April 25, 2024 | In the News
Business is booming for New Jersey Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. An attorney by profession, Coughlin was a low-key state lawmaker with a solo law practice and a handful of municipal clients in the years before he ascended to the third most powerful position in the...
April 24, 2024 | In the News
Princeton, NJ – Editor’s note: Late last month U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi handed down a decision regarding New Jersey’s “county line” ballot design, which allows county leaders of both major political parties to endorse candidates and then place them on...
April 22, 2024 | In the News
March 29 was a Good Friday indeed in New Jersey: that morning, a federal judge in Trenton issued an order temporarily curtailing the use of a strange and controversial ballot design that has been a fixture of the state’s electoral landscape for decades. The...
April 22, 2024 | In the News
Transparency ― opening a public window on the grinding gears of government and party politics ― is all the rage these days. The clamor for a more open, democratic process is most evident in the fierce blowback lawmakers are facing over a plan to gut the state’s Open...
April 19, 2024 | In the News
Linda Stamato emphasizes that the freedom to read is synonymous with the freedom to think. Yet this essential liberty faces significant challenges from political and cultural divisions. Instances of book bans, particularly in Florida, highlight the absurdity of...
April 19, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
New policies and broader subsides are needed to help lower-income buyers afford used electric vehicles, according to a Rutgers study As early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) trade up for the latest models, the used EV market is beginning to mature in the United...
April 19, 2024 | In the News
By Julia Sass Rubin New Jersey is at an inflection point. For most of the past century, we have been a political machine state, controlled by a handful of men who run our largest county party organizations. The political machines have stayed in power with the help of...
April 17, 2024 | In the News
Essex County pushed hard and fast to get its residents vaccinated against COVID-19. Ultimately, the county administered more than 622,000 vaccinations. But a report released Tuesday by the acting state comptroller says problems plagued how the county spent some of its...
April 11, 2024 | In the News
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Taps 188 Artists, Scholars, Photographers, Novelists, Essayists, Poets, Historians, Choreographers, Environmentalists, and Data Scientists to the Ranks of 19,000 Fellows Honored Since 1925. Now in 99th year, the John Simon...
April 11, 2024 | In the News
The day after Bob Menendez, New Jersey’s senior senator, was indicted for corruption, Andy Kim, a congressman, announced he would take on his powerful fellow Democrat in the upcoming Senate race. But the bigger obstacle to his bid was not Mr Menendez, whose support...
April 8, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Emergency Department Peer Support Program and Patient Outcomes After Opioid Overdose Key Points Question Is implementation of an emergency department (ED)–based peer recovery support program for opioid overdose associated with improvements in initiation of medication...
April 8, 2024 | In the News
The party line, a routine fixture of New Jersey primaries for nearly 80 years, appears to be doomed to the dustbin of Garden State political history. But major questions now loom: Will the demise of this quirky, only-in-New Jersey ballot feature truly drain the power...
April 4, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey would spend $250 million in taxpayer funds for students to attend private schools under new legislation that public school advocates are bashing as an ill-disguised effort to create a voucher program here. The bill would give residents a tax break for...
