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N.J. legislators scramble to ensure budget deal support
Lawmakers hit snags when two conservative Assembly members threaten to withhold votes without changes TRENTON — A state budget deal didn’t stop the dealmaking here Wednesday. Two days after Republican...
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Republican Senate leaders push ahead with votes on $29.4B N.J. budget deal
TRENTON -- Lawmakers today continued struggling to keep a deal together on the $29.4 billion state budget, with pressure from Gov. Chris Christie on all Republicans to vote for his first budget....
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Tempers flare as N.J. Assembly panel passes budget bills
TRENTON — Tensions flared today as the Assembly Budget Committee began voting on bills attached to next year's budget, with Democrats pegging Republicans as hypocrites for sponsoring a bill that...
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N.J. Senate panel restores $7.5M in budget for women's health
TRENTON — The Senate budget committee today approved a bill that would restore $7.5 million to continue subsidizing uninsured women's health and family planning services eliminated in Gov. Chris...
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N.J. Senate president pushes for overhaul of affordable housing system
TRENTON — Senate President Stephen Sweeney put pressure on lawmakers today to consider a controversial bill to overhaul the state's affordable housing system, saying today he would not support a...
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N.J. professional group fund paid $131K to six clients for 'dishonest lawyer...
TRENTON — An account funded by lawyers and judges has paid out $131,559.11 this year for losses six attorneys caused clients, officials said today. The New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection...
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Sweeney's 2.9 percent property tax cap plan is approved by N.J. senate committee
Gov. Christie has not said if he will sign the legislation. The governor is pushing for a vote on his 2.5 percent constitutional cap Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerSenate President Stephen Sweeney...
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Rutgers officials, employee unions to face off at hearing over salary freeze
NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University and its employee unions are headed to Trenton for a showdown over the school’s decision to freeze all employees’ salaries to help close its budget gap. The Public...
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N.J. Assembly budget committee narrowly approves $29.4B budget
The full Assembly is expected to vote on the budget on Monday in advance of the July 1 deadline Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerAssembly Majority Leader Joseph Cryan (D-Union) looks in on the Assembly...
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Gov. Christie issues veto limiting unemployment benefits, delaying business...
TRENTON — People fired for gross misconduct will not be eligible for unemployment benefits and businesses will get a one-year reprieve from higher taxes under a conditional veto issued today by Gov....
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Port Authority to buy former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne in effort to...
Port Authority to pay $235M — including $135M for 130-acre terminal and underwater acres around peninsula — over 24 years to Bayonne NJNP Photo/Richard RaskaA 1997 aerial view of Military Ocean...
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Eight N.J. high schools teach students personal finance, budgeting in pilot...
ELIZABETH — As Bayron Ortiz of Elizabeth and heads off to technical school, he is confident he will have a handle on how to manage his own money. First, he’ll try to establish good credit and avoid...
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N.J. lawmakers continue to shore up budget support, quickly pass alternative...
TRENTON — New Jersey’s divided state government struggled closer to finalizing a budget Thursday, while a controversial plan to tighten the cap on annual property tax increases sailed through its...
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N.J. Democrats set stage for battle with Gov. Christie about family planning...
TRENTON — Democrats voted Thursday to restore $7.5 million for health and family planning services for uninsured women — but not before the bill became a referendum on abortion and a senator read...
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N.J. Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone pleads guilty in paycheck diversion
Prosecutors drop charges against wife; Bayonne Democrat and spouse were accused of violating campaign finance laws David Jolkovski/The Jersey JournalAnthony Chiappone at Bayonne City Hall in February....
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N.J. Assembly debates 2.9 percent property tax cap proposed by Democrats
TRENTON — The Assembly Budget Committee has taken up debating a 2.9 percent cap on property tax growth – a Democratic alternative to Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed 2.5 percent constitutional cap. The...
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Ex-prison official gets 7 years for role in $630K bid rigging scheme
TRENTON — A former prison official was sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in a bid rigging and kickback scheme involving state contracts, authorities announced. The former official,...
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N.J. Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone admits falsifying campaign finance records
Hudson County assemblyman agrees to forfeit his legislative seat in deal that led to all charges being dropped against his wife TRENTON — Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone said he was prepared to go to...
View ArticleAttorney's comments cause court to throw out $1M award for Bergen County...
TRENTON — "Paid agreers" is not a nice way to say "expert witness" in a courtroom. Nor is it judicious to call said witness a "spin doctor" or to characterize an opponent’s case as a "game plan."...
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Proposed 2.9 percent tax cap, budget bills are set for full N.J. Legislature...
TRENTON — State Democrats’ proposal to limit annual property tax increases to 2.9 percent is set for a vote in the Legislature, as lawmakers pledged Friday to push Gov. Chris Christie’s stricter plan...
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