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Community Voices: The Risks of Mixing Personal Platforms With Public Office

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Laura Kapuscinski How free is your speech when you willingly participate in an organization or government agency that limits your ability to speak freely? This past November, local New Jersey media ou...

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December 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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This Week at NJ21st: Budgets, NJSBA Edu-Slop, and the ‘Scutari’ Sports Complex

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This Week at NJ21st: Budgets, NJSBA Edu-Slop, and the 'Scutari' Sports Complex - nj21st

This week’s newsletter starts with two budget focused articles intended to better equip New Jersey residents as we approach the 2026 budget season. The first is another installment in our Know Your NJ...

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December 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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Budgets, Audits and Financial Reports- The tenth article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government.

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Budgets, Audits and Financial Reports - nj21st

The tenth article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government. Every year during budget season, residents hear a lot of numbers...

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December 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Praise, Pageantry and a Sports Complex No One Knew They Voted For

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Praise, Pageantry and a Sports Complex No One Knew They Voted For - nj21st

Laura’s Notes on the 12/16/2025 Town Council Meeting This installment of the BH Town Council threw me for a doozy. The meeting was lively and there was a political party out in full effect taking over...

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December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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How Much of Each Per Pupil Dollar Goes to Instruction

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What the 7-District ACFR Dashboard Shows About School Costs (Part 2) - nj21st

How Much of Each Per Pupil Dollar Goes to Instruction This is the second in a series intended to help families better understand how to hold their School District spending student-centered and account...

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December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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Berkeley Heights Town Council Looks to Award Another $111,000 No-Bid Contract to Harbor Consultants …

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Berkeley Heights Town Council Looks to Award Another $111,000 No-Bid Contract to Harbor Consultants ... - nj21st

In Amended Agenda…During the Lamest Duck and Last Meeting of the Year What was a Turf Field, then not a Turf Field is now a “Sports Complex” . The proposal dated on 12/11 is looking to be approved 5 d...

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December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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John’s Notes on Tonight’s Berkeley Heights Town Council Agenda

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The 12/16 Berkeley Heights Town Council agenda is set to continue themes from recent meetings – year-end infrastructure spending, repeat vendors coming back for contract increases along with a mix of ...

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December 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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Laura’s Notes on the 12/11/2025 BHPSNJ Meeting

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Laura's Notes on the 12/11/2025 BHPSNJ Meeting - nj21st

The last BOE meeting of the year was, dare I say, boring and ended at a reasonable hour. Perhaps this is a sign of good things to come or just a holiday miracle. Ms. Dipti Khanna was honored by the Bo...

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December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Destiny by Design: The NJSBA and BHPSNJ’s “3-D” Process of Transforming Community Input into Cringe Edu-Slop

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Destiny by Design: The NJSBA and BHPSNJ's "3-D" Process of Transforming Community Input into Cringe Edu-Slop - nj21st

Editorial The Berkeley Heights Public School District’s Destiny by Design (God, that makes me laugh every time I read it) strategic planning notes outline goals and objectives intended to guide the di...

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December 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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The Week at NJ21st: Dismantling Education Data, Track on School Spending, Environmental Battle Looming and BHPSNJ Security Costs Spiraling…

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The Week at NJ21st: Dismantling Education Data, Track on School Spending, Environmental Battle Looming and BHPSNJ Security Costs Spiraling... - nj21st

The biggest story this week is a bill that seeks to remove the NJ High School Graduation Proficiency Exam. A bill sponsored by Matsikoudis during her final month in office to remove what has been a c...

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December 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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The first in a series intended to help families better understand how to hold their School District spending student-centered and accountable.

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What the 7-District ACFR Dashboard Shows About School Costs (Part 1) - nj21st

This is the first in a series intended to help families better understand how to hold their School District spending student-centered and accountable. Outside of these seven districts families and sta...

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December 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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New Jersey Considers Ranked Choice Voting: Pros, Cons and the Political Challenge

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New Jersey Considers Ranked Choice Voting: Pros, Cons and the Political Challenge - nj21st

Assemblyman Joe Danielsen has introduced legislation aimed at establishing Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for primary and general elections in New Jersey. Under the proposed law voters would no longer sim...

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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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Final 2025 Agenda: BHPSNJ BOE to Approve Audit Showing $130K Security Surge, Following Last Year’s Control Failures

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Final 2025 Agenda: BHPSNJ BOE to Approve Audit Showing $130K Security Surge, Following Last Year's Control Failures - nj21st

The Berkeley Heights BOE will meet tomorrow (Thursday 12/11/2025) for its last meeting of the year. This will also be Dipti Khanna’s last meeting as a BOE Member as she chose not to run for re-electio...

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December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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A4121 Passes Assembly as Lawmakers Move to Eliminate the NJGPA

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A4121 Passes Assembly as Lawmakers Move to Eliminate the NJGPA - nj21st

Adding to a pile of lame-duck high impact bills, A4121- which would eliminate the NJGPA (high school graduation proficiency test) passed Assembly yesterday. Under the bill the State Board of Education...

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December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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REAL Could Redraw NJ’s Flood Map and Its Development Future

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REAL Could Redraw NJ’s Flood Map and Its Development Future - nj21st

REAL (Resilient Environments and Landscapes) is the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) effort to update the state’s flood, coastal, wetlands and stormwater rules. The process behind the ch...

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December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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The ninth article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government.

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