August 26, 2020
Governor Murphy presented a nine-month FY2021 budget yesterday that props up state government spending by issuing bonds and raising taxes. As analyzed by NJ Spotlight’s Jon […]
August 25, 2020
Former NJ budget director Richard Keevey urges Governor Murphy not to issue bonds (borrow money) to plug budget gaps in an op-ed in NJ Spotlight. Keevey […]
August 14, 2020
Congratulations, Governor Murphy. Unsurprisingly, the NJ Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that you get to borrow up to $9.9 billion to cover budget gaps due to […]
July 29, 2020
NJ Chamber of Commerce President Tom Bracken spoke out against a proposed new tax on health insurance (in ROI-NJ here). The new tax supposedly is to […]
July 28, 2020
This won’t come as news to many NJ drivers, but NJ101.5 reported that a study by Copilot determined that 42.4 of NJ’s roads are in poor […]
July 20, 2020
InsiderNJ wrote an article on WalletHub’s recent ranking of the unemployment rates in all 50 states. NJ currently has the second-highest unemployment rate at 16.4%, […]
June 9, 2020
NJSpotlight’s John Reitmeyer does a good job (here) of highlighting NJ’s deficient Rainy Day funds and how NJ has been reduced to borrowing $5 billion to […]
March 24, 2020
The Star-Ledger’s Samantha Marcus wrote an article today describing the anticipated hit to NJ’s tax collections. Thanks to a strong economy and robust stock markets, NJ’s […]
March 17, 2020
Senate President Steve Sweeney has introduced a new healthcare bill based on the recent deal between Sweeney and NJEA President Marie Blistan. The bill appears to […]