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1908 establishments in New Jersey

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Area codes 732 and 848

Area codes 732 and 848 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for parts of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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At large (before a noun: at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than a subset.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Barbara Buono

Barbara A. Buono (born July 28, 1953) is an American politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 2002 to 2014, where she represented the 18th Legislative District.

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Borough (New Jersey)

A borough (also spelled boro), in the context of local government in the U.S. state of New Jersey, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government (in addition to those established under a special charter). Spotswood, New Jersey and borough (New Jersey) are boroughs in New Jersey.

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Brandon Umba

Brandon Umba (born September 8, 1985) is an American Republican Party politician who represented the 8th Legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly from January 11, 2022, to January 9, 2024.

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Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company

The Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, usually shortened to the Camden and Amboy Railroad, was a railway company in New Jersey.

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Chris Christie

Christopher James Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician and former federal prosecutor who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.

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Chris Daggett

Christopher Jarvis Daggett (born March 7, 1950) is an American businessman who is the president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, one of the largest foundations in New Jersey.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city in the council–manager form of city government.

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County Route 527 (New Jersey)

County Route 527 (CR 527) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Courier News

The Courier News is a daily newspaper headquartered in Somerville, New Jersey, that serves Somerset County and other areas of Central Jersey.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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East Brunswick, New Jersey

East Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Spotswood, New Jersey and East Brunswick, New Jersey are Faulkner Act (mayor–council).

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University (The Bloustein School) serves as a center for the theory and practice of urban planning, public policy and public health/health administration scholarship.

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Elections in New Jersey

Elections in New Jersey are authorized under Article II of the New Jersey State Constitution, which establishes elections for the governor, the lieutenant governor, and members of the New Jersey Legislature.

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Faulkner Act

The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (et seq.) provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Full-time equivalent

Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Green Party of the United States

The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States.

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Helmetta, New Jersey

Helmetta is a borough in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Spotswood, New Jersey and Helmetta, New Jersey are boroughs in New Jersey.

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Historical Marker Database

The Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) is an online database that documents locations of numerous historical markers and commemorative plaques in the United States as well as other countries.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Interstate 95 in New Jersey

Interstate 95 (I-95) is a major Interstate Highway that runs along the East Coast of the United States from Miami, Florida, north to the Canada–United States border at Houlton, Maine.

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John Bull (locomotive)

John Bull is a historic British-built railroad steam locomotive that operated in the United States.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama.

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John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.

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Jon Corzine

Jonathan Stevens "Jon" Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006, and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010.

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Libertarian Party (United States)

The Libertarian Party (LP) is a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, ''laissez-faire'' capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government.

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List of counties in New Jersey

There are 21 counties in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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List of county routes in Middlesex County, New Jersey

The following is a list of county routes in Middlesex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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List of NJ Transit bus routes (100–199)

New Jersey Transit operates over seventy interstate bus routes mostly in northern New Jersey running to multiple destinations in New York City. Most routes go to the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) in Midtown Manhattan; the remainder go to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (GWB Bus Terminal) in Washington Heights or run in the streets of Lower Manhattan.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Manalapan Brook

Manalapan Brook is a tributary of the South River in Monmouth and Middlesex counties, New Jersey in the United States.

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Matchaponix Brook

Matchaponix Brook is a tributary of the South River in Monmouth and Middlesex counties, New Jersey in the United States.

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The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount.

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Middlesex County, New Jersey

Middlesex County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, extending inland from the Raritan Valley region to the northern portion of the Jersey Shore.

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Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan and serves as the city's primary central business district.

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Milltown Public Schools

The Milltown Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Milltown, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Milltown, New Jersey

Milltown is a borough in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Spotswood, New Jersey and Milltown, New Jersey are boroughs in New Jersey.

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Mitt Romney

Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer, and the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019.

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Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Monroe Township is a township located in southern Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Spotswood, New Jersey and Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey are Faulkner Act (mayor–council).

