August 14, 2026
We continue to learn that New Jersey’s inhospitable climate for businesses has real-world consequences. Sunlight’s readers know that New Jersey was ranked 49th or 50th for […]
August 7, 2026
Sunlight has written a great deal about New Jersey as the quintessential Blue State, with powerful government unions, big government, and the high taxes to pay […]
July 28, 2026
NJEA President Steve Beatty took to the pages of NJ.com to argue his case for keeping the teachers’ pension plan — the Teachers Pension & Annuity […]
June 9, 2026
The data shows that students in states with powerful teachers unions have underperformed those in states with weaker ones in recovering from pandemic-related learning loss. That […]
June 3, 2026
Exxon and Samsung are leaving New Jersey for Texas. New Jersey has the highest corporate tax rate in the nation, while Texas has no corporate tax. […]
May 14, 2026
Earlier this week, we wrote about how New Jersey’s most powerful special interest, the NJEA, really does want higher property taxes. It’s no coincidence that New […]
May 11, 2026
Make no mistake about it, New Jersey taxpayers: the NJEA wants higher property taxes. Period. This makes sense, as school budgets typically account for over half […]
May 7, 2026
New Jersey’s Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) issued its annual report on lobbying for 2025, and the results confirm what Sunlight documented in its recent report: […]
May 1, 2026
The ghost of Gov. Murphy comes back to haunt New Jersey. Again. During his two terms, Murphy was always looking for higher tax revenues to fund […]