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TRENTON — On Thursday, the majority leaders of the New Jersey State Assembly and Senate introduced legislation to establish the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium, an initiative joining New Jersey’s leading universities in support of the news-and-information needs of communities statewide.

When Congress killed Federal Communications Commission rules that would stop internet providers from selling your browsing history to advertisers, supporters of that move told upset internet users to cheer up.

A bill introduced Thursday by state legislative leaders would create a fund for supporting and fostering local journalism.

Congressional Republicans knew their plan was potentially explosive. They wanted to kill landmark privacy regulations that would soon ban internet providers, such as Comcast and AT&T, from storing and selling customers’ browsing histories without their express consent.

What would you do if you had the opportunity to reshape local news coverage in the Garden State?

News Voices: New Jersey, a project of the media-advocacy group Free Press, wants to hear your answers.

Full Frontal producer Razan Ghalayini called New Brunswick Today after independent news advocates at the national organization Free Press had recommended the paper to the show.

Tents lined a sidewalk on Los Angeles’ Skid Row in front of a small meeting hall where FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn spoke earlier this month to a group of community activists, a number of them homeless.

The Federal Communications Commission voted last week along party lines to move forward with Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to roll back current Net Neutrality protections. Despite the claims of the agency head, many businesses would rather keep the current rules in place.

The next few months will be full of bitter dissent regarding the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules. This article debunks the arguments from the anti-open internet camp.

The FCC voted to begin dismantling Net Neutrality protections, but the rules aren’t dead yet. Approving the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking only begins the process of trying to roll back the rules. But Ajit Pai and Net Neutrality opponents still have their work cut out for them.