Stay-at-home moms suing New Jersey over right to sell cookies
New Jersey is the only state that doesn't allow bakers to sell goods to the public from their home kitchens.
Joseph Vitale
Legislature to block Christie's addiction services reorganization
The Senate will schedule a vote to prevent Gov. Chris Christie from shifting oversight of addiction and mental-health services to the Department of Health.
Will Horizon changes that held up budget have much impact?
In the end, changes at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield enacted as part of the budget bargain were less sweeping than Gov. Chris Christie or the Senate hoped.
Horizon meeting leads to new legislation and optimism
Legislative staffers are writing a new bill that could break the logjam holding up passage of the state budget, following meetings Monday at the Statehouse.
Next tool in NJ's opioid overdose fight could be tracking EMS data
NJ may start requiring EMS providers to report each encounter with a patient, so officials can track, analyze and improve response to medical emergencies.
Could abuse-deterrent pills help stop NJ's heroin epidemic?
Advocates say yes, but not everyone is convinced.
Dems say Christie should lobby Trump against health-care replacement
Votes in Congress on replacing the Affordable Care Act are imminent. A report says the plan could cost a half-million New Jerseyans health coverage by 2020.
A push to expand coverage for addiction treatment in New Jersey
What a new law will require insurance companies to do for addicts.
Should every high school student in NJ get annual drug test?
The chairman of the state Senate Health Committee, Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, believes the answer to that question is yes.
Democrats say repeal of Obamacare could wreak havoc on NJ's budget
Democrats say a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, combined with a shift to a block grant, could cost New Jersey $1 billion and cut people from the Medicaid program.