November 14, 2017 | In the News, News
Ernest C. Reock Jr., a former Rutgers University professor known for his extensive knowledge of state government, died Sunday morning. He was 93. Reock, of the Kendall Park neighborhood of South Brunswick, died of complications from pneumonia at University Medical...
November 14, 2017 | In the News
The new governor faces immediate budget problems. After inauguration in January 2018, the Budget for fiscal year 2019 must be submitted in March. And for the first six months of 2018, the governor must manage the budget he will inherit — and end with the year in...
November 13, 2017 | In the News
The Star-Ledger reports on Governor-elect Phil Murphy’s transition team, noting that Carl Van Horn (BSPPP/Heldrich) was named Senior Advisor to the Transition for Strategy and Policy and was name to the Stronger and Fairer Economy team; Henry Coleman (BSPPP) was named...
November 12, 2017 | In the News
Stress levels among people in New Jersey are not very different from those among people nationally, but residents of South Jersey reported more stress than their northern neighbors in several life categories, a new study has found. Researchers from the Rutgers Center...
November 10, 2017 | Alumni Spotlight
Many graduate students at the Bloustein School pursue their degrees with a focus on community and economic development. In early November alumni with professional experience in this area were invited to sit on a panel discussion to offer perspectives on the current...
November 9, 2017 | In the News
About one-fourth of New Jersey adults have said they felt a “great deal” of stress in the past month, according to a New Jersey Health & Well-Being Poll conducted by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Joel Cantor, director of the Center, said that they...
November 8, 2017 | Event Recap
11/08 2017 The History and Evolution of Metuchen: 1967-2017 click to play 2017 Isadore Candeub Memorial Lecture in Planning
November 7, 2017 | In the News
The new chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors, for example, will be Paul Gilman, chief sustainability officer of Covanta, the waste-to-energy group. The Science Advisory Board will be chaired by Michael Honeycutt from the Texas Commission on Environmental...
November 7, 2017 | In the News
T. Patrick Hill, an associate teaching professor in the Bloustein School’s public health program and a bioethicist and expert on the ethical trials and tribulations of the gene editing technique CRISPR-CAS9, has published a new article, “Gene Editing in...
November 7, 2017 | In the News
The fiscal future of New Jersey is bleak. New Jersey has struggled to balance its budget for two decades. In the early 1990s, the state was AAA by each Rating Agency. Over the last eight years, it was reduced seven times – it is now the second lowest. Some...
November 4, 2017 | In the News
Earlier this week, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a policy declaring that recipients of EPA grants could no longer serve on several EPA scientific advisory committees. Given the widespread presence of industry representatives and former industry lobbyists...
November 1, 2017 | Career, News
Barbara Heskins Davis, PP, AICP, Vice President of Programs at The Land Conservancy of New Jersey, visited the Bloustein School early in the semester to begin a conversation with graduate students about how interns play an integral role in the projects and programs...
November 1, 2017 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, said payouts were once a benefit for public employees whose salaries were typically lower than those of their private-sector counterparts. And being able to bank...
October 30, 2017 | Alumni Spotlight
During the summer of 2017, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association partnered with several organizations to create the City Planning Institute, a two-week program in City Planning for public high school students from the cities of Passaic and...
October 28, 2017 | In the News
The most recent year included the deadly train crash at Hoboken Terminal in September 2016, as well as three derailments between March and July at New York’s Penn Station. It also includes a worsening problem of trains canceled due to a shortage of locomotive...
October 27, 2017 | In the News
A new poll confirms what you might have already figured out on your own — a lot of Garden State residents feel completely stressed out. “Just over a quarter of people say they are very stressed. Another 40 or so percent say they are at least somewhat stressed,” said...
October 26, 2017 | In the News
“Stress figures prominently in the lives of a large share of New Jersey residents,” said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. “New Jersey residents having a hard time making ends meet and those experiencing health...
October 25, 2017 | In the News
The policy and political debates swirling around us have real implications for people in New Jersey. Perhaps the most talked about theme in our gubernatorial debates has been affordability — how do we make New Jersey a more affordable place to live? On the national...
