Despite elections transparency law, tracking spending by independent groups is harder than ever
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Interview: Colleen O’Dea, senior writer and projects editor, NJ Spotlight News
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At least $100 million is available for spending on this year's gubernatorial primary election
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Saying out loud what many think about the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision
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It takes a lot of legwork to track down the money being raised and spent in New Jersey’s gubernatorial primary this year. Most candidates benefit from multiple committees that either they created or that are working to get them elected. Some committees report their financial activities to the state Election Law Enforcement Commission and some […]
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We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. NJ Supreme Court hears Catholic clergy sex abuse challenge Catholic Camden Diocese continues fight in legal battle over abuse allegations. No criminal charges in fatal police shooting of Jersey […]
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Two westbound lanes are now scheduled to reopen in late May
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 4/29/2025 5:36 PM
The loss of funding ‘would have significant consequences’ in NJ
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Catholic Camden Diocese continues fight in legal battle over abuse allegations
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Jersey City police fatally shot Andrew Washington while he was having a mental health crisis
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 4/29/2025 12:08 AM
Sudden funding cuts by US Department of Justice have immediate impact
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 4/29/2025 12:05 AM
Federal funding cuts would destabilize growing NJ preschool program, new report says
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 4/28/2025 6:30 PM
We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. NJ Transit prepares for strike by train engineers Negotiations are expected to take place this week. Reopening of I-80 lanes delayed Sinkhole repairs to take longer than expected. Dry, […]
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 4/28/2025 6:10 PM
Energy prices in NJ are set to increase within weeks
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Negotiations are expected to take place this week
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Interview: Ashley Koning, director, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling
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Interview: Dave Robinson, New Jersey state climatologist
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 4/28/2025 12:11 AM
State official says ‘the situation is extraordinarily dire’
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 4/28/2025 12:09 AM
The pair had worked for a Teaneck-based company that donated $50K to Trump inauguration
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 30, 2025 is:
insouciance \in-SOO-see-unss\ noun
Insouciance is a formal word that refers to a feeling of carefree unconcern. It can also be understood as a word for the relaxed and calm state of a person who is not worried about anything.
// The young actor charmed interviewers with his easy smile and devil-may-care insouciance.
“Gladiator II is OK when Denzel’s off-screen, but sensational when he’s on it. ... What makes the performance great is its insouciance; it’s both precise and feather-light. And it’s what a great actor can do when he’s set free to have fun, to laugh at himself a little bit. ... Denzel’s Macrinus is gravitas and comic relief in one package.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Nov. 2024
Did you know?
If you were alive and of whistling age in the late 1980s or early 1990s, chances are you whistled (and snapped your fingers, and tapped your toes) to a little ditty called “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin, an a cappella reggae-jazz-pop tune that took the charts by surprise and by storm. An ode to cheerful insouciance if ever there was one, its lyrics are entirely concerned with being entirely unconcerned, remaining trouble-free in the face of life’s various stressors and calamities. Such carefree nonchalance is at the heart of insouciance, which arrived in English (along with the adjective insouciant), from French, in the 1800s. The French word comes from a combining of the negative prefix in- with the verb soucier, meaning “to trouble or disturb.” The easiness and breeziness of insouciance isn’t always considered beautiful, however. Insouciance may also be used when someone’s lack of concern for serious matters is seen as more careless than carefree.