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Majority Opposed to OPRA Bill, Students in Failing Districts Deserve Choice, Prisons Remove Phone Contact, A Decision on County Line Appeal Coming Soon, Cherry Blossoms in Bloom Overwhelming Majority Against Gutting OPRA NJ Spotlight Some 81% of registered New Jersey voters do not support proposed legislative changes to the state’s Open Public Records Act, according to a new FDU Poll....

Academic Declines Continue, Anti-Bribery Bill Moves Forward, The “Line” Injunction Holds, Legislation Targets Squatters, Harm Reduction Efforts Expand, OPRA Faces its Third Assault in Six Months The Kids Are Not Okay- The Academic Declines Continue NJ Education Report 48% of teachers say the academic performance of most students at their school is fair or poor; a third say it’s good...

Political Machines Fight to Keep the Line, Tax on Businesses to Close Transit Gap, OSC Goes After Hudson County, Questions on Murphy’s Budget, Get Ready for the Eclipse Political Machines and County Clerks Burn Tax Dollars in Fight to Hold onto Unfair Election Practices northjersey.com A day after a preliminary injunction from a federal judge put the fate of New...

Scutari Lies About OPRA Bill & Murphy Plays Dumb, NJ DOE Invests in Tutoring, NJ Students Behind in Math,Primer on “the Line,” Incarcerated Waiting on Approved Pay Increase & the Worm Moon Scutari Continues to Lie About OPRA Bill, and Murphy Does His Best to Pretend Not to Know northjersey.com We are all in on transparency,” he said. “I would...

OPRA Safe (for now), Momentum for Abolishing the Line grows, Pre-Schools Get More Support, ADU’s Get a Boost, A Different Perspective on the Affordable Housing bill The Public Successfully Fights Back Legislators on OPRA Overhaul New Jersey Monitor A hotly debated bill to overhaul the state’s public records law was pulled from consideration Thursday after days of fiery complaints from...

We will take a different approach with this week’s State Matters and focus on bills from State Assemblyman Danielsen and State Sarlo that seek to destroy OPRA. Haven’t you heard about it? You aren’t alone, as they are trying to cram these changes through at the speed of light. Here is a timeline of events that occurred this week leading...