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NJ Spotlight News March 3, 2023
Tonight, on NJ Spotlight News another unspeakable tragedy. An 11-year-old Burlington County girl’s death by suicide now being made public by a grieving mom, who desperately wants to prevent another child’s mental health crisis. Raising familiar questions about what’s driving this alarming nationwide rise in teen suicide and how much responsibility should rest with schools to prevent it; Governor Murphy has signed into law a controversial bill critics say will strip the state’s campaign finance watchdog – ELEC - of its independence; Inflation may be to blame for a lot of the high prices we’re seeing, but that’s not the only factor in New Jersey’s rising rent costs. The state is short hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units; AND plastic utensils are now in the crosshairs of environmental advocates, who are pushing a bill to ban disposable cutlery AND condiment packets.