May 3, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
How to ensure that Biden’s environmental and labor regulations survive The Biden administration has released a bevy of regulations over the past month. These include environmental regulations limiting “forever chemicals” and requiring power plants to reduce carbon...
April 26, 2024 | Informatics Event, News
Summary The final round for the RAISE-24 Informatics – Data Science competition was held Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Bloustein School. Hosted by the Master of Public Informatics (MPI) program, the inaugural competition challenge asked competitors “Does News Media...
April 26, 2024 | In the News
Joey breaks down the passing of New Jersey 10th District Congressman Donald Payne Jr. (D), President Biden signing the Foreign Aid Package that includes a potential TikTok ban and Former President Trump’s immunity case. Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Public...
April 25, 2024 | In the News
Business is booming for New Jersey Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. An attorney by profession, Coughlin was a low-key state lawmaker with a solo law practice and a handful of municipal clients in the years before he ascended to the third most powerful position in the...
April 24, 2024 | In the News
Princeton, NJ – Editor’s note: Late last month U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi handed down a decision regarding New Jersey’s “county line” ballot design, which allows county leaders of both major political parties to endorse candidates and then place them on...
April 22, 2024 | In the News
March 29 was a Good Friday indeed in New Jersey: that morning, a federal judge in Trenton issued an order temporarily curtailing the use of a strange and controversial ballot design that has been a fixture of the state’s electoral landscape for decades. The...
April 22, 2024 | In the News
Transparency ― opening a public window on the grinding gears of government and party politics ― is all the rage these days. The clamor for a more open, democratic process is most evident in the fierce blowback lawmakers are facing over a plan to gut the state’s Open...
April 19, 2024 | In the News
Linda Stamato emphasizes that the freedom to read is synonymous with the freedom to think. Yet this essential liberty faces significant challenges from political and cultural divisions. Instances of book bans, particularly in Florida, highlight the absurdity of...
April 19, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
New policies and broader subsides are needed to help lower-income buyers afford used electric vehicles, according to a Rutgers study As early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) trade up for the latest models, the used EV market is beginning to mature in the United...
April 19, 2024 | In the News
By Julia Sass Rubin New Jersey is at an inflection point. For most of the past century, we have been a political machine state, controlled by a handful of men who run our largest county party organizations. The political machines have stayed in power with the help of...
April 17, 2024 | In the News
Essex County pushed hard and fast to get its residents vaccinated against COVID-19. Ultimately, the county administered more than 622,000 vaccinations. But a report released Tuesday by the acting state comptroller says problems plagued how the county spent some of its...
April 11, 2024 | In the News
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Taps 188 Artists, Scholars, Photographers, Novelists, Essayists, Poets, Historians, Choreographers, Environmentalists, and Data Scientists to the Ranks of 19,000 Fellows Honored Since 1925. Now in 99th year, the John Simon...
April 11, 2024 | In the News
The day after Bob Menendez, New Jersey’s senior senator, was indicted for corruption, Andy Kim, a congressman, announced he would take on his powerful fellow Democrat in the upcoming Senate race. But the bigger obstacle to his bid was not Mr Menendez, whose support...
