On Friday, April 27th, 2012 and over the weekend that follows ... First Lady Mary Pat Christie visits the Ocean Ice Rink in Brick to name Alex DePalma, director of the Brick Stars Challenger hockey program, the 4th 'New Jersey … Continue reading → »
The Star-Ledger has a pair of very disturbing pieces in its op-ed section today: both are about the coercion women feel in the Orthodox Jewish community to conform to values that keep them oppressed. First, here's Fraidy Reiss: Where I come from, girls... »
State officials today unveiled lists of schools at either end of New Jersey's new accountability system -- 263 schools needing heavy or targeted support to improve and 112 cited for outstanding student achievement or growth. The system was instituted a... »
In the latest episode of the year-long saga over Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf's stalled nomination in the Senate, Cerf has rented a LBI home for the summer. In doing so, he hopes to avoid the longstanding hold on his nomination from S... »
Christie Administration continuing McGreevey/Corzine practice of keeping utilities monies intended for municipalities. Lost in the hysteria of Democrats fighting with each other was news buried on page 3 of yesterday’s Asbury Park Press that actually a... »
The late Rep. Donald Payne lying in state at Essex County CourthouseAt 3pm today, the public will walk with Payne on a military caisson in a horse-drawn procession from Whigham's Funeral Home on Martin Luther King Blvd. to Metropolitan Baptist Church. ... »
promoted by Rosi Cross-posted on Swamp Watch An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. - Phaedrus Long time readers of the Courier-Post were surely surprised to read the February 11th printing of the paper. On the front page was an amazing sigh... »
With 'No Child Left Behind' essentially off the books, welcome to New Jersey’s new age -- and labels -- for school accountability. The Christie administration released Wednesday the final list of schools that will be highlighted under new accountabilit... »
