Urban Policy Writer

Scott Beyer

1 article 2013

Scott Beyer is a journalist and urban policy writer who focuses on cities, development, and governance. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2013 with analysis of New Jersey political figure Cory Booker.

Is Cory Booker Overrated?

October 14, 2013 · New Jersey, Magazine, Senate

A five-minute tirade recently unleashed by a Newark resident against Mayor Cory Booker may not have surprised anyone had it remained a local TV news clip. “We are hurting here, this crime is killing us, blood runs on our streets,” the woman moaned to a reporter, responding to a late-summer murder…