(Editor’s note: This story was reported and written by Matt Arco, Brent Johnson, and Susan K. Livio of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com.) TRENTON — When Gov. Chris Christie signed the final state budget of his career shortly before 3 Read More
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#NJSHUTDOWN: Trolls Plaster Anti-Prieto Posters Around New Jersey
Updated In case there’s ANY doubt whom the Christie/Sweeney/Machine Boss faction in the FY 2018 budget fight wants you to blame for the New Jersey state government shutdown, Save Jerseyans, visit the entrance to a shuttered state facility and you’re Read More
UPDATE: N.J. Legislature “frozen” as clock races to Midnight shutdown deadline
Twenty-eight members of the eighty member state legislature abstained or didn’t vote at all on the third reading of the FY 2018 budget, Save Jerseyans, pushing the Garden State’s dysfunctional state government closer to a shutdown on Friday night. Close Read More
Prieto Digs in, Controversial Horizon Reform Remains Budget Stumbling Block
Credit: NJTV News Online Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto The controversial proposal to reform Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield continues to bedevil a deal on New Jersey’s 2018 budget, even as some Democratic leaders framed the measure as a temporary fix Read More
Watch out, Jersey: State shutdown may be closer as top pol ‘cemented’ in budget brawl
TRENTON — As lawmakers prepare to converge at the New Jersey Statehouse Thursday to vote on a budget ahead of the July 1 deadline, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto told NJ Advance Media he is not budging in his opposition to Read More
Budget Stalemate Threatens 2018 Transportation Projects Worth $4B
Credit: Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday met workers at an Interstate 95 project in Mercer County that is being funded by the Transportation Trust Fund. Gov. Chris Christie and lawmakers remained in a stalemate yesterday over the Read More
Sweeney, NJEA Square off in Ugly Brawl About School Funding
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) In an ironic twist, the fate of school funding for next year may not hinge on the usual Democratic-Republican politics, but instead on what has become a nasty feud between New Jersey’s top Democrat Read More
Sweeney again says state government could shut down without a deal on school funding
TRENTON — Senate President Stephen Sweeney on Monday said he plans to meet with Gov. Chris Christie this week on the state budget — a negotiating session that could deliver a small dose of school reform or a messy government Read More