The ACFR Dashboard (Part 5): The True Cost of School Security
Up to this point in our series we took a hard look at using the ACFR to determine the trajectory...
Clock is Ticking: New Providence BOE Gives Public Less Than 48 Hours to Review Agenda….again
Correction – 02/26/2028: This article contains the following error: it states or implies that OPMA required the agenda or packet...
What the 7-District ACFR Dashboard Shows About Special Education Costs (Part 4)
This is the fourth in a series intended to help families better understand how to hold their School District spending...
John’s Notes on the 01/27/2026 New Providence Town Council Agenda
Housing Settlement, Multi-Year Sports Contracts, and $4.25M in Bills New Providence Town Council Agenda (Jan. 27, 2026): Contracts, Fair Share...
24-Hour Notice for $6.5 Million in Spending: New Providence School District Defends Agenda Delay
Let’s start with the highlights of the agenda first, then we’ll move onto some of the concerns that arose in...
One Meeting, Two Approaches: What the New Providence and Berkeley Heights Municipal Reorganizations Show Us
The twelfth article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government...
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 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...