Category Archives: New Jersey News

by Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor The Trump administration has sued Morris Township over its 2022 ordinance banning builders from installing appliances or other infrastructure fueled by gas, oil, or propane in most new rental housing. In a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark, Justice Department attorneys say the ordinance, which requiresContinue reading “Feds claim NJ town’s electrification law ‘threatens American energy dominance’”

In a turn of events that lands somewhere between comic opera and a master class in administrative whiplash, the Kennedy Center has confirmed that New Jersey native Bill Maher will receive the 27th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. This comes precisely one week after the White House assured the public, with the kindContinue reading “New Jersey’s Bill Maher will receive the Mark Twain award”

By JoAnne Castagna, Ed.D. New York City, the cultural and economic power we know today grew from the waterways that run through it. Over the years, the deepening and widening of the Port of New York and New Jersey allowed ships to bring in goods, foster trade, and carry in immigrants who established communities, industriesContinue reading “A collaboration that runs deep: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers & Port Authority of New York & New Jersey”

by Lilo H. Stainton, New Jersey Monitor New Jersey taxpayers spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually to cover the cost of health insurance for employees at big companies like Amazon, Walmart, and Target who are on Medicaid, a practice Gov. Rebecca ‘Mikie’ Sherrill said this week she wants to curtail.   On Tuesday, Sherrill unveiledContinue reading “Gov. Sherrill plan seeks to fine big companies with workers on Medicaid”

A Union County grand jury has indicted a 70-year-old Fanwood man on murder and arson charges for setting a house fire that killed his 82-year-old neighbor last summer, a crime that prosecutors say unraveled the suspect’s own fabricated story of heroism. William Ahle was indicted on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree felony murder, first-degree homeContinue reading “William Ahle indicted for murder & arson after 82-year-old Fanwood neighbor died”

Leqaa Kordia spent three days chained to a hospital bed after suffering the first seizure of her life, then was sent back to an immigration detention center 1,500 miles from her home in Paterson, New Jersey. She has been in custody for nearly a year, even though an immigration judge twice ordered her released onContinue reading “Paterson’s Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia spent nearly a year in ICE concentration camp”

For the second time in just over two years, the Borough of Roselle finds itself searching for a director to oversee its economic development, buildings, zoning, and code enforcement after Samantha Isabel Carpio quietly exited the post last month to take the reins as Business Administrator in Rochelle Park. Carpio’s departure, effective February 2026, leavesContinue reading “Roselle again without economic development director, as Carpio exits the post”

On the steep slopes of the Connaught Hill area of West Amwell and Lambertville, the water is not safe to drink. It is not safe to cook with. It is contaminated with a slow-moving, persistent, insidious poison. New test results show 71 of 74 private wells on this hill, straddling the line between Lambertville andContinue reading “America’s water is contaminated with persistent, insidious “forever chemicals””

In the quiet expanse of the Adirondack Park, where the wilderness is measured in six-million-acre increments, a different kind of natural resource has taken root. Rush Holt Jr., at 76, is charting a new chapter that proves a life of public service and scientific inquiry doesn’t retire—it evolves. Recently appointed by Gov. Kathy Hochul toContinue reading “Rush Holt Jr. charts new chapter of service as scientific inquiry doesn’t retire—it evolves”

The scene was pure political theater—the kind of slick, stage-managed spectacle that makes your teeth ache from the sugar-coating on February 21, 2019, when Senator Cory Booker stood bathed in the glow of home-state adoration Grinning like a man who’d just hit the jackpot in Atlantic City, a wall of power brokers behind him—Governor PhilContinue reading “The Garden State’s rotten harvest apparent in Booker’s network of corruption”

Robert Schott parked a 1953 Chevrolet ice cream truck on his front lawn and started selling Good Humor bars for five dollars apiece. The truck is made of snow. It has headlights, rims, a front seat, and a license plate that reads “OHSOGOOD.” It is 99% frozen water and 100% a rebuke to anyone whoContinue reading “Cranford man displays ‘good humor’ selling ice cream from a truck made of snow”

What follows is not a scene from a grim novel or a satirical play, but witness accounts according to numerous citizens who see it as the regular business of governance in Roselle, New Jersey. The council chamber in Borough Hall—meant for calm deliberation of the public’s interests—has been described by those who attend as somethingContinue reading “Mayor Donald ‘Big Tookie’ Shaw shanks Anthony Esposito as ‘Dirty Denise’ Wilkinson vilifies resident Bob Sumner”

The House Ethics Committee’s investigation into Rep. Tom Malinowski’s failure to disclose dozens of stock transactions on time has concluded that he violated significant rules, but it remains unclear what the panel will do to him if he returned to the House of Representatives after a special primary election on February 5. The independent OfficeContinue reading “Malinowski stock trades reveal the larger problem of uncaring government”

In a final, defining act of political cowardice, outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy pocket vetoed a trio of landmark immigrant protection bills, delivering a profound betrayal to advocates and vulnerable families and cementing a legacy where his professed ideals consistently buckled under pressure. The governor’s silent killing of the legislation—via pocket veto—came despite furious, last-minute pleasContinue reading “Political coward Phil Murphy’s last betrayal cements legacy of abandoned ideals”