Wow.
But, aren't we worried that, if we impose restrictive health, safety, & anti-slavery standards on factories, that they'll just pack up & leave for other countries?
Idk how this all relates to NJ PBS & public radio stations getting gutted last year. NJ PBS will shut down this year bcs its budget was cut from $1M to $250k.
The BiB's "Public Broadcasting Services" line item gets > $4.6M.
newjerseymonitor.com/2025/09/03/n...
Now for my other hobby horse: public broadcasting.
The new Budget in Brief (FY 2027) estimates cuts to a line item called "Public Broadcasting Services". I pulled past funding amounts from the other BiBs.
Public broadcasting got a HUGE funding bump in 2024.
www.nj.gov/treasury/omb...
Start one! And we are always looking for more volunteers here in Hudson County who can research and write on housing, transit, street safety, and use of public space.
This particular article was written by Akshay Verma who is a member of the local JC Urbanist group.
The budget limits how much state aid a school district may lose/gain if, say, its enrollment falls/rises or tax base grows/shrinks. Certain suburban district rejoice.
The downside is that poorer, urban, or growing districts, which were largely underfunded for decades, will remain underfunded.
The Adequacy Report estimates the amount of $ required to educate the typical student in each grade, & the additional funding amounts for each economically disadvantaged student, ELL, SpEd student, etc.
These are the numbers that get plugged into the funding formula.
It's important to note that a major driver of NJ's budget increases is the school funding formula, which lawmakers can't really mess with.
If you don't like the amount we spend on edu, please identify which parts of the 2026 Edu Adequacy Report you take issue with: www.nj.gov/education/st...
News outlets love to go with the "New budget is bigger than ever" headline, but we don't actually know which of NJ's past budgets was the biggest when adjusted for inflation. Probably a recent one, but maybe not!
This seems like an important point.
The NJ GOP perennially calls for tying income tax brackets to inflation, but blasts a bill that, after inflation, isn't bigger than the current budget. (&, of course, praises the Federal admin's fiscal acumen.)
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/sher...
It sounds like, if you're a renter, but not a senior, then you'll no longer get property tax relief--despite prop taxes likely getting passed on at least in part onto renters.
The Stay NJ income cap is still too high.
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/sher...
Xmas tree spending gets so much attention despite being such a small part of the budget. & I thought progs just didn't like how the xmas process is rushed & we don't know who asked for what (though it's kind of obvious).
Every town needs a Better Blocks.
Did she publicly execute NJ PBS on stage?
A proposed bike trail in my county got much less hate, but still someone couldn't help but claim that it will bring crime to the K-12 school zone.
This is awesome but some people are still loudly mad about this.
Comments along the lines of, "imagine the drug tents & crime".
They're doing the anti-GCL stuff, but for a fucking bike trail.
*RING RING* motherfuckers.
www.roi-nj.com/2026/03/10/l...
Joe Danielsen Unleashed has been such a funny post-2025 side arc
An NJ legislator doing... good?!
Trump’s war of choice is reportedly costing us $1 billion per day.
No Democrat should vote to give the regime even more money to wage a war that nobody asked for.
Contact your Members of Congress and urge them to oppose any supplemental funding package.
Wow – real asking rents in Jersey City are completely flat since 2017 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n... (🎁🔗)
Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib
And now, Minab
We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
Now would be a great time for the NJ Legislature to reconsider the new e-bike laws.
If electric rates doubled tomorrow the cost of charging my Class 1 250W Cannondale from zero will rise from 7 cents to 14 cents.
bicyclecoalition.org/governor-mur...
Another great "regional metro" concept for the New York City via the @etany.org Unlocking regional transportation will make the area infinitely more livable and affordable.
Why are Mississippi schools getting better results for poor kids, at half the price? I’ve started talking with experts about this debate in New Jersey. Here’s the perspective of Kirabo Jackson, a labor economist and professor who focuses on education finance: www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/03/qa-w...
Like he said, salaries, pensions, & special ed spending account for about half of the diff b/w MS & NJ. Edu is labor-intensive & NJ is expensive.
But one can't leap from "NJ spends more on edu than other states w/ similar/better outcomes" to "we should cut edu spending in NJ." Bad causal inference.
Jackson hasn't studied NJ in depth, so he's prob hesitant to weigh in on a specific diagnosis. But his overall point about causation is sound.
Our fav guy, State Aid Guy, likes to cite MA spending less than NJ on edu, yet having similar edu outcomes, to justify cutting edu spending in NJ. Not good.
Just making an app.
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Docs: "If you get that error, see the installation instructions or contact the admin."
I don't have an admin & the install instructs just say your admin should've installed PG already.
So, PG isn't for normal guys like me. Sucky SQLite, it is, then.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
I've never uninstalled something faster than PostgreSQL.
Per capita income for Sweden's bottom 95% of earners is identical to NJ's yet Swedes work much less. sethackerman.substack.com/p/eurpoors-v...
