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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –07/27/2024

Educational Services Commission Of NJ Surplus Exposed, NJ Students Get Help on FASFA, NJ Temporary Workers Rights Upheld, RFK and the NJ Ballot, NJ School Funding Primer   Kevin Walsh, NJ OSC, Exposes Continued Exploitation of NJ Education Bodies NJ Vindicator The Educational Services Commission of New Jersey, a cooperative that serves more than 700 school districts and local governments, has...
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What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –07/22/2024

Fight Over Affordable Housing Continues, Suppliers Not responsible for Contaminated Water, More NJ Workers Eligible for Overtime, Narcan is Saving Lives, Some NJ Presidential History   Montvale Continues to Push Forward on Affordable Housing Suit NJ SPotlight News NJ Spotlight News interviewed Montvale Mayor Mike Ghassali, who sent a letter to about 100 towns seeking support to legally challenge the...
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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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