June 05, 2012

When it comes to reporting wrongdoing, whistleblowers prefer to report internally. Fifty-six percent of employees who report misconduct bring the report to someone they know and trust inside the company, according to a recent study released by the Ethics Resource Center (ERC), “Inside the Mind of a Whistleblower.”

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February 11, 2012

As residents and taxpayers in New Jersey we are in one heck of a mess. More so for those of us in suburban and rural towns like Jackson. To some public workers we are like the goose in Aesop's "THE GOOSE THAT LAID GOLDEN EGGS". Each day we eat and toil at our labors to be rewarded by the creation of a golden egg. Like Aesop's goose, the egg is taken from us each day by those that can. (Read More)

February 10, 2012

Last night at 10:04 the Asbury Park Press placed an article online with the headline "School bus driver from Jackson arrested on child pornography charge". By morning it was the subject of conversation among parents on bus stops, Facebook friends and even several local radio stations. An incorrect, but common interpretation of the article published by the APP was that the alleged pornographer drove a school bus for the Jackson School District. In fact this was not the case. (Read More)

January 30, 2012

At sporting events and school events, we always see photographers taking pictures of our children. We assume that these are accreditd press photographers and that there has been some form of certification process or vetting of their credentials. This started me thinking as to just what these credentials meant. After all, they are used to gain access to our children's school events.

My first step was to search whether there were occasions where these nouveau-journalists might have behaved badly. Almost immediately I was immersed in the sordid details of a sports photographer in Indiana who was found to have images of children from 2 to 13 years of age in his possession. The issue was not the images, but what they depicted, as was detailed in this news item.

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June 29, 2011    |  By Paul Mayerowitz

As recently reported, it appears that Jackson municipal officials have finalized a plan to minimize planned layoffs although seven employees will be laid off. It would appear that the Mayor and Township Council, with the cooperation of three unions, have found a way to reduce the budget appropriations from the proposed $39.08 million to a proposed $38.58 million, a reduction of over $500,000. A significant portion of these funds were obtained by recalculating salaries and benefits based on the June headcount (Read More)