Like their New York cousins across the Hudson River, the rich or well-to-do of New Jersey are saying, “Yes, let’s pay higher taxes!” more>

In local weekly papers, "penny-saver" newspapers, and leaflets taped onto lampposts, various entreprenuers are offering "work-from-home" jobs, promising considerable earnings to those who are interested. But after unwitting consumers—who failed to make the thousands a week promised—complained, State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer took two offending companies to court. more>

What is happening today to Muslims and Arabs also happened long ago to Italian-Americans. And, in times of war or and times of peace, it has also happened to other immigrant groups. more>

New Jersey has the highest population density in the country. In the state capital, people nicknamed the row houses rented to groups of Hispanic immigrants “Guatemala motels,” blaming new immigrants for the increase in crowding. more>

The official from the Italian Federation of Public Concerns was frank: among the 12,000 Italian restaurants that exist in the United States, a meager 10-15 percent can be categorized as authentic. “The others,” he emphasized, “have in some way encroached upon the name, and behind the ‘Italian Restaurant’ sign, there’s a little of everything, or sometimes, there’s nothing.” The Italian government will survey every Italian restaurant and award some certificates announcing their authenticity. more>

Every year, for the past several years, the statue of the Madonna visited Frank Sinatra Park. This year, she paused, facing the park to allow those on the shore and those aboard the boat to exchange greetings. The benediction of the sea was held on the boat, just like in Molfetta, the small Italian city where the originators of this festival, trace their roots. more>

At 17.5 percent, New Jersey and Hawaii have the third-largest percentages of immigrants, Census figures show. The growing cultural diversity of New Jersey immigrants, and the New Jersey workforce, is forcing the casino industry to change. more>

New Jersey Democrats lambasted EPA head Christie Whitman for refusing to block a Navy plan to dump PCB-contaminated material off the coast of Sandy Hook—an area she sought to protect as governor. more>