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Ticketmaster’s Practices Take the Spotlight
by Emily Pecot Seeing Taylor Swift live with thousands of other “Swifties” wasn’t supposed to be impossible. In November 2022, when tickets for Swift’s “Eras” tour went on sale, Ticketmaster...
New Jersey Considers Lowering the Voting Age for Primaries
by Michael Barbella Are you itching to cast a ballot in your first election? If you’re 17, you may get the chance. New Jersey may be joining a growing number of states that are expanding electoral...
How Young is too Young to Work?
by Maria Wood Faced with a nationwide labor shortage since the COVID-19 pandemic, several states, including New Jersey, have loosened their child labor laws to help employee-strapped businesses hire...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Gun Safety
by Sylvia Mendoza When an active shooter entered the Michigan State University campus on February 13, 2023, killing three students and wounding five others, for some it would be the second mass...
Throwing a Red Flag on Gun Safety
by Michael Barbella Federal gun safety legislation signed into law by President Joseph Biden in June 2022 includes $250 million for the establishment of state crisis intervention court proceedings,...
The Challenges of Holding Gun Manufacturers Accountable
by Daryl E Lucas In almost every other industry, if you’ve sustained an injury, you have some course of redress through the courts. Not so with the gun industry, which includes gun makers, sellers...
Is Charging Parents for School Shootings a Solution?
by Jodi L. Miller A project undertaken by The Washington Post that analyzed school shootings from 1999, the year of the Columbine High School shooting, revealed that the average age for school...
Battles Intensify Over Social Media Bans and Free Speech
by Michael Barbella The framers of the U.S. Constitution could never have imagined social media; however, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does apply to online speech as well as the...
Is Corporal Punishment Making a Comeback?
by Daryl E. Lucas Whether you’re for or against the use of corporal punishment in schools, the one thing everyone probably agrees on is that the practice is not easily forgotten if it’s been used on...
Garden State Serious About Protecting the Environment
by Maria Wood The National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report, which was released in November 2022, revealed that over the past 50 years America has warmed 68% faster than the...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Praying Football Coach
by Suzi Morales In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of a football coach employed at a public school to pray on the field after games. The Court’s decision illustrates the...
Juvenile Strikes Count in Three Strikes Law
by Maria Wood “Three strikes and you’re out” doesn’t just refer to baseball, it also applies to those who commit serious crimes in the Garden State. New Jersey is one of 28 states that have three...