Winter 2007
by Barbara Sheehan
With New Jersey temperatures at one point reaching near 70 degrees in January this year, global warming was certainly on the minds of many people. How dangerous is global warming and who is responsible for doing something about it?
These are some of the questions before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case that could potentially impact the entire nation and even the world for years to come.
Few people dispute reports that the earth is getting warmer and that we are experiencing global warming. In fact, federal climate officials recently reported that 2006 was the hottest year on record, capping a nine-year warming trend.
by Phyllis Raybin Emert
Imagine if a real estate development corporation had its eye on your neighborhood as the location of its next redevelopment project. Even if your parents didn't want to sell, through the use of eminent domain, they might have no choice.
by Phyllis Raybin Emert
What would you do if the government or a developer wanted your home and offered you a fair price to relocate? Would you leave or put up a fight to keep your home? Here's what two families in New Jersey did.
by Dale Frost Stillman
While many praise DNA testing as a law enforcement tool, a new debate is raging in America, over the constitutionality of maintaining DNA samples. Privacy advocates are at odds with public security proponents due, in part, to a decision rendered by a New Jersey state appeals court in March 2006 that gives the state the authority to save DNA evidence in a database even after a prisoner has been released, having done his or her time. Previously, the state was required to destroy all samples once a prisoner completed his or her sentence.
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