New Jersey constitution

A proposed constitutional amendment will be before voters next November, after it barely achieved the needed three-fifths supermajority in the Legislature.

Just days after New Jerseyans voted to expand the veterans’ property tax deduction, lawmakers are moving to ask them to take it another step further.

Should veterans be allowed to retain their $250 property tax deduction if they move to a continuing care retirement community? Right now, they cannot.

Democratic lawmakers have kick-started efforts to have voters decide whether to guarantee annual payments topping $5.5 billion into public workers’ pension funds.