| May Fri, 2019
It’s an honor but does New Jersey really need a state microbe?
"Some designations are tied to advocacy or awareness...But most often, Weingart said, getting a favorite flower or turtle named the state flower or turtle is basically just a good-natured civics lesson for youngsters."
| May Fri, 2019
One More Thing: Gender disparity in states passing restrictive abortion laws
“Data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University shows that states passing the most-restrictive abortion laws– like Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky– have the lowest rates of women being represented in the state legislatures.”
| May Fri, 2019
In deep-red Alabama, would more women in the legislature have made a difference in the abortion debate?
"Kelly Dittmar, a political-science professor at Rutgers University and a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, said it is important 'to remember in all of our political analysis and elsewhere that woman are not monolithic, whether in their beliefs or their behavior, and that’s especially true for women officeholders.'”
| May Thu, 2019
Marijuana Law Dies: What Now For Expungement, Investors and Medical Use?
“Legalization has consistently been popular with New Jersey voters and the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll shows more residents favor completely legalizing than oppose it by a margin of 58 percent to 37 percent.”