
NJ21st 07/01/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. The newsletter begins with articles expressing questions and concerns surrounding the Townships’ attempt to get public buy-in on their attempt to secure control over school property. This is followed up by two responses we received from the BOE vice president and a BOE representative that provide some insight...

NJ21st 06/23/2024 Newsletter
Our newsletter starts and ends with concerns about the Town Council agenda this week. With a questionable set of decisions surrounding the CFO position and a one-sided narrative on the CMS Field issue- one has to wonder why the Mayor and Council Members focused their efforts on BOE issues they have little to no information on over the past month....

What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/22/2024
Governor Expands Clemency, LEO Access to Baby Blood Limited, NJ Transit is a Mess, NJ Top Ten for Ice Cream Governor Launches Clemency Program NJ Monitor “Murphy’s order, which comes after lobbying by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, directs the board to expedite applications if they pass a two-pronged test based on time and the offense for which...

NJ21st 06/16/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. The first two articles in this week’s newsletter focus on some unanswered questions connected to the BHPSNJ Math Presentation during the 06/10/2024 BOE Meeting and an update on the Collaborative Consultative Model. It moves on to a summary of the 06/10/2024 BOE Meeting Agenda, clarification on the vote...

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...

NJ21st 06/09/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. This week’s newsletter continues the breakdown of last week’s BOE Meeting with an article from Shauna on Academic Goals and the steps the District is taking to continue progress on improving academic proficiency. Shauna follows up with a response to Town Council Member Susan Poage’s article regarding the...

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...

NJ21st 06/02/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts with a packed and significant 05/30/2024 BOE Meeting that saw the appointment of a new member to the Board of Education, significant approvals connected to programming and staffing, and proposed changes to impactful policies. We move on to another pretty funny (or sad) OPRA...

What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week –06/01/2024
OPRA Bill May Get Conditional Veto, Bill Explores Merging School Districts, Report finds “Stay NJ” Problematic, School Attorney Comes Out Against OPRA Bill, Shore Erosion Too Fast to Fix Murphy Hints At Conditional Veto of OPRA Law NJ Biz And for folks who may not be read into this – this is the Open Public Records Act, which has...

NJ21st 05/26/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Our Local & State Government This Week…. We start our newsletter with a brief recap of the year and our reasons for continuing this year. This week, we saw some incredible narratives spun in the community about the Superintendent Search and revisionist history on votes connected to Mr. Nixon’s appointment as Acting Superintendent. Our newsletter...