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’s newsletter starts with a disturbing review of documents a resident provided to NJ21st in connection with the Berkeley...

Back to School An educator in our community breaks down recent U.S. News school rankings on our 7-District Dashboard and provides...

Confidence in Council Fading With last-minute document dumps, blocked Zoom access, and nameless press releases, community confidence in what many...

Burning Through Reeboks Laura walked for miles and hours documenting driveways the town is spending “emergency” bond money repairing –...

Oooh yeah — serving up alliteration, rhythm, contrast and a dash of parallelism in one epic newsletter title. You’re reading...

Like. What. The. Actual… This week’s newsletter starts with a saga that could fill an entire article. On August 3,...

Top of the class, bottom of the curve An educator in our community breaks down the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency...

Jul 26, 2025

Referendums… After John’s months-long battle with BHPSNJ to obtain details on the proposed referendum, he finally received documents connected to...