February 28, 2024 | In the News
The world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists. Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from Fortune that the world has “waited too long” to begin investing in a broader suite of...
February 27, 2024 | Alumni Spotlight, Graduate Public Informatics Student Spotlights
Meet Junghoon Lee, a dedicated professional with a background in urban planning, now making strides in the field of Public Informatics through the Public Informatics at Rutgers University program at the Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and...
February 27, 2024 | In the News
When New Jersey residents vote on primary day in June, most will use a ballot unlike those seen anywhere else in the country. It’s a ballot some say allows power brokers, not voters, to decide who wins. “I don’t think it’s unconstitutional, I know...
February 26, 2024 | In the News
A recent study released in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems suggests that advanced computer systems are helping companies do more of their thinking and knowledge-related tasks automatically. Although this AI-powered work offers “higher efficiency...
February 26, 2024 | In the News
Seniors in N.J. were promised a big property tax break. Will it happen? They miss many things about New Jersey: the pizza, the Jersey Shore, and their friends. But what the former Middlesex County couple doesn’t miss, they said, is their high property tax bill....
February 26, 2024 | In the News
ATLANTA — Three corporate landlords control nearly 11 percent of the single-family homes available for rent in metro Atlanta’s core counties, according to a new analysis led by Taylor Shelton, a geographer at Georgia State University. Shelton, an assistant professor...
February 26, 2024 | In the News
Representative Andy Kim, a Democrat running for Senate in New Jersey against the state’s first lady, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday that seeks to redesign the ballot before June’s contentious primary election, arguing the current layout unfairly benefits candidates...
February 25, 2024 | In the News
In October 2022, Jesse Pardo told Newsday that he hoped Grand Central Madison would be “life-changing” for the tens of thousands of Long Islanders, like him, working on Manhattan’s East Side. But reviews from some of the Long Island Rail Road’s other 230,000...
February 24, 2024 | In the News
The videos, culled from police body cameras, can draw millions of views on YouTube with salacious titles, like “19-Year-Old Girl Keeps Crying and Lying during DWI Arrest” and “Pregnant Housekeeper Arrested After Stealing Breast Pump and Baby Clothes.” They feature,...
February 21, 2024 | In the News
I got a lot of responses to my Friday newsletter on restricting the supply of fossil fuels, one of which said “oof no” in the subject line. It was from an economist named Benjamin Ho, who wrote that he usually likes my newsletter, “But, oh boy, was today’s off track.”...
February 21, 2024 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, the assistant director of Bloustein Local, a division of the Center for Urban Policy Research with The New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) presented ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTS as the first in a series of free...
February 16, 2024 | In the News
Imagine there were no law against arson and we were trying to figure out a way to stop it. One way would be to require people to pay for the right to burn down buildings. Another would be to issue a strictly limited number of tradable arson-permission certificates,...
February 15, 2024 | In the News
Republicans introduced just 6% of the bills that became state law in New Jersey’s last legislative session, even though they held 41% of legislative seats. That’s not exactly eureka! news for anyone who follows politics in Trenton, where Democrats control the...
February 14, 2024 | In the News
The governing board of the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project in December approved the release of data – along with pilot funding and data access fee waivers – for six research proposals to study the top challenges of the state’s population...
February 14, 2024 | In the News
The strike was called off. In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, Las Vegas’s branch of the Culinary Workers Union, known as Local 226, had planned to strike over a dozen independent downtown properties—Circus Circus, The Mirage/Hard Rock, the Westgate, and the...
February 14, 2024 | In the News
On February 8, 2024, Dr. Patti O’Brien-Richardson led a conversation on balance titled “Prioritizing Faculty Wellness” at the Rutgers Club. The event was hosted by Rutgers University Equity and Inclusion, Faculty Diversity Collaborative
February 14, 2024 | In the News
A bipartisan group of state fiscal-policy experts is raising new concerns about the long-term trajectory of New Jersey’s state budget and finances, even as the nation itself seems to be absorbing the worst effects of high inflation. During a news conference Tuesday...
