Corzine on CNN: ‘Great for being here’
Next Tuesday in Philadelphia, President-elect Barack Obama intends to meet with the nation's governors in Philadelphia to talk about how the financial situation is hurting state budgets. New Jersey...
View ArticleJersey’s slice of stimulus pie: $15.6 billion
Gannett's Washington correspondent for New Jersey coverage, Raju Chebium, wrote for today's papers about how a D.C. think tank called the Center for American Progress -- which is sort of similar in its...
View ArticleCorzine signs bill upgrading gun penalties
Gov. Jon Corzine added another law to New Jersey's books today: S1304, which upgrades the penalties for knowingly possessing a machine gun or assault firearm without a license to do so. Effective...
View ArticleCorzine: NJ’s stimulus share may top $17B
Gov. Jon Corzine said New Jersey's share of the $787 billion federal stimulus bill signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama could exceed $17 billion. (That would equal 2.1% of the spending ... and...
View ArticleState worker sues, seeking award for doing his job
A state appeals court issued a ruling yesterday about a lawsuit filed by a state Division of Youth and Family Services, who sued after the state refused to pay him an award for coming up with a...
View ArticleCorruption Junction: That’s more like it
Last week's roundup of corruption-related developments in New Jersey's state and federal law enforcement circles was sort of flimsy. This week, not so much. There's a sad bounty of things to report --...
View ArticleA bitter little blue pill
Gov. Jon Corzine's budget counts on saving $3.3 million by discontinuing the state's coverage of erectile dysfunction drugs under Medicaid and PAAD. The federal government stopped paying for those in...
View ArticleProposed Medicaid co-pays removed from budget
The state budget now rolling toward final legislative approval this week doesn't include the proposed co-payments for prescriptions for Medicaid patients that Gov. Jon Corzine had proposed in March....
View ArticleUPDATE: Corzine signs 55 new laws
Having wrestled back control of the governor's pen from acting Gov. Steve Sweeney, Gov. Jon Corzine signed 53 bills into law Sunday. Among them are bills requiring chain restaurants to put nutrition...
View ArticleA $500 million problem….
With government officials of all stripes and at all levels suffering from budget cut fatigue, it may seem impolite to bring this up, but: New Jersey may have a $500 million problem. When a jobs and...
View ArticleHow the $10.5B projected deficit is tallied
In case you're curious, here's the memo about the elements that go into the projected $10.5 billion budget deficit already being projected for FY2012 -- that's the state budget year that begins in 49...
View ArticleFamily-planning veto override unlikely, as six GOP backers back off
Six of the seven Republican state senators who voted in June in favor of legislation restoring nearly $7.5 million to the budget for family planning services announced today that would vote against...
View ArticleDaily Quickie, 08.04.10
In state politics on this Wednesday, Aug. 4th, 2010 ... Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno tours Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan with Port Authority of New York and New Jersey deputy director Bill Baroni. The...
View ArticleCongress’ state-aid package may leave New Jersey $90M short
Good news and bad news for New Jersey's budget from legislation that escaped a U.S. Senate logjam today that would send states $26 billion to minimize layoffs of teachers and provide extra funds for...
View ArticleLaw changing rules for outpatient treatment of mentally ill on hold
A new state law scheduled to take effect today that would give families the opportunity to force mentally ill relatives to receive outpatient treatment isn't going to begin being implemented, due to...
View ArticleState revenues droop $88M into the red
State tax revenues were $78 million short of expectations last month, as disappointing collections of corporate taxes left the state treasury more than 4 percent behind forecast in August. The...
View ArticleTo expand Medicaid or to not expand
Count New Jersey Policy Perspective and the New Jersey For Health Care Coalition among the groups unhappy with what wasn’t said in Gov. Chris Christie’s State of the State address. Christie didn’t talk...
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