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Who were the real losers in the 2025 NJ primary? County machines and bosses | Opinion
“If they can demonstrate that they still wield a lot of power, that will potentially ricochet to fewer candidates running in the future, and we’ll be back to largely where we were before,” Sass Rubin said.
NJ, NY lawmakers slam Senate tax bill and its strict SALT deduction cap
“What Trump and Congress did at that point was dramatically increase the standard deduction but decreased the amount you could deduct for state and local taxes,” said Marc Pfeiffer, a senior policy fellow at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, who studies local government in New Jersey.
NJSPL: Georeferencing Historical Maps for Geospatial Analysis
As part of ongoing research to create a dataset of historical water bodies in New Jersey, researchers have begun locating and charting these historical water bodies with the use of atlases from the David Rumsey Map Collection. The digitized maps in these atlases were then georeferenced, a process of determining the precise location of these maps on the Earth’s surface. The ultimate goal is to trace water bodies in order to evaluate flood vulnerability across the state.
Job Opportunity: Asst. Professor in Urban Planning
The Bloustein School seeks to hire a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor for appointment beginning July 2026. Candidates should have a specialty in housing and quantitative methods.
Atlantic Yards’ broken promises loom over another major Brooklyn development plan two decades later
A new megadevelopment proposed for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal and surrounding blocks could reshape the future of Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront. But for many residents, the project and the process for winning its approval recall an earlier plan gone wrong.
Local developer eyes housing for office building in Cedar Knolls near Interstate 287
Office park space fell out of vogue even before COVID-19, said Jim Hughes, as talent flocked to urban centers.
“Work Trends RU” Podcast with Urban Institute’s Todd Greene
This week's guest on the Heldrich Center's Work Trends RU podcast is Todd Greene, Vice President of the Work, Education, and Labor Division at the Urban Institute and Executive Director of WorkRise. Todd is also Chair of the Heldrich Center's National Advisory Board....
NJ primary 2025: Results highlight weaker party machines
Julia Sass Rubin noted that for decades, the county line had been the key tool enabling political machines to dominate elections, but this year’s results—where party-endorsed candidates lost in multiple counties and Assembly races—demonstrated that voter choice was no longer being structurally constrained.
Pfeiffer participates in Rowan’s “Future of Journalism” Conference
Marc Pfeiffer, Senior Policy Fellow and Assistant Director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center, recently participated in Rowan University’s conference on “The Future of Journalism: New Models, Digital Transformations and the Public Interest” on Wednesday, May 21.
Will Payne Maps NYC’s “Gourmet Gentrification” Trends
Using a novel dataset assembled from print Zagat Survey guidebooks, the first crowdsourced restaurant guide and the direct antecedent of contemporary local review platforms like Yelp and Google Maps, this article traces the contours of ‘gourmet gentrification’ in New York City using quantitative and spatial analysis from 1990 to 2015.
If the primary election was an ‘earthquake’ for New Jersey, the epicenter was in Camden County
Julia Sass Rubin described the June 2025 New Jersey primary as a historic turning point in state politics, signaling the erosion of long-entrenched county party control following the elimination of the controversial county line system.
Lessons from COVID-19: Students Can Thrive During Hardship
by Greg Bruno for Rutgers Today Rutgers researchers find that innovation, empathy and a commitment to diversity and inclusion are critical ingredients for educational attainment At Cedar Creek Elementary in Lacey Township, N.J., “Little Lion Helpers” serve as role...