Ulterior motives?
Is the proposed New Jersey Homeownership Preservation Act really about helping people facing foreclosure? Or is the bill more about Democrats looking out for nonprofit groups that tend to support...
View ArticleAssembly Budget Committee cancels road trip
It has been the recent practice for the Senate and Assembly budget committees to hit the road to conduct a few of their public hearings on the budget, at which members of the public are invited to...
View ArticleFour legislative candidates booted from ballot
Division of Elections spokeswoman Susan Evans says Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells has finalized the following decisions, agreeing with recommendations from administrative law judges, regarding...
View ArticleState may outsource Consumer Affairs call center
New Jersey might hire a private company to handle the phones at the Division of Consumer Affairs, Attorney General Anne Milgram told lawmakers at an Assembly budget hearing last week. Asked about the...
View ArticleAccuracy melts as budget heats up
If truth is the first casualty of war, then accuracy is the same for the heat of the legislative season. At today's Assembly Budget Committee meeting, where Republicans were criticizing Gov. Jon...
View ArticleFact checking the chairman
At Monday's signing of the state budget, Assemblyman Louis Greenwald, D-Camden, was among the four lawmakers invited to speak, given his position of chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee. As he did...
View ArticleChristie’s higher education platform
Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie this week has been making higher education his main focus. Yesterday he held an event on the topic at The College of New Jersey (and heavily dependent...
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State’s October revenue below target
Gov. Jon Corzine acknowledged Thursday that "October revenue collections are coming in below targets and may continue to erode in the months ahead" as he directed his Cabinet officers to identify...
View ArticlePermit extension extension
Among the lame-duck legislative bills proposed Monday was one bipartisan measure sure to annoy environmental groups -- A4347, which extends the expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit...
View ArticleIf everyone leads, who follows?
Just under half of the 80 members of the General Assembly -- 24 Democrats, 15 Republicans (including one with two gigs) -- have been granted leadership titles for the new session, not even counting...
View ArticleTwo Assembly hearings on Christie’s cuts next week
The Assembly Budget Committee has scheduled a meeting for next Wednesday (10 a.m., Committee Room 11 in the Statehouse Annex) to take testimony on Gov. Chris Christie's budget-balancing plan -- which,...
View ArticleNo property tax cap referendum this year
Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver and Majority Leader Joseph Cryan just announced they've assigned the proposals in Gov. Chris Christie's 33-bill "tool kit" for property tax reform to a dozen Democratic...
View ArticleHow the $10.5B projected deficit is tallied
In case you're curious, here's the memo about the elements that go into the projected $10.5 billion budget deficit already being projected for FY2012 -- that's the state budget year that begins in 49...
View ArticleNJN task force now fully stocked
Assembly leaders Sheila Oliver and Alex DeCroce have announced their appointees to the Legislative Task Force on Public Broadcasting, which is supposed to file a report by Oct. 15th analyzing the...
View ArticleChristie vetoes family planning, FamilyCare, homebuyer tax credit bills
Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed three bills that would have increased state spending for family planning centers and FamilyCare health insurance and provided a tax credit to home-buyers. Christie said...
View ArticleDaily Quickie, 08.19.10
On this Thursday, August 19th, 2010 ... Gov. Chris Christie heads to the Paulsboro Marine Terminal to sign the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act. The Assembly Health & Senior Services...
View ArticleNJN hearings: Kean in, Kean out, game on
The Legislative Task Force on Public Broadcasting this morning conducts the first of three public meetings in the next nine days, as it hurtles toward its Oct. 15 deadline to recommend a way forward...
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Malone steps down from top budget committee post; O’Scanlon to replace him
Assemblyman Joe Malone, R-Burlington, has stepped down as the Assembly budget officer and will be replaced by a Monmouth County Republican. Assemblyman Joe Malone is stepping down as Republican budget...
View ArticleDaily Quickie, 09.28.12
It's Friday, September 28th, 2012 ... Gov. Chris Christie has no public schedule. Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno visits the Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad at 2:30 p.m. for a Port Authority of New York and New...
View ArticleAn early polling glance at N.J. Democrats’ 2013 gubernatorial field
Less than six weeks until the electoral warm-up act that is the presidential race finally yields the stage, allowing us here in New Jersey to focus on the main event -- the 2013 governor's race....
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