Author: Jeff Pillets

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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What secrets might ooze out as investigators take another look at the 2014 deaths of John and Joyce Sheridan?

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In "Cultivating Justice in the Garden State," Ray Lesniak details 50 years in politics.

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Plan to Save New Jersey

February 11, 2008

The election is over, the campaign ads have disappeared, and life has returned to what passes for normal in the Garden State. What happens now for a state that’s facing a number of potentially crippling issues?

Seen in: Jersey Living