April 16, 2015 | In the News
“It’s really an egregious test,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a PARCC opponent with Save Our Schools New Jersey, a group fighting the testing. “It’s extraordinarily difficult.” Courier Post, April 16
April 16, 2015 | In the News, News
NAIOP New Jersey “Dinosaurs to Diamonds” Student Challenge Tomorrow’s commercial real estate leaders provided a glimpse of their vision for the state’s redevelopment as NAIOP New Jersey presented its first annual “Dinosaurs to...
April 16, 2015 | In the News
By Linda Stamato and Sandy Jaffe Morristown denied the non-profit property tax exemption claimed by its largest employer, Morristown Medical Center, and set off a firestorm. The hospital’s parent, Atlantic Health Systems, challenged the denial of its claimed...
April 15, 2015 | In the News
“Filling that building with other tenants is really a significant achievement for the waterfront,” said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Crain’s New York Business,...
April 14, 2015 | In the News
by Linda Stamato/NJ Voices. The students did it again–big, bigger! Record-breaking, just like the last time. And the time before that. The dance marathon, in its 17th year, yielded a whopping $692,046.67 after thirty, long, grueling hours. It ended in triumph....
April 13, 2015 | In the News, News
As the second dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, taking over in 1995 three years after its founding, James W. Hughes is not quite the father of the Bloustein school. But Hughes has named the school as an heir,...
April 12, 2015 | In the News
That’s the dilemma before New Jersey taxpayers, said Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director at the Rutgers University Bloustein Local Government Research Center: “(Taxpayers) may be getting a bargain, but the price of that bargain is that you might have individuals who...
April 10, 2015 | In the News
The state is on a path to meet its goals to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution by 2020, but achieving its ambitious 2050 targets will take much more work, according to an updated inventory of those emissions by the Rutgers Climate Institute and Rutgers Edward J....
April 8, 2015 | In the News
There are five factors driving New Jersey’s construction increase, said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. “Higher education, multifamily housing, warehouse distribution, data centers and health care centers are...
April 6, 2015 | In the News
Eighty percent of all the commercial office space that exists today was built in the 1980s. Much of that stuff is between 25-30 years of age now,” said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. “What...
April 6, 2015 | In the News
By Richard F. Keevey Social security is a vital component of the American safety net. Without social security many retired and disabled workers – as well as survivors and dependents – would be without a source of income. But social security is on an...
April 5, 2015 | In the News
Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi—a professor of planning and public policy at New Jersey-based Rutgers University and a candidate in Iran’s 2013 presidential race—argued that while the Houthis are Shi’a Muslims, as is the Iranian regime, the Houthis should not be equated with...
April 5, 2015 | In the News
Carl Van Horn, director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, said there are several reasons New Jersey’s long-term unemploymenthas remained higher than most states. He pointed to steep job losses in the financial and...
April 1, 2015 | In the News
“New Jersey has always been an immigration destination,” said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. “That goes back to the first wave of immigrants from Europe well over 100 years ago.” NJ101.5.com, April...
March 31, 2015 | In the News
Loan Dao, Channing Bickford and Virginie Nadimi, urban planning graduate students at the Bloustein School of Public Planning and Policy, are conducting bicycle safety and sustainability outreach in New Brunswick through their commitment, “Spokes.” Rutgers Today, March...
