This Week at NJ21st: Forensic Fowls, School Rankings, Phantom Sidewalks and Hard Times Ahead?
Know Your County Government We’ve published the second installment of our Know Your NJ Government series, breaking down the different...
This Week at NJ21st: Civics, Budgets, Ethics, Audits… All the Things
It’s Time For a Civics Class, Baby We are kicking off the newsletter with the first in our “Know Your...
This Week at NJ21st: County Budgets to Chicken Fights
Help a Civic Journalism Organization Out Laura kicks off our 10-day fundraising campaign and outlines plans to involve students and...
This Week at NJ21st: Turf Tensions, BTC Creep, Nixon Exit and County Budget Questions
What is Happening? We start our newsletter with a Town Council Meeting that lands in the top ten strangest Berkeley Heights has...
This Week at NJ21st: Sewer Plant Oversight in the Spotlight
This week’s newsletter starts with a disturbing review of documents a resident provided to NJ21st in connection with the Berkeley...
This Week at NJ21st: Schools in Focus, Council in Question
Back to School An educator in our community breaks down recent U.S. News school rankings on our 7-District Dashboard and provides...
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...
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 –...
This Week at NJ21st: Flood Fail, Turf Tale, School Ready, Debt Steady
Oooh yeah — serving up alliteration, rhythm, contrast and a dash of parallelism in one epic newsletter title. You’re reading...
Bond Blow-Up, Freelance Shake-Up, Police Records Battle, and Residents Speak Out
Like. What. The. Actual… This week’s newsletter starts with a saga that could fill an entire article. On August 3,...
