State Legislators Are Going After the Open Public Records Act a THIRD Time in Six Months
On 3/28/2024, Assmb. Coughlin’s office responded to our concerns about the OPRA Bill with the following reply: Dear Mr. Migueis, Thank you for your email. As you may already know, bill A4045 which was scheduled to be considered by the Assembly Appropriations committee Thursday, 3/14, was not heard. The Speaker agrees that the bill can be improved and will take...
BHCW 03/31/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. The primary focus of this week’s newsletter is more drama surrounding the Policy Committee Chair’s attempt to steamroll through a policy that essentially seeks to justify the controversial Courtesy Busing program that leaves some families paying for busing while others receive it for free. This week, we learned about closed-door meetings,...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 03/30/2024
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...
BHCW 03/24/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter analyzes the 03/18/2024 BOE meeting discussions surrounding the budget and transportation. Concerning the budget, residents will discover that the Administration (specifically the Business Administrator) responded in a manner that can be described as confusing and defensive to questions about more found money. Even more perplexing is the insistence...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 03/23/2024
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...
BHCW 03/17/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter starts in Trenton, picking up where we left off last week on the battle over OPRA with additional coverage on the Affordable Housing bill. We begin with a fierce battle on 3/11 that saw a packed room at the hearings and OPRA advocates throughout the state tear the...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week – 03/16/2024
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...
Did the Former Berkeley Heights BOE Majority Get Acquitted of an Ethics Violation by Admitting They Broke the Law?
Let me explain. On March 22, 2022, current BOE Member and former BOE President Angela Penna co-published what we now know to be an inaccurate letter to the editor in response to Sai Akiri’s condemnation of the budget process. This letter was not only quickly debunked but it resulted in an ethics complaint against the publishers of the letter by a resident and parent...
New Jersey Fights Back an Era of Darkness
For now…. The Bill that threatened OPRA was pulled from the agenda by Assembly Speaker Coughlin, who followed up with a post on Twitter: More than a few people have suggested that the victory is temporary, as the Governor did not want his decision to sign or veto the Bill to complicate his wife’s bid for the Senate. One source...
Update on Our Efforts to Stop the Assault on the the Open Public Records Act
While the OPRA Bill passed Committees on Monday, it is going for a vote tomorrow, and we can still stop it as momentum against it continues to grow. BHCW sent a letter to legislators Sunday along with the petition.. BHCW also joined 100 other organizations throughout NJ, asking that this bill be stopped. Since it passed committee, Mayor Devanney and every member...
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