December 19, 2023 | In the News
Over the past decade, at least a dozen municipalities have provided potentially questionable coverage to their elected officials through SHBP, documents obtained through public records requests showed. That encompassed 32 current and former officials whose benefits...
December 18, 2023 | In the News
Faculty Fellow Linda Stamato explores the pervasive impact of parking space mandates on urban planning, criticizing the prioritization of parking over people in cities and towns. She highlights the environmental, economic, and social consequences of excessive parking,...
December 15, 2023 | In the News
Wells Fargo and subsidiaries of Sun Life Financial and investment firm P10 have agreed to pay a combined $5.5 million to settle a claim that they inflated the cost of community development projects in Oregon to boost their benefit from a state tax credit program. The...
December 13, 2023 | In the News
A group of 29 New Jersey good-government organizations called on all declared candidates for the state’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024 to push for what they consider a fairer ballot, one that does not list candidates along the party line. Fair Ballot Alliance New Jersey...
December 12, 2023 | In the News
New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy’s entrance into the primary race for a U.S. Senate seat is mobilizing progressive activists to make the ballot a campaign issue in the 2024 race. A new statewide alliance of progressive organizations is asking all candidates in the...
December 6, 2023 | In the News
The last time the Lakewood Township Committee met in person Donald Trump was president, recreational marijuana was illegal in New Jersey, and there were only 11 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state. That was March 5, 2020. Since then, the governing body has only...
December 6, 2023 | In the News
When Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was indicted for a years-long bribery scheme, Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) seized on the opportunity to launch a Senate bid the very next day. Pitching himself as a straitlaced alternative to the corruption-magnet that is Menendez, the three-term...
December 5, 2023 | In the News
There is ample evidence that winning the party line, the preferential ballot placement that comes to candidates who win county party endorsements, gives a candidate for state or federal office an advantage. In a recent study, Rutgers University professor Julia Sass...
December 5, 2023 | In the News
The U.S. Senate campaign of Tammy Murphy, the wife of Gov. Phil Murphy, is calling attention to an arcane voting system in New Jersey, which could give her an upper hand in the Democratic primary. Murphy, 58, has never run for elected office but in the days following...
December 4, 2023 | In the News
A new article by a Rutgers University professor is said to further confirm the power of the party line in choosing candidates for public office: No New Jersey legislative incumbent who won the county line in all counties in his district has lost a primary in 14...
November 28, 2023 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Abstract After the U.S. foreclosure crisis, institutional investors purchased thousands of homes and converted them into rental properties. Past research links these entities to a number of negative outcomes, including rent increases and eviction filings. This paper...
November 20, 2023 | In the News
But what about the line? It’s an intriguing scenario. And yet … There is a stubborn thing called “the line” or the “county line.” And there is a stubborn thing called history. And facts. The reality is that candidates who snap up the endorsements of the state’s...
November 17, 2023 | In the News
Heat pumps are so efficient, in fact, that even if they’re powered by fossil fuels, “it’s still a big upgrade,” Duncan Gibb, lead analyst for heating and buildings at REN21, which advocates for renewables, told WIRED last year. “There’s really nothing to lose by...
