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...
What the 7-District ACFR Dashboard Shows About School Costs (Part 2)
How Much of Each Per Pupil Dollar Goes to Instruction This is the second in a series intended to help...
What the 7-District ACFR Dashboard Shows About School Costs (Part 1)
This is the first in a series intended to help families better understand how to hold their School District spending...
2024-2025 7-District Dashboard – A Preliminary Look at Next Year’s School Performance Reports
Every year we provide a preliminary look at what the April School Performance reports will look like based on the...
New Salary Ranges Prompt Public Questions Ahead of Tonight’s Berkeley Heights Council Meeting
Correction Correction: This article implies that there was an intra-year municipal salary increase within 2025. In fact, the salary increases...
Fact Checking the Townships Unattributed 10/06/2025 Press Release on Passaic River Flooding
Another unsigned, unattributed press release from Berkeley Heights Township reports that Mayor Angie Devanney met with other local officials and...