New Jersey

Governor Phil Murphy is not ruling out yet another government shutdown, come the end of the month.  Murphy and his own party’s lawmakers are split over a millionaires’ tax to support his new state budget.  Murphy says all options remain on the table, including another shutdown.

53 year old Stephen Mell of Far Hills, New Jersey has been sentenced for putting his private airplane on autopilot so he could have on board sex with an underage teenage girl.  Mell’s illegal mile high club activity with an underage girl has bought him seven years in a federal …

Governor Phil Murphy held a press conference Tuesday, announcing that a tax incentive program in the State is rigged, benefits power brokers, and needs to be fixed.  Murphy also says he will veto any bill that comes across his desk that doesn’t fix inherent problems with the Economic Development Authority, …

One third of New Jersey residents have no idea who Governor Phil Murphy is.  A new Farleigh Dickinson poll shows that only 67 percent know that Murphy is governor; some of them didn’t know his first name.  These numbers fall in line with a national trend of people who don’t …

Democratic lawmakers in Trenton advanced their own budget proposal late Monday that produced a $38.7 billion state budget, but no millionaires’ tax that the Governor wants.  Republicans in a key committee abstained from the vote saying they had little time to actually read the budget.  They did commend the move …

It’s the legislature versus the governor in the latest annual budget battle in New Jersey.  Democratic leaders in Trenton are scrapping their own governor’s budget plan that includes a millionaire’s tax for their own spending plan.  NJ.com reports that the budget also cancels a plan by Governor Phil Murphy to …

Senator Cory Booker will participate in one of the two democratic presidential debates towards the end of the month.  Because the field is so large, the debates will be held on two successive nights.  The candidates will be assigned to the debates randomly.

A popular Jersey Shore concert series has now been completely cancelled because environmentalists found a piping plover bird next nearby.  The Sandy Hook Foundation summer beach concert series has now been called off because the bird’s nest is within 1,000 meters of the concerts.  The search for another location for …

President Trump has flat out rejected any attempt by New Jersey to go around caps on state and federal tax deductions.  His administration offered a directive that New Jersey’s plan is not being accepted.  It was so difficult to implement and confusing to municipalities and taxpayers, no towns adopted the …

Police in Brick are investigating a murder-suicide.  NJ.com reports that a 79 year old man shot his 80 year old wife to death, and then turned the gun on himself.  The killings occurred this morning.  Police have not released the names of those involved.