Michael Patrick Carroll's blog

November 21, 2007 - 5:55pm

Shurely a Bad Sign

Seems the Governor thinks that Rutgers is giving New Jersey a bad rap.

Recently, RU Professors Seneca and Hughes released a study purporting to show that substantially more people were leaving New Jersey for other states than were moving in from other states. When they left, they took billions in economic activity and deprived the state of almost $700 million in tax revenue. Lots of folks, understandably, asked why NJ has become a state from which people wish to flee rather than one to which they wish to relocate.

November 12, 2007 - 4:42pm

Election ‘07

When the sponsors of "clean elections" made their pitch to the Legislature, they averred that same would drive the polluting influence of "special interest" influence from campaigns.  Having now completed two "clean elections" cycles, the results prove the system to be a costly failure meriting its expeditious consignment to the ash heap of history.

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