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Content produced for NJSpotlight.com, an online news service providing insight and information on issues critical to New Jersey, with the aim of informing and engaging the state’s communities and businesses.
Lubetkin Communications produced another roundtable video for NJSpotlight.com in March, focusing on the impact Medicaid expansion will have on healthcare costs in New Jersey. According to some estimates, expanding Medicaid eligibility in New Jersey could add 225,000 or more residents to the state’s healthcare rolls. While the increased coverage will clearly benefit low-income children,...
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NJSpotlight.com’s January 25, 2013 roundtable focused on the impact of the energy sector on New Jersey’s economy. Lubetkin Global Communications produced these videos from the event, which you can view online in the players below. You can also purchase a DVD of the complete roundtable or a digital download in our online store. Background...
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Lubetkin Communications provided live web streaming services as part of its regular video production for NJSpotlight.com at the Roundtable held at Rutgers Camden this evening. The panel discussion featured eight local leaders in education. The full list of panelists follows. NJ Spotlight’s John Mooney was moderator. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, LEAP Academy University Charter School Karen...
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New Jersey’s overhaul of teacher tenure is now law, changing how educators are measured and evaluated — as well as how they are rewarded and disciplined. More than two dozen districts are already piloting evaluation systems; the rest of the state must decide how it will fulfill the law. The NJ Spotlight Roundtable Series...
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Nationwide, states and their localities are facing mounting fiscal challenges. In 2011, former New York Lieutenant Governor, Richard Ravitch and former Federal Reserve Board Chair, Paul A. Volcker assembled the State Budget Crisis Task Force to examine threats to U.S. states’ near and long term fiscal sustainability. On July 17, 2012 they released their...
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NJ Spotlight’s Roundtable Series continues with this program on Health Insurance Exchanges, recorded July 13, 2012 at Montclair State University. The Affordable Care Act holds the possibility of transforming healthcare in New Jersey — ultimately insuring 500,000 New Jerseyans who are currently without coverage. But it’s not going to happen automatically — far from...
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The second in a series of NJ Spotlight Roundtables with educators participating in New Jersey’s teacher evaluation pilot, the controversial framework for measuring teachers and principals in the state’s public schools. Teachers and administrators, along with officials of the state Department of Education, will discuss what they’ve learned so far, what issues they’ve encountered, what works, and...
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We continue our production of NJ Spotlight roundtable videos with “The Growing Conflict over Smart Growth,” recorded at the Trenton Masonic Temple,April 13, 2012. If New Jersey is ever going to embrace smart growth, advocates and stakeholders are first going to have to agree as to what it is — and isn’t. The Christie...
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We produced video from the NJ Spotlight roundtable, “The Role of Natural Gas in New Jersey’s Energy Future,” recorded at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, December 16, 2011 Is natural gas the bridge that helps lower sky-high energy costs in the state and provides an alternative transportation fuel that begins to wean New Jersey...
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Hear first-hand from the people who are working with New Jersey’s pilot teacher evaluation program, the controversial framework that’s already being deployed in schools across the state. Administration officials and participants in this Department of Education pilot — which will make student performance a key measure of teacher effectiveness — will discuss what they’ve...
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