Education at a Crossroads in Jackson, NJ: The S2 Funding
Formula Controversy

During the public forum, emotions ran high. Parents and students spent over two hours passionately discussing how the potential loss of crucial educational programs would affect their lives, with many moved to tears. These testimonials highlighted not just the
financial numbers but the human costs of the current funding crisis.

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Education at a Crossroads in Jackson, NJ: The S2 Funding Formula Controversy

Last Tuesday, residents of Jackson, New Jersey, gathered in a pivotal Board of Education meeting to confront the severe implications of the school district's $30 million budget shortfall for the 2024/25 school year. The impact of New Jersey’s S2 legislation…

?Resist the Election Year Trap: College Protests are an Operation

Refuse to pick a side and use critical thinking to root out
the forces that continue to perpetuate bloody conflicts from the safety of their board
rooms. Let’s stand firmly together on the common ground of humanity.

https://wearenewjersey.substack.com/p/resist-the-election-year-trap-college

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Resist the Election Year Trap: College Protests are an Operation

Big donor money and NGOs fuel the latest showdown

CISA Bound: NJ Assistant Secretary of State/Division of Elections Director to Assume Federal Cybersecurity Position

This career election administration official from North Jersey is climbing the bureaucratic ladder to new heights in 2024 as Primary Election season kicks off around the US.

*"She spent more than six years as the Deputy Bergen County Clerk before joining Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration in 2018.

On Zyriek Enriquez’s watch, the Department of State completed the 2020 Census, ran a 2020 presidential primary, and general elections conducted almost entirely through vote-by-mail ballots during a global pandemic, and modernized election systems to make them operate more efficiently and securely."*

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New Jersey Globe

Top N.J. election official taking U.S. Homeland Security post - New Jersey Globe

Assistant New Jersey Secretary of State Lauren Zyriek Enriquez, the highly-respected acting director of the New Jersey  Division of Elections, will depart

When will they stop lying about January 6th?They were detaining us in the building due to a curfew that was enacted inside DC for 6pm. I still have trouble processing that people were locked into a hotel against their will en masse in the United States of America.

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When will they stop lying about January 6th?

The regime is trotting out their favorite scare tactic to interfere with another election

Hudson County Ballot Design Mishap?

NJ's 2023 Election results are scheduled to be certified by the state next week.

Will this long-time third party candidate challenge the certification based on what appears to be a gross oversight by election officials responsible for preparing ballots?

"Pablo Olivera, a perennial candidate who has run for office fourteen times, filed to run as the Labour Party candidate.  He was listed on the ballot in the Essex County portion of the district, but not in Harrison and East Newark."

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New Jersey Globe

Independent Senate candidate left off ballot in Hudson portion of 29th district - New Jersey Globe

An independent candidate for State Senate in the 29th district was left off the ballot entirely in two Hudson County towns, which could impact the

Confidential Mediation to Commence in 2018 NJ School Segregation Case

*"Over the next several weeks, mediation sessions between all the parties involved, including intervening defendants that represent charter schools, will take place. The first one is planned for Nov. 21.

Former New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice Barry T. Albin, who retired earlier this year, will act as the mediator during these discussions."

"The mediation will address issues of liability, remedies, and a process to “ensure that all interested persons and organizations,” whether part of the litigation or not, “have the opportunity to meaningfully participate,” wrote Lawrence Lustberg, of Gibbons Law, the co-counsel for the plaintiffs, in his motion.

“If successful, this mediation process holds the promise of saving the people of New Jersey and the courts of this state from years of complex, highly charged litigation,” Lustberg stated."*

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Chalkbeat

New Jersey school segregation case enter mediation in hopes of avoiding long court battle

The coalition of advocates and families who filed the lawsuit against the state, along with intervening parties, including charter schools, have all agreed to meet to discuss remedies. The first meeting is planned for Nov. 21.

Refuse to Participate in the Media's Religious War

They will feed your fear with lies and then demonize you for acting on it. Refuse to participate in the warfare cloaked with “piety” they want to bring to our streets.

Choosing pro-Palestine or pro-Israel allows you to dehumanize the people caught in the middle. Refuse to participate in the bloodlust against innocents.

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Op-Ed: Refuse to Participate in the Media's Religious War

In the latest sick game of pick a team, American media's nonstop violent footage and emotional stories about Hamas, Iran and Israel are just the next stage of a plan to incite rage and hate at home

EXCLUSIVE - Citizen Asks for Election Report Detailed in Investigation Findings; Monmouth County Can't Produce It

Did the voting system vendor, Election Systems & Software (ES&S,) or the Clerk of Elections find the mistake? No, a concerned citizen did.
NJ, Where is the missing Media Status Report?!

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EXCLUSIVE - Citizen Asks for Election Report Detailed in Investigation Findings; Monmouth County Can't Produce It

A pattern is emerging in NJ - a blame game between election vendors and local officials when things go wrong, with no accountability or change. Want to change that? Start asking for the receipts.

Breaking: 'Tentative Contract Agreement In Principle' Between New Jersey and State Workers Union
Disclosed details include:

• Across the board raises of 3.5 percent annually

• Changes to the civil service ranges

• Increase the salary guide for many of the State’s lowest paid workers

• Reimbursement rate increases for eye care

• Extra day of bereavement leave yearly

"The contract is retroactive to July 1, 2023 and will run through June 30, 2027."

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Casino Operator, Insurance Giant Await Court Opinion on Covid Closure Coverage Question

*"New Jersey’s Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case lodged by the firm that operates the Ocean Casino Resort, whose suit charges its insurers improperly denied it a business interruption payout on its $50 million policy.

Nationwide, courts have routinely dismissed claims seeking compensation because of government-ordered shutdowns. But business interruption claims rooted in different reasons could spur numerous and hefty awards from insurers in what Ocean called a “generational legal dispute” in its filings."*

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New Jersey Monitor

New Jersey Supreme Court weighs insurance payouts for COVID closures - New Jersey Monitor

An Atlantic City casino is sparring with its insurers over business interruption claims from 2020.