NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined Republican governors in supporting a lawsuit against President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration.

The executive order, made in November 2014 by Obama, shielded millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S from deportation.

Christie joined the Governors of Louisiana, Texas and South Dakota in an "amicus" court brief supporting the position of the 26 states that have formally opposed Obama's order and hope to see it overturned in court.

EDISON, NJ—The council of New Jersey's 19 community college announced on March 23 that the Common Core Curriculum and PARCC testing would be adopted as a new form of placement testing starting in 2016. 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S Department of Interior rolled out a new set of regulations on fracking that would affect fracking drilling taking place on federally-owned lands, and leave fracking operations on private property untouched. 

Federally-owned fracking sites fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management. In total, the federal agency governs 100,000 of the roughly 1.1 million fracking sites in the country. 

TRENTON, NJ—The College Affordability Commission, which was created by the New Jersey government in February, has begun assembling members to look into the issue of college affordability.

The only current student on the ten-member commission will be Rutgers-Newark's Giancarlo Tello, an activist who hails from the Essex county town of Belleville.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Even though the program that allowed them expired in December, dozens of red light cameras still quietly watch over intersections across New Jersey.

New Jersey's local governments are not allowed to take them down, according to public officials in two Middlesex County towns. 

The cameras no longer give tickets, but the only other difference is that affected intersections now lack signs reading, "red light photo enforced."

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ— The CEO of a controversial software company that has come under fire over privacy concerns took issue with the fact that his February 26 phone interview with New Brunswick Today was recorded.

Verificient Technologies CEO Tim Dutta of expressed his anger over the incident in a March 6 email.

"If you recorded me, you have not asked my permission to record the conversation," Dutta wrote, incorrectly citing New Jersey's law on recording conversations.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The commencement speaker for Rutgers University's 2015 graduation ceremonies will not be made public until the school's Board of Governors convene in Newark on April 2 to discuss the matter, officials said.

"You know I can't tell you that," said University President Robert Barchi, when asked about the 2015 speaker by New Brunswick Today.