Anthony Bourdain Food Trail Media Tour June 13-14, 2019 You are invited to discover the New Jersey culinary roots of the late Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, best-selling author, and globe-trotting food and travel documentarian, on a newly designated food trail. The Anthony Bourdain Food Trail pays tribute to Bourdain’s childhood growing up in Leonia, New Jersey, and summers spent at the Jersey Shore. The trail spotlights 10 New Jersey restaurants featured on… Read More

To ensure nursing mothers have a safe place to breastfeed when they’re in public, a measure sponsored by Assemblywoman Gabriela Mosquera to provide lactation rooms in certain public facilities passed the full Assembly on Thursday, 76-0. The bill (A-1663) would require certain public facilities to make at least one lactation room available upon request to any mother utilizing on-site services, including any: health care facility; federally qualified health center; county or municipal… Read More

Recognizing that early diagnosis can serve as the best treatment defense, a bill that would require newborn infants to be screened for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was approved by the Assembly Women and Children Committee Thursday. The measure is sponsored by Assembly Democrat Gabriela Mosquera (D-Camden, Gloucester). The legislation (A-3040) calls for infants to be tested for the genetic markers associated with SMA–a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is caused by abnormally functioning… Read More

An alarming trend where an abuser uses smart technology as a means to harass another person has inspired legislation, sponsored by Assembly member Gabriela Mosquera, that would expand New Jersey cyber-harassment law to include the use of such gadgets and devices to harass, intimidate and stalk an individual. The measure cleared the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee Monday. The bill (A-4448) would expand the crime of cyber-harassment to include tampering or… Read More