March 10, 2024 | In the News
Just when taxpayers got used to the notion that public records actually belong to the public, our most powerful lawmakers have decided that it’s time to choke off access. In a state notorious for government corruption and poor transparency, New Jersey’s Legislature...
March 8, 2024 | In the News
You may have seen those large motorized stuffed animals that kids and parents ride through some parts of the American Dream mall. They include plushy zebras, elephants tigers and hippos. An elderly woman is suing the East Rutherford mega-mall and ride operator,...
March 4, 2024 | In the News
On a chilly Saturday morning last month, a smiling First Lady Tammy Murphy walked into the wood-paneled Portuguese Club of Long Branch, just a few blocks off the beach, where hundreds of Monmouth County Democrats gathered to decide who they’d back for U.S. Senate. As...
March 4, 2024 | In the News
Shelton, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at Georgia State, along with his collaborator Eric Seymour of Rutgers University, investigated the ownership of rental homes in metro Atlanta and found that more than 19,000 were owned by just three...
March 2, 2024 | In the News
Georgia State University researchers unveil the ironclad grip of three corporate giants over a staggering 11% of the city’s rental properties. As metro Atlanta continues to deal with a housing shortage and high rent, a recent study led by Georgia State...
March 1, 2024 | In the News
As he leaves the scandal-plagued firm, Jay Parsons offers one last defense of rent-gougers. If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, you’ll be familiar with real estate tech firm RealPage. According to a bombshell ProPublica investigation, RealPage’s...
March 1, 2024 | In the News
There’s a whole lot of yelling in American politics these days. Yet what erupted Sunday night at a Democratic Party convention in central New Jersey was extraordinary, even by Trump-era noise standards. “No! No! No!” came the shouts from the audience. “This is...
March 1, 2024 | In the News
When Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled his state budget earlier this week, he proposed a “corporate transit fee” for the state’s 600 most profitable corporations. The tax would raise close to $900,000 annually to subsidize New Jersey Transit. James Hughes, Dean Emeritus of...
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...
