Notes on the 02/18/2025 Town Council Meeting Agenda
The $10K Planning Expense for the Nokia Property The proposed $10,000 expense for a planner related to the Nokia property raises some questions. Since development on this property is expected to be years away, it’s worth considering whether this cost could be postponed until the project is closer to starting. Delaying the expense might allow for more relevant and updated...
NJ21st 02/15/2025 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with an in-depth look at the audit findings for Berkeley Heights, New Providence, Summit, Madison, Millburn, Westfield, and Chatham to help families of these communities provide more informed feedback on their Budget ProcessDistricts. To make the data more accessible, we’ve incorporated visual dashboards that...
Follow Up To GLHS GPA College Admissions Concerns
Follow Up To GLHS GPA College Admissions Concerns We received an update from Daniel Brown, who has been actively following up on the Governor Livingston GPA issue as it relates to college admissions. His original email to the District and Board can be found here. He recieved a reply from Dr. Feltre, who is new to the District and appears...
Spreadsheet of Vendors Approved by Town Council and Contributions to NJ Political Campaigns
Over the past two weeks we’ve published several articles on the three Town Council Meetings to date that involved a whirlwind of Agendas, Resolutions and the Dissolution of the Local Ethics Board. We have compiled a spreadsheet that provides a quick reference that will be updated after each Council Meeting and is available on our Resource Page Link to 2025...
Solution to GLHS GPA Issue Potentially Impacting College Admissions
As a result of concerns and questions our community had in connection to our article on Governor Livingston/College GPA Conversion, Dan created a tool that demonstrates: How your GLHS Student’s Grades could look like to colleges today How Students from other High Schools with Similar Grades would Look How your Students Grades would Look under Dan’s 4- point Scale that...
Berkeley Heights Needs YOUR Independent Leadership
Once again, Murphy has sold out to his machine bosses—just as many successful politicians do. The same governor who guttled OPRA and opened the floodgates for political contributions has now made it even harder for non-machine candidates to get on the ballot. Under the new law: Partisan municipal candidates need as few as five signatures in small towns and up...
NJ21st 02/07/2025 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. Our latest newsletter kicks off with a deep dive into serious concerns surrounding Governor Livingston’s GPA system and its potential impact on both past and present students navigating college admissions. We then turn our focus to the Town Council’s controversial decision to dismantle the local ethics committee—while approving...
NJ21st Statement on Community Voices Articles
Community Voices articles are contributions from guest writers whose submissions do not undergo the standard editorial vetting process applied to our regular articles. However, this does not necessarily diminish their factual accuracy or significance. Unlike many media outlets, we do not remove Community Voices articles at the request of elected officials or government bodies. There is a troubling history of...
GPA Conversion Penalizing BHPS Students & Affecting College Admission?
Email from Daniel Brown, a Berkeley Heights Resident and Parent with Children in the District, to the Berkeley Heights BOE and Administration I am writing to express my concern about the 4.5-point GPA scale currently used at Governor Livingston High School and how it may be inadvertently disadvantaging students in the college admissions process. When colleges convert GPAs back to...
Follow Up on Executive Orders and Police Training Connected to OSC Investigation
NJ21st recieved an email from a Berkeley Heights resident after the publication of Mr. Samson’s article that included all of the Executive Orders signed by Mayor Devanney in 2024 and 2025. These documents appeared to be the product of an OPRA request submitted on 02/01/2025. Executive Orders Signed from 2024 through January 2025 As a follow-up to our January 17,...
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