November 30, 2016 | In the News
Dan Biederman, President of Biederman Redevelopment Ventures ( www.brvcorp.com ), said his firm will provide DEVCO a detailed set of recommendations related to the governance and will help establish a nonprofit organization to operate the new public space. BRV will...
November 23, 2016 | In the News
The Clean Power Plan, along with the wetlands rule known as Waters of the United States, are in the first category. “That makes them the hardest to undo,” says Stuart Shapiro, a public-policy professor at Rutgers University who was a regulatory official under...
November 23, 2016 | In the News
The Garden State’s “weaker-looking” economy includes a leveling off of its unemployment rate and will cause the state’s real domestic product to dampen and its population growth to slow through 2026, the report predicts. “It’s...
November 22, 2016 | In the News
There are a few ways a Trump presidency could go, economically speaking. Donald Trump could behave like a traditional Republican: cutting social services, regulations and taxes, especially on the rich. Or he could carry out some of his campaign pledges: deporting...
November 22, 2016 | In the News
The Rutgers RECON forecast predicts a “dampening” of Jersey’s gross domestic product. Rutgers economist James Hughes says for the foreseeable future, it certainly is not going to be “boom times” in New Jersey. The state enjoyed a good economic year in 2015. But it...
November 22, 2016 | In the News
The transformative virtues of protected bike lanes have been the focus of much research lately. A 2014 study from Portland State University determined that segregated bike paths are not only demonstrably safer for riders, they have the power to lure lapsed riders back...
November 21, 2016 | In the News
The new fellows will receive an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin at the AAAS Fellows Forum on Feb. 18, 2017. The forum will be held during the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts....
November 17, 2016 | In the News
After last week’s presidential election, there has been much handwringing about how Democrats can communicate with the Rust Belt voters that turned on them. On the one hand, that is natural; the losses in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan were surprising and...
November 16, 2016 | In the News
“I don’t know that Red Bank Charter is doing anything particularly better than the district,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at Rutgers University who has studied Red Bank schools and advocates for district schools. “The district is much more impoverished, but...
November 16, 2016 | In the News
Will Trump, the president, replace Trump, the campaigner? Two forces are in contention these days; both are compelling. President Obama and Hillary Clinton are right, classy even, to take the high ground and urge us to hold together in ways that unite our divided...
November 15, 2016 | In the News
The $116-million project is a public-private partnership financed in part by $33 million in tax credits from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, as well as tax breaks and bond financing from the City of Newark.The project also is supported by NJPAC as part...
November 14, 2016 | In the News
William Rodgers, an economist at Rutgers, remembers when Trump started his campaign; Rodgers said the movie “Network” came to mind. “I was waiting for him to say to people, ‘I want you to go to your windows,'” Rodgers said, “and...
November 14, 2016 | In the News
The new president-elect cannot simply rip up the regulation, which became effective in June and requires financial advisers to act in the best interests of their clients in retirement accounts. Trying to scrap it through the legislative process also can be a heavy...
November 13, 2016 | In the News
The city already leads the nation’s biggest cities in bike lanes per square mile, according to data compiled by one national bike advocacy group. And Minneapolis is adding an ever-increasing number of bike lanes to its streets, with a goal of 30 miles of protected...
