Sheila Oliver

State Senate President Steve Sweeney says Governor Chris Christie's 10% state income tax cut plan over three years is dead.

Democrats haven't been shy about criticizing Governor Chris Christie's Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 State Budget proposal. They vow to do more than just complain. The top Democrats in the State Senate and General Assembly are promising to produce a spending plan alternative.

The Assembly Labor Committee has approved a bill boosting New Jersey's minimum wage to $8.50 an hour.

Legislation to increase New Jersey's hourly minimum wage to $8.50 and require the rate to then be adjusted annually based on the Consumer Price Index was approved this afternoon by the Assembly Labor Committee by a vote of 6-2-1. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

Perhaps he knew this was a fight he could not win.

Yesterday, the full General Assembly passed a bill to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey. The State Senate approved the measure on Monday. The fate of the legislation is now in Governor Chris Christie's hands and he's likely holding a veto pen in one of them.

A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey has been approved by the full General assembly today. The State Senate passed the measure on Monday. Governor Chris Christie is promising to quickly veto the legislation.

Six days ago Governor Christie proposed putting the gay marriage issue on the ballot - in the form of a Constitutional amendment -for Jersey voters to decide in November.

Any doubts that the Democrat-controlled legislature would make good on a promise to fast-track a bill to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey can now be put to rest.

Published reports claim concert promoters were secretly paid $3.4 million to book acts at the Meadowlands. Today, Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver is asking the state Attorney General’s Office to investigate.