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These op-eds reflect a clear mission: protect families, strengthen communities, and improve the systems people rely on every day. From healthcare affordability and energy costs to public safety, youth opportunity, civil rights, and second chances, the focus is on practical reforms that deliver measurable results.

 

Stono Public Affairs partners with organizations and institutions to represent their best interests with credibility and precision. Working closely with clients and community leaders, Stono translates real-world challenges into thoughtful, actionable policy solutions — advancing strategies that are principled, effective, and built to endure.

January 29, 2026
New Jersey Monitor

A petty crime shouldn’t carry a life sentence

It should be easier to have your criminal record expunged

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September 2, 2025
New Jersey Monitor

Data center developers should pay more for their energy demands

No one working two jobs and driving Uber to keep the heat and hope on should bear the cost of increased demand

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June 25, 2025
The Trentonian

As Hate Crimes Surge, the Simon Wiesenthal Center Hopes to Help

New Jersey has always prided itself on being a place of inclusion and progress. Let’s rise to meet this moment with the

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June 19, 2025
New Jersey Monitor

New Jersey families owed relief from health care affordability crisis

For too long, powerful interests in the hospital and insurance industries have operated without meaningful accountability, dictated prices without explanation, and failed

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May 29, 2025
The Trentonian

We passed a ban on flavored vapes, why is it not being enforced?

In 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to pass a ban on flavored vapor products. And while everyone

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April 20, 2025
NJ.com

How N.J. hospitals profit from a program meant to help the poor

Across the country, 340B hospitals serving a disproportionate share of low-income patients earned a record $44 billion from the program in 2022,

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March 27, 2025
New Jersey Monitor

New Jersey must do more to stop illegal vapes

We have no way of knowing what our children are inhaling into their lungs. And yet, flavored vapes continue to flood our

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March 25, 2025
The Trentonian

The Rising Cost of Healthcare in Trenton – A Civil Rights Issue That Demands Action

The soaring cost of hospital care—driven by unchecked pricing and a lack of transparency—is devastating our communities, especially Black, Brown, and low-income

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March 15, 2025
North Jersey

Summer youth employment can increase public safety in New Jersey

There is now robust research and evidence from places like Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago showing that providing summer job

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