I am currently writing a book about Newark. It will take some time to write.
“Forces beyond control,” in Robert Holmes, and Richard Roper, eds., A Mayor for All the People, Kenneth Gibson’s Newark, pp. 208-219. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Book received New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award in edited works category, 2021.
“The unnatural political demise of German Newark,” Newark History Society paper, April 2018, available at http://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/resources.html.
“The curse of the celebrity mayor: Why Booker failed Newark and why that matters to everyone else,” 2013, Hall Institute paper at www.hallinstitutenj.org.
“Booker’s water plans have dried up,” 2012, op-ed, The Star-Ledger, March 13, page 11.
“Fixing Newark: What to Cut and What to Tax,” 2012, with Robert Curvin and Richard Cammarieri, op-ed, The Star-Ledger, June 15.
“Hog Wild: An Analysis of the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation,” 2012, Newark Water Group.
“The Newark budget debacle: What happens next?” 2010, Hall Institute white paper, Trenton.
“Eminent domain, land sales, and tax abatement: A soft-core Georgist perspective on local economic development policies,” 2007, Hall Institute white paper, Trenton.
“After the first of July: Looking beyond the Newark municipal elections,” 2006, white paper, Hall Institute for Public Policy. Reprinted in Michael P. Riccards, editor, The State of the Garden State. Trenton: Hall Institute.
“Citizens’ guide to the City of Newark budget,” 2002, pamphlet produced for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, Newark.
“Citizens’ guide to the County of Essex budget,” 2002, pamphlet produced for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, Newark.
“Newark’s failing economic policies,” 2000, The Star-Ledger, June 4: Perspectives section, p. 3.
“A comparison of the Newark Employees’ Retirement System and the Public Employees Retirement System,” 1990, booklet prepared for the Newark Employees Retirement System members.
“New tax break would hurt Newark,” New York Times, New Jersey section, September 6, 1987.