Digging Deeper into the Berkeley Heights Unsigned Press Release: What NJDEP Actually Allows—and What Other Towns Are Doing
Continuing to Fact Check Berkeley Heights 08/26/2025 Unsigned, Unattributed Press Release In our first article of the Townships unsigned press...
This Week at NJ21st: Bonds, Floods, and a Free Press Under Fire
Confidence in Council Fading With last-minute document dumps, blocked Zoom access, and nameless press releases, community confidence in what many...
Plainfield’s Flood Plan Advances—Will Funding Catch Up Before 2026?
Third in a series evaluating municipal compliance with the Union County Hazard Mitigation Plan NJ21st obtained Plainfield’s stormwater files through...
No Ordinance, No Referendum: Were Berkeley Heights Residents Shut Out?
Let’s start simple: if a New Jersey town wants to lease public land, it’s supposed to pass an ordinance. Ordinances...
$3.5M “Emergency” Storm Bond Now Likely to Fall on Berkeley Heights Taxpayers
In an unsigned Township article published August 26, an unnamed township representative confirmed one material fact- New Jersey is unlikely...
Behind the $60 Million Berkeley Heights Sewage Plant Price Tag…. What’s Documented, What’s Not
When Berkeley Heights talk about $60 million in needed sewer system upgrades, it can sound like there’s a detailed engineering...
New Jersey’s Adaptive Testing: A Field Test Without Federal Guardrails?
Last week, NJ21st reached out directly to the U.S. Department of Education to flag major concerns about New Jersey’s plan...
Building Blind: Is New Jersey’s Development Boom Overwhelming Schools and Flooding Homes?
If you want to know where the state is growing, don’t listen to speeches. Follow the permits. The NJ DCA...
This Week at NJ21st: Pavement, Proficiency, and Power Outages
Burning Through Reeboks Laura walked for miles and hours documenting driveways the town is spending “emergency” bond money repairing –...
NJ Regulators Call Out JCP&L After Three Years of Declining Reliability
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has put Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) on notice after three...
