Opioid Treatment
The state Medicaid program removed prior-authorization requirements for “medication-assisted treatment” for opioid addiction, everyone reports. “When someone with an opioid addiction is ready for treatment, we shouldn’t be losing them to care while they wait for approval,” the Human Services Commissioner, Carole Johnson, said.
Longport Tax Cut
Longport, the City of Tomorrow, introduced a municipal budget with a small tax decrease this year, Nanette LoBiondo reports.
As well they should. Having banished all children, and stores, the Longport City Fathers have made the town so appealing to affluent persons no one can afford to live there anymore. Even the beach-house owners have two other beach houses, so you’re lucky if you see them for a weekend or two every year.
In unrelated news, they are accepting bids for beach ice-cream vendors.
Stockton Dorms
Elsewhere in accommodation, Stockton University is pleased, reportedly, to be offering a unique living experience this summer at its Atlantic City campus, which is also safe and affordable, among other pat adjectives. (We tweeted previously about how they were pitching this to students over in Galloway — just $32 a day!).
No word on whether or not they are also delighted to be offering the living experience(s), but I’m going to go out on a limb and say yes, they probably are, because for some reason public relations people think it’s useful to go around in a perpetual state of delight.
For more feats of journalism…
Drone video reveals charred aftermath of 11K-acre forest fire in N.J. Pinelands–New Jersey authorities continue to assess the charred landscape after an 11,000-acre forest fire raged through New Jersey’s Pinelands for two days, sending billowing columns of smoke and ash dozens of miles away over the weekend. www.nj.com
NJ CALLS FOR BIG INCREASE IN NUMBER OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES–New Jersey health officials on Monday recommended a huge increase in the number of medicinal marijuana dispensaries, arguing that the current handful of so-called Alternative Treatment Centers won’t be nearly enough to meet surging demand. www.njspotlight.com
42¢–For every dollar a white, non-Hispanic man earns in the Garden State, the average Latina makes 42 cents. For African-American and Native American women, it’s 56 cents. The figure is 74 cents for white non-Hispanic women. www.njspotlight.com
Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind signs memorandum of understanding with Stockton–Stockton University signed a memorandum of understanding with Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind that will support research, academic programs and events at Stockton, according to information released by the university Monday. www.pressofatlanticcity.com