A bill giving the legislature [in New Jersey] more time to deal with the public notices and legal advertisement crisis created after the Star-Ledger and other print newspapers ceased publication on Feb. 2 passed the Senate, 36-0, and now heads to the Assembly.
After Advanced Publications announced last year that they were shuttering the Star-Ledger print edition, along with the Jersey Journal, Trenton Times, South Jersey Times and Hunterdon County Democrat, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a quickly-assembled bill that permitted the Star-Ledger to continue accepting the lucrative public notice ads — some call them subsidies — until March 1.
This bill initially gave the newspapers a reprieve through June 30, before the Legislature adjourns for the summer.
