Vehicles killed 7,342 pedestrians, the equivalent of 40 passenger jets falling from the sky and an increase from 4,092 a year earlier, but the jump in deaths isn't a one-year aberration. Kelcie Ralph, an associate professor at Rutgers University who studies...
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Why do some areas have underground utilities and others have them overhead?
Why do some neighborhoods have underground utilities? How does that come about? What are the pros/cons of having the utility poles underground vs. above-ground? Wildfire season will soon descend upon California, which emerged last year from one of the deadliest, and...
‘Buy the line’: Text messages in 2020 NJ primary raise questions about Bergen ballots
Professor Julia Sass Rubin quoted in this New Jersey Herald article following her research on New Jersey's unique ballot configurations. "For any political candidate in New Jersey, getting the so-called county line on the ballot is invaluable, all but assuring victory...
Car crash coverage: Why the media keeps botching it.
As popular outrage at pedestrian deaths faded, the media’s attention waned, too. The national auto safety debate prompted by the 1965 publication of Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed focused, like the book itself, primarily on hazards to car occupants, not...
Higher inflation and interest rates? No problem so far for New Jersey’s job market
The monthly jobs report, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is made up of a survey of employers to measure the number of jobs and a survey of households to measure the unemployment rate. April's report showed the state's job market continues to rapidly...
Biden housing plan includes first attempts to slow corporate landlords active in NC
But until such legislation is passed, some experts say governments might be limited in how they can regulate corporate landlords. “There’s not a whole lot that the government can do directly to intervene,” said Eric Seymour, a Rutgers University housing researcher and...
Why Do So Many News Articles About Crashes Feel Like They Were Written by a Car?
News organizations need to relearn how to cover car collisions—especially when the victims are on foot. On the evening of Nov. 13, Roy Saravia Alvarez was walking home along the sidewalk of West Glebe Road in Alexandria, Virginia. At around 8 p.m., the driver of a...
How a Holmdel July 26 special election could bring changes to local elections, government
Voters will decide this summer if the township should change its form of government and how often it should hold local elections. ** According to a March presentation to the commission by Julia Sass Rubin, professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy at...
Gas prices rise to record highs again
Gas peaked at $1.39 a gallon back then, which would be $4.52 today. Action News spoke to Michael Lahr, an economics professor at Rutgers University. "What may happen, not real soon though, is that companies will use these raises in prices to invest in capital to get...
Gas prices hit all-time highs across Philadelphia, tri-state area
Gas prices across the tri-state hit another record high on Monday, just ahead of the busy summer driving season. It's $4.64 a record gallon in Philadelphia, 14 cents above the statewide average. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware are also at all-time highs. It's...