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The release of the energy master plan has also generated skepticism from various corners of the state's energy sphere. One concern stemmed from the transition's cost to ratepayers — an analysis that officials in the Murphy administration said would be carried out...

Still another example: "A pedestrian was hit and killed" was changed to "A pedestrian was hit and killed by a car." Despite an ever-rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on U.S. roads each year, there's no widespread public pressure to improve road safety...

For those of us who follow politics, the past three years have been dizzying. Opponents and proponents of President Donald Trump would likely agree that the pace of news coming out of Washington is unprecedented. Some of this is a function of social media. But much of...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the hotspotting model are greatly exaggerated," said Rutgers University professor Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy, before the California results dropped. Cantor has worked closely with the...

Others are more skeptical. Marc H. Pfeiffer, a senior policy fellow at Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said the settlement is “an unusual circumstance that requires consideration.” “The lawyers are going to have to look at...

If only the parents and their allies, storming the Trenton barricades earlier this week, could hear what they were saying and to whom they were actually saying it to. They thought they were speaking to members of the legislature about a bill that would eliminate...

Karen Alexander, managing director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, told the senators about a program she oversees that teaches people with disabilities how to navigate the fixed-route bus and train public transportation system so they don’t have to rely...