Millennials are attracted to the live-work-play environment, explains James Hughes, Rutgers University professor and an expert in New Jersey economics and demographics.
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.
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.
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."