Counties and municipalities will feel a budget crunch if the state Legislature doesn’t renew a 2 percent cap on the salaries police and firefighters can win through arbitration, a Wall Street Rating agency warned Wednesday. Echoing local government officials who’ve Read More
For the past six years, salary raises for local police officers and firefighters have, in some instances, been kept to 2 percent, for the most part, due to a state law that is set to expire December 31. With New Read More
If we’re going to be honest, as effective policy makers it’s incumbent upon us to do the hard work, master the facts and policy nuances before us, and present cogent proposals to the public and the legislature. This list of Read More
Jersey City Police Officers were awarded a 2% pay increase by a state appointed arbitrator this week. – Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, not the Democrat nominee for Governor, declared that the best interests of his city’s residents and taxpayers prevailed, Read More
Taxes are a perennial top issue for New Jersey voters, and public-opinion polls indicate they remain so this year with the governor’s office and the full state Legislature on the November ballot. Yet the top Democrats in both the Assembly Read More
Since late July, Save Jerseyans, Senator Cory Booker (D-Twitter) has been touring the state on what is being called the “21 county Jersey road trip.” In typical Booker form, he and his staff are extensively chronicling his moves on social media. They’ve even created Read More
Officials at a handful of hospitals will finally get to review a confidential consultant’s report and other documents they claim are at the heart of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s alleged plan to exclude them from a preferable insurance network Read More
David Tepp It is challenging to find any degree of optimism in the healthcare debate. Mostly, what we hear are rhetorical grandstanding and bitter divisiveness. Meanwhile, the uninsured continue to suffer and, for the fortunate ones who have coverage, their Read More
The Senate’s Republican leadership released a revised health care bill Thursday afternoon, a move welcomed by House conservatives even as they were reluctant to comment before digesting it. “We are going to withhold judgment,” Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Read More
