Rush-hour shortcut through little NJ town could cost you big
Stay out...or else! One North Jersey municipality bans out-of-town drivers during the morning and evening rush hours.
New Jersey State League of Municipalities
Is your property tax assessment way off? NJ towns look to annual assessments
Are wildly inaccurate tax assessments driving you crazy? Some NJ towns are doing reassessments annually, instead of every 10 years.
In some NJ towns, crazy holiday displays can violate ‘light trespass’ laws
Sometimes residential holiday displays cross the line, and cause big problems among neighbors.
The push to change NJ’s liquor-license laws
Should towns have more say in the number of liquor licenses permitted?
Fleeing suburbia — How NJ towns are trying to attract millennials
Millennials are attracted to the live-work-play environment, explains James Hughes, Rutgers University professor and an expert in New Jersey economics and demographics.
As construction picks up in New Jersey, more inspectors are finding work
How municipalities are handling the new building boom.
NJ Assembly votes to make it easier for towns to raise property taxes
Towns and counties would gain an exemption to the spending limits of the cap on property tax increases, for spending that attracts matching-fund grants.
Guadagno: ‘Am I now speaking out loudly? Yes.’
Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno concur: They disagree, sometimes forcefully, and people are hearing about it more now because she might run for governor.
Christie on gas-tax deal: ‘What second-term governors were invented for’
Gov. Chris Christie says the gas-tax deal required the political honesty of a second-term governor. Of a Trump job offer, he says, "Only time will tell."
Workers laid off, profits lost because NJ officials can’t fund road projects
An impasse over finding new revenue for the Transportation Trust Fund could cause a "domino effect" that hurts the state's economy, officials say.