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…
This summer Stockton University continues it’s expansion with a $48 million expansion of new classrooms, a science building and a new campus entrance. Meanwhile, the $156 million Atlantic City campus is about to begin construction of 500 housing units, a parking garage and another academic building. The Atlantic City additions are expected to be open…
The Atlantic City Recovery Committee will hold it’s first monthly public meeting Tuesday night in City Council Chambers to reveal the latest update on the city’s new fiscal plan. In May the New Jersey Legislature charged Atlantic City to come up with a solution to their financial crisis by November 3rd, or face a takeover…
If the new state budget is approved, the new Cumberland County Technical Education Center could be getting an additional $503,000 for their new technical high school that is scheduled to open in September. Senator Jeff Van Drew lobbied for the increase in funding, as the Cumberland vocational district was transitioning from shared-time to full-time status…
The fourth suspect in a November kidnapping and murder in Pleasantville has been captured by Atlantic City police after a car chase Sunday night. Marshall Coley, 27, was recognized by a tipster as a passenger in a car driven by 26 year-old Latoya Golden, and nabbed by police after a 15 minute car chase that…
It took awhile, but former Philadelphia Flyers center Eric Lindros has been elected to the NHL Hall of Fame. After six years of waiting, Lindros was voted into the HOF along with former Flyers coach and executive, the late Pat Quinn. Lindros was the first overall draft pick in 1991, named the NHL’s MVP in…
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.