January 29, 2020 | In the News
The release of the energy master plan has also generated skepticism from various corners of the state’s energy sphere. One concern stemmed from the transition’s cost to ratepayers — an analysis that officials in the Murphy administration said would be...
January 29, 2020 | In the News
Still another example: “A pedestrian was hit and killed” was changed to “A pedestrian was hit and killed by a car.” Despite an ever-rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on U.S. roads each year, there’s no widespread public...
January 28, 2020 | In the News
For those of us who follow politics, the past three years have been dizzying. Opponents and proponents of President Donald Trump would likely agree that the pace of news coming out of Washington is unprecedented. Some of this is a function of social media. But much of...
January 28, 2020 | In the News
For those of us who follow politics, the past three years have been dizzying. Opponents and proponents of President Donald Trump would likely agree that the pace of news coming out of Washington is unprecedented. Some of this is a function of social media. But much of...
January 25, 2020 | In the News
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the hotspotting model are greatly exaggerated,” said Rutgers University professor Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy, before the California results dropped. Cantor has worked closely with...
January 25, 2020 | In the News
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the hotspotting model are greatly exaggerated,” said Rutgers University professor Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy, before the California results dropped. Cantor has worked closely with...
January 24, 2020 | In the News
Others are more skeptical. Marc H. Pfeiffer, a senior policy fellow at Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said the settlement is “an unusual circumstance that requires consideration.” “The lawyers are going to have to look at...
January 21, 2020 | In the News
If only the parents and their allies, storming the Trenton barricades earlier this week, could hear what they were saying and to whom they were actually saying it to. They thought they were speaking to members of the legislature about a bill that would eliminate...
January 17, 2020 | In the News
Karen Alexander, managing director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, told the senators about a program she oversees that teaches people with disabilities how to navigate the fixed-route bus and train public transportation system so they don’t have to rely...
January 15, 2020 | In the News
“The portrayal that Hollywood has been putting out for a long time is that Iran is not just a place of bad leaders or regimes but a nation of terrorists, radicals and bad guys — that this is the entire culture,” said Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian American professor...
January 14, 2020 | In the News
Coalition leaders and other experts emphasized that the results should not be considered the last word on this work, which has evolved over the years and grown into a national movement dedicated to improving outcomes for challenging patients and better controlling...
January 5, 2020 | In the News
Of course, this is not the first time American workers have been impacted or potentially impacted by technology. “There have been technologies that have been implemented that didn’t lead to the wide-scale job losses,” says William M. Rodgers III, professor of public...
January 4, 2020 | In the News
Two university professors have studied the Wayne County Tax Auction and come to a startling conclusion: Since 2005, around 90 percent of purchases went to speculative investors. This shift from largely resident-owned properties to bulk owners has had serious...
