NJ21st 06/09/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. This week’s newsletter continues the breakdown of last week’s BOE Meeting with an article from Shauna on Academic Goals and the steps the District is taking to continue progress on improving academic proficiency. Shauna follows up with a response to Town Council Member Susan Poage’s article regarding the...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/08/2024
Murphy Spins Victim Narrative on OPRA, Kevin Walsh Continues to Kick Ass- this time it’s the DOC, NJEA Secretary Treasurer Potentially Violates Law, NJ PharmCo Cutting Jobs, Lawmakers Take on Medicinal “Mushrooms” Murphy Spins Victim Narrative of Power Brokers and Political Insiders in Defense of Destroying OPRA NJ Monitor The press, transparency groups, good government advocates, and state officials...
NJ21st 06/02/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with a packed and significant 05/30/2024 BOE Meeting that saw the appointment of a new member to the Board of Education, significant approvals connected to programming and staffing, and proposed changes to impactful policies. We move on to another pretty funny (or sad) OPRA...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/01/2024
OPRA Bill May Get Conditional Veto, Bill Explores Merging School Districts, Report finds “Stay NJ” Problematic, School Attorney Comes Out Against OPRA Bill, Shore Erosion Too Fast to Fix Murphy Hints At Conditional Veto of OPRA Law NJ Biz And for folks who may not be read into this – this is the Open Public Records Act, which has...
The BHPSNJ Business Office is Over-Redacting Public Records & It is Hurting our Students
It has been a recurring theme in an ongoing narrative, “the onerous nature of OPRA requests for the District”. Yet, a compelling revelation came to light yesterday, further substantiating a strategy that is clearly intended to provoke and agitate those seeking public records, thereby dissuading the public from making such requests. – a gamble that continues to cost the District...
NJ21st 05/26/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. We start our newsletter with a brief recap of the year and our reasons for continuing this year. This week, we saw some incredible narratives spun in the community about the Superintendent Search and revisionist history on votes connected to Mr. Nixon’s appointment as Acting Superintendent. Our newsletter...
NJ21st – Three Years of Shining a Light
This year, the team had serious discussions about whether we would shut down, keep doing what we were doing, or expand. Given the level of disinformation and the collusion of powerful groups in this community around issues, we did not feel we had a choice but to continue. There is no way that accurate information would get to anyone about the local government if...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –05/25/2024
NJ OSC Holds State Police Accountable, Public Education Coalition Comes Out Against OPRA Bill, Bramnick Advances Bill on Money Transfers, Middle-Class Tougher to Get Into, Birth Control More Accessible in NJ Kevin Walsh – Open Government Disco Master- Calls Out State Police for Failing to Address Racial Profiling NJ Office of State Comptroller This review has identified a decade-long...
NJ21st 05/19/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. April and May are turning out to be two strong months for incoming subscribers to our various platforms and newsletters. We’ve also experienced increased interest from residents in other communities, which has prompted us to extend our reach and open our platforms to any community in the 21st...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –05/18/2024
Optics Over Opra, Scutari Moves on to Wrecking the Judiciary, Sarlo Ponders Tax Increase, Latino Students Fall Behind, Will Murphy Veto OPRA? Legislators Worried About Optics As They Destroyed OPRA NJ Monitor For Assemblyman Brian Bergen, a Morris County Republican who opposed the bill, the altered votes are indicative of a broken process, one that allows members to vote...
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