By Terrence T. McDonald | Editor
Good morning!
Happy last weekend of summer to most of you. For you Shore folks, in just two more days you’ll have the place to yourselves again 🙏.
Beachgoers in Sea Bright, as captured by Anne-Marie Caruso.
Here's what we learned this week:
The state corrections officer union wants to ease restrictions on solitary confinement.
Students started returning to class under new no-phones-during-school law.
NJ House candidates are increasingly skipping League of Women Voters debates.
Higher rates of some public worker health plans were approved, but a state panel deadlocked on teachers’ plans.
New ID requirements to message NJ inmates spark privacy concerns.
NJ joined a lawsuit targeting Amazon for ad rates.
Gov. Sherrill signed a bill to expand balcony solar.
Sherrill and the White House sparred over denial of disaster relief.
NJ wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review Kalshi sports markets.
And from D.C. and elsewhere:
US Supreme Court lets Trump move ahead with his White House ballroom project.
FEMA is off the chopping block. But disaster aid is still a guessing game.
Whistleblower predicts ‘catastrophic’ effect on elections under Trump vote-by-mail order.
Why the rushed Postal Service plan for mail-in voting has states in a panic.
9 justices on the Supreme Court or 13? Numbers battle revived in Congress.
Have a great weekend!
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