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The Jersey Vindicator was founded in 2023 as an independent, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to high-quality investigative and public-service journalism about New Jersey government and urgent statewide issues, including elections, voting, public records, education, economic development, health, housing, the environment, criminal justice, human trafficking, and more. We founded The Jersey Vindicator to address a crisis in journalism — the ongoing and rapid decline of corporate-owned legacy media outlets, which is greatly diminishing access to trusted and factual accountability and investigative reporting in the state. We seek to uncover stories that would otherwise go untold and cut through partisanship and misinformation to deliver trusted, reliable journalism to residents of the Garden State. Source

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New Jersey remains among the nation’s most expensive states for long-term care

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Vindicator Fact Briefs separate fact from rhetoric by using data, independent sources, and context to explain in plain language the complex public policy issues shaping life in New Jersey. A Jersey Vindicator review of more than a decade of data from the Genworth Cost of Care Survey and its successor, the CareScout Cost of Care Survey (2014–2025), shows New Jersey consistently ranks among the nation’s most expensive states for long-term care.
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Can the FAIR Act make New Jersey rents more affordable?

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By Dylan Jovanovic
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New Jersey lawmakers hope to make it easier for renters to find a place to call home. The state is poised to ban algorithmic rent price-fixing through the Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act, legislation aimed at preventing landlords from using software that recommends rental prices based on competitors’ private data.
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Trade group urges NJ lawmakers to divert $100 million from home care to nursing homes

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TRENTON — New Jersey’s largest nursing home trade association is pressing lawmakers to redirect $100 million in Medicaid funding away from home- and community-based services and into nursing homes as the Legislature enters the final days of negotiations over the state’s next budget.
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NJ appeals court upholds comptroller subpoena in College Achieve charter school investigation

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A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that the Office of the State Comptroller can require the private company that manages the College Achieve charter school network to turn over records as part of an investigation into how public money was spent. The decision, issued Thursday, less than a month after a hearing, is a major victory for the comptroller’s office, which has been investigating allegations that officials at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School misused public funds.
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Delaney Hall hunger and labor strike ended after weeks of protests and alleged retaliation

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By Steve Janoski
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The hunger and labor strike at Newark’s Delaney Hall has come to an end after what activists described as a wave of retaliatory actions that included transferring detainees out of the facility, placing them in solitary confinement, and cutting off access to the commissary. About 300 detainees launched the strike late last month to draw attention to what they described as squalid conditions inside the 1,000-bed immigrant detention center on Doremus Avenue and to persuade Gov.
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Journalism group calls for editorial independence as Montclair State takes over NJ PBS

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The following open letter was sent to the Montclair State University College of Communication and Media regarding its agreement to manage NJ PBS beginning July 1, 2026. It is addressed to Dr. Keith Strudler, the dean of the college.
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U.S. Rep Frank Pallone backs national moratorium on AI data centers

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U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. called Wednesday for a nationwide moratorium on new data centers, arguing that their rapid growth is driving up electricity demand, straining the power grid, and increasing costs for consumers. Speaking during a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee markup on the impact of AI data centers on the electric grid, Pallone said Congress should halt new development until safeguards are in place to protect air and water quality and prevent higher utility bills.
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New Jersey Supreme Court orders disclosure of police facial recognition use in criminal cases

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The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that criminal defendants are entitled to information about law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology during investigations, a decision civil liberties advocates hailed as a major step toward transparency and accountability. In a unanimous decision in State v.
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Bayside State Prison inmates face extreme heat, overcrowding, report says

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By Steve Janoski
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Summer temperatures can climb into the mid-90s inside cells and common areas at Bayside State Prison, where inmates eat all their meals in their cells and are often housed two to a cell designed for one person.
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Nuclear energy bill advances despite affordability concerns

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New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill tours the PSEG Salem Nuclear Power Plant with Ralph LaRossa, PSEG Chairman, President, and CEO; and Charles “Chaz” McFeaters, PSEG Nuclear President and Chief Nuclear Officer in Lower Alloways Creek, N.J., on Wednesday, April 8. After the tour, she signed a bill that modifies certain permit review requirements for nuclear facilities. Photo: Tim Larsen, Office of the Governor.
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