February 5, 2021
Credit to BuryPensions for catching this. The Mondelez (owner of Nabisco) plant in Fair Lawn is shutting down. That’s 600 jobs that disappear with it. What […]
February 4, 2021
There has been a lot of reporting on the Montclair schools re-opening dispute, but that the press has neglected to ask NJEA Vice president/Montclair Mayor Sean […]
February 2, 2021
Sunlight is able to use the same headline as it did last May during the mayoral election because NJEA Vice President/Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller is once […]
January 26, 2021
WalletHub is out with its annual “Best States to Retire” and New Jersey ranks dead last in the nation. The primary reason is that NJ is […]
January 25, 2021
Thanks to the Garden State Initiative (GSI) for keeping an eye on NJ’s employment numbers. Altogether, NJ’s January jobs numbers were not good: NJ’s unemployment rate […]
January 22, 2021
We’re going to get a little wonkish here and delve into the mechanics of pensions because NJ’s public pensions are a disaster waiting to happen. At […]
January 19, 2021
Randal D. Pinkett, an NJ entrepreneur and Rhodes Scholar, penned an op-ed in the Star-Ledger with some trenchant observations, particularly about NJ’s special-interest-dominated education system. Sunlight […]
January 15, 2021
Yesterday, Sunlight blogged about Newark’s student absenteeism scandal and asked where Superintendent Roger Leon stood on the matter. Today, Newark’s Oscar James blogged an answer on […]
January 14, 2021
NJLeft Behind reposted a startling Chalkbeat story about the under-reported absenteeism at Newark Public Schools. To the surprise of no one, it’s all about the money […]