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- Explainer: How New Jersey’s Court-Approved Plans for Affordable Housing Work
- NJ’s plans for affordable housing are blueprints that do not require municipalities to build a single home
- Explainer: Everything You Need to Know About School Funding in NJ
- Funding for New Jersey’s K-12 schools is one of the state’s most divisive issues, pitting district against district. How did it ever get that way?
- Explainer: Here’s How the Governor Plans to Ease Property Taxes — a Bit
- While Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget proposal would give homeowners a bigger write-off, it would keep in place rules that hold down other relief programs
- Explainer: Why Undocumented Immigrants in NJ Pay Taxes — a Lot of Taxes
- According to recent estimates, New Jersey’s undocumented community paid $587 million in state and local taxes in 2014
- Explainer: Making Sense of the Last-Minute Madness That Can Be the Lame Duck
- Bills that are pending and in the works are just one part of the puzzle. Here’s a day-by-day guide to the Legislature’s and the governor’s final days
- Explainer: Why NJ’s Cap on Raises for Cops and Firefighters Is Set to Expire
- So-called interest-arbitration awards hold salary increases that go to binding arbitration at 2 percent. What happens to local communities if they’re allowed to sunset?
- Explainer: The Horizon Law that Helped Trigger a State Shutdown, up Close
- The law as enacted helps protect Horizon policyholders, a key element missing in earlier versions
- Explainer: Decoding NJ’s Budget Babble — a Dictionary of Useful Terms
- Just in time for budget season, a cornucopia of helpful explanations and abstruse interpretations, from Appropriations Act to zero-based budgeting
- Explainer: Why It’s So Tough to Get an NJ Liquor License — and What Can Be Done
- The state’s liquor licenses are among the most expensive and restrictive in the nation. But that may be about to change.
- Explainer: Trump Names Christie Chair of Opioid Task Force, Details Still Sparse
- Choice of governor praised, but critics say action and funding needed, not more study
- Explainer: Sorting Through the State’s Property-Tax Relief Programs
- The bad news is that the amount of money available for property-tax relief is shrinking; the good news, there are still a plethora of programs and options available
- Explainer: Tallying the Social Cost of Climate-Changing Carbon Dioxide
- Knowing the social cost of carbon dioxide makes it possible to see how lowering emissions translates into the monetary benefits of implementing regulations
- Explainer: Sanctuary Cities Now and in the Trump Era
- Sanctuary cities limit their cooperation with immigration authorities. What are their prospects — in New Jersey and elsewhere — under a Trump administration?
- Explainer: What NJ Transit Must Do to Get Up to Speed with Safety Technology
- Some railroad companies have made good progress on the installation of federally required safety mechanisms, but NJ Transit has a lot of catching up to do
- Explainer: How Electoral College Lets President Win with Minority of Votes
- The system can favor candidates who win a lot of states by small margins while losing big in some large ones
- Explainer: Why Hudson River Tunnels Are So Badly Needed and so Long Delayed
- Devastating commuter delays and economic hardship just might be avoided if construction of a pair of new tunnels under the Hudson gets going
- Explainer: The Red Cross Slims Down in NJ, While National Criticism Continues
- The Red Cross has been subject to complaints nationwide for its response to emergencies. But apart from criticism of its post-Sandy role, few in NJ are dissatisfied
- Explainer: Open Enrollment for State Insurance, Medicare, Obamacare
- Policy holders have chance to examine new options, take advantage of subsidies under Affordable Care Act
- Explainer: How NJ’s Public Libraries Are Faring in the Information Age
- The state’s libraries still come through with books, but patrons also can access digital media like music and ebooks, as well as share new technologies
- Explainer: A Multitude of Paths for Legal Immigration to the United States
- Some roads are like the interstate, fast and relatively direct, while others are far more circuitous and can take years to get to the destination
- Explainer: The Mystery of New Jersey’s Statewide Water Supply Plan
- Supposedly vital to state and local planning, the blueprint should be updated and published every five years but it’s twenty years since that happened
- Explainer: How New Jersey’s Minimum Wage Is Tied to Inflation Data
- Despite the governor’s veto of a minimum-wage hike, workers could still get a raise because the mimimum wage here is linked to the federal Consumer Price Index
- Explainer: Effort to Encourage Doctor-Patient Conversations on Addiction
- Latest push focuses on young patients but must overcome Assembly opposition
- Explainer: Alzheimer’s NJ Goes Solo But Still Offers Same Services
- Nonprofit split from national umbrella group because it feared losing control of assets and programs
- Explainer: Constitutional Amendment Would Lock in Gas-Tax Revenue for TTF
- Governor and legislators may yet break deadlock over how to fund transportation projects, but voter agreement in November ballot is no slam dunk
- Explainer: Who Is Helped by New Jersey’s Charity Care Program?
- Despite Medicaid expansion, there are some 1.1 million NJ residents -- including more than 100,00 kids under the age of 18 -- who have no health insurance
- Explainer: What New Jersey’s Graduating Seniors Need to Know
- Students who don’t pass or take the PARCC exams have a veritable alphabet soup of alternative tests, from ACT to PSAT/NMSQT -- and can also submit a portfolio of their work
- Explainer: Separating Rubbish from Reality for NJ’s Recycling
- Politics and economics combine to make it hard to keep waste out of the environment
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