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6 Things to Know About New Jersey’s Sales Tax History

March 13, 2018 12:47 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to propose an increase of the sales tax from 6.625% to 7%. Here are six things to know about New Jersey’s sales tax numbers: 1. The first sales tax was proposed under Gov. Robert Meyner....

Happy 97th Birthday, Cornelius Gallagher

March 2, 2018 2:39 amOctober 17, 2018 8:29 pm

New Jersey’s oldest living former congressman, Cornelius Gallagher, is celebrating his 97th birthday today. Known as Neil, the charismatic, affable Bayonne Democrat represented Hudson County in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1973. As a congressman, Gallagher became...

Brendan Byrne (1924-2018)

January 4, 2018 8:51 pmJanuary 23, 2021 2:53 pm

The first time Brendan Byrne made an in-print list of potential candidates for Governor of New Jersey was about a month after Richard Nixon’s landslide re-election in the 1972 presidential race. Watergate wasn’t really a thing yet, but Democrats sensed...

Evidence that Murphy isn’t superstitious

January 4, 2018 12:07 am

Phil Murphy is the first Governor to hold an inauguration day prayer service at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton since Jim Florio did it in 1990. At least he didn’t pick the Princeton University Chapel, where Jim McGreevey and...