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BHCW 03/17/2024 Newsletter

What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts in Trenton, picking up where we left off last week on the battle over OPRA with additional coverage on the Affordable Housing bill. We begin with a fierce battle on 3/11 that saw a packed room at the hearings and OPRA advocates throughout the state tear the...
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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 03/16/2024

OPRA Safe (for now), Momentum for Abolishing the Line grows, Pre-Schools Get More Support, ADU’s Get a Boost, A Different Perspective on the Affordable Housing bill The Public Successfully Fights Back Legislators on OPRA Overhaul New Jersey Monitor A hotly debated bill to overhaul the state’s public records law was pulled from consideration Thursday after days of fiery complaints from...
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Berkeley Heights Mayor and EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the Town Council Writes to Legislators to Stop OPRA and Housing Bills

Dear Members of the Legislature, By way of introduction, I am the Mayor of Berkeley Heights Township. Over the last 30 years, I have “grown up in politics” in Democratic politics in Union County. So, I am no stranger to how the process of government and politics works in this State. I am also a proud Democrat who was overwhelmingly...
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Sarlo’s Terrible OPRA Bill Passes Committee – Up for a Vote on the 18th

Scutari, Sarlo, and Danielsen passed their “let’s hide all the shady things we do” bill through the committee today. As we reported earlier, Scutari threw out independent voters off the committee and installed puppets. The most incredible thing witnessed was the complete ignorance and outright lies about OPRA that were used as justification for the bill. For example: As CJ...
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Update on The Battle to Save OPRA – 12:00pm

BHCW submitted its testimony on the OPRA bill to the Senate and Assembly last night with an update today as the petition continues to add signatures.  We also joined the WFP, ACLU, LWV, and 120 other organizations throughout the state in signing a letter opposing Sarlo and Danielsen’s bills to destroy Opra. Berkeley Heights BOE Representative Sai Akiri and Town Council-member Margaret Illis are...
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BHCW 03/10/2024 Newsletter – Save OPRA

What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter begins with vital information for Berkeley Heights Residents. We cover renewed efforts on the state level to destroy OPRA, the rally to defend our current law, and ways that YOU can help in the effort. Time is of the essence as both bills are being heard TOMORROW – Monday – 03/11/2024....
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