Steve Sweeney

LILLEY: NJ101.5 Gets It Wrong About Healthcare Premium Hikes for Teachers: Property Taxpayers Will Pick Up the Tab

Unfortunately, a recent news story by NJ101.5 got it all wrong about an increase in teacher healthcare premiums.  We have nothing against NJ101.5,…

2 years ago

Sweeney’s New Public Policy Group Projects State School Spending To Creep To Almost $12 Billion

This week former Senate President Steve Sweeney's Center for Public Policy at Rowen University published a report that aims "to…

2 years ago

Jersey City Addendum: How a Board Member’s Ties to the Teachers Union Can Lead to School Budget Woes

Earlier this week, in a story about Jersey City Public Schools’ habit of giving large bonuses to central office administrators,…

3 years ago

NJ Property Tax Payers, Be Grateful For Small Favors

John Reitmeyer reports today on the rousing success of New Jersey's 2 percent cap on municipal and school district tax…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: What We Lost When We Lost Steve Sweeney

I know I’m late to the party but I join others in mourning the loss of Steve Sweeney as President…

3 years ago

STATEAIDGUY: How New Jersey’s ‘Quasimander’ Skews Against Republican Candidates

In the last twenty years the United States has seen its constitutional democratic deficits go from being latent problems that…

3 years ago

A Hope for the Heart of Phil Murphy

The big news story today, of course, is U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell’s failure to summon enough votes to bring to…

7 years ago

NJEA’s Toxic Strategy Against Steve Sweeney

Those following New Jersey education politics are probably aware that NJEA, in a confounding lapse of judgement, has declared Senator…

7 years ago

NJEA Jumps The Shark

New Jersey’s teacher union leaders are unhappy with Senate President Steve Sweeney. And so they have endorsed and are funding…

7 years ago

School Funding Drinking Game: Count Those Proposals!

I curled up in front of CNN on the evening of November 8th, cozied by a glass of wine and…

8 years ago