Julie O'Connor

Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger The atrium at Paterson’s International High School, which cost $53 million. Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger The football field on top of Union City High School, which cost $173 million. At bottom, Principal David Wilcomes looks on. Patti Sapone/The...

New Jersey might be the next battleground on this issue.

The bizarre fight to keep public employees from moving out of state ... and how it will backfire.

In a city where almost half the students don’t graduate, nearly all its kids finish, and a remarkable 95 percent of them go on to college.

“Parents tell me, ‘When I kiss my kids goodbye on the way to school, I don’t know if I’ll be there at night,’” Cardinal Joseph Tobin says.

"If you are not protecting woman’s freedoms nationwide, you are not protecting women’s freedoms."