Lawmakers in Trenton have hit a wall that’s brought progress on the state’s budget to a halt for several hours. At issue is language in the conditional veto of the corporate tax bill, which returned to the legislature from Gov....
One more story about Emil Olszowy: after the popular 58-year-old Republican Assemblyman died of a heart attack in 1980, his obituary in The (Bergen) Record included a reference to his arrest in 1938, at age sixteen, on burglary charges. That...
During the summer of 1976, the New Jersey State Assembly was holding a late-night session to debate the creation of a state income tax. Even at that hour, the Assembly chamber was uncomfortably hot after temperatures reached over 100 degrees...
Something to watch for this morning, when the State Assembly votes on a budget deal agreed to Saturday evening by Gov. Phil Murphy, Senate President Steve Sweeney, and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin: which Democrats get or take a pass on...
One individual receiving extraordinarily rave reviews for her role in the state budget process is the new Assembly Budget chair, Eliana Pintor Marin (D-Newark). She has earned huge points from leaders in both houses of the Legislature, and several key...
Democratic lawmakers averted a shutdown in the final hours before the deadline Saturday, coming to a deal that incorporated a version of the millionaires tax sought by Gov. Phil Murphy and the an altered version of the Corporate business tax...
Lawmakers have reached a budget deal in Trenton, with Gov. Phil Murphy giving the most room on a compromise, handing Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin a good deal of power heading into the next fiscal year...