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The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee approved a bill (S15) that would gradually raise the State’s minimum wage from $8.38 to $15 per hour by 2021. The full Assembly passed an identical bill in May.Opponents of the increase say that small businesses would see their payrolls sky-rocket and...

Phase Out Of Estate Tax Caught In The CrossfireEveryone agrees that New Jersey’s roads, bridges, mass transit and overall infrastructure is in disrepair and in desperate need of improvement. A bipartisan group of legislators worked for months to create a proposal that would have funded the nearly...

Marcy McGuire To Step Down After Three TermsAfter serving three successful terms as New Jersey’s National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Director, Marcy Maguire (Windsor Nissan) has decided to step down. New Jersey auto retailers, who are members of the NADA, nominated Richard DeSilva, Sr., of Liberty Subaru...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) recently launched a $725,000 grant program aimed at encouraging the installation of more electric vehicle charging stations around the State.According to the State Board of Public Utilities, there are currently 398 charging outlets at 181 locations in New Jersey, based...

Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market report found that automotive leasing levels, average loan amount and average monthly payments each reached record highs in the first quarter of 2015.Leasing accounted for 31.1% (an all-time high) of new vehicle transactions in the first quarter of 2015, compared to...

NJ CAR is again receiving calls and complaints from dealer members of phone calls or individuals stopping by their dealerships claiming to represent the public utility or the dealership’s current third party electric supplier. These individuals are very persistent, even to the point of being obnoxious, and will...