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about 2 months ago
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman announced she will retire from Congress when her term ends in 2027. “I made a commitment years ago to always lead the charge on behalf of those I represent, and I believe I have fulfilled that commitment to the very best of my abilities,” she said. 📷: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
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about 2 months ago
Thanks, John. The quick overview is that Sherrill has obligations in both D.C. and New Jersey, and the timing on when she resigns is REALLY important.
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about 2 months ago
What’s the prize for pulling off her huge victory? How about pressure to deliver on affordability promises while managing a state budget gap and funding cuts coming down from the federal government. These and other big issues are on the to-do list for Gov-elect Mikie Sherrill.
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Here are the challenges Mikie Sherrill faces as NJ's next governor | NJ Spotlight News
As governor, Sherrill faces a raft of challenges. Big budgets, Trump issues, school funding and more
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/11/challenges-mikie-sherrill-faces-as-njs-next-governor/
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NJ Spotlight News
about 2 months ago
New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill is your next governor, according to the Associated Press, calling the race at 9:24 p.m. For ongoing analysis and results, including NJ’s 80 Assembly races, head to
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about 2 months ago
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LIVE: NJ election night results 2025 | NJ Decides
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about 2 months ago
Track away NJ. You can hit refresh as often as you want!
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Polls close at 8 p.m. in New Jersey. Join us at 10 p.m. for live coverage of the governor's race, major Assembly races and other local elections.. We'll hear in-studio analysis from the
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LIVE: NJ election night results 2025 | NJ Decides
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Calling it “an attempt to suppress the vote”
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It's not just the race for governor on the ballot, NJ. Many voters can also vote for mayor, city council and their local school boards. School boards have a big impact on how local schools are governed and how taxpayer money is spent.
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NJ elections: Fewer candidates running for school boards | NJ Spotlight News
Lower-turnout school board elections have significant impact on how schools are governed and how taxpayer money is spent
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-elections-fewer-candidates-running-for-school-boards/
about 2 months ago
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Today is Election Day! Polls are open until 8 p.m. in New Jersey. If you want to learn more about the candidates, aren't sure where to vote, or want to follow along for live results, check out our elections page
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NJ Decides 2025 - NJ Spotlight News
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Time is running out to vote NJ. All you need to know is here
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Tomorrow, get your results from NJSpotlight News
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NJ governor's race: What to know before Election Day | NJ Spotlight News
Top issues, early voting numbers, polls
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/11/nj-governors-race-what-to-know-before-election-day/
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John Reitmeyer
2 months ago
From state income taxes to local property taxes, we pay billions annually to fund NJ's K-12 public schools. How would the candidates for governor alter NJ's approach to school-funding?
@hannah-gross.bsky.social
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NJ governor’s race: The plans to pay for schools | NJ Spotlight News
Ciattarelli wants a rewrite while Sherrill offers tweaks
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-governors-race-the-plans-to-pay-for-schools/
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about 2 months ago
In NJ, the largest portion of the typical homeowner's property-tax bill funds the budget of their local K-12 schools. Down ballot this year, voters will decide who wins key school board seats in districts throughout NJ, reports
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NJ elections: Fewer candidates running for school boards | NJ Spotlight News
Lower-turnout school board elections have significant impact on how schools are governed and how taxpayer money is spent
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-elections-fewer-candidates-running-for-school-boards/
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Colleen O'Dea
about 2 months ago
982K have voted early in NJ as of end of 10/30. Dems have a 235K margin now but there are 181K unaffiliated/3rd party.
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NJ election: Early voting updates | NJ Spotlight News
Updated counts of mail-in ballots and early in-person votes
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-election-early-voting-updates/
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Colleen O'Dea
2 months ago
The latest NJ early voting numbers show almost 735K have cast ballots. Nearly 56% Dems, 27% GOP. Total is almost 300K more than at this point 4 years ago.
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New Jersey’s teacher workforce remains stable, according to a new report from Rutgers University, but more instructors are likely needed in multilingual learning and computer science classes. More in
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NJ needs teachers for computer science, multilingual classes | NJ Spotlight News
Overall workforce stable, report says, but lacks specialists
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-needs-teachers-for-computer-science-multilingual-classes-shortage-schools-education-learning/
2 months ago
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After lawmakers were unable to reach agreement, the U.S. government lurched into a shutdown early Wednesday, a threshold that triggers federal agencies and departments to send staff home and forces employees considered “essential” to work without pay.
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Federal government shuts down again under Trump | NJ Spotlight News
Social programs to stop, workers to be sent home
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/federal-government-shuts-down-again-under-trump/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
NEW: A shutdown is imminent. There is a “strong likelihood,” said one government expert, “that we’ll end up with a government shutdown like no other.”
