Dennis on Murphy's budget: 'How did New Jersey get this stupid?'
Governor Phil Murphy promised to raise our taxes in his campaign, and he did just that. So why are New Jerseyans acting surprised?
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NJ voters have mixed feelings about Christie’s return to the Garden State
In the wake of his failed bid to win the GOP nomination for the 2016 presidential election, a new poll shows many voters have mixed feelings about Gov. Chris Christie's return to New Jersey, and more than half are unhappy with how the governor is handling the state's finances.
Budget talks in limbo in New Jersey
The deadline for a signed and balanced spending plan for the state is midnight June 30 and it still remains unclear if budget talks will be happening.
New state budget will help the poor, Senate president says
New Jersey's State Budget must be signed and balanced by midnight on June 30. That doesn't leave much time to find ways to fund many initiatives and there is not a lot of money to go around. Despite that, the top lawmaker in the State Senate promised the new spending plan will help New Jersey's poor.
New Jersey’s annual state budget battle shapes up differently this year
For the first time in more than two decades, revenue projections from the executive branch and the non-partisan Office of Legislative Services are almost identical.
Budget dealing far from done
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed a $33.8 billion State Budget that keeps funding essentially flat for schools, higher education, municipalities and property tax relief programs. But the spending plan will not be adopted as is, because budgets never are.
Are Christie and the NJEA finally playing nice?
Gov. Chris Christie says he and the teacher's union finally agree on pension and benefit reforms. The NJEA is saying, 'not so fast.'
Not so fast, NJEA Says
Not so fast, the New Jersey Education Association is saying, after Gov. Chris Christie's budget address Tuesday.
'Fiscal Sanity Tour' begins
For more than a decade, New Jersey has been cash-strapped, to say the least. Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick said it is time for a common sense approach to righting the ship. At a State House press conference Monday, Bramnick announced his summer "Fiscal Sanity" tour.
Christie vetoes tax hikes
As he vowed to do, Gov. Chris Christie signed a balanced $32.5 billion state budget into law Monday, but not before he cut two tax increases Democrats inserted to generate revenue to fully fund their year's public employees' pension fund payment.