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With changes to emphasis innovation, a plan to create the Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission is one vote from legislative approval.

A week after an unexpected veto, lawmakers approve a revised plan for extending outdoor dining rules through November 2022.

After just over a year and a half without a tax incentive program, a modified economic plan first pitched by Gov. Phil Murphy in 2018 is in place.

The state Treasury Department announced last week that a diversity study will be conducted. Activists say nothing happened after the last one 15+ years ago.

Under the GOP lawmakers' proposal, business owners could go to court and seek to prove they lost income or whole businesses due to ordered shutdowns.

In the spring, Gov. Phil Murphy declined to take a regional approach to imposing pandemic-driven shutdowns. A bill would require it and based it on local data.

The hiring will come over 10 years. The boost in spending would amount to $250 million by 2025, focused on minority- and women-owned businesses.

At a Hillsborough brewery, elected officials detailed plans for spending $100 million in federal CARES Act funds.

A lawmaker urges the Murphy administration to promote the $250 million program, which will provide help for families with up to $75,000 in income.

Business groups are hammering Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget plan over its more than $1 billion in tax hikes, two-thirds affecting the wealthy and corporations.