The election-year spending plan contains lots of tax cuts and credits, increases school formula aid funding and makes a full public pension payment for the first time since 1996. Republicans call it a tax and spend document and criticize the…
A law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday February 22, prohibits law enforcement from notifying parents if their underage children are caught in possession of or using marijuana or alcohol. Parents should never be kept out of the loop…
BY ANTHONY BIRRITTERI, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ON FEB 23, 2021 A number of Republican legislators in the state condemned Gov. Phil Murphy’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget address today, claiming that it raises spending by 11% after borrowing more than $4.5 billion in…
Bramnick Gives State of the State Republican Rebuttal BY ANTHONY BIRRITTERI, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ON JAN 12, 2021 for NJ Business Magazine Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick used his rebuttal to the governor’s State of the State address today to condemn the…
by Samantha Marcus for NJ Advance Media Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday vetoed a bill that would have reimbursed restaurants that lost money when he pulled the plug on the planned reopening of indoor dining this summer. Assembly Minority Leader…
From News12 New Jersey by Alex Zadan Gov. Phil Murphy visited Paterson on Wednesday to promote his plan to give $1,000 savings bonds to every baby born in New Jersey. But while the governor tried to drum up support for…
By Steve Trebelise from New Jersey 101.5 I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when Gov. Phil Murphy announced his “Baby Bonds” program in his budget address. That’s where he would deposit $1,000 dollars for every child born in 2021…
By David Wildstein from New Jersey Globe Thirty years ago, thousands of politically inactive New Jerseyans joined a grassroots tax revolt after Gov. Jim Florio proposed a $2.8 billion tax increase. Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick says Gov. Phil Murphy’s…
By Judi Franco from New Jersey 101.5 There’s been a lot of squabbling about what should and should not be reopened in New Jersey. Some people think it’s safe to open everything up again and others are still very cautious.…