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With no updates and no deal, government shutdown gets closer | NJ Spotlight News
Advocates warn shutdown will mean harm for many
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/09/with-no-updates-and-no-deal-government-shutdown-gets-closer
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John Reitmeyer
4 months ago
The final numbers are in: School taxes are increasing substantially in about 80 NJ school districts this year under a new school-funding provision created by Gov. Murphy and lawmakers when a new state budget was adopted at the end of June. Reporting by
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How some NJ schools got special permission for big tax increases | NJ Spotlight News
School taxes are increasing substantially in about 80 districts under a new budget provision created by Gov. Phil Murphy. New Jersey towns are generally
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/how-some-nj-schools-got-special-permission-for-big-tax-increases/
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Tracking the number of fatal shootings by law enforcement officers in New Jersey remains difficult more than six years after the state attorney general’s office was given the responsibility for investigating all deaths involving police.
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Policing the police in New Jersey | NJ Spotlight News
In New Jersey, it’s still difficult to track the number of fatal shootings and other police encounters that led to a civilian death.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/tracking-nj-police-conduct-data-is-easier-except-fatal-encounters/
4 months ago
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I observed several days of immigration court hearings in Newark for
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How children fare in Newark Immigration Court | NJ Spotlight News
Reporting from Newark Immigration Court on the challenges that immigrants — especially immigrant children — face.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/children-in-newark-immigration-court/
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In the rush to draft and pass a new state budget in late June, Gov. Murphy and lawmakers failed to fully fund NJ’s child care subsidy program for low-income families. It is now closed to new applicants, reports
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NJ cuts child care subsidies for new applicants | NJ Spotlight News
Trio of lawmakers say they’re drafting legislation to boost state program’s funding
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/nj-cuts-child-care-subsidies-for-new-applicants/
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5 months ago
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Republicans let Trump gut foreign aid, public media funding | NJ Spotlight News
This week, the Republican Senate and House passed legislation to cancel roughly $9B Congress had already approved.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/07/republican-congress-passes-bill-guts-funding-foreign-aid-public-media/
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The Washington Post
5 months ago
Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/17/stephen-colbert-canceled-late-show-ending/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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the Trump administration has plans to detain immigrants at two military bases one is in New Jersey, the other in Indiana
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NJ military base to be used for immigrant detention | NJ Spotlight News
Defense Secretary Hegseth told lawmakers Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst would be used to hold immigrant detainees.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/07/trump-administration-to-use-nj-military-base-as-temproary-immigrant-detention-site/
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NPR
5 months ago
The British government aims to make all 16- and 17-year-olds eligible to vote starting in the next U.K. general election. Some voting age limits are changing in the U.S., but only at the local level.
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The UK will lower its voting age to 16. Could the U.S. follow suit?
The British government aims to make all 16- and 17-year-olds eligible to vote starting in the next U.K. general election. Some voting age limits are changing in the U.S., but only at the local level.
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A new Trump administration rule would ban undocumented families from participating in Head Start, the latest in a string of changes to Head Start amid deep cuts to federal education funding and an aggressive targeting of immigrants. NJ is home to at least 400K undocumented ppl.
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Undocumented families cut off from Head Start | NJ Spotlight News
Undocumented families have had access to Head Start since it was established 60 years ago as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty.”
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/07/trump-administration-bars-undocumented-families-from-head-start/
5 months ago
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Federal legislation to cut $9.4 billion in foreign aid and public media funding could soon become law, a blow to vulnerable people abroad and to rural America.
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Senate set to vote on cutting foreign aid, public media funds | NJ Spotlight News
Republicans in the House voted in June to cut $9.4 billion in foreign aid funding and for public news media.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/07/us-senate-preps-rescissions-vote-to-claw-back-foreign-aid-public-media-funding/
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It’s budget deadline day in NJ! Both Assembly and Senate meet to vote on a proposed $58.8 spending plan. Democrats & the Exec reached an agreement late last week. Reports from Under the Dome in Trenton today!
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Despite spending more than $40 million in teachers’ dues, the NJEA president landed a fifth-place finish in the race to become the Democratic nominee for governor. Supporters said record-high spending was worth it since Spiller’s campaign elevated issues important to teachers
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Teachers union spent $40M+ in leader’s futile run for governor | NJ Spotlight News
Sean Spiller, president of NJEA, finished second-last in the Democratic primary to become governor after breaking campaign spending records.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/06/nj-largest-teachers-union-stands-by-spending-over-40-million-sean-spiller-governor-bid/
7 months ago
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Where do Ciattarelli and Sherrill differ on the issues? | NJ Spotlight News
Major-party nominees for NJ governorship are a former state lawmaker in his third tilt at the office and a congresswoman seeking her first statewide office.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/06/republican-and-democratic-nominees-for-nj-governor-different-visions-for-new-jersey/
7 months ago
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Polls in New Jersey close at 8 p.m., ending the most expensive election to choose Democratic and Republican nominees for governor in state history. We will have results online and on TV beginning at 8 p.m. on
@njspotlightnews.org
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
A lot can change in a decade, including the size of the state budget. We tracked the growth, from increased spending on actuarially determined public-employee pension contributions to statutorily required K-12 public school aid payments.
