
New Jersey
N.J. Senate committee rejects Christie nominee for top court
By a vote of 7 to 6, the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday rejected Gov. Chris Christie’s New Jersey Supreme Court nominee Bruce ...
13 years ago
Rutgers restructuring: Behind closed doors
New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) are working to introduce legislation next ...
13 years ago
Senate panel holds hearing on Christie pick for N.J. Supreme Court
The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on Gov. Chris Christie’s nomination of Bruce Harris to the ...
13 years ago
N.J. artist Willie Cole sees something in ordinary objects others might discard
Willie Cole’s artistic training began in the 1960s: with his dollar-a-week allowance, the Newark native visited S. Klein’s De ...
13 years ago
The questions we should ask when it comes to class size in N.J. schools
Mitt Romney visited a charter school in West Philadelphia last Thursday and, either brazenly or cluelessly, addressed that third rai ...
13 years ago
Video: Russian novel-in-verse set to music and ballroom dance at Princeton
Russia’s most famous verse-novel, Eugene Onegin, by Pushkin, may be best known in America through the opera by Tchaikovsky. ...
13 years ago
N.J. housing avocates claim Christie misdirects $75 million foreclosure settlement
Affordable housing advocates are accusing Gov. Chris Christie of misusing $75 million New Jersey received in a federal settlement to end ...
13 years ago
Does Ravi’s last-minute apology affect your opinion?
Dharun Ravi has apologized for his “immature, stupid and childish choices,” saying he was not motivated by “hate, bigot ...
13 years ago
Video: How clean are the Jersey Shore waters?
Marine scientists from Rutgers University recently published a study that suggests the stretch of the Atlantic off the Jersey Shore is cl ...
13 years ago
Sweltering May continues run of above-normal temperatures in N.J.
New Jersey is about to end another month of warmer than usual weather. May is the 16th month in a row of above-normal temperatures ...
13 years ago
New Jersey investigates painkiller addiction among youth
A task force appointed by Gov. Chris Christie is examining the growing problem of prescription drug addiction by young people in New Jers ...
13 years ago
When it comes to maintaining USS New Jersey, volunteers say it’s all about camaraderie
Camaraderie. It’s what brings dozens of volunteers to the Battleship New Jersey on a cool, dreary morning, and turns it into a chee ...
13 years ago
Remembering New Jersey’s fallen
Whenever I visit Washington, D.C., I’m always struck by the quiet simplicity of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This is c ...
13 years ago
The politics of the budget: For Christie, any income tax cut will do
So what does Chris Christie really want? The Republican governor started out in January calling for a 10 percent across-the-board ...
13 years ago
Modified N.J. bill to legalize small amount of pot expected to draw more support
The New Jersey Assembly has amended a bill to decriminalize possession of up to half ounce of marijuana. One amendment would requi ...
13 years ago