New Jersey
Perth Amboy, NJ uses weak blight allegations to seize tire shop, apartment building
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: Proposed funding cuts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Zoning reform in Baltimore. Encampment crackdowns…
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested for ICE ‘trespassing’
Whose jurisdiction is it anyway? If you ask Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group may have been violating city…
Newly released documents reveal what the feds knew
The government sent out a lot of mixed messages the week of December 16, 2024. In response to various apparent drone sightings in New Jersey, then-President Joe Biden said on December 17 that there was "nothing…
Democrats Lean Ahead in Virginia, New Jersey Governors’ Races
The Center for Politics at the University of Virginia has published a report looking at where the only two gubernatorial races in the nation stand as May dawns and the summer campaign season is on the horizon. The report…
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