th anniversary of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and honored the military heroes of New Jersey dating back to the Revolutionary War.
New Jersey is rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), permitting offshore wind facilities and promoting the use of electric vehicles to “address the challenges of climate change,” said state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Catherine R. McCabe during a breakfast roundtable on Sept. 17 presented by the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and the NJBIA.