What Happens at a Board of Education Reorganization Meeting
The eleventh article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government....
2025 Year End Newsletter
A look back at our most-read reporting, editors’ picks, financial report and audience growth. In 2025, NJ21st covered floods, school...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 6: Local Resistance and State Mandates
This selection from of our top 30 for 2025 focuses on zoning, education policy, and authority – different topics all...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 5: Public Safety, Policing, and Institutional Risk
Three articles connected to police bureaucracy and the risks connected to failures of oversight and training, along with a response...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 4: Transparency, Public Records and Oversight
After all these years, we’re still seeking answers to the same question – when residents ask for information or demand...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 3: Budgets, State Aid and Making the Numbers Mean Something
Budgets are typically not something that draws big numbers, but we’re working hard to change that. Two of our top articles...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 2: Schools, Rankings, and What the Data Really Says
In 2025, our reporting on education metrics continued to explain school data in a way families and residents could actually...
This Week at NJ21st: Policy Pile-Ups, Transit Gaps, and Our Top Stories of the Year
We hope you are having a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or at least a few days off work. We’ll start...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 1: When the Storm Hit
The first installment of our Top 30 Articles this year… Between now and New Year’s, we will be presenting our...
Correction to 2025 Municipal Salary Range Increase Reporting
NJ21st incorrectly implied that there was an intra-year municipal salary increase within 2025. In fact, the salary increases occurred between...