Liberal activists say the state of the state is not as good as they expected it would be when voters paired Gov. Phil Murphy and a Democratic legislature.
With plenty of company, the Garden State has received a failing grade for its policies and plans in place to take on extreme weather events, climate change and shoreline erosion.
Longstanding plans for the next in a series of artifical reefs of the Jersey coast show signs of life with a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Almost immediately, the New Jersey Sierra Club sounded a warning about the risk of over-fishing.