April 1, 2024 | In the News
There was lots of celebrating in some circles of New Jersey politics this weekend, after a federal judge’s ruling on Friday ending the state’s “county line” voting system. It’s a ballot design system that has ruled New Jersey politics for generations, where...
March 31, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey politics will be turned on its head by Friday’s ruling from a federal judge that guts the power of the county bosses, all sides agree. But what exactly will the demolition of the infamous county line change? Let’s take a look. First, it will open the doors...
March 31, 2024 | In the News
When New Jersey received more than $6.2 billion in pandemic relief funding from the federal government three years ago, major projects like eviction and homelessness prevention programs and small-business grants topped the list of programs to receive benefits. But not...
March 30, 2024 | In the News
A lawyer representing county clerks in New Jersey has requested that a judge delay his landmark decision of scrapping the state’s county-line ballot design, a system that critics say has given tremendous weight to establishment candidates at the expense of outsiders....
March 30, 2024 | In the News
Princeton, NJ – Two Princeton residents and academicians – Julia Sass Rubin of Rutgers and Princeton University’s Sam Wang – were among the experts quoted in the landmark decision regarding the “county line” ballot design handed down March 29 by U.S. District Court...
March 30, 2024 | In the News
At the very end of his historic 49-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi acknowledged he was setting off a political bomb that would reverberate in New Jersey politics long after the June 4 primary. “The court wishes to make clear that it recognizes the...
March 29, 2024 | In the News
A federal judge has granted an emergency request to force New Jersey to redesign its election ballot before the June primary, upending a longstanding source of electoral power for the state’s Democratic and Republican parties. The ruling, issued on Friday, is expected...
March 29, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey’s unique way of displaying county-endorsed candidates on the ballot has been struck down by a federal judge, after a lawsuit by Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who is running for Senate, and two other Democrats running for Congress, who called the design unfair and...
March 29, 2024 | In the News
Last week, the two leaders in The House of Murphy offered a unified, macro-defense of New Jersey’s county line system, which gave us a two-term governor from Goldman Sachs. It is best summarized this way: Despite all the complaints from grassroots activists and...
March 29, 2024 | In the News
A long-simmering fight over New Jersey’s unique primary ballot design reached a federal courtroom Monday in a case that has the potential to upend not only the state’s tense U.S. Senate race but Garden State politics in general. A judge in U.S. District Court in...
March 29, 2024 | In the News
A federal judge on Friday took the “extraordinary” step of stopping the use of the preferential “county line” on ballots in this June’s primary elections. The decision is a big win for U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-3rd), now the front-runner for the Democratic U.S. Senate...
March 28, 2024 | In the News
Last September, when Bob Menendez, the senior senator from New Jersey, was indicted—along with his wife, Nadine—in a garish bribery scheme involving gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz, one of the first elected officials to call for his resignation was Andy Kim, a...
March 28, 2024 | News
Delivering the Benefits of Offshore Wind to Communities: How New Jersey is Making Progress In support of the state’s goals, Governor Murphy’s administration has set an ambitious target of 11,000 megawatts (MW) of installed offshore wind capacity in New Jersey by...
March 27, 2024 | In the News
Congratulations to Fairfax, VA Deputy Director of Planning & Zoning Kelly O’Brien (MCRP ’09) for her Women of Influence Award: Celebrating Women Making a Difference in the City! Kelly O’Brien, a dedicated city resident and community member for 13...
March 26, 2024 | News
On March 14, New Jersey lawmakers temporarily halted their plans to limit the scope of the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), which compels local governments to release public records upon request, according to the Associated Press. After a committee session advancing...
March 26, 2024 | In the News
On Wednesday, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy hosted a virtual webinar titled “Artificial Intelligence: Use, Abuse & An Exciting Future” as part of their “Intelligent Informatics @ Bloustein” webinar series. The...
March 26, 2024 | In the News
A 420-meter (quarter-mile) white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight. The tube is the heart of the new European Hyperloop Center that opens Tuesday and...
March 25, 2024 | In the News
Former financier Tammy Murphy, whose bid for Senate enjoyed every advantage that New Jersey’s machine-driven politics could offer, stunned the political world when she abandoned her campaign for the Democratic nomination on Sunday, a day before the candidate...
March 25, 2024 | In the News
Rep. Andy Kim has already stunned New Jersey with his surging run for US Senate. Now he might turn the state’s entire political culture on its head. Kim, a Democrat, scored an early victory Sunday when his chief primary rival, New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy,...
March 25, 2024 | In the News
Bringing events to the resort has become a costly exercise over the past decade, and state agencies are helping to pay those increased costs more often. In recent years, the state has pitched in millions of dollars to bring events like the Miss America Competition,...
