Rutgers alumni rank among top 100 figures in NJ politics

With a close to the 2017 political election season, PolitickerNJ and InsiderNJ released their power lists to rank who has the most momentum among New Jersey politicians and several people ranked were Rutgers alumni. Both the PolitickerNJ Power List and InsiderNJ 100...

Murphy Goes All in on Technology as Means to Rehab NJ Economy

Murphy’s transition effort is being led by executive director Jose Lozano, who served as a member of former Gov. Jon Corzine’s administration. Carl Van Horn, the director of Rutgers University’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, is serving as a senior...

Preserving History Boosts Local Economies

An area doesn’t need to be on the National Register in order to be a local historic district, and vice versa. Standards for local districts often grow out of national ones, but what constitutes a local historic district depends on the place. The age of the property...

Lacey wants busy downtown; will NJ allow it?

Lacey is talking about how to redevelop its core areas and is seeking regional center status to help it get approval for a higher density zoning plan over the center. Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers...

Where stress-busters meet Myth Busters in NJ | Editorial

Still, it surprised the Rutgers team that the counties in the state with the least traffic congestion, the lowest population density and, probably, the smallest overall property tax bills, would most need “Marcus Welby, M.D.” actor Robert Young to come...

People are more stressed out in this part of NJ. Here's why

A higher percentage of people polled in Atlantic, Cape May, Salem and Cumberland counties reported having some stress or a great deal of stress, compared to four other regions in the state. The poll also looked at the effects of income, demographics, health, insurance...