New Jersey’s top election-enforcement official sued Gov. Philip D. Murphy and three of Mr. Murphy’s top aides on Thursday for what the official said was their attempt to oust him in retaliation for comments he made ridiculing the state’s rules governing political...
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Seton Hall Law Symposium Examines New Jersey’s ‘County Line’ Ballots
New Jersey is the only state in the nation in which county party bosses are able to choose where candidates are positioned on the ballot. This arguably assures that the candidates bracketed together in a vertical or horizontal line by the respective two-party...
Rubin Opinion: New Jersey’s state legislature is broken. Monday’s vote is Exhibit A
The following appeared in The New Jersey Globe on February 26, 2023 If you doubt that the New Jersey state legislature is broken, you need look no further than the Orwellian named “Election Transparency Act”, legislation scheduled for votes on Monday by the State...
Sharing COVID Stories Boosts Vaccine Take-Up
People who know someone who became ill with COVID-19 or died from the disease are twice as likely to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study led by Rutgers and Penn State University. The study, published in the journal Vaccine, examined whether...
Research – Rubin, Cantor, Bhuyan et al. Publish Article on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Determinants
A national sample of 1,193 vaccine eligible respondents were surveyed to examine the relationship between knowing that a friend or family member became ill with, or died from, COVID-19 and receiving a vaccine dose within four months of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization.
Research – Rubin “Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies”
New research from Prof. Julia Sass Rubin uses a Camden, NJ case study to examine the playbook of neoliberal education reform policies.
Education advocates to Gov. Murphy: Update N.J. Board of Education
All 13 members of the New Jersey Board of Education will be sitting in expired seats by the end of the school year unless the state Legislature approves three new members Gov. Phil Murphy nominated in September. Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at the Edward J....
Next Red Bank mayor excited to drop party labels
RED BANK - The borough has just joined a list of municipalities that have dropped party labels. And that's a good thing, according to the incoming mayor. Dr. Julia Sass-Rubin, a professor with the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers,...
Malinowski took a hard loss. Activists blame fellow Democrats’ gerrymandering
New Jersey Congressman Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) has conceded his race for the 7th District, and congratulated the Republican winner, former state Sen. Tom Kean Jr. It's one of the seats that's handing majority control of the House of Representatives to the...
No more Democrats and Republicans in Red Bank? Voters asked to change town government
The commission stated, “The partisan system has caused elected officials to oppose the other party's ideas for strictly political reasons in divided government, and when there is one-party control, there has been infighting on public display that has prevented...
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