Commentary

New Jersey 101.5 is giving Bill Spadea an unfair advantage in 2025 gov race

BY: - June 25, 2024

New Jersey 101.5 said Bill Spadea will continue hosting his radio show while he runs for governor. That's a bad decision.

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days

BY: - June 19, 2024

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations. The perils of unjust laws and racist social […]

Former A.G.’s testimony in Menendez trial reveals more New Jersey grossness

BY: - June 7, 2024

Former Attorney General Gurbir Grewal testified Thursday in Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial that a now-ex state senator and a former Murphy administration official tried to discuss pending criminal matters with him.

The Open Public Records Act, once touted as a ‘major reform,’ dies at 22

BY: - June 7, 2024

Lawmakers earlier this year axed a few critical portions of the law and rewrote others, making it virtually unrecognizable.

New Jersey voters have fewer protections than New Yorkers. It’s time to fix that.

BY: - June 4, 2024

The  John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey would help ensure every voter can safely cast their ballot and know it will be counted.

As voters consider their White House choice, is Jan. 6 a factor?

BY: - June 1, 2024

Voters were horrified when a pro-Trump mob ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Will voters in November 2024 care?

Actually, Sen. Menendez, what you did does indeed sound pretty corrupt

BY: - May 20, 2024

In Sen. Menendez's bid to get a jury to acquit him of corruption charges, Menendez's own version of events exposes his actions as corrupt.

Gov. Murphy’s choice on public records bill: Mimic Michigan Dems, or the Louisiana GOP

BY: - May 10, 2024

Gov. Murphy will soon be faced with a big choice: let the Legislature gut out public records law, or to side with the public’s right to access.

Legislation would unfairly target delivery cyclists

BY: - May 1, 2024

Bill S-2292 seeks to equate low-speed e-bikes with cars by requiring users to register and insure them.

They took on New Jersey’s party bosses — and they’re winning

BY: - April 29, 2024

In toppling the county line, attorneys Yael Bromberg, Flavio Komuves, and Brett Pugach have become heroes among New Jersey’s progressives.

Abortion restrictions put women’s rights on shaky ground, even in New Jersey

BY: - April 25, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday again heard a case that could curtail abortion access in parts of the nation.

From Oregon to N.J., policymakers’ genius plan to solve homelessness is to say, ‘Go somewhere else’

BY: - April 23, 2024

A comment from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been rattling around my brain since I heard it Monday morning. The nation’s high court was hearing a case centered around an Oregon city’s ordinance restricting when people can sleep outdoors, an attempt to shoo away the city’s unhoused population. Sotomayor asked the city’s attorney […]