The top executive of the New Jersey agency dedicated to rooting out corruption and fraud resigned after this report detailing that she claimed principal residency in two states while working a second full-time job in Washington, D.C. The commission is now under investigation by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Inside the 'atmopshere of hate': How brazen antisemitism became a way of life in these Jersey Shore towns
Fueled by long-simmering culture shock over one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing Orthodox Jewish communities, the Lakewood area is the epicenter for antisemitism in New Jersey, where bigotry against the region's sizeable Jewish community has become meaner, more open and more frequent than ever before.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff grew up in Old Bridge. So why does he keep claiming Matawan?
I've spent the last four-years in a one-sided feud with Emhoff for one simple reason: The White House – and the Second Gentleman himself – insists he’s from Matawan.
But he’s not. He’s from Old Bridge — like me.
What I learned about the NJ cannabis industry as an Oompa Loompa in a chocolate factory.
I thought I was signing up to tell a story about whether chocolate weed would be the next big thing in the New Jersey cannabis industry. Instead, it became crystal clear that the real story isn’t about the product itself but what it takes to get it on the shelves.
Inside the old Walmart that's growing, cooking and packing NJ legal weed
I’m standing in the garden section of a Walmart, and I’m surrounded by hundreds of pounds of marijuana. The irony isn’t lost on me…
The odyssey of Tammy Lynn Sytch
The Other Hijacker
Don't ask about his age -- just enjoy the game.
‘Rogue’ NJ school bus operators dodging laws could put your kids in danger. Here’s how.
This investigation uncovered the laissez-faire attitude displayed by New Jersey state and local education officials that has led to egregious violations of the laws governing school bus safety, particularly among private bus contractors. Our team found cases of known drug users, unlicensed drivers and, in one case, a convicted sex offender driving a school bus — all against state law.
‘Five minutes in the car to cry.’ Hospital workers share the inside story of their fight to stop COVID-19
'This is not a joke': My week fighting COVID-19 taught me how serious this virus is
I wrote this column in between bouts of chills and fever, while wasting away on my couch suffering from COVID-19. I contracted the novel coronavirus shortly after the pandemic became real in March 2020, when it was still a foreign concept to a lot of people. I wanted to illustrate just how serious the virus is — even to relatively young and healthy people like me.