April 3, 2025 | In the News
Some 62,000 people and 56,000 homes on and near the New Jersey Shore will see at least one annual flood because of sea-level rise by 2050, even if the world makes sweeping cuts to carbon emissions now, according to a new online tool released Wednesday by Climate...
April 1, 2025 | In the News
By Marc Pfeiffer (Published April 1, 2025 at ICMA.org) This article is for you if your organization hasn’t had the opportunity to assess your data and how it’s used. If you’ve had that discussion and have embarked on a data management process, feel free to move on to...
March 27, 2025 | In the News
British banking giant Barclays is laying off another 78 employees in Whippany this year, public filings show, in addition to 69 employees handed the pink slip in January. The layoffs will go into effect between June 23 and July 7, according to public filings. Oksana...
March 26, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Counter-GIS Experiments in Distance Interpolation with the Relational Reprojection Platform Abstract In this paper, we discuss the cartographic genealogy and prospective uses of the Relational Reprojection Platform (RRP), an interactive tool that we built to create...
March 24, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Expanding the city digital twin in the context of crisis, cartography and computation Abstract This commentary responds to Gillian Rose’s ‘Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters’ as a framework for thinking about...
March 23, 2025 | In the News
Beginning next year, college enrollment officials expect the pool of applicants to be smaller than previous generations, a trend they expect will last well into the next 10 years… “We’re facing the cliff, because those born in ’08 …...
March 21, 2025 | In the News
Over two years ago, Balpreet Grewal-Virk spoke to Newark nonprofits and residents to see how RWJBarnabas Health could address patient health issues outside of the four walls of their hospitals. Nonprofit workers told the senior vice president of community health that...
March 21, 2025 | In the News
N.J. gutted its pay-to-play laws. Millions in donations are the result. Out of $26,300 raised by the Mantua Township Democratic Executive Committee, $21,500 came from contractors who work for Mantua’s government, with its engineers, its lawyers and other white-collar...
March 14, 2025 | In the News
China, transparency, bidding, Conduent, TransCore — these are the recurring buzzwords around a lucrative — and controversial — new $1.7 billion contract to operate the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s E-ZPass program. At issue is a disputed bid process over the company...
March 14, 2025 | In the News
As the price of eggs continues to climb and the stock market swings amid President Donald Trump’s tariff-fueled trade war, concerns about the possibility of a recession grew this week. And now that the New Jersey Legislature is starting to prepare a budget for...
March 13, 2025 | In the News
The state has contributed more than $800 million in funding to the resort’s budgets since 2016 to help pay off casino tax appeals and steady the city’s finances when it was on the brink of bankruptcy, according to state records. But the city is hoping to reduce its...
March 13, 2025 | In the News
By Linda Stamato While President Trump’s efforts to force out tens of thousands of civilian federal workers and to dismantle entire agencies have hit legal challenges, and generating some resistance from agency heads, those efforts remain front and center on the Trump...
March 11, 2025 | In the News
By Linda Stamato The question arises frequently enough as to what constitutes local news that I thought I’d address it. Sometimes, it’s abundantly clear what is local—mayoral elections, housing and parking authorities. But other times, it’s less obvious. What is...
March 2, 2025 | In the News
Trenton, NJ – Is the ‘Good Ole Boys’ network dead in New Jersey? Or, are party chairmen across New Jersey just learning how to do business in a post-party line political landscape? The political landscape in New Jersey has undergone a seismic shift with the recent...
