Category: State Matters

What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –07/06/2024

Protections for Domestic Workers Take Effect, Meal Eligibility Expanded for Students During School Year, Increased Respite for Families, Former Gov. Kean – Biden Should Drop Out New Law Protecting Domestic Workers Take Effect New Jersey Monitor As of Monday, employers must pay domestic workers no less than the state’s minimum wage of $15.13 per hour. Under prior law, part-time child...
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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/30/2024

Teacher’s Union Continues Dark Money Tradition, TANF Not Helping, The NJ Budget Bomb, NJ Transit Sticker Shock NJEA Continues it’s Dark Money Tradition NJ Education Report Matt Friedman at Politico (paywalled) and Mike Lilley at Sunlight explain that in January 2024 Garden State Forward, NJEA’s super PAC, contributed $2 million in teacher member dues to Spiller’s dark money PAC called “Protecting Our...
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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/15/2024

Murphy Fails Big on Lead Exposure, NJ Spotlighted in War On Transparency, Police Powers Expand, Teachers Union Makes Move on Governor Seat, Bayer Develops New Treatment for Menopause Symptoms, NJ Home Prices Continue to Rise More than 250,000 NJ Students Exposed to Lead The Jersey Vindicator On Sept. 25, 2019, the Bergen Record/USA Today dropped a bombshell: Hundreds of thousands of...
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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/08/2024

Murphy Spins Victim Narrative on OPRA, Kevin Walsh Continues to Kick Ass- this time it’s the DOC,  NJEA Secretary Treasurer Potentially Violates Law, NJ PharmCo Cutting Jobs, Lawmakers Take on Medicinal “Mushrooms”   Murphy Spins Victim Narrative of Power Brokers and Political Insiders in Defense of Destroying OPRA NJ Monitor The press, transparency groups, good government advocates, and state officials...
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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –05/25/2024

NJ OSC Holds State Police Accountable, Public Education Coalition Comes Out Against OPRA Bill, Bramnick Advances Bill on Money Transfers, Middle-Class Tougher to Get Into, Birth Control More Accessible in NJ   Kevin Walsh – Open Government Disco Master- Calls Out State Police for Failing to Address Racial Profiling NJ Office of State Comptroller This review has identified a decade-long...
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Push-back from Boards Around the State at Today’s NJ School Board Association Delegate Assembly

The New Jersey School Board Association (NJSBA) is holding its delegate assembly as this article is being written. If you recall, the NJSBA is a tax-funded lobbying group that has supported the current legislation that seeks to destroy the Open Public Records Act and advocates for anti-transparency practices such as Boards by Committees – where policies are deliberated behind closed doors. The NJSBA has faced increasing criticism from...
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