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An avalanche of evictions looms in N.J. Renters and landlords say it’s only going to get worse.
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
Leland Prehn, left, and Kristen Ellis, at home with their sons Hunter, 5, and Bryan, 4, in their 2-bedroom apartment at the Quail Ridge complex in Plainsboro. While state and federal moratoria on evictions remain in place protecting the family from being locked out during the coronavirus state of emergency, their landlord has filed the necessary court papers to begin the process once the temporary eviction bans are lifted. Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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In his pajamas and bare feet, Bryan Prehn ran out into the living room and, with the gleeful abandon of the energetic 4-year-old that he is, flung himself onto the lap of an unsuspecting stranger who was there to talk to Bryan’s parents about their landlord’s effort to evict them.
How We Found Pricey Provisions in New Jersey Police Contracts
ProPublica and the Asbury Park Press scoured hundreds of police union agreements for details on publicly funded payouts to cops.
Feb. 8, 5:01 a.m. EST
A provision found by ProPublica and the Asbury Park Press entitles senior retiring officers in Carlstadt borough to a retirement payout. (New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, highlight added by ProPublica)
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Calls for police accountability have included demands to examine the public money spent on law enforcement and the ways officers are disciplined. The Asbury Park Press and ProPublica examined the collective bargaining agreements that govern the relationship between unionized police forces in New Jersey and the towns where they operate.
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R. William Potter
On Jan. 14, 2021, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, in her day job as commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), sent a one-page letter to the mayor of Franklin Township in Warren County, rejecting his ill-conceived designation of 100-plus acres of prime farmland continuously tilled for nearly a century as “blighted.”
Every mayor and municipal governing body should read this letter before initiating the formal process for declaring private property an “area in need of redevelopment” the statutory euphemism for “blighted area” when there is no sign of “actual blight.” All too often the real motivation is to gain access to those extraordinary powers constitutionally limited for eradication of blight.