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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