February 10, 2021
Mark Weber (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman) authored a recent report for the Fordham Institute that showed that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, charter schools do not […]
February 9, 2021
NJ Spotlight reports that NJ property taxes were up 1.8% from 2019 to 2020. BuryPensions calculates that they actually rose 2.4%. In any event, they are […]
February 5, 2021
Credit to BuryPensions for catching this. The Mondelez (owner of Nabisco) plant in Fair Lawn is shutting down. That’s 600 jobs that disappear with it. What […]
February 4, 2021
There has been a lot of reporting on the Montclair schools re-opening dispute, but that the press has neglected to ask NJEA Vice president/Montclair Mayor Sean […]
February 2, 2021
Sunlight is able to use the same headline as it did last May during the mayoral election because NJEA Vice President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller is once […]
January 26, 2021
WalletHub is out with its annual “Best States to Retire” and New Jersey ranks dead last in the nation. The primary reason is that NJ is […]
January 25, 2021
Thanks to the Garden State Initiative (GSI) for keeping an eye on NJ’s employment numbers. Altogether, NJ’s January jobs numbers were not good: NJ’s unemployment rate […]
January 22, 2021
We’re going to get a little wonkish here and delve into the mechanics of pensions because NJ’s public pensions are a disaster waiting to happen. At […]
January 19, 2021
Randal D. Pinkett, an NJ entrepreneur and Rhodes Scholar, penned an op-ed in the Star-Ledger with some trenchant observations, particularly about NJ’s special-interest-dominated education system. Sunlight […]