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News Outdoors

What’s with all the wildfires in NJ this year? ‘Nature’s confused,’ state fire chief says.

Climate change has extended the fire season in New Jersey and made it more difficult to fight them.

by Matt CortinaJuly 21, 2022July 27, 2022
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News Sports

Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tour comes to Trump National in Bedminster, bringing with it a raging ethical debate

This is all… ugh… about Trump. An established domestic golf brand didn’t want to associate its most high-profile event with him; an upstart, massively funded, skeletons-in-its-closet brand can’t wait to partner up (and they’re doing so again later this year at a Trump course in Florida).

by Matt CortinaJuly 20, 2022July 27, 2022
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environment News

What the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling means for New Jersey

The ruling was a blow to, well, anyone who gives a shit about clean air and living on an inhabitable planet. But New Jersey is not limited in its ability to restrict new fossil fuel projects.

by Matt CortinaJuly 14, 2022July 15, 2022
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Culture News

New bill would legalize magic mushrooms in NJ and allow for guided trips in psilocybin centers

A social, medical and political revolution around psychedelics is happening right now, and New Jersey could be at the forefront.

by Matt CortinaJune 30, 2022July 1, 2022
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Insurance won’t pay for a Hamilton school crossing guard with cerebral palsy to get the van she needs. You can help.

Patrice Jetter is raising funds with the nonprofit Help Hope Live to buy an accessible van that she can take to work, the doctor, Special Olympics events and more

by Matt CortinaJune 8, 2022
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A lawsuit challenging NJ’s uniquely abysmal, toady-rewarding ballot system moves forward

On primary day in New Jersey, we look at why the state’s primary ballot system rewards candidates willing to fall in line with the establishment—and, why that system’s days may be numbered.

by Matt CortinaJune 7, 2022June 13, 2022
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media News

NBC New York’s Jen Maxfield on life as a TV ‘first responder’ and the ten local stories she can’t forget

Maxfield recounts the 10 (mostly Jersey-based) stories, with added context and updated interviews with those involved, in a forthcoming book, ‘More After the Break,’ set to be released July 12

by Matt CortinaMay 26, 2022May 26, 2022
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environment News

Some of New Jersey will be under water in 100 years. How much? It depends…

Though the projections for just how much the sea level will rise in New Jersey are largely dependent on how quickly the world stops burning fossil fuels, it’s hard to say just how bad this could get.

by Matt CortinaMay 12, 2022May 27, 2022
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News

NJ abortion laws will hold up against potential ‘Roe’ reversal, but the future is murky

Legislation signed in January codifies one’s right to an abortion in New Jersey, but the laws would not withstand a future federal ban on abortion.

by Matt CortinaMay 3, 2022May 3, 2022
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environment News

Momentum builds to end proposed Newark gas plant

by Matt CortinaApril 26, 2022April 29, 2022
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News

Inside the efforts to unionize at New Jersey Starbucks locations

by Kyle NardineApril 21, 2022May 2, 2022
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environment News

NJ’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising despite climate goals, enviro groups say

by Matt CortinaApril 11, 2022April 11, 2022
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