Public workers in a majority of New Jersey’s municipalities, school districts, and all but two of its counties are due almost $1.9 billion in pay for unused absences when they retire, with at least one employee slated to receive as Read More
Nearly 1,600 fraudsters were caught stealing $1.9 billion from Medicaid in 2016, a government watchdog reported Monday. State-run Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU) investigated and prosecuted the criminals defrauding Medicaid. The Department of Health and Human Development’s Inspector General (IG) Read More
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog While acknowledging that spending isn’t an “exciting” topic in a raucous presidential cycle, Save Jerseyans, the Assembly GOP leadership held a presser on Monday afternoon to protest almost ONE QUARTER BILLION (yes, Read More
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Everything that drives me crazy about Trenton played out in last week’s passage of a new “Open Space” measure, Save Jerseyans, setting up a ballot question for the November election and another Read More
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Governor Chris Christie will deliver his FY 2015 budget address on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., Save Jerseyans, a speech which pre-released excerpts suggest could amp up the battle over tax and pension reforms in Read More
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Governor Chris Christie isn’t interested in having a budget debate this year, Save Jerseyans. “I used the line item veto the last two years in non-negotiated budgets… [t]his year they chose to negotiate with me,” Read More
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog New Jersey’s FY 2014 budget is headed to Chris Christie’s desk, Save Jerseyans, and it’s a bloated $32.9 billion monstrosity, representing a $1.2 billion spending increase over FY2013. The spin from the Administration and its Read More
Early Stages of 2013 Immigration Reform Debate: Heavy on Rhetoric, Light on Numbers By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Could the “cure” be worse than the “disease” in the nascent 2013 immigration debate? Naturally, Save Jerseyans! This is politics… doing something (and assigning Read More
Governor Christie pegged New Jersey’s storm damage at $36.9 billion last month, Save Jerseyans; the Administration estimates 77,000 Garden State properties were damaged or destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. Affected-state governors (including our own) went to D.C. last week seeking over $80 billion Read More
