Author: Jeff Pillets

There's growing concern among college administrators, elected officials and students, who say change can’t come fast enough to the state’s higher-education landscape.

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Raucous school board meetings have become intense battlegrounds over gender policies and protections, sex education and parental rights in NJ's public school system.

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Thousands of New Jersey families are in limbo amid a critical shortage of judges.

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After years of allegations of race-based bias by Paterson police, the state takeover is beginning to yield positive results—but doubts still linger.

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After a 2021 ruling overturned the murder conviction of Wiltsey's mother, people involved in the case are still coming to terms with the reality that there may never be justice for Timmy.

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New Jersey has pulled out of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, created in 1953 to fight organized crime on the docks.

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It’s been 87 years since New Jersey executed Bruno Richard Hauptmann for kidnapping and killing aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son. 

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Ku Klux Klan members and Nazis were part of our state's past long before groups like the Proud Boys showed up.

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Public officials, prosecutors and other experts have tracked a mounting wave of white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance in the Garden State.

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New Jersey's capital city offers the kind of deep-dish American history you can only find in a few U.S. cities. (And don't forget about its thin-crust pizza!)

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