Today is the day. After months of battling back and forth with students, faculty, and concerned citizens in South Jersey, Governor Christie will be signing a new Rutgers bill that is immensely watered down from the vision he outlined in Read More
Save Rutgers: Rut-Row Bill Passes Both Assembly and Senate
This afternoon the Rut-Row Bill passed the New Jersey Senate and Assembly by wide margins. In the Senate the vote was 29 – 10. Most of the Nays were Northern Democrats at war with the Norcross Machine. Senator Diane Allen Read More
Save Rutgers: They Took My Advice and Amended the Rut-Row Bill (UPDATE)
Because the amended bill has not yet been released on the New Jersey Legislature’s website (at least at the time of this writing), I was in the middle of writing a scathing article about how the Rutgers Board of Governors Read More
Save Rutgers: Bill Hits Budget Committee, Amendments Being Added, Lautenberg Reemerges
Today is June 25th, we are officially 6 days away from the supposed deadline for the Rutgers Camden Rowan Merger deal to be signed into law. Over the last six months this plan has faced tremendous hurdles, and to be Read More
Save Rutgers: North Jersey Dems Will Derail Rut-Row Plan (For Now)
If one thing has always amazed me about politics in New Jersey, it is that you can always count on the respective parties to exert more energy on intra-party guerrilla warfare than they do on actual campaigns against each other. Read More
Save Rutgers: An Honest Analysis of the Rut-Row Bill
No need for introductions on this post, Save Jerseyans. If you have been following the wild ride that has been the Rut-Row merger, you know what is going on. The first official draft of the Senate bill to “restructure” higher Read More
Save Rutgers: The Devil is in the Details…Analysis Coming Soon
Today during my bar exam review class my phone started going crazy. After weeks of relative silence on the Rut-Row merger, news had finally broke. I kind of wish I had asked Senator Norcross to drop the bill on a Read More
Save Rutgers: Not Meeting the July 1 Deadline… Unless Lightning Strikes Sweeney Again?
A bit of good news for the anti-merger crowd coming off of what I hope was a relaxing and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend. We here at Save Jersey have been saying it for literally months, but now the rest of Read More
Save Rutgers: Could Rob Andrews Be the Next Rowan President?
As we wait for the written draft of the bill that will eventually reorganize higher education in New Jersey yet again, I thought some fun speculation might be in order. Over the last few months I have been seeing more Read More