By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/21/2025 5:53 PM
NJ joins 24 states in lawsuit to block latest Trump funding freeze
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:13 AM
Senior Freeze reimbursements are on the way. People have until Oct. 31 to apply for this and other property-tax relief programs
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:11 AM
Hospitals grapple with big declines in state, federal funding
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 7/21/2025 12:10 AM
How NJ teachers are taught to guide students through the complex issue
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:07 AM
Women in New Jersey die after giving birth at alarming rates
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:05 AM
Employers, businesses, nonprofits and impact investors can all help communities caught in a cycle of near poverty
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/18/2025 6:31 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. Alina Habba’s last days as U.S. Attorney? Habba’s interim U.S. Attorney role ends on Tuesday. Debating FEMA’s future as storms, floods worsen Monmouth town faces floods and now loss […]
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/18/2025 6:08 PM
Interview: Sarah Kaplan, climate reporter, The Washington Post
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/18/2025 6:05 PM
Habba's interim U.S. Attorney role ends on Tuesday
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Monmouth town faces floods and now loss of federal help
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Rutgers' True Grit Camp is a safe space for kids with spinal cord injuries
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Senate OKs bill to pull $9 billion Congress previously approved, House follows suit
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/18/2025 12:05 AM
Permanent tax breaks should help many, but energy and health sectors may have qualms
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Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst chosen ‘for temporary use.’ NJ congressman slams plan as ‘abhorrent’
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/17/2025 6:31 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. Washington poised to pull back funds for NJ public media Interview: Cassandra Etienne, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University Monthly allowance leaves NJ’s long-term care residents needing […]
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/17/2025 6:10 PM
Interview: Cassandra Etienne, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University
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Staff were able to rescue over 80 cats and dogs during Monday storm
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Lawmakers say they want to increase 'personal needs allowance' from $50 per month
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Federal rebates at risk for energy-efficient appliances
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 7/17/2025 12:10 AM
Trump administration places new limits on early childhood program
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 2, 2025 is:
palimpsest \PAL-imp-sest\ noun
Palimpsest in its original use refers to writing material (such as a parchment manuscript) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased; the underlying text is said to be “in palimpsest.” Palimpsest in extended use refers to something that has usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface.
// Scholars believe the motive for making palimpsests was often economic—reusing parchment was cheaper than preparing a new skin.
// The ancient city is an architectural palimpsest.
“My aim was to trace the course of … the Aqua Marcia, built between 144 and 140 B.C. by Julius Caesar’s ancestor Quintus Marcius Rex. … The original tuff arches carried the Marcia across a steep ravine. Subsequent retaining walls and buttresses have transformed the bridge into a palimpsest of building styles.” — David Laskin, The New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
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Long ago, writing surfaces were so highly valued that they were often used more than once. Palimpsest in its original use referred to an early form of recycling in which an old document was erased to make room for a new one when parchment ran short. (The word is from the Greek palimpsēstos, meaning “scraped again.”) Fortunately for modern scholars, the erasing process wasn’t completely effective, so the original could often be distinguished under the newer writing. De republica, by Roman statesman and orator Cicero, is one of many documents recovered from a palimpsest. Nowadays, the word palimpsest can refer not only to such a document but to anything that has multiple layers apparent beneath the surface.