Letters about Budget

Don't Believe Republicans Claims to Care About Children
Laura Morowitz
Published: 07/21/2025
Lest anyone start to think MAGA is suddenly interested in our justice system or "the children" as they claim, think again. Read More
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Ideas for Responding to the Latest Wealth Transfer to the 1%
Elizabeth Redwine
Published: 07/12/2025
What to do? This moment can feel overwhelming for people of conscience. Here are just a few ways to help your neighbors during this time of taking from the poor to help the extremely rich. Read More
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Happy 4th of July, America
Ann Pompelio
Published: 07/04/2025
How big and beautiful is this bill? It’s big. It includes a $5 trillion increase in the national debt, which makes even fiscally conservative Republicans twitch. Read More
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North Jersey Counties Show A Unique Support For ICE
Anthony Lioi
Published: 11/27/2020
While some might see this merely as a bid to gain more federal funding, the decision goes beyond cost-benefit analysis. It is an expression of a bipartisan consensus that detention and deportation of immigrants promote national security. Read More
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ICE Detention Should Not Be About County Budgets
Laura Morowitz
Published: 11/20/2020
Such questions reveal the motivations of the Freeholders for what they are: a desire to continue receiving blood money, filling the county coffers with millions, while innocent asylum seekers rot away. Read More
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Supporting Gov. Murphy's Budget
Matt Dragon @matt_dragon
Published: 09/09/2020
Economists find, time and time again, that the best way out of an economic downturn are the same policies that are always good governance: investing in communities. Read More
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Public Lands Must Be Used for the Public Good
Kristin Shea
Published: 07/27/2020
This is yet another example of disaster capitalism using the financial crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic to privatize public lands. This opens the door for Liberty National Golf Club to nab the land from the park to build three more holes for the course. Read More
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