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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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. Gov. Phil Murphy signs record NJ state budget Murphy says the $58.8 billion spending plan will bring more affordability, opportunity. Alina Habba nominated for full term as US Attorney […]
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State officials say seasonal law enforcement promotes safety at the Jersey Shore
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Habba has been serving in an interim role that is set to end soon
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Cranbury argues eminent domain of 175-year-old farm for affordable housing
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Critics concede many budget additions are worthy, say lack of transparency is problem
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Protesters stage ‘die-in’ over $45M appropriation for four hospitals
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 6/30/2025 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 Senate OKs budget, tax hikes Assembly debate continuing on Monday evening. NJ Transit fares to go up by 3% on July 1 The fare hike is the first […]
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 3, 2025 is:
desultory \DEH-sul-tor-ee\ adjective
Desultory is a formal word used to describe something that lacks a plan or purpose, or that occurs without regularity. It can also describe something unconnected to a main subject, or something that is disappointing in progress, performance, or quality.
// After graduation, I moved from job to job in a more or less desultory manner before finding work I liked.
// The team failed to cohere over the course of the season, stumbling to a desultory fifth place finish.
“One other guy was in the waiting room when I walked in. As we sat there past the scheduled time of our appointments, we struck up a desultory conversation. Like me, he’d been in the hiring process for years, had driven down from Albuquerque the night before, and seemed nervous. He asked if I’d done any research on the polygraph. I said no, and asked him the same question. He said no. We were getting our first lies out of the way.” — Justin St. Germain, “The Memoirist and the Lie Detector,” New England Review, 2024
Did you know?
The Latin adjective desultorius was used by the ancient Romans to describe a circus performer (called a desultor) whose trick was to leap from horse to horse without stopping. English speakers took the idea of the desultorius performer and coined the word desultory to describe that which figuratively “jumps” from one thing to another, without regularity, and showing no sign of a plan or purpose. (Both desultor and desultorius, by the way, come from the Latin verb salire, meaning “to leap.”) A desultory conversation leaps from one topic to another, and a desultory comment is one that jumps away from the topic at hand. Meanwhile a desultory performance is one resulting from an implied lack of steady, focused effort.