Michael Patrick Carroll

Gov. Phil Murphy's proposed compromise on tax hikes: scaled-back versions of his income and sales tax plans and the Legislature's business tax surcharge.

Could we one day see a "Jersey Fresh" seal... on marijuana? If a North Jersey assemblyman had it his way, weed would be considered as innocuous as supermarket produce.

Democrats exasperated Donald Trump got elected without releasing his tax returns want to block candidates from the New Jersey ballot if they don't.

New Jersey on Monday could become the first state to stop requiring legal notices to be printed in newspapers, spreading them out instead to government-owned websites.

Is the sales tax cut a good trade for drivers facing a higher gas tax? Depends on an individual's situation, but the average impact looks to be basically a wash.

A proposed ban on sex offenders' use of social media was scaled back, and legislators are being urged to take a broader look at New Jersey's sex offender laws.

Legislation is now being introduced in Trenton that would effectively lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. I will be following this story very closely since I'm the parent of a 19-year-old college student.

Legislation that would have given Gov. Chris Christie the power to raise salaries for his cabinet, increased judges' pay and tweaked the public employee pension law to benefit a few elected officials is on hold indefinitely.

A Republican member of the joint Bridgegate committee says it is time to cut to the chase and find out if Gov. Chris Christie did anything illegal, although he believes that to be unlikely.

Even before one joint Senate and Assembly Committee was formed to investigate the Bridgegate scandal, Republicans were worried they wouldn't have equal access to all information.