Assignment: come up with new design concepts to enliven the stretch of Monmouth Street between the train station and borough hall in Red Bank. The response: lots of new apartments, rooftop bars, hidden parking decks, pockets of greenery and even an amphitheater across...
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Opinion: Making the business case for a $15 minimum wage
In today’s world, the primary beneficiaries of minimum wage increases are not teenagers. Instead they are adults and parents who are trying to meet their monthly rent, food and health care expenditures. Research on the minimum wage finds job losses associated with...
NJ mayors square off over proposal for power plant
It’s mayor against mayor in part of Bergen County, where there’s a proposal to build a power plant. Just off busy Route 1 & 9 down an industrial part of the Meadowlands is a concrete recycling plant that could soon be transformed into a power plant burning natural...
Historic tax credits work as intended
Consider these stats from the National Park Service, which handles the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program in cooperation with the State Historic Preservation Offices. They're from a new report — by the park service and Rutgers University's Center for...
New Jersey Food Council promotes Mary Ellen Peppard to vice president
The New Jersey Food Council has promoted its chief government affairs representative to vice president for her work representing food retailers, including supermarkets, independent grocers and convenience stores, as well as their supplier partners. Mary Ellen Peppard...
Defending reproductive rights in New Jersey by improving access to health care for all
“New Jersey’s record of advancing reproductive health policy—while better than most states—has yet to fully address barriers faced by those who need these services the most,” said Jazmyne McNeese, NJPP 2018 Crotty Fellow and author of the report. “This report gives a...
Trump administration wants to put a price on freedom of speech.
The Trump administration is none too happy about the right to speak and assemble peaceably — and, particularly, to protest — as we saw when the president found fault with the hundreds of thousands of women —and men — who marched on the National Mall following his...
Obamacare enrollment sinks 11% — historically low unemployment is at least partly to blame
Regardless, the tight labor market is helping reduce dependence on the federal program, said Joel Cantor, the founding director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "The economy has increased employment rates and encouraged more...
Academe Must Challenge the Skeptics of Expertise
When Melinda Wenner Moyer, a science journalist for The New York Times, was attempting to report on an unexpected aspect of a vaccine’s efficacy or safety, she found that scientists often didn’t want to talk with her. And when she did get them on the phone, she says,...
Five-star luxury hotel, conference center eyes former Hoffmann-La Roche site
Throughout the region, millennials and the employers seeking to attract them want office environments with an urban feel, even if that means creating a mini-downtownwithin a suburban office park by adding walkways, restaurants and housing. In their evolution from the...