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JON HURDLE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | MAY 11, 2021
NJ Spotlight News
Almost 300 New Jersey food pantries and soup kitchens are sharing in $3.5 million to improve their services to people who have become food-insecure because of the pandemic and are expected to remain as COVID-19 infection rates drop and vaccinations increase.
The funding is to enable the distribution network for New Jersey’s food banks to more efficiently meet demand for food assistance that, though lower than its pandemic peak, is still much higher than it was before the pandemic began.
Most of the money has been raised by three food banks — the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, Mercer Street Friends, and NORWESCAP — and has been supplemented by the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund’s Endurance Grants program, said Carlos Rodriguez, president of the Community FoodBank, the state’s largest hunger-relief organization.
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By Alan Steinberg | May 9, 2021
Insider NJ
The Monmouth Poll is considered to be the Gold Standard of polling in New Jersey. And under the leadership of its Executive Director, Patrick Murphy, the poll now has a top-flight national reputation as well, rated as A-plus by Nate Silver’s Five Thirty Eight Blog.
So when the Monmouth Poll releases its findings, New Jersey political players and journalists stop what they are doing to evaluate the latest news from Sir Patrick. And if the New Jersey Republican Party was a stock, there would have been a substantial amount of short selling by its shareholders last week.
The news released from the Monmouth Poll last Wednesday, May 5, 2021 regarding NJGOP prospects in this November’s gubernatorial election was most discouraging. In a nutshell, incumbent Governor Phil Murphy continues to enjoy substantially positive job approval (57%-31%) and reelect (48%-43%) ratings. While not as high as before, the Murphy numbers continue to presage a most comfortable reelection margin. https://www.insidernj.com/monmouth-poll-murphy-job-approval-rating-57/
Yet the following news, released by the Monmouth Poll the next day, Thursday, May 6, 2021, would be even worse for the NJGOP. New Jerseyans, by a wide margin (66%-27%) say that Governor Murphy is doing a good job handling the Coronavirus Pandemic, and nearly as many say the restrictions he has imposed to slow the spread of Covid-19 have been appropriate. Specifically, 58 percent of New Jerseyans say the measures Murphy took to slow the spread of coronavirus have been appropriate, while 27 percent say they went too far and 14 percent say they didn’t go far enough.
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LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | MAY 10, 2021
NJ Spotlight News
After 83 years as a nursing home that filled a unique cultural niche in Emerson, Bergen County, the Armenian Nursing & Rehabilitation Center closed its doors on Easter Sunday, a victim of a changing industry and the coronavirus pandemic.
The Villa at Florham Park, a nursing home in southern Morris County with a 130-year history, is scheduled to follow suit in the weeks to come.
“This whole thing is so scary. You’re just hoping the next place isn’t going to close too,” said a New Jersey woman whose brother will be forced to move from The Villa, where he has lived for a year-and-a-half. “I guess it’s survival of the fittest — or the ones that can change,” said the woman, who declined to be identified because of concerns over her brother’s privacy and care.
The Armenian home and The Villa, both nonprofits, have received high marks for quality care over the years and together cared for dozens of COVID-19-positive residents who survived, and others who did not. But a combination of long-standing financial challenges, increasingly costly regulatory requirements and expenses associated with the pandemic appear to have pushed them over the edge.
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Newark resident Juan Palacios receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up clinic hosted for the disabled community.
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NEWARK, NJ — The city of Newark is taking its first steps to vaccinate nearly 34,000 people with disabilities after community leaders hosted a pop-up clinic for residents with visual, hearing or physical impairments.
Although officials may have a long way to go before a majority of the city’s disabled residents are fully vaccinated, more than 50 registered residents walked through the doors of Chosen Generation Ministries on Friday morning to receive a Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Among the dozens of people who came in to roll up their sleeves and receive a shot, one resident, Terrence Coleman, said that he is looking forward to traveling this fall.
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