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NJ Dead Last for Business Tax Climate for the 8th Year in a Row and Every Year of Murphy’s Governorship
Posted On11/21/2023 byWe wanted to make sure our readers saw that New Jersey once again came in 50th out of 50 states in the Tax Foundation’s “2024 State Business Tax Climate Index,” which ranks the 50 states by how friendly their tax systems are to businesses. THIS IS THE 8TH YEAR IN A ROW NEW JERSEY HAS…Read More
NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth Still Can’t Tell It Straight on the Culture Wars, Ignores NJEA’s Spending and Influence
Posted On11/17/2023 byNorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth still can’t tell it straight when it comes to the “culture wars.” She continues to steadfastly ignore massive NJEA spending — and therefore influence — on this year’s school board races. To be fair, her recent article on the school board races accurately declared that overall the results were mixed. Both…Read More
Smoking Gun: Anti-Parent Group NJ Public Education Coalition Is a NJEA Front
Posted On11/06/2023 byWe now have direct proof: anti-parent-group New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC) is a NJEA front, and its founder, mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman is a proven liar. Too bad for the voters who won’t have this information before they vote for their school boards tomorrow. Sunlight has long had to rely on…Read More
Sunlight Op-Ed on InsiderNJ: President Spiller, Don’t Blame Educators for the Mess You Created
Posted On11/06/2023 byThanks to InsiderNJ for publishing Sunlight’s op-ed. We respect InsiderNJ for publishing both NJEA President Spiller’s op-ed and our rebuttal. That’s fair, even-handed treatment. NJEA President Sean Spiller wrote an op-ed for InsiderNJ entitled “Educators Involved in Politics? Absolutely!” Predictably, Spiller frames the issue as if the NJEA and educators are one and the same. …Read More
Once again, NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth Can’t Tell It Straight in Her Reports on the Culture Wars
Posted On11/02/2023 byOnce again, NorthJersey.com’s Mary Ann Koruth just can’t tell it straight when it comes to the culture wars being fought in New Jersey school districts. She adopts the pro-NJEA, “progressive” side’s framing of the issue and is remarkably incurious about the NJEA’s role. In her most recent piece on the groups involved in this year’s…Read More
Gov. Murphy Tours Asia While His Tutoring Programs Fail and NJ Students Fall Further Behind
Posted On10/26/2023 byA governor who fails in his duty to educate New Jersey’s children is a failure as a governor. ALL New Jersey children, including — especially — those who are struggling the most. Like the Black and Latino kids who suffered the greatest learning loss from COVID-related school closures on Governor Murphy’s watch. But Murphy is…Read More
After Being Caught Offsides by a Monmouth Poll, the NJEA Engineers Its Own Poll to Claim It is Aligned with Parents
Posted On10/24/2023 byAs is well known in polling, if you want a certain response, you have to ask the right question. The way you phrase the question makes all the difference. Now we have a classic example of such polling in the New Jersey culture wars, and in particular over mandatory parental notification policies. The NJEA has…Read More
A Deeply Deceptive Ad from Mendacious Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and NJ Public Education Coalition
Posted On10/19/2023 byMore mendacity from Michael “Hundreds of Millions” Gottesman and the NJ Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), this time in a deeply deceptive digital ad. The bullying Gottesman likes to accuse his opponents of lying, but, using his terminology, who is really lying here? Once again, it is Gottesman. Will the facts cause InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack revise…Read More
InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack Provides Slanted Coverage of the Culture Wars — Joining Others in the NJ Press Corps
Posted On10/17/2023 byLooks like more slanted coverage of the culture wars by the NJ press corps. This time it’s InsiderNJ’s Fred Snowflack. We’re starting to see a pattern. In his piece “Judicial Integrity and the Culture Wars,” Snowflack has this lede: “Sexualization of children … lies by the parent’s rights lobby … astonishment in Hanover.” The clear…Read More
Can InsiderNJ’s Jay Lassiter Explain Why This Shouldn’t Be Construed as Bias?
Posted On10/13/2023 byWhen Sunlight publishes a report, we send it to a press list that we have complied over the years. One of the reporters on the list is Jay Lassiter of InsiderNJ. Reporters are the filter through which many people get their news, and it is our view is that reporters should be unbiased and report…Read More