This is expected to be the busiest July 4th travel weekend, possibly of all time. Travel experts predict 1.3 million people will hit the roads and travel during this upcoming holiday weekend. This represents an increase of one percent over last year. Holiday travel is expected to be about 20 percent higher than travel during…
Get ready to pay more for gasoline, but less in sales taxes in New Jersey. Lawmakers met into the early morning hours Tuesday to approve a plan that will raise the state’s gasoline tax by 23 cents per gallon. In return, the state’s sale tax will drop to six percent. Democrats approved the compromise measure…
On Monday night the New Jersey Assembly passed the Democrats’ $34.8 billion budget 50-27 and sent the plan on it’s way to the governor. The budget passed along party lines, after the legislature tweaked Christie’s budget proposal by adding $275 million in spending for anti-poverty initiatives. The new budget includes no raise in taxes, as the…
The New Jersey Assembly has approved a measure that would put a question before voters that would result in public pensions being financed on a regular basis. The New Jersey Senate must concur with the Assembly vote in order to get this question before voters in November. Many recent governors have been criticized for not…
Governor Christie and democrats are bickering this week over new proposed gun legislation. Democrats want to provide a greater definition for a “justifiable need” that residents must show in order to legally carry a handgun. Christie would like to make it easier for residents to get carry permits in the Garden State.
Governor Christie is negotiating with Trenton democrats on a plan that would include a big increase in the gasoline tax in exchange for a one percent reduction in the sales tax. The deal would result in a large increase in the gas tax in return for the sales tax dipping to six percent by the…
The New Jersey Senate approved a new State budget Monday that totals $34.8 billion. The Senate added $300 million in additional funding to pay for anti-poverty initiatives. The New Jersey Assembly will also vote on the budget later in the day. The Senate vote was 28-11 to endorse this new budget.
The New Jersey Legislature is expected to vote on their version of next year’s state budget on Monday, just $300 million more than the budget proposed by the governor. Christie can cut items from the $34.8 billion budget line-by-line, but he cannot add any new spending amounts. The deadline for an approved balanced state budget…
The top prize in the Mega Millions lottery jackpot will be close to $400 million on Tuesday. No one hit the winning jackpot on Friday night, so Tuesday’s lottery will be worth $390 million. Mega Millions is played in 44 states around the country.
A former powerful figure in the New Jersey republican party has died at the age of 88. Former North Jersey Senator Ray Bateman passed away on Saturday after a brief illness. Bateman ran for governor once in the Garden State; his son, Kip Bateman, now holds the Senate seat his father used to occupy.