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Municipal clerk

A clerk (pronounced "clark" /klɑːk/ in British and Australian English) is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Center for Education Statistics

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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New Jersey Department of Education

The New Jersey Department of Education (NJ DOE) administers state and federal aid programs affecting more than 1.4 million public and non-public elementary and secondary school children in the state of New Jersey.

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New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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New Jersey Department of Transportation

The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is the agency responsible for transportation issues and policy in New Jersey, including maintaining and operating the state's highway and public road system, planning and developing transportation policy, and assisting with rail, freight, and intermodal transportation issues.

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New Jersey Legislature

The New Jersey Legislature is the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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New Jersey Redistricting Commission

The New Jersey Redistricting Commission is a constitutional body of the government of New Jersey tasked with redrawing the state's Congressional election districts after each decade's census.

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New Jersey Route 18

Route 18 is a state highway in the central part of the US state of New Jersey.

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New Jersey State League of Municipalities

The New Jersey State League of Municipalities is a voluntary association created by a New Jersey statute in 1915 to serve municipalities and local officials in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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New Jersey Turnpike

The New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) is a system of controlled-access highways in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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NJ Transit

New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit or NJTransit and often shortened to NJT, is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the U.S. state of New Jersey and portions of the states of New York and Pennsylvania.

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Non-partisan democracy

Nonpartisan democracy (also no-party democracy) is a system of representative government or organization such that universal and periodic elections take place without reference to political parties.

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Old Bridge Township, New Jersey

Old Bridge Township is a township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located in the Raritan Valley region and within the New York metropolitan area. Spotswood, New Jersey and Old Bridge Township, New Jersey are Faulkner Act (mayor–council).

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and by its acronym PABT) is a bus terminal located in Manhattan in New York City.

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Pre-kindergarten

Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K or PK) is a voluntary classroom-based preschool program for children below the age of five in the United States, Canada, Turkey and Greece (when kindergarten starts).

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Raritan River

The Raritan River is the longest and largest river of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Real and nominal value

In economics, nominal value refers to value measured in terms of absolute money amounts, whereas real value is considered and measured against the actual goods or services for which it can be exchanged at a given time.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

The Diocese of Metuchen (Dioecesis Metuchenis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in the borough of Metuchen in New Jersey in the United States.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Secretary of State of New Jersey

The secretary of state of New Jersey oversees the Department of State, which is one of the original state offices.

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Sending/receiving relationship

A sending/receiving relationship is one in which a public school district sends some or all of its students to attend the schools of another district.

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South River (Raritan River tributary)

The South River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

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Spoilt vote

In voting, a ballot is considered spoilt, spoiled, void, null, informal, invalid or stray if a law declares or an election authority determines that it is invalid and thus not included in the vote count.

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Spotswood High School (New Jersey)

Spotswood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Spotswood, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Spotswood Public Schools.

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Spotswood Public Schools

The Spotswood Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Helmetta and Spotswood, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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St. Peter's Church and Buildings

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Student–teacher ratio

Student–teacher ratio or student–faculty ratio is the number of students who attend a school or university divided by the number of teachers in the institution.

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TAPinto

TAPinto is a network of more than 95 independently owned and operated local news and digital marketing platforms in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger is the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey.

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Third party (U.S. politics)

Third party, or minor party, is a term used in the United States' two-party system for political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Twelfth grade

Twelfth grade (also known as 12th grade, grade 12, senior year, or class 12) is the twelfth year of formal or compulsory education.

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U.S. Route 130

U.S. Route 130 (US 130) is a U.S. Highway that is a spur route of US 30, located completely within the state of New Jersey.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company (UNJ&CC) was a United States-based railroad company established in 1872.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotswood,_New_Jersey

Also known as Outcalt, Outcalt, NJ, Outcalt, New Jersey, Spotswood (NJ), Spotswood Boro, New Jersey, Spotswood, N.J., Spotswood, NJ, Spottswood, New Jersey, UN/LOCODE:USSAW.

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