In this special edition of NJ Spotlight News, we are taking a closer look at the two major-party candidates for New Jersey governor: Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli. Gov. Phil Murphy leaves office in January, after serving for eight years, and New Jersey voters will have to decide what they want from the […]
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Reviewing the challenges — and potential new pressures on the watershed
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Kean touts higher cap on SALT deduction, Van Drew lauds tax provisions
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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. Democrats react to House passage of Trump spending bill Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” approved by four votes. Weather forecasting, storm preparedness at risk NOAA: Trump administration would fire 2,000 […]
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Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed the House on Thursday
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NOAA: Trump administration would fire 2,000 employees from agency
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Interview: Jeff Pillets, The Jersey Vindicator
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 7/3/2025 12:15 AM
Much of the money is for teacher training and before-and after-school programs
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Democrats wrote in significant fund diversions, other provisions
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Children grieving the suicide of a parent, sibling or caregiver find hope at Comfort Zone Camp
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Lawmakers diverted $190M, mostly to NJ Transit, despite promises to protect climate funds
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‘The unauthorized harvesting of data from multiple federal agencies … by DOGE is cause for serious concern’
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Votaciones finales el lunes sobre casi $59 mil millones del presupuesto estatal y los aumentos de impuestos relacionados
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/3/2025 12:02 AM
Interview: Slawa Rokicki, assistant professor, Rutgers School of Public Health
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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. O’Scanlon: NJ budget failed to prepare for federal cuts Interview: Republican Sen. Declan O’Scanlon Rutgers stars Dylan Harper, Ace Bailey land in the NBA Harper and Bailey are the […]
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Harper and Bailey are the only Scarlet Knights ever to be top five NBA Draft picks
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Interview: Republican Sen. Declan O’Scanlon
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New Jersey is in line to lose billions for Medicaid, food aid
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 7/2/2025 12:08 AM
No resolution of major lawsuit in sight before Murphy departs as state accused of delay tactic
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Forestry expert Bob Williams: ‘I think we've done a real poor job of managing them’
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 5, 2025 is:
cantankerous \kan-TANK-uh-rus\ adjective
A cantankerous person is often angry and annoyed, and a cantankerous animal or thing is difficult or irritating to deal with.
// Although the former postman was regarded by some townspeople as a scowling, cantankerous old coot, he was beloved by neighborhood children, to whom he would regularly hand out butterscotch candies from his front stoop with a twinkle in his eye.
“The film ‘Hard Truths,’ which opens in New York on Friday and nationwide in January, centers on [Marianne] Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy, a cantankerous middle-aged woman who spits venom at unsuspecting shop assistants, bald babies, her 20-something son Moses (Tuwaine Barrett) and her dentist, among others.” — Simran Hans, The New York Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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A person described as cantankerous may find it more difficult than most to turn that frown upside down, while a cantankerous mule/jalopy/etc. is difficult to deal with—it may not turn in your desired direction. It’s been speculated that cantankerous is a product of the obsolete word contack, meaning “contention,” under the influence of a pair of “difficult” words still in use: rancorous and cankerous. Rancorous brings the anger and “bitter deep-seated ill will” (as rancor can be understood to mean), and cankerous brings the perhaps understandable foul mood: a cankerous person suffers from painful sores—that is, cankers.