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| Budget,
Taxes and Fiscal Policy |
Campaign
Finance |
Political
Winds May Be Shifting on Property Tax Convention
By Mark Pfeffer, NJR, October 2004 |
The
Big Money: Unanticipated Result of1993
Campaign Finance Reform Law Is That Political
Parties
Are More Powerful Than Ever Before
By Jeff Brindle, NJR, April 2004
|
21st
Century Taxes for a 19th Century Government
By Mark Boyd, NJR, April 2003 |
McCain-Feingold
Proves Windfall For State, County Parties
By Jeff Brindle, NJR, January 2003 |
New
Jersey's Fiscal Funhouse: Tops in Taxing
Residents, Last in Taxing Out-of-Staters
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, March 2002 |
Developmental
Disabilities |
McGreevey's
Challenge: How to Fill a $3 Billion Budget
Gap Without Raising Taxes
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, January 2002 |
New
Jersey’s ‘Robin Hood’ A Second
Look at the Eddie Moore Furor
By Jonathan Jaffe, NJR, April 2004 |
The
Challenge Ahead: The $3 Billion Budget Deficit
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, October 2001 |
Obtaining
Services for the Disabled:
A Frustrating
and Agonizing Road
By Colleen O’Dea, NJR, January 2002 |
| Health
Care |
DYFS
(Division of Youth and Family Services) |
Health
Care Quality and Patient Safety: The Cost
of Reform, the Cost of Doing Nothing
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, October 2004 |
‘All
We Want Is to Get Our Children Back’ –
The
Dilemma of
Families and DYFS
By Jason Method, NJR, March 2002 |
How
to Stop the Hemorrhaging: Solutions to New
Jersey’s Health Care Quality Crisis
By David Knowlton, NJR, October 2004 |
Environmental
Protection |
Questions
to Ask Your Doctor, Hospital or Medical Group
Excerpted from Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying
Epidemic of Medical Mistakes by Robert M. Wachter, M.D., and Dr. Kaveh G.
Shojania, M.D.
NJR, October 2004 |
Natural
Resource Damages:
The New Battlefield in Environmental
Litigation
By Ken Stier and Mark J. Magyar, NJR, April 2004 |
| |
Assessing
Accountability for Natural Resource Damage:
The Limits of History
By George James Hill, M.D., NJR, April 2004 |
| Higher
Education |
Superfund
Heading for a Super Crisis
By Robert Hennelly, NJR, January 2003 |
Higher
Education in New Jersey: Thinking About the
Future
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, April 2003
|
Burnt
Fly Bog: Algae Thrive Where Oil Once Flowed
By David Rosenstraus, NJR, January 2003 |
Capacity,
Funding and Governance: What Really Needs
to be Fixed in the Higher Education System
By Susan A. Cole, Ph.D., NJR, April 2003 |
Manville
Cleanup Turns a Field Fluorescent Blue
By David Rosenstraus, NJR, January 2003 |
Lessons
from North Carolina: Partnerships for Innovation:
The Experience of Research Triangle Park
By Phillip A. Griffiths, Ph.D., NJR, April 2003 |
Removing
Radioactive Thorium in a Camden Neighborhood
By David Rosenstraus, NJR, January 2003 |
Critique
on Competitiveness: Merger Will Not Produce
R&D Boom Without Significant Investment
by State
By John Ekarius, NJR, April 2003 |
The
Global Ecological Imperative in a Post 9/11
World
By Robert Hennelly, NJR, January 2003 |
Community
College Perspective: Changing Democratic
Landscape Poses New Challenges
Interview with Peter F. Burnham, NJR, April 2003 |
Beyond
the Drought: New Jersey Faces a
Long-Range
Water Supply Crisis
By Robert Hennelly, NJR, August 2002 |
Higher
Education Master Plan: Comprehensive Reform
is Required to Make Up for Historic Indifference
By Craig P. Donovan, Ph.D., NJR, April 2003 |
Hardyston’s
Dilemma: Cashing in Watershed
Holds Down
Property Taxes
By Robert Hennelly, NJR, August 2002 |
| Newark |
New
Jersey Struggles to Cope With Crises, Large
and Small
By Robert Hennelly, NJR, August 2002 |
Newark
Diary: 50 Days Define a City
By Shakti Bhatt, David Rosenstraus, Lauren Otis and Mark J. Magyar, NJR,
August 200 |
Media |
The
Battle for Newark: Sharpe James vs. Cory
Booker
By Shakti Bhatt and Mark J. Magyar, NJR, April 2002 |
The
Press vs. the Politicians: Inside the Undeclared
War That Is Reshaping Trenton
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, January 2004 |
Revitalization:
Newark's Tale of Two Cities
By Navdeep Mathur, NJR, April 2002 |
Gannett
vs. Newhouse: Battling for Dominance in an
Era of Media Consolidation
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, January 2004 |
| Politics |
OPRA’s
Story (or ‘How New Jersey Left the
Dark Ages and
Learned to Love Open Records’)
By Lauren Otis, NJR, January 2004 |
Political
Calculus: In Trenton, the World Turns Upside
Down
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, October 2004 |
OPRAing
the Governors OPRAs:
Using the Open Public
Records Act to
Investigate How the Press
Corps Investigates the Governor
By Lauren Otis, NJR, January 2004 |
2003
Election Analysis: Tipping Point
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, January 2004 |
Watchdog
Journalism or Bennett Hatchet Job?
By Lauren Otis, NJR, April 2003 |
2002
Election Analysis: Return of the Swamp Dog
New Jersey Reporter staff, NJR, January 2003 |
The
Politics of Satellite and Cable TV:
New Technology
Could Make New Jersey
the 4th-Largest Media
Market
By Craig P. Donovan and Scott McHugh, NJR, January 2003 |
If
Thomas Nast Were Alive Today
By Andrea L. Minkow and Mark J. Magyar, NJR, January 2003 |
State
Government |
2001
Election Analysis: The Emerging Democratic
Majority
By Craig P. Donovan and Mark J. Magyar, NJR, January 2002
|
The
Trenton Rule Book: A Machiavellian Primer
For New State Government Officials
NJR, January 2002 |
Governor’s
Race 2001: Mr. Inside vs. Mr. Outside
By Mark J. Magyar, NJR, October 2001 |
The
Trenton Rule Book: A Machiavellian Guide
for
the 21st Century. II. Playing Both Sides:
How
Just About Anyone Can Survive the
Upcoming Election
Turmoil
NJR, October 2004 |
Paying
to Play: Jon Corzine, The Man, The Money and
The Quest
By Barbara Fitzgerald, NJR, April 2000 |
The
State of the State Speech You Didn’t
Get to Hear
By Donald T. DiFrancesco, NJR, January 2002
|
The
Corzines: A Family of Prosperous, Republican
Stock
By Barbara Fitzgerald, NJR, April 2000
|
Terrorism
and Security |
Alternative
Minimum Tax: Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Headache
By Craig P. Donovan, NJR, August 2002
|
Striving
for Judicial Balance During the War on Terror
By Judge Ronald J. Hedges, NJR, January 2003 |
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