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NJ’s ever-growing budget draws scrutiny | NJ Spotlight News
Spending on certain state-funded relief programs in New Jersey has increased by 300% over the last 10 years.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/05/new-jerseys-ever-increasing-budget-draws-scrutiny/
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Michael Sol Warren
7 months ago
thrilled to find out that season 2 of Hazard NJ has won a regional Murrow Award!
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RTDNA announces 2025 Region 11 Edward R. Murrow Award winners - Radio Television Digital News Association
https://www.rtdna.org/news/rtdna-announces-2025-region-11-edward-r-murrow-award-winners
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John Reitmeyer
7 months ago
"The ban, which officials said on Tuesday could take effect sometime in the next two months, would instead hand parking privileges only to full- and part-time State House employees, security guards, interns, and the drivers who ferry around bigwig lawmakers."
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Colleen O'Dea
7 months ago
New Jersey: It's your last chance to register to vote in this year's important -- and crowded -- gubernatorial primaries. Check your registration or register online at
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NEW: Rutgers voted to confirm William F. Tate IV as the 22nd president of NJ's state university. Tate is currently the president of Louisiana State University. Rutgers said the search was "quite challenging" since many sitting presidents were reluctant to consider other jobs.
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7 months ago
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Join us tonight at 7 p.m. for a live conversation with five Democratic candidates running to be NJ’s next governor: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-5th) and Mikie Sherrill (D-11th) and former state Senate President Steve Sweeney.
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NJ primary election 2025: The Democrats running for NJ governor | NJ Spotlight News
NJ Spotlight News to host live conversation with five Democratic gubernatorial candidates
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/05/nj-primary-election-2025-the-democrats-running-for-nj-governor/
8 months ago
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Ted Goldberg
8 months ago
Packed house in Tenafly to celebrate the upcoming release of Edan Alexander from Hamas custody
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Tune in to
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tonight at 7 p.m. for a live conversation with three Republican candidates running to be New Jersey’s next governor: state Sen. Jon Bramnick, former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli and former radio personality Bill Spadea.
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NJ primary election 2025: The Republicans running for NJ governor
YouTube video by NJ Spotlight News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmOGPNplQw
8 months ago
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We have a podcast! You can listen on
NJSpotlightNews.org/podcast
, YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts to hear our reporters discuss affordability, accessibility and accountability in New Jersey.
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8 months ago
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Spending on NJ's gubernatorial primaries could break records with outside money playing a major role in the governor’s race. Trying to figure out how much is being spent means untangling the web of more than two dozen independent spending groups. From
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NJ governor’s race: The money - NJ Spotlight News
Despite elections transparency law, tracking all the groups that are spending on the race is more difficult than ever.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/special-report/tracking-cash-pouring-in-nj-governors-race-citizens-united-campaign-financing-transparency-issues/
8 months ago
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Pre-K enrollment in NJ is growing, with 48% of districts participating in the state program, according to a Rutgers report. But Trump admin plans to cut funding for Head Start could destabilize the entire early childhood education ecosystem in the state, researchers said.
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How Trump cuts could destabilize NJ preschool program | NJ Spotlight News
Preschool enrollment and spending in New Jersey are up, but potential cuts to Head Start could slow recent progress.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/nj-preschool-program-vulnerable-trump-federal-funding-cuts/
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Congrats to three of our NJPA award winners! 🎉
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Law and order in NJ: First place, News writing portfolio
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State budgets and taxes: Third place, News column
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Homelessness in NJ: Second place, Best web project
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9 months ago
"It would impact NPR, PBS and the roughly 1,500 local public media stations across the country. The White House drafted a memo that could make those cuts happen soon."
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Voters under 18 are allowed to vote for the first time in school board elections in Newark today. Voters in 14 NJ school districts are voting in BOE elections today after most districts moved their BOE elections to the general election in November. More on
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Time for teens to vote | NJ Spotlight News
Newark students first to vote in school elections
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/time-for-teens-to-vote/
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Head Start promotes school readiness for children from low-income families from birth to age five. According to the president of the NJ Head Start Association, Head Start and Early Head Start programs were serving more than 12,000 NJ families as of August 2024.
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Trump administration closes regional Head Start offices | NJ Spotlight News
New Jersey is part of Head Start Region 2, which also serves New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/trump-administration-shuts-regional-head-start-offices-prompting-child-care-concerns/
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9 months ago
NJ has lost its herd immunity to measles, according to state health officials, putting the state at greater risk of an outbreak from a virus that has already infected at least three people here this year.
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NJ at greater risk of measles outbreak | NJ Spotlight News
A lower measles vaccination rate mean New Jersey has lost its herd immunity, or “community immunity threshold,” to measles.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/nj-loses-herd-immunity-against-measles-now-at-greater-risk/
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Ted Goldberg
9 months ago
Would you live next to a mall? How about a few feet away from one? Developers in Paramus (& statewide) are betting that young people and those looking to downsize will jump on the recent trend of shopping malls re-developing to include housing. My story on
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