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Murphy vetoes SJPC minutes for the fourth time

June 21, 2019 5:31 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed the minutes of a June 11 meeting of the South Jersey Port Corporation’s board of directors on Friday. The board approved the lease of two commercial buildings at 1535 Broadway, totaling roughly eight acres, to Camden...

Sweeney moderates override threat

June 20, 2019 6:40 pm

Senate President Steve Sweeney is moderating his override threats a day after he asked the governor to quickly line-item veto the legislature’s budget so lawmakers could figure out if they wanted to override. “We’re not even going to talk about...

Maps: The race for Assembly in LD-2

June 20, 2019 8:32 am

The Atlantic County-based 2nd legislative district has been one of the most heavily flipped in the state, with a new congressman in 2018 and a new state senator and assemblyman in 2017. The district has regularly see-sawed between Democrats and...

Murphy issues a veto threat

June 19, 2019 11:32 amJune 19, 2019 1:16 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy issued his clearest veto threat of this budget season to date on Wednesday. “So, to be clear, if this budget contains the revenue for your added spending, I will work with you. But if not, I will...

Joseph Simunovich, top New Jersey political figure, dies at 78

June 18, 2019 9:43 pmJune 19, 2019 9:01 am

Joseph J. Simunovich, a popular and influential fixture in North Jersey politics for the last six decades, passed away this evening. He was 78. Simunovich served twelve years as a Hudson County Freeholder and later as chairman of the New...

Murphy headed to Westfield to talk gun safety

June 18, 2019 11:53 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will bring his bid for increased gun safety to Westfield on Wednesday, where a man was arrested last week in the parking lot of an elementary school holding a .45-caliber handgun with an arsenal of hollow-point bullets....

Budget veto override on the table, Sweeney says

June 17, 2019 1:35 pmJune 17, 2019 1:59 pm

Senate President Steve Sweeney on Monday said it’s possible the legislature would override a line-item veto that Gov. Phil Murphy has yet to issue if it cut funding for legislators’ priorities. “If the governor did line item and it was...