An arrest has been made in the fatal shooting of an owner of a Chinese restaurant making his final food delivery of the night while in his car with his wife early Thursday. Rui Zhou, 29, of Paterson, was found…
School districts improved principal supervisor role
by Joan Brasher Ellen Goldring (Vanderbilt) Principals and districts benefit when principal supervisors move beyond the role of administrator to coach and mentor, according to a Vanderbilt University report. It is the first of three studies of The Wallace Foundation’s Principal Supervisor Initiative,…
Defense bill weakens protections for marine mammals
The conference report for the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5515), released yesterday, includes an anti-environmental rider that weakens the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the law that provides vital protections for our nation’s whales, dolphins and other marine mammals.…
Sarah McLachlan & Patty Griffin in Ocean Grove to support cancer patients
Mary’s Place by the Sea, a nonprofit organization in Ocean Grove dedicated to supporting women with cancer, is holding a sold-out benefit concert with two Grammy Award winning performers at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday, July 28. “An Intimate Evening…
Trump drops some veterans’ health care, raises price for others
Since 1998, the TRICARE Retiree Dental Program (TRDP) has provided uniformed Department of Defense (DoD) services retirees and their families with an affordable dental benefits plan but that one of a kind program will be ending on December 31, 2018.…
Princeton’s McComas will lead IMAP, a NASA mission to study the heliosphere
Princeton astrophysicist David McComas will be the principal investigator for a science mission to sample, analyze and map particles streaming to Earth from the sun and from the edges of interstellar space. Slated to launch in 2024, the Interstellar Mapping…
Wages fall behind inflation
Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 115.8 million full-time wage and salary workers were $876 in the second quarter of 2018 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported recently. This was 2.0 percent higher than a year…
Legalizing same-sex marriage increased health care access for gay men: Vanderbilt study
by Liz Entman Vanderbilt researchers have documented evidence that legalizing same-sex marriage has improved access to health care for gay men in a study released as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. This is one of the first studies…
Democrats hammer Trump for stopping police aid
Today at Newark City Hall, Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-06), Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Donald Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10), and Mayor Ras Baraka hammered the Trump administration for continuing to hold hostage Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance (Byrne JAG) Grants to…
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Trump tells Iran ‘never, ever threaten’ U.S., or suffer consequences
President Donald Trump warned Iran that ?it risked dire consequences “the like of which few throughout history have suffered before” if the Islamic Republic made more threats against the United States.
Vanderbilt economist ponders the value of a life
What is the monetary value of a person’s life? Vanderbilt economist W. Kip Viscusi says putting a price tag on the value of a person’s life makes people and products safer. Viscusi defines the “value of statistical life” or VSL as the…
Android military aircraft needs no humans
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program recently completed Phase 2 flight tests, demonstrating advanced algorithms designed to turn small air and ground systems into team members that could autonomously perform tasks dangerous for humans – such…